taoish

@taoish@mastodonapp.uk

Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar.
Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.

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taoish, to histodons

Youssef Nader -- one of the 3 who won the Vesuvius Prize by reading a charred, unopened papyrus scroll from 79 CE -- from his blog breaking it down.

"The ink detection Journey of the Vesuvius Challenge"

https://youssefnader.com/2024/02/06/the-ink-detection-journey-of-the-vesuvius-challenge/

@histodons

taoish, to histodons

In progress now but you can probably still join in:

a ground table organized by the Bodleian on how medievalists can prepare for and recover from loss of online data, such as the British Library has recently suffered.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/now-you-see-it-now-you-dont-sustainable-access-in-a-digital-age-tickets-811234834227

@histodons

slevelt, to HipHop
@slevelt@hcommons.social avatar

just a reminder that ’s song has been crossing over to different genres since forever.

Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow https://youtu.be/r-12JqIVJ_A?si=vnUz4hb3_sGjKUWi (they cleared the sample; she took all the publishing)

taoish,

@mxtthxw @slevelt
No this is standard music world practice snd always has been. Once you release a song, people can cover it (if they pay you 50% of the royalties for writing it.)

OP makes it sound like some oppressive corporate legal deal but it's bog standard. How is a cover band at the local bar going to get hold of of the Beatles' copyright holder, whoever that is? (And yes, bands also owe these royalties for live covers).

carrideen, to random
@carrideen@c18.masto.host avatar

The discourse about Tracy Chapman "finally" being recognized for Fast Car is weird because it was a huge hit. Massive. Rolling Stone called it the best song ever written by a woman (and it was still no. 167 on their ranked list). I'm delighted that she's getting new royalties, new awards, new invitations to sing it, but there's this edge like she's supposed to be so grateful to Luke Combs. No, Luke Combs should be grateful that she let him sing it. Audiences should be so grateful to hear it.

taoish,

@fkamiah17 @engarneering @carrideen

Here's an article on how the duet was set up. She chose the arrangement, band, how they would do it etc. so those are all her choices. Basically she decided to alternate verses and sing the choruses together.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tracy-chapman-fast-car-grammys-how-it-happened-secret-1234962581/

taoish, to bookhistodons

The very exciting news today in is that Brent Searles' team read several column-inches of a scroll charred in the 79 CE eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

The bad news is that it's a deathly dull treatise on pleasure by , an Epicurean philosopher of little note.

The worse news is that he was Philosopher-in-Residence at this villa. The scrolls could be mostly or all his writing. Maybe even his drafts.
@histodons
@bookhistodons

taoish, to histodons

Apparently a big announcement is due today on the -- 12 columns of text by the Epicurean philosopher Nicodemus.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-ai-unlock-ancient-world-secrets/
@histodons

emarktaylor, to NFL
@emarktaylor@thecanadian.social avatar

🏈 @nfl

Via Josh Dubow @JoshDubowAP
·
48m
With and Chiefs having no Alabama players on active roster, a remarkable streak will continue. No player who finished college at Alabama has scored a point in a Super Bowl. Players from 143 other colleges from Coast Guard (1 point) to Miami (84) have scored in Super Bowl

taoish,

@emarktaylor @nfl
I bet the trick here, is that the really good Alabama players go pro before graduation.

How many Bama dropouts have scored Superbowl Owls points?

Also, for the person who mentioned Kenny Stabler, here's a trivia question: what was the first pro team he played for, in 1968?

Alice, to random
@Alice@beige.party avatar

"Some people call me the space cowboy. Some call me the gangster of love."

NOBODY calls you any of those nicknames, STEVE!

taoish,

@michaelgemar @Alice
Naw, that was the cringiest line of the whole song! Maurice was a racial dog whistle. He was claiming to be "almost Black," like Maurice White of Earth Wind and Fire, hence the wolf whistle in the song.

nebunez, to 49ers
@nebunez@fuzzyroots.net avatar

I hope the Lions get through TB to get a shot at San Fran. I’d love to see Purdy play like shit against us; we wouldn’t drop it in the 4th.

@nfl

taoish,

@nebunez @nfl
BWAHAHAHA

It won't be raining in SF next week, and even if it does, Jared Goff may be the only QB worse in rain than Brock Purdy, due to his tiny baby hands. Look up his two college games in Eugene, where it was raining. I dare ya.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Hubs: It looks like your mind is wandering, what are you thinking about?

Me: About how often we wear dead people's clothes.

Hubs: ....oh

taoish,

@RickiTarr

You think wearing a dead man's clothes is weird?

I LIVE in a dead couple's house.

ErikUden, to random
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Today, 15 years ago the person or group with the fictive name of “Satoshi Nakamoto” created the first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin with the thought of it becoming a secure and fast alternative to fiat currency.

Now it's known as the most wasteful use of electricity, inefficient and limiting capability/functionality, as well as being among the most insecure and de-anonymizing ways to transfer money.

