andrew phillips
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- The intent to commit genocide is clear. But even that word feels insufficient. Israelis can't say they were under a dictatorship or that their government tried to hide its crimes. It did it all in plain view with the willing complicity of other so-called democracies, defying all laws and conventions
- Pathetic vile little man.
- My own plot of the final orbit, showing the Roskosmos estimate of the path between reentry and impact in purple. I guess that Kosmos-482 SA reentered somewhere along this track between India and the ocean south of Australia.
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- The last TLE was updated about six hours before its predicted reentry.
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- “Let us pray that God will grant us a pope who doubts.”
- Wrong, wrong, and wrong. Just some basic fact-checking would be nice. Anyway, I wrote about Eostre here: florencehrs.substack.com/p/eostre-pag...
- ‘The Easter bunny was a hare long before he was a rabbit; the hare was sacred to Eostre, the Saxon goddess of spring – no rabidly cute bundle of fluff.’ Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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- I believe his argument isn't entirely that 'eostre' meant literally 'beginning' but rather that because it's etymologically related to a word for 'dawn', the beginning of the calendar was associated metonymically by early Germanic peoples with the "month of dawns" or "month of the deity Dawn"
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- i mean at least English has consonants
- Avril 14th on prepared piano
- An inscription mentioning 'ama-gi₄' from the reign of Entemena (ca 2400 BC) reads: ama-gi₄ lagašᵏⁱ e-ŋar ama dumu i₃-ni-gi₄ dumu ama i₃-ni-gi₄ [Entemena brought] freedom to Lagash he placed child back with mother and mother back with child
- I had to google who the 'artist' was, and their 'portfolio' is chokeful of AI-generated images. The 'reconstruction' in this article is almost certainly AI-generated nonsense too.
- The person this is supposedly a reconstruction of is individual Γ58, from the Grave Circle B site at Mycenae, buried alongside Γ55, her brother. The original reconstructions are described in Prag et al. 1995 (Seven faces from Grave Circle B at Mycenae) d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/108738077/S0...
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- Alternatively the total is 20,403 (𒐧 𒐡 𒐈) cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/files-up/pub...
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- me when I see two weevils
- A table of reciprocals, the values in the second column are correct, but where the scribe copied 14 (𒌋𒐼) 28 (𒌋𒌋𒑄) 35 (𒌍𒐊) they should've instead written 15 (𒌋𒐊) 27 (𒌋𒌋𒑂) 32 (𒌍𒈫)
- Codex Sangallensis 878, a collection of texts on grammar and language copied by Walafrid Strabo in the 9th c. His handbook included four abecedaria—Hebrew, Greek, Futhorc and Younger Futhark. Sadly the Hebrew and Futhark sections were damaged by Ildefons von Arx, attempting to make them more legible
- von Arx however made copies of the Younger Futhark section before the reagent damaged it, which were then published by Wilhelm Grimm first in 1821 in 'Ueber deutsche Runen', and later again in 1828. www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/...
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- One can see here for example the evolution of the Sumerogram for 'king' 𒈗
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- From Davide Farnocchia's IAWN presentation. The impact probability is likely to drop below 0.1% before the end of observations in April.
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- It might be 𐩼𐩨𐩺𐩣 (ẓbym) instead as well (Ja 147 dasi.cnr.it/index.php?id...)
- Is it not 𐩮𐩨𐩺𐩣 𐩪𐩨𐩢𐩣 (ṣbym s¹bḥm) where the fifth character is the word separator (compare YBC 2427) dasi.cnr.it/index.php?id...
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- The rotation rate itself doesn't affect the orbit (YR4 rotates every 19 mins) but sunlight exerts a small pressure on an asteroid altering its orbit, & how big the effect is depends among other things on its rotation.Accounting for this effect was needed to rule out impacts from Apophis for example
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- You can practice hitting asteroids with the CNEOS deflection app, object 'SIM9' is the most similar to 2024 YR4. cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/nda/nda.html
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- I believe this is part of a stele described here (Enwall 1994) www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di... www.aboluowang.com/2020/0422/14...
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- hard to make cow technology with only cow tools
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- available in Unicode 𐨩𐨆𐨣𐨪𐨗 𐨀𐨿𐨨𐨟𐨁𐨩𐨆𐨐
- Did you hear the wind howling, growling? She knows something, she is older than I
- the side of the Moon we see // the side we don’t:
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- Taken by the Apollo 16 crew.
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- ᚼᚢᚱᚾ᛬ᚼᛁᛅᚱᛏᛅᛦ᛫ᛚᛅ᛬ᛅᚤᛋᛅᛦ - There's another bit: "... lay at the river mouth".
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- And Amber was right and knew what would happen next.
- I like Bragi's side-eye in that same manuscript (AM 738 4to handrit.is/manuscript/v...), he has no time for anyone's nonsense
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- 'swive' (in English Clandestine Satire 1660–1702)
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- For reference, the four clay cylinders (from his 2021 paper). At a glance the symbols even resemble Proto-Sinaitic letters, but it seems Schwartz has presented no new evidence or a potential decipherment.
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- I wasn't familiar with Glenn Schwarz but it's apparently not the first time he's discussed the Umm el-Marra finds (his paper was published in 2021, the objects were excavated in 2004 hub.jhu.edu/2021/07/13/a...), and additional discussion from a colleague of his www.rollstonepigraphy.com?p=921
- The Knap of Howar, Papay, as seen in Nora Fingscheidt's film The Outrun, co-written and based on the fantastic book by Amy Liptrot.
- May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...
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- To quote David Lynch, and the Upanishads
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- "抚剑" probably didn't mean more than its literal sense. The line is from a poem where the author expresses regret for not being a more skilled soldier at his age
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- I can safely say without having ever used it that it is an enormous waste of resources and an endless source of mediocrity
- A terrorist attack across Lebanon.
- The Gaza Health Ministry's list of names of 34,344 Palestinians killed by Israel who have been able to be identified, 710 of them less than a year old: arabi21.com/UP/01/2023/2...
- Unicode has added 3,995 less common Egyptian hieroglyphs in its latest version. Some interesting ones include a cat with a knife, an angry duck, a man holding a pig by its tail, representing the word for 'lapis lazuli' (ḫsbḏ); and a man holding a phallus, associated with the verb 'to extend' (sꜣwı͗)
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- JWST's position in the sky isn't fixed (because JWST moves around the L2 point), but its trajectory can be known in advance, so to image JWST you would compute its coordinates in the sky at a given time, then set up your telescope to point in that direction.
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- The 'world order' is dead and buried under the rubble of Gaza.
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- sounds like a dream scenario
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- Galdrabók?
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- it's interesting that the cipher runes in the M 82 text spell out slightly different words, even though there's no indication of that in the Latin portion of it (coruus in M 82 vs corui), a mistake perhaps?
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- Younger.
- The IDF are an army of rapists, torturers and mass killers. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
- 'ܒܪܝܟ ܡܢ ܖܢܚܙܐ ܘܢܒܪܟ', "blessed be whoever sees and gives blessing", reads part of the inscription in Syriac academic.oup.com/jss/article-...
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- Right, domestic cat populations were well established across the Mediterranean before their adoption in Rome, but in Central Europe it was unexpected to find Near East (wild)cats prior to the Roman arrival, this is what the project mentioned in the article is about (I didnt find more recent results)
- Hmm. But the Roman expansion did contribute to the wider adoption of domestic cats across Europe, even if there were earlier introduction events of F.s. lybica during the Neolithic. From the same authors, they aim to study how these different populations are reflected in the gene pool of modern cats
