Zompist Bboard Again

My last working day of my contact where I work now is tomorrow. I do enjoy working there, with mostly fun coworkers and lots of fun (and liquid crystally) Science happening... but, at the same time, I have my next adventure lined up starting from June/July which I'm very excited for. Bittersweet. G...

I find it a bit surprising to see Nietzsche defended by someone who basically sees anyone who shares any minor opinion with Heidegger as a nazi.

(Mostly staying out of this for now, but this caught my attention) As for Le Pen and Meloni... I do believe there's a certain continuity. Most noticeably in seeing Arabs and Muslims as some sort of barbarian enemy. Though of course, there is also a strong anti-semitic element in the far-right too. I...

Does anyone here know anyone affected by that bridge collapse?

A couple of specific examples: As part of a recent post about ancient floor mosaics , she discusses how ancient people viewed art and artists (i.e. primarily as a form of manual labor that served a purpose, rather than a form of individual expression.) I kind of have the impression that in that reg...

vlad wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:15 am Racists like Linguoboy should not be tolerated.

This discussion was just starting to get interesting, and then you have to pop in. Great.

sasasha wrote: ↑Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:07 pm Just to mention that I’ve had a chest infection and been too busy IRL but will post some updates soon. Thanks zomp for the roundup of new musical vocab - I like the Kebreni calques!

Get better!

As I write this, the forum claims that there are more than six million views for my Could this work as a collaborative project?-thread in Ephemera. That thread is less than a month old, and has 30 replies. What on Earth is going on there?

It seems to have caused quite a stir among scholars of classical antiquity.

For his achievement, the student, 21-year-old Luke Farritor, has won $40,000. But he should probably share the prize with AI as it helped him to identify a single word on the scroll: Should people who do scholarship by analysing photographs share any prizes they win for it with the concept of photo...

I feel like I don't find much joy in doing anything anymore. I mostly only engage in my hobbies as a means to relieve my misery. But even now I have too low motivation to engage in my hobbies anymore rather than lay in bed all day sleeping or watching videos. I hope this somehow gets better. Depres...

This makes me wonder, has anyone here read Catherine Nixey's The Darkening Age (I haven't), and if you have, what do you think of it?

work -> things where your exert yourself -> pre-modern travel?

The fact that "ʔ" looks a bit like a question mark makes this thread's title look interesting to me.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:55 pm Any idea why this is so?

The influence of bad fantasy/SF movie/TV conlangs used by evil creatures?

WeepingElf wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:18 am I can't give you references since my PC has died and I am on my phone now,

Good luck getting that sorted out!

It's not really that I disagree with you, jcb, but I kind of wonder who you think you're talking to - someone who approves of outsourcing and union-busting?

Oddly, neither of the two "incorrect" pronunciations he gives is /ˈn(j)uː.fənd.lənd/. And I have never, ever heard the "incorrect" pronunciation given with /faʊnd/. I haven't heard that one, but until very recently, I would have assumed it was the "right" one, based on...

zompist wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:50 amIt would make a lot more sense to automate the CEO jobs away, not the artists.

Then again, that whole children's super fun Oompa Loompa experience disaster thing seems to have been a failed attempt at doing that. Or at least at doing that with the jobs of middle management.

Ultimately this resulted in zeptoforth, which gave me added satisfaction when it started being used by other people, which also gave me something that I had never had before -- a sense that there were people who used and benefited from my work instead of the loneliness of developing things no one e...