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Napoleon was crowned King of Italy right here today in 1805.

@athenaeumbc 8. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky

If schools and universities won't teach the great books of the West, we'll do it ourselves. We just finished our 12th book at Athenaeum! TIME TO VOTE — what should we read next (starting June 9)? 1. Oresteia – Aeschylus 2. Symposium – Plato 3. Nicomachean Ethics – Aristotle 4. The Song of Roland 5. Sir Gawain & The Green Knight 6. Purgatorio – Dante 7. King Lear – Shakespeare 8. The Brothers Karamazov – Dostoevsky 9. Brave New World – Huxley

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bro ur telling me THE POPE quoted LORD OF THE RINGS in an ANTI AI MESSAGE and we ARENT getting stephen colbert’s take on it????

Maybe Lupita is a really good choice for Helen of Troy. All I’ve seen is men fighting about her...

@alexisohanian Curious if they reach out to verify? I often see claims of wrong information but then I also see that in the article that they “reached out for comment but have not received response”

The weirdest thing about being a public figure is seeing how often credible media outlets get basic, easily verifiable facts wrong.

Alot of folks dumping on it but I think it looks sharp

If you see wild turkeys in your neighborhood, you're seeing one of the biggest conservation wins in American history. They were down to just 30,000 birds in the 1930s. There are now over 6 million across the US. They're excellent natural pest control, eating beetles, snails, mice, and even ticks. A wild turkey in your yard isn't a pest, but a native species that almost disappeared and came back because hunters, biologists, and state wildlife agencies spent 50 years bringing it back.

@benjitaylor @grok repaint this car by replacing the blue with black

@rleggos @grok can you approximate the cost of the camera setup and offer some details

This place really is magical

@McFeely_Inforum Not only does it increase the odds teams leave and weaken the conference, but if they stay, those programs now have a larger war chest to improve – albeit less than initially reported.

McFeely: Mountain West settlement over $155 million has one potential major pitfall for NDSU inforum.com/sports/bison-m…

@flerberdinherd1 @thehorizon2b2t this. somebody took a stab at estimating the erosion and while it still looks a touch odd, it looks much better

@thehorizon2b2t They're showing it how it would look if it got flooded now. They aren't showing millions of years of erosion and the whole water cycle thing. No rivers or canyons, jagged islands, its all silly.

is there a scientific reason as to why earths continents look so much prettier than every other "what if x planet had water" simulation

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@thinkingwest This has been true for me. A great biography gives you a front-row seat to high-stakes decisions and hard-won lessons. Self-help tells you what to think. Biography shows you how to think and overcome.

Reject the self-help slop. Embrace the Great Man biography.

Matt Damon says he and Tom Holland got jealous of Christopher Nolan calling Zendaya’s performance 'perfect' while filming scenes for ‘The Odyssey’ "Chris is known for being very circumspect. So when you do a take, it’s not like he says, ‘That was great.’ He’ll go, ‘Yep, good. Okay.’ And that is the equivalent of the greatest praise you could ever get" “Zendaya, on the other hand ... he said, ‘Cut.’ And then he went, ‘Perfect.’ And literally, Tom [Holland] and I were obsessed with this. She got a ‘perfect’? I’ve never even gotten a ‘great.’ She got a ‘perfect’?" "He and I bitched about it for the entire rest of the film. ‘Did you get anything today?’ ‘No, I got a 'good' —moving on.’ ‘Yeah, me too'" (via @ELLEmagazine)

I'm grateful to @DouthatNYT for inviting me on his podcast to discuss the fate of the liberal arts and humanities in the age of AI. I hope that all those who follow higher ed and care about the liberal arts will listen. nytimes.com/video/opinion/… nytimes.com/video/opinion/…

The foreword to The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey. Rings true to this native South Dakotan.

@JeffBezos or, you could raise wages

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.

One of the most shockingly underrated masterpieces of the Renaissance is Anthonis Mor’s portrait of Sir Thomas Gresham (c. 1560), now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. When people see it today, especially in high-resolution pics, they often mistake it for a 19th-century photograph or even a hyper-realistic AI generation. The skin texture, the eyes, the subtle sheen on the black fabric, make it feel almost disturbingly modern. Yet this painting, created over 460 years ago, barely registers in the mainstream conversation about great art. It deserves far more recognition.