Source

this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price

Does free will exist?

How Ponify ruined my life

Possibly the most horrifying thing that has ever happened to me occurred today. So I’m in a creative writing class at university right now and we had to print out twenty-five copies of our first, one page assignment to distribute to the class. I had to print mine at the computer lab as I don’t have a printer, but here are the three crucial facts that made this the worst mistake of my life.

1. Sometimes, when you log into Google on Chrome, it activates all of your extensions, even ones you’ve deactivated.

2. In high school, my friends and I got really into Ponify (a words replacing chrome extension) and switched the preferences so we could read political articles and have congress get into a “rousing snow ball fight” and the like.

3. Ponify reverted to its original My Little Pony lingo when opened on a new computer’s chrome.

So when I distributed my twenty-five copies of this I noticed the word “everypony”, my heart seized up and dropped into my stomach, and with my imminent death approaching, I began furiously correcting all twenty-five of them. My teacher, confusedly, agreed to let me correct them as I was too infuriated and ashamed to say my mistake aloud. 

I just realized, however, that the line “as she watched the binding fall away in her hand” was changed to “as she watched the binding fall away in her hoof”. 

And I just had to send this email:

And basically I’m ready for death how was your day

I feel like the only person not tempted to use ChatGPT like it doesn't even occur to me as an option

Jfc

*blows a kiss to the whales* for spock

i am a simple creature. every day i am sleepy

cool stuff available on youtube

archaeology related and not really (just things I watch while knitting = you can learn something but it shouldn’t bore you to death)

Irving Finkel:

The First Ghost Stories - ancient Mesopotamian beliefs

The Ark Before Noah: A Great Adventure - story of one really exciting cuneiform tablet and bearded guy who make reconstructing the ark possible

Short story of deciphering the cuneiform writing 

How to write cuneiform - (or short video that shows you that you really couldn’t do that)

Genevieve von Petzinger ‘s TED talk about  32 symbols found in caves all over Europe

Museum Tour: Ötzi the Iceman - 3D printing a replica of Ötzi, what did he eat, what did he carry, etc. 

A Neanderthal Perspective on Human Origins - lecture by Svante Pääbo, who’s worked on neanderthal genome

History of fashion and whatever Karolina Żebrowska is up to these days 

Ask a Mortician - everything you want to know about death, iconic corpses, flying corpses, well, a lot of corpses in general 

Art history with Waldemar Januszczak

A simple, yet effective #resume checklist to ensure you wow potential employers every time!

bit.ly/Upgrade_My_Career