Tombekai Sherman has produced a translation of a portion of Proust in the Vai script. It's the Madeleine excerpt.
(Somewhere out there you will also find the Koran, the Bible and the Iliad in Vai)
Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜
Found in my photos from a few weeks ago.
An incredibly realistic reproduction of the engraved Taï bone, from Magdalenian period. It looks like a couldn't finish eating it!
Part of research by Neemias Santos da Rosa, Lila Geis, Lloyd
Courtenay, Alain Queffelec & Francesco d'Errico
A Yolŋu flyer spotted in Nhulunbuy servo.
Audition for Bluey episodes?
I don't know! @ffnotes.bsky.social
"The origins and evolution of writing: A very brief synthesis" at Cambridge 16:30, 20th May.
Zoom in, if you're in a compatible time zone!
Was there ever another independent writing system in the ancient Middle East?
"Curious sequences [that] ... would make more sense if the signs instead represented syllables..."
Great work by Kelley and colleagues (and some supporting remarks from lesser-Kelly!): archive.is/pbVRm#select...
Just found a subreddit that pairs people with fucked up balls of string with people who love detangling balls of string and it is *very* wholesome
The Origins and Evolution of Writing: A Very Brief Synthesis
My talk last week at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, for the VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social
youtu.be/SRC6QkiKtSo?...
University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it
University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university
Here is my response to the recent Bentz & Dutkiewicz paper on Upper Paleolithic marking systems and their presumed relationship to writing bravenewwords.info/2026/03/20/t...