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"There have been plenty of other criticisms from keyboard warriors concerned about a lack of historical accuracy in a film adaptation of an entirely fictional myth. Having a PhD in classics means I agree with them that Corinthian helmets aren’t historically accurate to the film’s bronze age setting; having a sense of proportion and an understanding of artistic licence means I don’t really care."

The right hates The Odyssey because of its ‘wokeness’ – but it missed an even bigger threat to its worldview
The new film extols the value of a rules-based world order. That’s far more radical than any casting decision says Labour MP and classicist Peter Swallow

BallotBox Scotland: "It’s time everyone got serious about the Scottish Greens"
Some reflections from BBS, and a little pointer into what we should expect for the next parliament.
"The belief that right wing voters have to be courted and coddled, and left wing voters uncomfortable with that will just have to suck it up because they don’t have other options. It turns out they do, in fact, have other options"

Summer Special: It’s time everyone got serious about the Scottish Greens
A long read on a bugbear: few folk seem to care about understanding the Greens, and that failure has cost them over and over again. Following a record result, will that change, or will people just…

I've thought often the last couple of years about how the “Fire your developers! Use AI!!” craze feels really similar to the outsourcing / offshoring mania of a few decades ago — and how many of the same problems it shares:
- Cost-cutting shiny thing break management brains
- but turns out generating code was the easy part
- and building cumulative shared understanding is everything
- and shortcuts around that dig you in a hole really fast
- and that hole is full of code that nobody can maintain.
Something in the water, I guess. Something always in the water that once in a while explodes when conditions are right, like algae blooms.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/117214750510905873
Mercator gets the relative areas of regions at different latitudes 'wrong' but their shapes locally right: Africa in particular looks like it actually does (check it out in Meteosat and DSCOVR images ... or by looking at a globe from a distance). In the UN-'recommended' projection it is markedly distorted, however: how this is supposed to make Africans happy is beyond my understanding.