not only do i support immigration, i don't want to live anywhere without immigrants
yeah like. why the fuck would I want to live somewhere where one of the location's defining traits is "nobody wants to come here"

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not only do i support immigration, i don't want to live anywhere without immigrants
yeah like. why the fuck would I want to live somewhere where one of the location's defining traits is "nobody wants to come here"

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Struggling to put into words how big this is.
As game developers continue to argue about the value of generative AI tools, some genAI inventors are trying to claim for copyright on their
"Thaler's lawyers complain that if the Copyright Office's reign of terror continues unchecked, it 'will have irreversibly and negatively impacted AI development and use in the creative industry during critically important years.'"
GOOD.
My favorite part about writing is that first spark of an idea. It can happen at any time, for any reason. The idea for the Opalite music video crash landed into my imagination when I was doing promo for The Life of a Showgirl. I was a guest on one of my favorite shows, The Graham Norton Show. For those of you who arenât familiar, itâs a UK late night show where Graham Norton (the insanely charismatic and lovable host) invites a random group of actors, entertainers, musicians, etc to be on his show and we all sit there and chat like itâs a dinner party. They even serve wine. Anyway. I remember thinking I got ridiculously lucky with the group I was paired with. Cillian Murphy, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Jodie Turner-Smith, and Lewis Capaldi. All people whose work Iâve admired from afar. When we were all talking during the broadcast, Domhnall made a light hearted joke about wanting to be in one of my music videos. Heâs Irish! He was joking! Except that in that moment during the interview, I was instantly struck with an *idea*. And so a week later he received an email script Iâd written for the Opalite video, where he was playing the starring role. I had this thought that it would be wild if all of our fellow guests on the Graham Norton show that night, including Graham himself, could be a part of it too. Like a school group project but for adults and it isnât mandatory. To my delight, everyone from the show made the effort to time travel back to the 90âs with us and help with this video. You might even recognize some friendly faces from The Eras Tour. I got to work with one of my favorite people in the world, Rodrigo Prieto, again! I had more fun than I ever imagined - Made new friends, metaphors, and fashion choices. It was an absolute thrill to create this story and these characters. Shot on film. The Opalite video is out now on Spotify & Apple Music.Â
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This is an excellent music video
the queen who jumped on it and took it down
Same little girl who gets the close- up when the dragon first approaches. Her shield is upside down, her sword is bent and nearly broken, and she looks terrified and near tears... and she charges.
Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage"
- CS Lewis.

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10000 YEAR OLD ROCK ART OF GIRAFFES FOUND IN LIBYA LET'S GO
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capybaras are native to south america. it wasn't until 1982 that a japanese zookeeper discovered they love onsen. lesson in that.
Old Man in Sorrow (1890) by Vincent van Gogh
The Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few wee
Oh no. MAGA is mad that the NYT shared the names of DOGE staffers. Donât share this! Would be a shame
Let these traitors have ruined lives and failed careers for butchering a country they had no right. A fictional DOGE has actual 'enemies within' loyal to villainous Musk. Shame them!
yeaaaah , I won t share this AT like all ....
2nd time I am not sharing this at like all .
Something I find incredibly cool is that theyâve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldnât figure out what they were for for the life of them.Â
Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said âOh yeah sure thatâs a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.âÂ
âWait youâre still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???â
âWell, yeah. Weâve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.â
Itâs just.Â
50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, weâve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply havenât found anything better to do the job.Â
i also like that this is a âask craftspeopleâ thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all âthe fuckâ about someoneâs ear âdeformityâ in a portrait and couldnât work out what the symbolism was until someone whoâd also worked as a piercer was like âuhm, heâs fucked up a piercing thereâ. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok
One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks canât get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.
I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.
Then a mother looked at their findings and said âyeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.â
Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol
I remember years ago on a forum (email list, thatâs how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the womenâs household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as âprayer objectsâ. (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.) She found a docent and said, âExcuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.â  âWhy would you think that, maâam?â  âBecause they look just like the ones my husband makes for me. See?â They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle. When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.
So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldnât figure them out. They didnât have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpsonâs beehive.
Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.
A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, âYeah, theyâre sewn.â
âDonât be silly!â the archaeologists cry. âHow foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!â
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.
She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.
Okay, I greatly appreciate the discussion here about the need for interdisciplinary work in academia, and the need to reach outside of academia and talk to specialists when looking at the uses of tools, but somehow people always have to turn this into a âgotcha!â where the stuffy academics get shown up (even though this very thread shows some archeologists reaching out to craftspeople to ask about how tools are used because they recognize the need for that knowledge and expertise).
âA hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, âYeah, theyâre sewn.â
âDonât be silly!â the archaeologists cry. âHow foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!â
So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.â
Did they? Did they really? The archeologists all laughed at the plucky hairdresser and then she proved her theory by simply recreating the styles?
See, what actually happened is that Janet Stephens (the hairdresser/hair archeologist in this post), who published an article about her theory in The Journal of Roman Archeology in 2008, spent about 6 years of research pursuing her idea that perhaps Roman hairstyles were sewn hair and not wigs. She did both hands-on experimentation sewing the actual hair, and more traditional research reading through a ton of sources. This is coming from an interview done with Stephens herself:
âLots and lots of reading, poring over exhibition catalogs, back searching the footnotes to the reading and reading some more! It helped that I am fluent in Italian and, in 2006, I took a German for reading class. Working in my spare time, the research took 6 years.â
âI am an independent researcher, but my husband is a professor of Italian at the Johns Hopkins University, so I have library privileges there. We are friendly with colleagues in the Classics/Archaeology department and at the Walters Art Museum. They were kind enough to send me articles and clippings, read drafts and help with some picky Latin, though I try not to impose.â
(Source: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/14729)
Wow, so people in the Classics/Archeology department and at the art museum sent her articles and clippings and HELPED her with her research as opposed to laughing at her in their gentlemanâs club! Itâs almost like people working the archeology/art history these days arenât all stuffy old white guys from the 1950âs!
Stephens also presented her work at the Archeological Institute of America Conference, and according to the interview I cited above, it was apparently well received: âIt seemed to create a a lot of buzz and people said they enjoyed it. Itâs not every conference where you go to the poster session and see âheads on pikestaffsâ!â
Like, thereâs plenty to be said about the ivory tower and the need for interdisciplinary work, and the racism/sexism etc. that newer researchers are working against, but framing this story as âhairdresser totally shows up the archeologists with her common sense!â is needlessly shitting on the academics involved here (and the humanities in general have been struggling to maintain funding at many universities in the US, they donât need to be further attacked), as well as greatly over-simplifying and downplaying Janet Stephensâ achievement. I think itâs more respectful to acknowledge the six years of work that she put into the project than to tell the story like she just sewed some hair and then all the archeologistsâ monocles popped out.

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