I wonder if we could push traffic calmer harder to normies if there was a direct impact on their insurance premiums. E.g. "your work-home commute had six all way stops upgraded to roundabouts. you now save two hundred bucks a year"

I think Dana White is such a tough guy he could easily take one of the lesser known and paid UFC fighters. He just needs a chance

Third year PhD students are all lost. Some of them just hide it better from others

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HPV... I know the Slovenians generally run a tight ship but buying insurance from them still feels like buying it from Crazy Vaclav

Lego-knapping

Wow tough crowd! Wonder what it would take to get people to call them pyraawesomes

A map of European psychopaths!

Is Al going to take out jobs? Is Al replacing fentanyl? Is Al the future of porn? Did Al murder that old lady? There has never been a better time to be called Albert and go by the short form.

Recently discovered notes from the Vatican archives show that in Michelangelo's Pietà, the inspiration for the expression of Mary was inspired by a nine year old girl who found out that the lunch included a side of broccoli.

I read somewhere that the Messinean Salinity crisis precipitated so much salt out of it that it reduced salinity in the oceans. Can that really happen? I don't really see how.

Unconventional Director Sets Shakespeare Play In Time, Place Shakespeare Intended https://theonion.com/unconventional-director-sets-shakespeare-play-in-time-1819569151/

Variable radius tree surveys are the greatest achievement in geometry

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

I’m increasingly uneasy about the flood of AI images on social media. They are mostly absurd and frustrating. They may sometimes be creative experiments, but the fact that so many users take them at face value says a lot about our collective loss of visual literacy. www.facebook.com/groups/ancie...

Clichés that are really not very good to use, part 1 of thousands: "At UW Madison, discovery is in our DNA" No, it is the result of policy decisions and the politics of this state in the long-ago days when building a great public university was seen as a worthwhile goal.

One of the first hominids, Hispanopithecus, lived 11 million years in what is now Catalonia. They are believed to have lived largely on tree canopies, only descending to take part in occasional sardanes. They did not have control of fire, and were therefore forced to eat their bruschettas soggy.

The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Problem set for my GIS and the Economy course: Explain what's going on in this picture.

well you're not going to believe this

The Vanity Fair photographer knew what he was doing. (I doubt I’m the first to notice this but it hasn’t graced my TL)

It's kind of impossible to talk to someone from Rome without doing a bit of Roman accent yourself.

Of all the spices one can use season a work of near history, none does more to make the dish than unabashed, transparent personal pettiness. Truly the mustard to history's sausage.

That FBI video of the suspected Brown shooter is wrong. He didn't head north on Hope, he headed East on Waterman, toward Cooke st. He didn't turn south on Cooke because that's where all the ring cameras that saw him milling about two hours prior are. So he either continued east towards Governor St..

For every massive roman aqueduct bridge there must have been thousands of little projectes, spurs etc

MC Escher is a DJ that when he drops the base it goes sidewards and then up

It's crazy that Disney's tomb isn't called the Mouseoleum

when it's super critical you want everybody to understand your complicated data schema

Tupperware made perfect sense as a name because "attuppare" means closing with a cap in Sicilian (Italian "tappare" also close) but of course there isn't really a similar root in english... (perhaps "top"?)

Testing with the kids HP that pieces with more growth rings are heavier

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currently what are the best AIs for coding in python? Chatgpt is proving inconsistent

www.youtube.com/channel/UCG5... This is tremendously interesting

The Roman shipwreck at Comacchio, Italy, is over 21 m long and 5.62 m wide. It was discovered in 1980 during the maintenance of a drainage canal. The vessel was loaded with amphorae, lead ingots, and boxwood logs. It dates to the 1st c. BC. 📷Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici Emilia Romagna 🏺

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_R... crazy story

I should start a gene editing startup. I'd charge $50,000 and not actually do any gene editing, just tell the parents their baby is selected for high IQ and trust that they're such helicopter parents that out of family pressure the kid would do well in school anyway to the clients' satisfaction.

Retvrn

as a child of the subcontinent i can confirm that barging in and demanding tea has historically been a very English thing to do

Firstly, this is a phenomenal essay on the lack of moral and artistic imagination in Tarantino’s later filmography, please read it. Second, it has been fascinating watching Tarantino’s star dim among my generation these last few years. Used to be, he was a sacred cow. Now, he’s…

To paraphrase @andreamatranga.bsky.social, John Woo’s anti-war action movie, as oxymoronic as that sounds, possesses the moral machinery necessary to interrogate that paradox in a fashion Tarantino could never with Django Unchained, OUATIH or Inglorious Bastards.

You nailed it. That was a good read.

“In other words: it is not the clerk dreaming of the movie star, but the movie star dreaming of the clerk. For only the famous man has anything to escape.”

For extra points, which Orwell essays am I attempting to channel here? @beijingpalmer.bsky.social

These should be called sproings

"For all the technical mastery, he remains — in the realm of ethical understanding — fundamentally twelve": excellent piece by @andreamatranga.bsky.social on Quentin Tarantino's lack of introspection or growth as a filmmaker. andreamatranga.substack.com/p/7c9bb646-a...

andreamatranga.substack.com/p/benefit-of... I wrote a thing about one of my favorite movies

Evaporative cooling is such an important concept in sociology

I would love to see Eugenio Monesma IV in 2207 interviewing the last few old guys in Taiwan still doing 3nm GPUs on original tin laser EUV machines.

Our book, _War and Community in Late Antiquity_, is out in January and is edited by Tina Sessa and Susanna Elm. My chapter is on the literary and archaeological mapping of Roman troop billeting (no Third Amendment in Ancient Rome!) Excited to see this in print soon. www.cambridge.org/universitypr...