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A display of the grave goods, featuring a he chainmail shirt, a helmet on a stand, a long sword, small gold ornaments, and various metal, glass, and ceramic objects, all arranged against a dark background.

The early medieval burial from Gammertingen, 6th century AD.
The high-ranking warrior died in his early 30s and was buried with a Byzantine helmet (a so-called Spangenhelm), his weapons, and his mail armour, which consisted of about 45,000 iron rings!

📷Landesmuseum Württemberg

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"Sealing Magic Book Mini Pouch Mascot" now on sale. It gives you a mysterious power that cannot be achieved by human power.
#ガチャポン #gachapon

In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:

How dumplings spread around the world

(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)

Meteorological (mists, clouds, wind, rain, storm, tempest, smoke, darkness, shadows, gloom). Topographical (impenetrable forests, inaccessible mountains, chasms, gorges, deserts, blasted heaths, icefields, the boundless ocean). Architectural (towers, prisons, castles covered in gargoyles and crenellations, abbeys and priories, tombs, crypts, dungeons, ruins, graveyards, mazes, secret passages, locked doors). Material (masks, veils, disguises, billowing curtains, suits of armour, tapestries). Textual (riddles, rumours, folklore, unreadable manuscripts and inscriptions, ellipses, broken texts, fragments, clotted language, polysyllabism, obscure dialect, inserted narratives, stories-within-stories). Spiritual (religious mystery, allegory and symbolism, Roman Catholic ritual, mysticism, freemasonry, magic and the occult, Satanism, witchcraft, summonings, damnation). Psychological (dreams, visions, hallucinations, drugs, sleep-walking, madness, split personalities, mistaken identities, doubles, derangement, ghostly presences, forgetfulness, death, hauntings).

thinking about Nick Groom's suggested "seven types of obscurity" in Gothic novels, forming a handy "is it goth" checklist lmao

as the daughter of an addict and as someone who has in the past escaped into the dopamine of perceived progress in grindy MMORPGs i can tell you this is *exactly* what it looks like to be addicted to something that makes you *feel* like you're progressing

they might as well be playing MMOs though

A Pepper By Any Other Name Yes, I'm still thinking about chili and chili peppers

New Sauceome comic this week!!

Yes I’m still thinking about chili and chili peppers. 🌶️

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Thought up by a person who finished vacuuming the floor and then, not ready to be finished, started eyeing the walls

Notepad++

"Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and other malware."

There’s a scene where he flashes back to all the whistling which transitions into the sound of a tea kettle’s whistle in the present day. He’s in the kitchen. His mom offers him tea, which he turns down because that’s sissy stuff.

If you wanted to take the time, I would be DELIGHTED to read a mini lecture about views on sex in Ancient Rome.

Five expressions that are used when bumping into someone in an unexpected place…

1. It’s a small world (English)
2. How round is the earth (Ukrainian)
3. The world is a village (German)
4. The world is a handkerchief (Spanish)
5. What an odd place to find a lobster (Irish)

A centaur wearing a patterned puffer jacket. It is a rough winter this year, and even a centaur needs to stay warm..!

centaur's puffer jacket
#art

Update: it worked! It was just the non-main branch being buggy apparently. Exporting assets is now a go. (Navigating the file system will be a whole ‘nother battle, though)

What appears to be a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field is actually a normal sized praying mantis that's actually sitting on my windshield

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

That could def be it! I’ll try the official version when I next have time and hopefully it’ll fix the problem

I was inspired by your IN clothing rip (Ty for your service) to use your tutorial to rip & port some of the household items into Sims4. However, the decrypt keys api doesn’t decrypt the paks :/ Is there sometimes a lag between game update & the keys api getting updated?

Photo of a map of the ancient city of Assur with a section in the middle zoomed in on in a separate box in the bottom right corner. The zoomed in part shows the plan of the house for a goldsmith archive

Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey.

It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.

One bit In my new environment design book is demonstrating staging techniques, now live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

The Absolute Units art. Three giant sheep hover over the English countryside.

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏

Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections.

In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery

A telescopic view of stars and a blue-green comet. The comet has a wispy dust tail that extends up and to the left.

A black and white version of the previous image of the comet showing its tail extending upward and to the left.

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) as seen this morning. I kind of feel the black and white version brings out more detail in its tail. #comet 🔭

Not region locked for the US! VERY fun song

Ahead of the case caption, a handwritten note: "Trump has pardons and tanks . . . . what do you have?" Judge Young's reply: "Dear Mr. or Ms. Anonymous, Alone, I have nothing but my sense of duty. Together, We the People of the United States –- you and me -- have our magnificent Constitution. Here’s how that works out in a specific case –- "

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Collage de 9 photos de fleurs en papier crépon : des zinnias, des roses, des tulipes, une dahlia, deux pivoines, une hortensia, des pois de senteur.

Ma petite collection de fleurs roses 🌷💕

#paperflower

The persecution! The disrespect! The gall! How could the librarian not realize this dude is the main character

I need to go back to my roots. Be the bitch I wish to see in the world.

In this spirit of fraternity, hope and caution, we call upon your leadership to uphold the following principles and red lines to foster dialogue and reflection on how AI can best serve our entire human family: Human life and dignity: AI must never be developed or used in ways that threaten, diminish, or disqualify human life, dignity, or fundamental rights. Human intelligence – our capacity for wisdom, moral reasoning, and orientation toward truth and beauty – must never be devalued by artificial processing, however sophisticated. AI must be used as a tool, not an authority: AI must remain under human control. Building uncontrollable systems or over-delegating decisions is morally unacceptable and must be legally prohibited. Therefore, development of superintelligence (as mentioned above) AI technologies should not be allowed until there is broad scientific consensus that it will be done safely and controllably, and there is clear and broad public consent. Accountability: only humans have moral and legal agency and AI systems are and must remain legal objects, never subjects. Responsibility and liability reside with developers, vendors, companies, deployers, users, institutes, and governments. AI cannot be granted legal personhood or “rights”. Life-and-death decisions: AI systems must never be allowed to make life or death decisions, especially in military applications during armed conflict or peacetime, law enforcement, border control, healthcare or judicial decisions.

Independent testing and adequate risk assessment must be required before deployment and throughout the entire lifecycle. Stewardship: Governments, corporations, and anyone else should not weaponize AI for any kind of domination, illegal wars of aggression, coercion, manipulation, social scoring, or unwarranted mass surveillance. Responsible design: AI should be designed and independently evaluated to avoid unintentional and catastrophic effects on humans and society, for example through design giving rise to deception, delusion, addiction, or loss of autonomy. No AI monopoly: the benefits of AI – economic, medical, scientific, social – should not be monopolized. No Human Devaluation: design and deployment of AI should make humans flourish in their chosen pursuits, not render humanity redundant, disenfranchised, devalued or replaceable. Ecological responsibility: our use of AI must not endanger our planet and ecosystems. Its vast demands for energy, water, and rare minerals must be managed responsibly and sustainably across the whole supply chain. No irresponsible global competition: We must avoid an irresponsible race between corporations and countries towards ever more powerful AI.

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities

coexistence.global

What an expertly called shot

“[Minority] doesn’t use AI! How could this be???”
At MINIMUM - we know that we can’t get away with the same vibes based approach to facts that others can. We’ll get full blame for any uncaught mistakes in the AI output.
Seeing this play out w/ a ND male friend of mine right now.