The_Blade

that is why this post is looney tunes

because he is a charlatan who doesn't like being called out for being unoriginal

> I have read Cline's work. He is not the original source of the ideas on bronze to iron transition. This is a very well studied topic in archeological metallurgy.

have you? i don't understand what you are bringing to the table. any real scientist discusses the shoulders they stood upon

my favorite details? this is like someone claiming to discover The Calculus in 1732 and conveniently forgetting to mention Newton or Leibniz

in theory, a delicate ecosystem built around Bronze collapsed. to make weak sauce Iron work you had to be a) very desperate and b) very clever. which scales for those who figure it out

the post in question doesn't even mention Ugarit. or Arsenic. i am genuinely pissed off at the original tome being passed off as genuine discourse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugarit

just pure charlatanry

Eric Cline, specifically 1177 BC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_H._Cline

that the article or the top post here doesn't cite him is unforgivable

> which presumably could be controlled by the state.

yes, kiln-roasted Linear B in Mycenaean palaces... built on a giant fault line (literally as well as figuratively)

Civ VII 2.0 should bring back Sid's palaces in monolith data centers like The Machine / Samaritan (note: i am only halfway through season 4)

Eric Cline

1177 BC

what about the Irony Age

Ouroburos tossing its own salad

there was some commentary on the amazing regenerative power of the liver on a post here a few days ago to this end. i did a little more homework and the way in which agricultural civlization and the ability of the liver to process ethanol evolved in parallel is profound. some settlement had a bumper crop of wheat enough to ferment over the winter and they were like, sheeeeeit and then the liver was like sheeeeeeeit

we've been collectively alcoholic for 15000 years, turning the body's chemical filtration plant into the body's largest organ that is literally called the liver, and we're supposed to give it up in 20 years? bosh. flimshaw

> Okay, but had you been able to time travel and show them today's LLMs back then, how many of them would have agreed that we had "AGI", and how many would have instantly recognized the limitations they'd failed to articulate?

Feynman would laugh and say, "i told you so. i'll be at Gianonni's"

can confirm as of this morning. last i checked Brave's Leo was slop but i'm sure the models have changed

of course Google / Gemini search is slop as well but it is at least advanced slop. not like whatever Soylent 1.5 Flash that DDG is bringing to the table

i just learned her partner is named Henry Hornbuckle now this is power couple we deserve but not the one we need right now

yeah this isn't just moving the goalposts it suddenly started playing Gaelic football but this all seems a lot more Ellsworth Toohey

oh indeed

i actually just started watching that, it never registered before but i think The Machine put it front and center on Prime on my stupid smart tv for a reason

wouldn't it be our ancestors just liked booze too much and the liver said alright genes, hold my beer

i mean it's called the liver not the dier

the point of this article perplexes me. the implication is we should all just take our Quietus. you decide.

that website gives me ocular stigmata

if it turns Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Brian Eno old man violent i'm right there beside them with a sack of detuned doorknobs

Numbers Stations

the inline link to the page to the report was Slashdotted for a moment (yesssssss), but here is the report directly now:

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a...

and others like Aol. and Eventbrite, but where it really hit me was Evernote. i tried to cancel and then Bending Spoons (BS for short) tried to charge me several times at a subscription 5 times the cost. i think something about pre-auth tokens across the sea on a PayPal account almost old enough to run for the House of Representatives might have had something to do with it, but IIRC BS has already had cash money rulings against it for shady-to-illegal billing practices

its reward? successful IPO. here is an Economist article from a couple months ago: https://www.economist.com/business/2026/07/01/can-bending-sp...

i'm forever chasing the dragon of cocktail napkin + physical stickies + Balsamiq, and have never even used Miro, and even i let out a "ohhhh no" in a welp, should i just go back to bed tone seeing this

i'm just waiting to wake up to news of Luca Ferrari buying Inter Milan like some old world Mark Walter

> He didn't even proof the last theorem of Fermat directly, he proved some conjeture that someone else before him, proved that it implied Fermat last theorem...

I think that was Ken Ribet?

Grigori Perelman and the Poincaré Conjecture is more interesting. IIRC he turned down Millennium and was decidedly not all about the Fields Medal - mostly because Richard Hamilton didn't get credit? Anyway, I am grateful I had the opportunity to learn about Poincaré in college taking a few classes from a professor who was a key contributor to the conjecture and got a Fulbright for it when I was there

physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it

i read it from a library. this all just makes me feel cozy and nostalgic and uplifted and sad all at once

i wouldn't take you down. you're a load-bearing poster