Fell into a ravine and exploded? Exploded?!

But then I don't know, if I tried again now maybe it would do better. Or a year from now.

I wondered if it was able to figure out it was from the Rosetta Stone, so next I used some of the Mendes Stela. Breaks, some doubtful signs, and it was a train wreck.

I did some tests with an easy text (the Memphis decree, iirc) out of curiosity a while back. With transcriptions Claude did okay, better with hieroglyphs than with demotic. With hieroglyphs from images it produced things but poorly. Many obvious mistakes. With demotic it failed utterly.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

The Demise of Strategic Planning in Israel What happens when a country at war stops seriously debating its own strategy and goals? In Israel today, that scenario is no longer theoretical. In the

This is pretty unsurprising given the last few years, but still surprising to see someone so connected to the Israel strategic planning establishment to be so open about it.
warontherocks.com/the-demise-o...

Ah but what does "completely open" mean? Declarations on the state of the Strait are getting treated like Michael Scott's bankruptcy.

Mandalorian and Grogu really did seem to go with "what if the heroes are the tricked-out 0-turn mower in a 'mowing the grass' counter-terror campaign?" as their top story board concept.

At least pair them with a strategist who wants to hit the COG in the imperial buildup as a system of systems.

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

A good morning of diligent editing, and I've cut...

just over 800 words. Sigh.

But I think the Keraunos bit is worth keeping. Can I find the cuts elsewhere?

We've only got fragments of book 16, which is a shame, because he was feisty in 16. But "second because he's the handsomest man of his time" and Polybius interjecting to say "no really!" is hilarious.

Polybius is such a funny writer, says no one ever. But then there's this, where Philip pardons Marcus Aemilius for interrupting him, for 3 reasons: πρῶτον μὲν ὅτι νέος ἐστὶ καὶ πραγμάτων ἄπειρος, δεύτερον ὅτι κάλλιστος ὑπάρχει τῶν καθʼ αὑτὸν — καὶ γὰρ ἦν τοῦτο κατʼ ἀλήθειαν — μάλιστα δʼ ὅτι Ῥωμαῖος.

OTD in 2022 Russian warship Moskva, that was told “go fuck yourself”, went & fucked itself and sunk. By a country without a navy. In a land war.

I remain a master strategist.

Paging Athenians

Wow! Had not noticed them before!

Sometimes some Greek vase art will actually have really dynamic perspective and it always catches me off guard

Wonderful to get the background on this. I recall being annoyed at the change from the book to the movie.

Amazing. From an Air Force history of the MH-53 Pave Low, the backstory of how the Air Force helped Tom Clancy get Pave Low details right in the book Clear and Present Danger, and jealous Army SOF officers allegedly then connived to have MH-60s replace the Pave Low in the movie

Proposition: a nation that is flippant, dismissive, or sophistic with respect to Just War principles cannot be Christian.

Being scrupulous about Just War does not make a nation Christian, of course, but it is a necessary condition.

Now think three steps ahead. Snyder's prescience foils the false flag.

Now think four steps ahead. Someone is going to have to steal the Declaration of Independence...

Sweet Southern Lights

Didn't realize how low-res the images I attached were. Here's another one from wildwinds that is easier to see.

It's a tough spot to say the "Brettian shield" from Festus on the rearmament of the Late Republican velites was likely to have been anything other than a thureos, but Brettian shield is also a weird name for a shield almost everyone was using.

This video breaks my heart every single time.

A little boy, just 3 years old, wounded during one of Russia’s attacks in 2022, crying out: “Where is my dad?”. Those words are almost impossible to listen to.

Russia must pay for everything it has done.

Richard Spencer was kicked out of Duke thank you very much. He is decidedly not an alumnus.

True!

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social at SMH is now attacking all nine sub-components of the Marian reforms to defeat each element in detail.