Wait til they find a way to blame Biden for this!
Wait til they find a way to blame Biden for this!
Rolling of the bones. Bones tell everything.
In the past week on YouTube, on channels about math and physics, I started getting a constant bombardment of online casino ads. The predatory enshittification is intense anywhere you look.
Locked in a house with a killer fan that has a mind of its’ own!
Ma’am, we’ve traced and located the source of that breeze, it seems to be coming from…
🎵 Inside the house 🎵
🎵 Inside the house 🎵
If I was the historian, I’d like to think I’d take it somewhere in between.
Neither too cold nor too hot, I’d be the Goldilocks Historian on YouTube!
bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe WhY bOtHeR vOTiNg sLeEpY jOe memes!
Then I did nothing about it between presidential elections. Nothing. Did not lift a single goddamned finger. Four years later, I demand the party cater to me, Me, ME. An utterly useless deadweight. And smug about it.
Reciting poems by Silvia Plath.
Yeah I know it’s AI-generated but hear me out:
Put him in a next-gen animated feature, make him super smart and wise, and name him Plato.
Some very specific experiments, precise and weird enough to produce some truly abstract results with strong hints of things like electron spin, neutron decay via the Weak Force, photon entanglement.
Or out in the field - imagine hiking to the top of Ben Nevis in Scotland, then going up a further couple of kilometers on a balloon, carrying a camera and a vacuum chamber with an alcohol gas cloud within, to photograph the trajectories and interactions of mysterious particles from space.
Back at Edinburgh or Manchester, wearing your tuxedo on weeknights, for an evening of drinks at the gentlemen’s club, discussing the latest results and implications with your peers, over single malts and cigars.
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Engage once, to never engage again with that particular clickbait tripe channel.
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Yeah… unliked and blocked, moving on.
“How many years is that?”
“At least THIS many.” (holds up 4 Knuth’s arrow notations fingers)
What about the year TREE(3)?
Greasons’ Seatings to you too!
Then as it turns out, a current tech challenge in astronomy concerning gravitational waves, is to parse them through a detector analogous to a prism, to break these waves up into component parts, not unlike a gravitational rainbow.
So it turns out to be not just a poetic flight of fancy, it may describe something that might actually exist. The Universe is always stranger and more wondrous that we can imagine at any given point in time.
translations of bronze and iron age holy texts
Wait, what do you mean by that? I know Tolkien borrowed a lot from old texts like the Norse and Icelandic sagas, but I have read only the four popular Middle Earth books, and have dipped up to my ankles in Icelandic sagas, so that’s as much as I can say for certain.
There’s also Beowulf - of which I have read a version, a translation - and the myth of Arthur and Camelot, what I know is what I’ve seen in Excalibur, which is one of my all-time favorite movies, in my personal Top Twenty to be sure.
But Bronze Age and Iron Age? To put the history of Middle Earth in these terms is blowing my mind a little bit over here, as I have only recently understood the differences between these two surprisingly different eras.
Ancient was ancient and it was all one blurry smudge of names and land and years counted in negative numbers. Then I started to delve a little bit, particularly on YouTube, and it’s like the past popped into 3D and in color, in my mind, to suddenly understand the difference between Sumerian and Akkadian, or between the Medic and the Punic wars.
And frankly, I find the Bronze Age to be much more fascinating and compelling, the first great spurt of civilization, suddenly finding itself with time for organized contemplation for the first time, as well as that most astonishing of inventions - writing, allowing the arts, engineering, infrastructure, sciences, etc. to flourish.
The old Greeks themselves codified this concept into their mythologies:
Kronos (Time) + Mnemosyne (Memory) = The Muses (the inspirations of man).
When that memory got transferred to clay tablets or papyrus scrolls, the curve of knowledge started going exponential, more knowledge in ever shorter cycles.
To now realize that there is a similar level of depth perspective in the Silmarillion, is making Middle Earth pop a bit in 3D and in color in my head.
Intercourse the penguin