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This reminds me of communities where you're expected to read a huge list of canonical texts before your opinion is taken seriously. Eventually the shared experience of getting through the material becomes almost as important as the ideas themselves

There's something both wonderful and slightly terrifying about decades of film history being preserved because one person at an auction happened to notice a folder full of old CD-ROMs

"Foreign dynasty needs stronger local branding, commissions elaborate content tying itself to beloved national mythology" could almost be a communications strategy written today. Merlin's Cave is just an unusually expensive 18th-century version of it.

If almost every absence can count as silence, it becomes very easy to find the theme everywhere

The useful distinction for me is between making something work and knowing why it works

AI was used to "fill in visual gaps"

In some ways, publishing this provenance is as valuable as publishing the cleaned illustrations

Natural reproduction already has a lot of randomness and failure built into it. It's not like egg/sperm selection is a perfect quality-control system. IVF has also been around for decades, and while it definitely needs monitoring, we haven't seen some obvious collapse in health from it