@lainling

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I bring you the most important paper ever contributed to the especially crackpot-prone field of Minoan studies. A paper that will defeat Reviewer 2 once and for all. A paper that I definitely didn't write based on ideas I had while direly ill with a flu.

academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/128559713/The_Utterly_Unhinged_Elamo_Minoan_Hypothesis_April_Fools_

clean direct pdf: https://0xabad1dea.github.io/bin/Utterly-Unhinged-Elamo-Minoan-Hypothesis.pdf

#linguistics #archaeology #minoan #aprilfools #paper

The Utterly Unhinged Elamo-Minoan Hypothesis [April Fool's]

The most pressing question in all linguistics: what was the secret real identity of the language of the Minoans? Proto-Greek? Proto-Weak. Semitic? Semitisn't. Luwian? Ludicrous. Hurrian? You better be hurryin' back to the drafting board. I

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The tech industry is fun folks
The funny thing about LLMs is they’re not good for knowledge work because they sometimes make up stuff that doesn’t exist and they’re not good for creative work because they sometimes make up stuff that does exist.
wow, you can really get anything on delivery apps these days huh

It's telling to me that the Fediverse—which provides all the self-governance of a DAO, and all the decentralization of web3—has no interest from the VC bootlicker class.

It reveals a lot about how a plausible technological benefit evolves into a grift. web3 nonsense was never about new paradigms. It was about constructing bags and conscripting bag holders. The proof is right here. Those guys are now chasing AI, instead of viable expressions of the goals they claimed to be so invested in.