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Vesuvius buried these scrolls.
AI is bringing them back.
Once thought to be unreadable, 2,000-year-old papyrus scrolls from one of antiquity’s only surviving libraries are finally spilling their secrets—and National Geographic got a first look at what they say.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/herculaneum-scrolls-mount-vesuvius-ai
Trump’s Board of Peace plans to grant itself sweeping immunity, documents show
Draft resolution seeks to shield board members and security forces from potential prosecution for work in Gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/27/board-of-peace-legal-immunity-un
This is what I was worrying about during our gas leak...
Firefighters responding to a reported natural gas odor in a Twinsburg Township neighborhood had been on scene for only about two minutes before a house exploded Thursday afternoon, destroying three homes, damaging at least 36 others, and setting off a chain of events that authorities say is nothing short of miraculous.
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The technology presents all sorts of thorny problems—a philosopher’s favourite kind
TEN YEARS ago, as the AI revolution was gathering pace, arts and humanities students were told that, if they wanted to make themselves employable, they should “learn to code”. That may have been bad advice. These days, it is programmers who are nervous about AI taking their jobs.
They might consider learning to philosophise. Earlier this year the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published figures showing that American philosophy graduates are more likely to have jobs than their peers who studied computer science. In 2024, the most recent year for which numbers are available, 7% of those who had studied computer science were unemployed, against just 5.1% of philosophers.
Many are being snapped up by AI firms themselves. Students get job offers before they have graduated, says Luciano Floridi, a philosopher at Yale University. Academics are moving, too. Dr Floridi describes the scale of departures from philosophy departments as a “haemorrhaging”.
