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c.r
chatwithcharles
Quick thread on NFTs as applying to art + collectibles, as it seems people area) misunderstanding the value conceptb) think it's a pointless exercise First you need to understand what
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John Carvalho
BitcoinErrorLog
***Open call to any qualified Core devs***If you're reputable, but unwilling to put your name on a #taproot implementation with *any* qualified activation method, and also unwilling to use a
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Hunter Walker
hunterw
This 2019 article by the Times is a good example of just how much we knew about Hunter Biden's issues prior to this document dump. Along with being of questionable
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I’m Your Huckleberry
RossFairchild
“Two months elapsed between the date China claims COVID originated and when the genetic test sequence was made available by China (1/12/20). That means there were at least 60 days
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Alice Wickenden
AliceWickenden
// live tweeting of the below @SRSRenSoc event we start with @SLevelt introducing us to the Utrecht psalmer and tracing its provenance -- despite being once owned by Robert Cotton,
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Erin L. Thompson
artcrimeprof
"Scott Carroll may have claimed that Obbink had “no agenda whatsoever,” but in fact Obbink had several. He was acting as a scholar, an adviser, and a seller: The first
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Bret Beheim
babeheim
This is an unusual #fieldwork trip not just because of political revolution. Rather than collecting new data, I'm trying to save old data: nearly 20 years worth of accumulated interviews
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Chamath Palihapitiya
chamath
The biggest risk/correlation to equity markets over the next decade has nothing to do with interest rates.It will be carbon tariffs and it will blow up every DCF model of
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Abdallah
_kisho
A thread of watches with Egyptian provenance:I'll start with the most famous one, King Farouk's Patek Philippe 1518. The 1518 is one of the most sought after watches by any
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Chasing Aphrodite
ChasingAphrodit
A day after the US government moved to forfeit Hobby Lobby's looted Gilgamesh Dream Tablet, the company sued @ChristiesInc and its consignor, "John Doe," for fraud and breach of warranty.
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tom
twalesO
@Craig_Simpson_ and others seem to quite.. like slavery?Anyway, this click-bait is behind a paywall so here I am. 1. I can’t find any so-called “dossier” and there is no reference
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Quinn Wilton
wilton_quinn
One of the coolest ideas from "Software Design for Flexibility" is what the authors call "annotation layers".Essentially, the idea is that you can augment data with additional layers of context,
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Nick McBurney
mcburney_nick
Snakes/ladders, culminating in the throne of God, reached by climbing 100 squares (13 snakes + 17 ladders), ebony and inlaid mother of pearl - detail. A rare 19th c Indian
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Ancientlyric
ancientlyric
Classics, archaeology, history, museum, digital archives: What are the earliest depictions of Medusa OR Gorgons, with provenance and links, please? @britishmuseum @namuseumathens @sentantiq @rogueclassicist Courtesy of @rogueclassicist 7th
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Michael Press
MichaelDPress
University of Helsinki's ‘Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions’ celebrates a new book publishing al-Yahudu tablets -- ignoring that they were likely looted & smuggled out of wartime Iraq (in
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ama
amasugiru
Haniwa Helper // Day 13Overseas HaniwaI’m always keen on spotting haniwa in international collections and I’ve found haniwa at museums in New York, D.C., Florida, London, and Honolulu. It’s interesting
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