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AI ftw
I just made a whole new online game (guess sound based on a snippet) in under half an hour. Can’t remember feeling like this since the day in 1998 when I automated a morning data batch by combining a .bat file with VBA in Excel. Stout Cortez with his eagle eyes would totally grok me.…
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Polychromic antiquities
Ever so often, usually on Facebook, people “discover” that ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were colored. Which is really funny because the trend of discovering it is at least 150 (Tanagra hoard 1870) years old. https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/presentation/spectacular-art-jean-leon-gerome-1824-1904
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Outlaw nuns
It really bugs me when great true stories have narratively unsatisfying endings. This is a prime example: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/belgian-outlaw-nuns
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