Nathan Steinmeyer

- Dad
- Assyriology Ph.D.
- Tel Aviv University alum
- Hebrew U alum
- Hillsdale College alum

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@tropicalDUBSAR Good suggest. I looked through those ones already. Some had potential, but unfortunately none of them were quite what I needed.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

Assyriologists! I need some crowd knowledge. I am trying to find small group of related admin archives (from the same site/period/etc). That are well studied and understood archaeologically.

I need to run a quick ground truthing of some network analytics!

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@AdlerYonatan I'd be curious if there has ever been a holy site bigger than that? Anything in the Americas or Asia? Certainly the Vatican, but that would probably be stretching the definitions quite a bit.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@BibArch Always funny to come across a photo and go "wait... why does that look so familiar?"

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@JanaMynarova More than a couple articles here that I really want to read. When does it come out? (Any chance of getting an early pdf? 😉)

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@cwjones89 @danepps Wait... did you just suggest that MS spell checker (which has been around for decades) should be banned? Are we also supposed to not use PDFs and only use type writers?

There are legitimate concerns about AI use and then there is wanting to ban MS spell check. Touch grass, man.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head and still managed to keep the country together. Franklin Roosevelt ran the entire Second World War from a wheelchair. Eisenhower defeated Hitler and then, just to stay busy, built 48,000 miles of motorway. Kennedy looked at the moon, said “we’ll have that,” and inside a decade they did. Reagan stared down the Soviet Union until it simply gave up and went home.

Two hundred and fifty years. Forty-six men. Men who stormed beaches, split atoms, faced down nuclear annihilation over breakfast and then filed sensible paperwork about it afterward.

And then, after all of that, the entire accumulated weight of American history, the most consequential democratic experiment the world has ever seen, produced this.

A television review.

No Mars landing. No cure for cancer. No Soviet empire dissolved before lunch. Just a man in the White House, in the year 2026, informing the internet that a CBS chat show host had no talent.

That is what 250 years of American greatness built. America should be deeply, permanently ashamed of itself.

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https://t.co/M6CNAnz656

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@Chris_K_Eames @sabra_the In our space, sometimes it is VERY difficult to get a good visual, and I totally get that. But when you start having AI images that mislead or simply give a false impression, then that is a bigger problem.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@Chris_K_Eames @sabra_the I have a lot of pet peeves with the amateur (read fake) archaeology journalism community. Besides them totally miss understanding data to fit their particular narrative the amount of AI images I started seeing in the last couple of years is insane.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

As someone who uses @eBL_info on a nearly daily basis, I would have appreciated a heads up that they were updating the system. Had a little bit of a shock opening it this morning.

Now I have to spend the next hour figuring out what new toys they added.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@JanaMynarova One of my wife's uncles calls me "Neat" because he can't pronounce the hard "A" sound in Nate.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@AriWasserman Honestly, at least half of the hate is because of how commentators constantly framed him and talked him up. He would have needed to be Joe Burrow 2019 to live up to the talk that you all were doing. Add to that the name (people think they want an under dog) and it just gets wild.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@SeptonFratelli One of my favorite examples of ancient people saying things that don't mean what we would think is the Sumerians describing themselves as "black headed." But a modern person might hear this and think black skinned, it was actually just a description of them having dark hair. 😂

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@AdlerYonatan After the first rejection I went through and addressed all of the comments. I guess just not enough. Maybe in a few years ill be a bit more skilled and be able to get this one over the hump.

It was my first linguistics article rather than history or sociology.

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

Just had an article rejected. Second time I've had this article rejected (i heavily revised after the first).

I believe what im arguing is correct, but at this point I'm just not sure if I'm good enough to prove it.

Research really has its ups and downs.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I’m not trying to flex on being a great Christian or anything but I have never in my life had to explain that the golden statue I was worshipping was technically not a calf so you can’t get mad at me

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@AriWasserman Andy and it ain't particularly close

[Nathan Steinmeyer @InDaWilderness]

@JanaMynarova The lecture at ASOR about this last year was one of the more interesting at the entire conference.

[HARD FACTOR @HardFactorNews]

They did the meme!!!