Fukuyama was not wrong, he was just early https://x.com/kepano/status/1600175584616669184?s=20

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This theater is part of the Asklepieion, an ancient medical center. Treatment here wasn’t just about herbs and diets. Sports, healing springs, the mild climate, and the theater itself were all part of the therapy. Today, they stage the same Sophocles and Euripides, contemporary plays, and host the greatest directors and actors of the 20th and 21st centuries. And this isn’t just a tribute. The theater has astonishing acoustics: from the top row, you can hear a coin drop on the stage. Thanks to the material and geometry - the limestone steps act as acoustic filters, cutting out ambient noise and reflecting the voices of the performers. But it's not just the sound that amazes. The theater grows right out of the slope of Mount Kynortion - the architect Polykleitos the Younger chose the location so that the audience would see, not the stage, but the nature beyond it. The sunsets there are an art form in themselves. So, if you want to understand what an ancient Greek felt while watching a tragedy - just get a ticket to the summer festival. The acoustics are the same, the sky is the same, and Sophocles is the same 📍Epidavros. Greece

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Kotor: The Venetian Fortress Venice wasn't just canals - it was a trading empire. To protect its ships, it built fortresses along the Adriatic. Kotor is one of them. Others came before: Illyrians, Romans, Byzantines, Slavs. But earthquakes erased most of that. What stands today is largely Venetian. Walls climb from the water to the mountain top. Even a fortress, they made elegant. Now tourists take the 1,350 steps. The fortress just watches - grey stone against the sunny coast. Silent. Still here 📍Kotor. Montenegro

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Saw these at a museum exhibition of dolls and toys. Teddy bears have two early origin threads, Germany and the US. In Germany, Margarete Steiff and Richard Steiff developed one of the first modern jointed plush bears in the early 1900s. In the US, the name “teddy bear” took off after a 1902 story about Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear that had been tied to a tree for him during a hunt. A cartoon spread, and a New York shop owner, Morris Michtom, made a toy bear inspired by it and sold it as “Teddy’s bear” 🧸

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This reminds of sama's line that "a kid born today will never be smarter than AI" The concept of 'robotic' as something mechanical, clunky, suboptimal or funny won't exist ~5 years from now; a little farther into the future, the general concept of 'artificial' won't mean much either. A little like how 'digital' already doesn't make much sense today Once such categories dissolve, will the past become easier or harder to read? Will it be legible at all?

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did satoshi nakamoto read about history? https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2017/02/conflict-and-collectibles-among-yurok_87.html

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wake up babe 1729 AD just dropped https://x.com/johannesmkx/status/2024776653902053713?s=20

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the SAG-AFTRA reaction to Seedance is especially funny in the context of Hollywood beginning with studios like Paramount and Universal in their evasion of the monopolist East Coast trust that Thomas Edison formed to enforce his patents on cameras, film, and projectors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company

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I built an app for myself that turns historical battles into cinematic scene plans then uses Gemini to generate an 8-second video based on them. Here is the Battle of Austerlitz.

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Super interesting video. https://youtu.be/OndXawgRAeo

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new Fall of Civilizations dropped recommended listening for your weekend gn https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AeHi8T4D6zgQqzzRkroUw

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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skr%C3%A6ling

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