I have an MA in archaeology and run a blog called Living in the Longue Durée about ancient history and whatever else. This profile is mostly funny observations about history and science.
Blog: https://livinginthelongueduree.com
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Jacob
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One of my very long-time friends texted me today to ask if the World Cup is like the Olympics for soccer or something. I already think I’m pretty self-sheltered on hearing about sports and stuff but her level is incredible. How do I attain this? How do I get there?
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Had a Reddit interaction with an Arab nationalist that used Grok screenshots to argue that the Ayyubids were Arabs and not Turks or Kurds and then when pressed for a real source first deflected and then posted one that said they had both Arabic and Kurdish descent, treating it as a win. Breh.
I found a lot of interesting thoughts in this article by political analyst Ned Resnikoff, who commentates on Trumpist fascism as “hyperfascism,” in the same vein as a hyperreality, a sort of fascism obsessed with the spectacle of authoritarian power more than it is in creating lasting stability.
Michael Crichton would be considered so woke if all of his books except this one were mysteriously lost to time.
The energy I hope I carry sometimes.
Last night in the Jacob dream report, I dreamed I was at the gym when I came across an article that researchers had found the body of someone who’d wandered off from the 1846-1847 Donner Party and gotten frozen in ice in the Sierra Nevada and his remains were perfectly spookily preserved.
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Wednesdays: 9-11 US Pacific; 11-13 US Central; 17-19 UK.
Thursdays: 9-10 US Pacific; 11-12 US Central; 17-18 UK.
If you miss a session, it’s not a problem because I will send you the recording.
My hot take is that my least favorite genre of classic literature is rich-people melodrama.
Damn, some wealthy Victorian wrote yet another banger with a love triangle and the moral that rich people are constrained by society too and whoever is doing the canon keeps saying “YES, ADD IT TO THE LIST.”
Wild how in 2020 a bunch of Japanese researchers pulled up bacteria from the seafloor in the South Pacific Gyre that have been lying there dormant and very much alive since the fucking Early Cretaceous Period and then we all just went on with our lives knowing that’s what the seafloor is like.