However, what Satoshi Nakamoto probably hasn't expected is how many scam-currencies would come after theirs, and how their invention would create a new breed of the most annoying people known to our species: crypto-bros.

taoish,

@Peternimmo @ErikUden @zog
Simulating a personality?

alexandra, to random
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    taoish,

    @alexandra
    John Le Carre movies and tv shows

    ArtBear, to vegan

    What Happens When 1 Twin Goes Vegan and the Other Keeps Eating Animal Products?

    New Stanford Medicine Study Investigates.

    https://www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/new-twin-vegan-diet-study-from-stanford-medicine-2023/

    taoish,

    Annoying arguments happen?

    @ArtBear

    taoish,

    @ArtBear
    Just from eating meat? Sounds great!

    Haste, to random
    @Haste@mastodon.social avatar

    I would like to see a law which makes companies responsible for any errors their AI makes. Since their key appeal is for passing accountability to a black hole, I think it ought to transfer to them instead.

    If they had to manage that risk I think we would see more responsible use.

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/humana-also-using-ai-tool-with-90-error-rate-to-deny-care-lawsuit-claims/

    taoish,

    @Haste
    THIS is the nub. AI is the next evolution of corporations and algorithms. They are primarily a way to shield individuals from criminal and civil liability for illegal acts.

    You want to improve the world, simply and at almost no cost? Start sending corporate executives to jail when they hurt people, starting with the Sacklers, and then oil company execs.

    Behavior will change REALLY fast.

    mike, to fediverse
    @mike@flipboard.social avatar

    The network effect for is gaining some serious momentum right now. As more services adopt the protocol, more people, more communities and more content are added to the network making it increasingly more valuable for everyone. This will only accelerate in the coming months as Threads, Wordpress, Tumblr, Flipboard and others federate.

    We're still in early innings but there's no way to put this genie back in the bottle. The open social Web / the is going to be huge.

    taoish,

    @mike
    My concern is -- can Meta use this linkage to scrape all of my Mastodon activity? (We didn't think they could scrape us before the Cambridge Analytica scandal either.)

    taoish, to bookstodon

    Voynich manuscript!!

    No one knows more about it or speaks more engagingly on the topic than Lisa Fagin Davis. Here is her most recent (very rigorous) discussion of the topic.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlSRZy0D_Y

    @histodons @medievodon @bookstodon

    taoish, to histodons

    More on the Roman (late Republican) luxury domus recently discovered. This website (in Italian) has several photos and a video.

    https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/attualit/colosseo-scoperta-nuova-domus-mosaici-rara-bellezza-mai-2254488.html

    @histodons

    SNerd, to NFL
    @SNerd@lor.sh avatar

    That strip from behind of Aiyuk was hilarious!
    @nfl

    taoish,

    @SNerd @nfl
    Aiyuk's going to get a lecture for not protecting the ball by tucking it in. And he should.

    taoish,

    @SNerd @nfl Let his teammates deliver the lecture? Ideally in the form of teasing? I like that.

    Careful, Yook! Don't drop your phone!

    bookish, to random
    @bookish@historians.social avatar

    You can’t make this stuff up. https://popular.info/p/mysterious-woman-tells-school-board?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    taoish,

    @eyrea @bookish
    Good call in general. In this case it's pure BS - she's literally the publicity director forva company that runs "clean" Christian right-wing book fairs. This one is just $$$ and lies.

    taoish,

    @eyrea @bookish
    Good call. And I'm certainly not ruling out the possibility that she has a porn addiction! I just don't think it was "caused" by a YA novel with a single kiss in it.

    dancinyogi, to NFL
    @dancinyogi@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

    Well,
    @Plautus , a bet is a bet! This is the first time this Philly fan has posted about another team on this site!

    SF outplayed Philly at every turn. They literally ripped us apart. Congratulations! You guys played great. You really did.

    taoish,

    @dancinyogi @Plautus
    To be fair, Philly was dominant in the first quarter, except for settling for FGs.

    BobWilliams, to random

    Lawsuits are fine, but the best way to stop Meta is for us to collectively stop using their products.

    taoish,

    @BobWilliams If only Millennials could let go of FB Messenger. What's wrong with email?

    michaelmeckler, to histodons

    CFP: Letter writing in the Roman empire (from Serena Connolly, Rutgers):

    The Roman Epistulae Project invites abstracts for the conference 'Empire of Correspondence: Roman Imperial Letters as Literature and State Messaging, 31 BCE–534 CE' to be held in Boulder, Colorado, 4-5 October 2024.

    Papers should examine the role of imperial correspondence in Roman society and governance.

    Abstracts are due 1st January 2024. More info: https://tinyurl.com/hx6jvvx4

    @histodons

    taoish,

    @michaelmeckler @histodons
    Can you please unpack the phrase "Imperial Correspondence"? Does that mean anything written after Octavian consolidated power? Or specifically a letter written in the service of the Roman Empire, by someone with an official roll? Thx

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