So ironic that the dudes who took down Byzantium aren’t even there anymore, and that it was effectively the same Byzantine dudes who then formed the Ottoman state, just with a new language and religion
It’s pretty wild that the fall of Byzantium, and therefore the last of Roman civilization, could be summed up as:
1. Cousins of Mongols called Turks came to Anatolia
2. Converted to Islam to help recruit soldiers
3. Knocked out Byzantines, then the former Byzantines said “we’ll take it from here, we’re the Ottomans now”
4. Mongol cousin dudes intermarry and are absorbed into the Anatolian Greek population
Wasn’t expecting so many Irish in Argentina, that country’s demographics are so interesting
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“If approved, the monthly bill for a typical Massachusetts residential customer would be reduced by about 39%, or $115.39, from $297.22 to $181.83.
The average residential customer uses about 600-kilowatt hours (kWh) per month and will see their electric supply price per kWh decrease from approximately 33.89 cents/kWh to 14.12 cents/kWh. “
What’s the quietest vacuum cleaner you’ve owned?
#ProductRecommendations
This beat will forever have me wanting to sprint for 10 miles, so hype
https://open.spotify.com/track/2K7j4xrQENCi5r3Hii4cVe?si=mpscVaOPQCG9kER5-9r3_w
and then this bad boy for the heavy lifting https://open.spotify.com/track/4h7qcXBtaOJnmrapxoWxGf
This beat will forever have me wanting to sprint for 10 miles, so hype
https://open.spotify.com/track/2K7j4xrQENCi5r3Hii4cVe?si=mpscVaOPQCG9kER5-9r3_w
Most of them are under https://rsslay.nostr.moe which is run by #[5] there are also older ones on rsslay.nostr.net which is run by #[6]
Just came across the upcoming Jeep Wagoneer S #ElectricVehicle , had no idea this was a thing!
I love the experimenting Kia's been doing with bold designs!
It’s exciting to see more & more public figures engaging in active dialogue on this platform!
Sure, people will say foolish things from time to time (myself especially), but that’s way better than silence or sanitized “press releases” that’re basically just boring propaganda.
https://nitter.moomoo.me/elonmusk/status/1636455431680794625#m
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oooo love me some palaeogenomics, especially this part:
"The widespread presence of the Caucasus Hunter-Gatherer component in Egypt is likely associated with admixture between local Egyptian populations and Bronze Age-related populations from West Asia. This admixture pattern might result from the dominance of Lower Egypt by Canaanite (Levantine) rulers during the Second Intermediate Period ca. 1,650-1,550 BCE"
Naturally for my first #DamusImageUpload i pick a screenshot of a Bobs Burgers episode
I bet this is some sort of Breaking Bad type heist of chemicals used to make meth 😂
This is why I roll my eyes when people say “omg chinas AI tech is gonna surpass us imminently!!!”
When it comes to tech that they don’t have the blueprints to easily copy, China’s iteration tends to be mediocre at best.
There’s a reason they’re still so behind when it comes to things like space travel, military tech, and jet planes. The US doesn’t allow their companies to manufacture those things in China, so they can’t copy it.
“During the highly publicized and eagerly anticipated news conference for Ernie, Baidu founder Robin Li stood beside an open chat screen, narrating questions that had earlier been typed into the chatbot. He admitted the company was only showing a demo of the technology that it had prepared earlier.
Ernie’s planned launch comes as US groups such as OpenAI and Google continue making strides in pushing forward their development of generative AI.
At the end of the roughly 45-minute demonstration, a chorus of WeChat users chimed in with variations of: “That’s it?” Two Baidu employees said they were equally disappointed with the rollout.
OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT last November had caught Baidu off guard, two people close to the company’s AI efforts said, noting they did not believe the US group had significantly superior technology until that point.
“We can only explore by ourselves. Training ChatGPT took OpenAI more than a year, and it took them another year to tune GPT-4,” said one Baidu employee. “It means we’re two years behind.” “
Yeah that's the beauty of open protocols like Nostr. Clients that misbehave can be forked and have the crappy parts removed, or users can just switch to a dif client altogether and still keep their social network and profiles.