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Which Writers Will We Remember?(biblioracle.substack.com)
34 points by benbreen 3y ago|45 comments
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Assyrian Women of Letters(archaeology.org)
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by benbreen 3y ago
Not quite smoking (in the sense of using pipes), as he describes them as throwing cannabis seeds on hot stones and inhaling the smoke. I mention it in my Lapham's Quarterly article: “The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp [kanna
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by benbreen 3y ago
Yes, this is right on (and great book rec - Mike Jay is a friend and a brilliant writer on drug history). The concept of smoking cannabis is not quite so surprisingly new as that of smoking opium (which apparently emerged in Southeast Asi
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Very Slight Counterfactuals: Dick Whittington Has Children(thechatner.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
"If this knowledge is valuable, the best way to show a support for it is hiring somebody to work full time on this problem." Why not have both? I.e. academics and students dedicated to the fairly monastic career of being a profess
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Monsters in the Middle Ages(medievalists.net)
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update(resobscura.substack.com)
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Edgar Allan Poe's America(bunkhistory.org)
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The Trap of Fairytale Victory Endings in Historical Fiction(lithub.com)
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Simulating History with Multimodal AI: An Update(resobscura.substack.com)
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Biomolecular archaeology reveals a fuller picture of the nomadic Xiongnu(news.harvard.edu)
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The Largest Greek Manuscript?(blogs.bl.uk)
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It looks like the 23k year old human footprints at White Sands are solid(archeothoughts.wordpress.com)
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Thunderbird and Whale(en.wikipedia.org)
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Before psychedelic therapy for wartime trauma, there was narcosynthesis(resobscura.substack.com)
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A dictionary of modern slang, cant, and vulgar words (1860)(publicdomainreview.org)
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Electoral graffiti found inside Pompeii house(thehistoryblog.com)
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by benbreen 3y ago
This is awesome, thank you! Or should I say gratias tibi :)
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by benbreen 3y ago
This is the result when I asked GPT-4 to write "a new, original passage in latin which is inspired by Del Rio's style. Make the Latin elegant and lucid, with witty turns of phrase," then asked Claude to translate it back to E
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by benbreen 3y ago
Well, that's just it - I use Google Translate all the time to translate historical texts, and for whatever reason, GPT-4 and Claude both work better. Since I deal with texts that feature archaic orthography like the long s (ſ) the main
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Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and Claude(resobscura.substack.com)
170 points by benbreen 3y ago|113 comments
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The short life of New York City’s first skyscraper(ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com)
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Was There a Qing Administrative Revolution?(cambridge.org)
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A Careful Selection of Whisk Ferns (1837)(publicdomainreview.org)
13 points by benbreen 3y ago|1 comments
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by benbreen 3y ago
As I move into my second decade as an educator (started as a teaching assistant around 2012, now a history professor) it's been really interesting seeing what "sticks" and what doesn't. A couple years back I made a Simps
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Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes?(resobscura.substack.com)
63 points by benbreen 3y ago|54 comments
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A mystery species was discovered in trafficked pangolin scales(nytimes.com)
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The year Lou Reed gave up on music(nytimes.com)
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Guide to searching and annotating text on maps(machines-reading-maps.github.io)
62 points by benbreen 3y ago|7 comments

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