I’d like to shout out there that when I was working in tech in the ‘aughts, people in Silicon Valley thought Palantir was evil, and the bar where exciting becomes scary in terms of software there has always been much higher.
Do they have a mind flayer?
A problem I’ve always had with the progressive left is that there is no genuine disagreement with them. That they are right is so obvious that any arguments against them are either the product of bad faith or lack of education. I, a voter who is not paid off, agree with Mona and Sarah.
Someday, maybe, we can be not-bad again.
This country, the United States of America, was not bad. At its best, it had vision and aspiration. It wasn’t perfect for everyone, and we had a lot of things to work on, but for many, maybe even most people, it was pretty good. I’m sad that’s probably over, and wondering why we threw it away.
I’m on team Tolkien here—I could tell Aslan was Jesus at age 8 and that they were trying to sneak some Sunday school stuff into my entertainment. At least give me some plausible deniability so I can pretend the baddy isn’t capitalism or imperialism if I just feel like it.
Why not both, though…it could if only it was big enough.
I mean he’s used as an excuse something rural Americans have been paranoid about for decades—“the left wants to ban our cows for stupid coooked-up environmental reasons and take away our livelihoods.” The man knows how to stroke the grievances of his audience even if it doesn’t make sense.
Thanks! The original is still the best, but I like how the colors on the gloves turned out!
And also, those dates are handwavy. I think of the Nubian and Saite periods as their own thing so I’ve mainly just included the Persian conquest to Alexander’s.
You can see the coffin of Irethoreru, a regional nobleman of Egypt’s Late Period (~550-332 BCE) here. I worked on this model shortly before I graduated.
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A screenshot of the floral collar of an Egyptian coffin, which has been used to design wool mittens, shown before being sewn and on my hands
I took a class on designing Intarsia Knit Mitts, and picked for my design the floral collar of Irethoreru from the 3D model of his coffin. So analog-> digital-> analog…and then I took a picture and put it online.
Tullimonstrum, speeding close to the sea's surface. A second Tullimonstrum follows not far behind. The waves and water effects are dynamic, reflecting the high speeds reached by Tullimonstrum.
High speed monstrum
(dynamic water/composition study) (I'm not sorry)
#paleoart #tullimonstrum #sketch
God willing. I’m so ready for this era in tech to die.
For me, it was watching sigourney weaver handle the micropipette in Avatar. Ruined the movie.
Boss, just got a new tranche of things that are no longer relevant. Yeah they fell out of the news cycle. Haven't been mentioned in years.
Yeah, it's Russian. And the Middle East. And the digital. Sounds like everything's just been completely sorted out, in that respect. Germany, also wrapped up.
Good to see St Joseph doing some childcare.
I like the Bulwark’s take that they lie about it because they know he correlates it with penis size and that the whole thing is a Stalinist humiliation ritual.
YEHESSSS! 🐙 OCTOPUS!🐙
#Caturday post
Blue faience ring with a seated cat
Ca. 1390 BCE
Art Institute of Chicago
I’m furious that AI has gone this way. I was one of its biggest early fans and adopters. But without serious and major regulation, it’s become a theft machine to steal people’s lives, likenesses, identities, and jobs.
WE CAN SAY NO.
An Egyptian drawing on papyrus of a man with the head of a rabbit with knives in both hands
OMG the National Museum in Warsaw has the papyrus of Bakai on display after years in storage. Bakai was a royal nurse in the 18th dynasty, likely of Amunhotep II. Her papyrus is one of the few belonging to an 18th Dynasty woman.
This pic is from their Instagram linked below. More pics there.
Aw hell…My family had a 486 until the thing was far more than obsolete. My childhood was spent building up a tolerance for low framerates.
Yes, but it has ALWAYS been like this in societies where women are second class citizens. Women are involved because you have to have kids, but they are seen and not heard and all the real romances are between guys who are totally not gay.
I've just had an amazing idea
I once did a doily in this mosaic style. It was brutal. Never again and nothing but respect. Whatever they are charging it’s too little.
I don’t know. I’d never seen it before. I suspect since nobody has seen it and it’s in the GEM it must be from a modern excavation.
