Archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology, Iceland
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Earthenware figurine of a dog, Nayarit culture, Mexico, 300 BC-400 AD
from The San Antonio Museum of Art
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Tell Sam Altman that I use my 64GB of RAM to run print("Hello, World!"). I want him to know it's me.
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Machines are tools, not persons. Today, some propose granting these systems rights, or even legal personhood. Such an approach risks obscuring human responsibility and leaving those who suffer harm to confront a faceless entity.
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INTO THE QUARTER-FINALS!! 💪
ALT Full-time graphic as Liverpool beat Chelsea 6-5 on penalties.
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NEW What was life like for medieval Muslims living under Christian rule?
Isotope analysis of 120 Muslims from 11th-15th-century Spain shows how diets changed over time, providing a rare view of how minority status was lived through everyday food access.
🧵 #AntiquityThread 1/16
ALT The tower of Torre Monreal, from where the isotope data was sampled.
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My Claude found a critical zero day vulnerability in the Code of Hammurabi, unnoticed by developers for 3,779 years.
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Hoy el gran e inigualable Viggo Mortensen cumple 68 años.
El mejor Aragorn que pudimos tener! 👑
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Did Viking settlers in England cook differently to their Danish counterparts? #InternationalChefsDay
Lack of evidence for fish in ceramic cooking vessels from England suggests that Scandinavian settlers conformed to Anglo-Saxon culinary traditions.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10…
ALT Round, iron pan.
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En la Gran Bretaña del siglo VII los niveles de plomo en niños eran superiores a los de ciudades de la Revolución Industrial entre 1750 y 1850 @AntiquityJ
#Arqueologia #Historia #Archaeology #History
lavanguardia.com/cultura/202…
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Falleció Chris Wickham
Chris Wickham, un prolífico y reconocido historiador británico de la Edad Media, falleció hoy.
Estas son algunas de sus obras más importantes.
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NEW Over 1500 instances of Coptic graffiti and 163 Christian structures have been discovered on Luxor’s West Bank. By examining routes between them, new research sheds light on connectivity between Christian communities in Late Antique Egypt.
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2026.10…
ALT Section of a sandstone brick wall in a desert, engraved with Coptic Christian symbols.
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incredible. anne carson, who just won the nobel prize in literature, suggests she's going to use the money to buy her friend a home. what a gift. imagine the beautiful news stories that would be written if another nobel winner did this for a lowly and poor menswear writer
“It seems a little insane”
Anne Carson was sweeping the kitchen floor at her home in Reykjavík, Iceland, when the phone rang and she learnt that she had been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature.
In this conversation with the Nobel Prize just moments after the announcement, Carson shares her advice for aspiring writers and reveals that she has already started planning how to give away the prize money.
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.