Richard Hanania does an experiment, finds many of his regular readers cannot distinguish between essays he wrote and others written by Claude in his style. (Twitter/X)
Still uploading chapters of The Voice from the Darkness at Royal Road.
Using satellite imagery, archaeologists identify hundreds of stone circles in the desert of Sudan.
All warfare is drone warfare: Noah Smith, Carnegie Endowment, montage of drones killing soldiers from Twitter/X, 2-hour interview with a Ukrainian drone manufacturer.
Scott Siskind on the very numerous candidates in the California governor's race, amusing.
Lumbee Indians vs. the KKK: the Battle of Hayes Pond, 1958.
Berlin during World War II: raucous parties between bombing raids.
William Hodges and the art of the British Empire.
Major new mathematical proof from an AI.
An interesting note on education and marriage market competition.
Miniature pots from an Iron Age Spanish tomb.
Interesting settlement of the 3rd to 5th centuries AD unearthed in Germany.
New vaccine for Lyme disease doing well in trials.
Sabine Hossenfelder on the "unbearable blandness of the 2020s", 7-minute video.
William Spaniel on the drones Russia has supplied to Cuba, 15-minute video.
Harvard's faculty approves a plan to cap the number of A grades at 20% plus 4 of the students in most courses. (NY Times, Inside Higher Ed)
Amazing microscopic photographs from a new contest.
Anniversary of note: on May 22, 1980, Pac Man was introduced in the US.

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