Jacob

Heads up! You hear a sound, turn around and look up. Total shock fills your body.

Good to know!

This is the world we can build.

I had a dream last night where I lived in some Frutiger-Aero-looking utopia city and Zohran Mamdani was the mayor.

He would go on walks every day with his massive fluffy white dog Sam and knew the names of everyone in town so we’d all go out and say hello to Zohran and Sam.

Got that pickaxe swinging from side to side, side, side to side!

See, it’s fascinating but I’m also fascinated.

Very good and important advice.

It was and still is! Maiasaura was a landmark discovery in that regard and since then we’ve found quite a bit more evidence of parental care, one of my favorites being Psittacosaurus with a large batch of babies. Living dinosaurs, the birds, show excellent K-selection too, much like mammals.

I think it might be good to point out now for people getting into dinosaurs…

Dinosaur articles online are a hot topic for AI slop articles that generate massive ad revenue. There is a lot of low-quality information on sites that want your money so pay attention to what you consider credible.

Maiasaura’s social nesting behavior is absolutely a real thing. We have a lot of evidence for parental care in quite a few dinosaurs.

Looking at the article and the ad-heavy site it’s on, I think this is an AI-generated article for clicks based on writing style and the rest of the site.

When writing in French, I use French Wikipedia to check technical terminological equivalencies with English research terms.

And every time I step into it I feel like I’ve moved back in academic time a bunch of years because there’s so many older scientific and historiographical takes.

That’s fun though! I more or less expect that and will have to reference the interplay between all these regional languages somehow.

O, bless, thanks. This looks excellent.

Yeah, of the languages on that list, it’s one of the ones I have dipped my foot into the least (aside from a little bit of Duolingo Modern Turkish) but even just having something to reference and collect historical vocab terms will be so helpful. Thanks.

I once took a philosophy class where the professor straight-up told me not to try to contextualize the works we were reading and their authors but just to grapple with the ideas and I suppressed the urge to go feral.

Creeper? Aww, man…

Snails are hermaphrodites. They all have both male and female sex organs.

The more the merrier!

I subbed in a computer class today but wasn’t really left with plans or supplies.

So we had an art day where kids imagined and drew games they might develop someday. They had thought about this less than I expected.

Particularly fond of Fortby, rugby with guns. Also 6-7 rhythm game.

Yeah, quite a few of them. Even in Arabic. I believe that tendency originates with Herodotus.

One I can tell you that doesn’t do that is Ancient Egyptian (hippos are native to Egypt while horses came later) where they’re called db, a word that relates to “heavy.”

Thanks! Good morning!

Marvelous little thread to read to remind us how similar we are to ancient peoples and how their use of words shows us ways they thought about things both alike and different to us.

Also a good reminder I need to review my Akkadian.

It’s a long time until my birthday but if any of y’all are keeping long-term lists, a physical copy of Fowler’s Zoo and Wild Animal Medicine would slap.

I have no direct use for the text as intended but you know I’d read that shit.

Very high-quality pick!

Honestly I find it personally harder to get into most games with maximized graphics and all the visual gizmos because they feel like they want to be just another representation of reality instead of a differentiated space with its own engagement purpose.

Brachiosaurus was a pretty large herbivore but the largest herbivores of today are elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippopotamuses and they’re all not particularly harmless.

That said, I fully support. But maybe keep security up anyway.

Admittedly I’m not really aware of the source function. That’s new to me.

See, this is nice but all of these need to be checked and sourced and it glosses over the fact that many of the meanings of individual words are debated or overlap, especially with specific species differentiations like donkeys and onagers.

I recognize many of these as broadly correct.

Woo! Always good to make more dinosaur kids!

Bonus points if the person claims to use Marxist historiography even though this is like expressly the opposite of that through its erasure of tensions in societies below a national level.

And so it came to pass that the prophet Lizziel spoke to the Israelites, declaring that thus it shall be. Yet the people continued in their practices and the wrath of God came upon the land. And lo, she was right all along and had told them so.