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There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs

"Foreign dynasty needs stronger local branding, commissions elaborate content tying itself to beloved national mythology" could almost be a communications strategy written today. Merlin's Cave is just an unusually expensive 18th-century version of it.

If almost every absence can count as silence, it becomes very easy to find the theme everywhere

The useful distinction for me is between making something work and knowing why it works

AI was used to "fill in visual gaps"

In some ways, publishing this provenance is as valuable as publishing the cleaned illustrations

Natural reproduction already has a lot of randomness and failure built into it. It's not like egg/sperm selection is a perfect quality-control system. IVF has also been around for decades, and while it definitely needs monitoring, we haven't seen some obvious collapse in health from it

I'd be very curious how they even define "safe enough" for this. With most therapies, the risk is mostly to the patient. Here the risk could be passed on to a future person who never consented to the experiment.

Having something intentionally non-essential to cut is much better than discovering under pressure that everything is load-bearing

80% utilization is not a universal statement