... ... and also ... I guess we're going to lose two generations of German Assyriologists unless they study collections held elsewhere?

I've written a short piece on AI and how to re-humanize my classroom today for Current's forum on AI in higher education. currentpub.com/2024/09/03/f...

FORUM: AI and Education

What do we do now that robots have entered the classroom?

Hot take of the day: AGI only makes conceptual sense if you assume that the human mind is a closed deterministic system - a meat computer. The fact that so many humanities academics recoil instinctively from the concept suggests that they don't share this assumption.

Masterful trolling would have been to name Princeton as #1

Probably got at least 3 more cycles with a Trump tho...

Modern retainer sacrifice?

There are signs that my HIS 101 world history survey is having an impact on the Amazon algorithms:

This is a real book and I now wish I could read Syriac so that I could be justified in owning it:

Two Spanish scholars claim to have discovered the Holy Grail in Leon. (At the very least, a Roman-era onyx cup venerated as a relic in Late Roman times before being sent to Spain as part of a diplomatic exchange in the Middle Ages) edition.cnn.com/holy-grail-l...

They all say they’ve got the Holy Grail. So who’s right? | CNN

The final resting place of the cup of Christ is the ‘holy grail’ of religious tourism. But hundreds of sites claiming to be home to it, who’s right? And is it real?

That's incredible.