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Classical Studies | Greco-Roman History | The Historicity of the Homeric Epics

[iso @isopopy1]

You have power over your mind - not external events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
- M.A.

[Alain Astruc @alainastruc]

I think I finally understand what is wrong with Nolan: his universe is adverse to myth. It is made entirely of causality, and causality alone.

He may be the most gifted filmmaker working in big-budget Hollywood today. But he is going to crash on myth the way sailors crashed on the rocks below the Sirens.

When I criticized the teaser, I was told: wait for the trailer. When I criticized the trailer, I was told: wait for the film. Then I read the two-hour interview Nolan gave to Time Magazine, and something clicked.

The tell is in a detail Nolan offers with obvious pride. He found a solution to what he saw as a narrative problem: why would the Trojans believe the horse was empty and drag it inside their city? His answer is to make the horse half-submerged, sinking into the sea, so the Trojans would rescue it rather than accept it as a gift.

It is a solution to a problem that never was one because it is a myth. The Trojans bring the horse inside because it is a gift and it has wheels. The poet tells you something plainly impossible with the same tone he uses to describe the sunrise, and in doing so he is signaling that the level of reality goes beyond mere causality and exists on other levels.

He is the kind of guy who would explain that Santa can fit through the chimney because he designed it wide enough from the start, using proper construction methods and reliable materials. And then explain how the reindeer are fed to sustain that much effort in a single night, and how Santa elaborated a clever logistics route to deliver all the gifts on time.

Watch him justify the armor despite its fantastical look, or explain the absence of orchestra because there was no orchestra in Ancient Greece. There were no IMAX cameras either, Christopher. A simple authorial act would have sufficed: because I like it better that way. That honesty might have opened a door out of causality.

This narrative prison is precisely why people eventually seek out avant-garde and experimental cinema, why they feel something release when causality finally breaks. Because causality is already the weight of our ordinary lives.

As long as Nolan stayed away from myth, his causal world of mirrors and clever tricks and puzzles worked beautifully, sometimes brilliantly. But this is something else. This is the gut of myth. This is the Dionysian spirit of mud and blood and the salt of the sea. This is the beautiful lie that makes you erupt with sacred joy.

[Dan Robertson @pdrobertson]

On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 800 (overwhelmingly “white heterosexual”) men of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment went over the top.

68 answered roll call the next morning.

Now their male descendants can’t work at NL’s only university which was named in their honour.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 The Bank of Canada says “expect a lower standard of living.”
Carney says “we must sacrifice.”

Meanwhile Ottawa (source: Global Affairs Canada – International Assistance Report 2023-24):

🇺🇦 $2.1 B → Ukraine
🇿🇦 $165 M → South Africa
🇭🇹 $172 M → Haiti
🇧🇩 $164 M → Bangladesh
🇵🇸 $151 M → West Bank & Gaza
🇵🇰 $104 M → Pakistan
🇬🇭 $115 M → Ghana
🇳🇬 $106 M → Nigeria
🇰🇪 $107 M → Kenya
🌍 Total foreign aid: $12.29 B CAD

That’s enough to fund every Canadian food bank (~5,500) with $2.2 M each.

But sure — Canadians just need to pay taxes, face inflation, lower their standards, and tighten their belts. 😏

#cdnpoli #CostOfLiving #Canada #Economy #ForeignAid

[Harrison Faulkner @Harry__Faulkner]

John Turner correctly warned Canadians about the consequences of free trade with the U.S.

His concerns were rejected by Canadian voters at the time, and his political career never recovered.

Turner might be the most vindicated Canadian PM of all time.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

🚨: Researchers have found evidence that mount Everest's highest point was once underwater

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

To actually see music, they built a real magic piano. Wow!

[iso @isopopy1]

@stats_feed Diocles >

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released.

In theaters on July 17, 2026.

[The Avengers @MCUHubDaily]

Sauron has returned😱😱

[iso @isopopy1]

May the odds be ever in your favor. 🐦

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: President Trump announces the ‘Patriot Games,’ a four-day athletic event featuring one man and woman from each state and U.S. territory for America’s 250th.

[Anime Aesthetics @anime_]

Spirited Away (2001)

[iso @isopopy1]

@RJGarnerAuthor @tarkov If you turn your power off you can probably reset it

[anna 🏹 @myelessar]

happy birthday to the greatest film ever made!

[Nathan Blades @NathanBlades3]

@stayfreeCanada2

[knv @knveth]

Life

[Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower @Perpetualmaniac]

Assassinated MIT Fusion professor was like, essentially:

`What if we just ignore Einstein and treat plasma as a continuous fluid, instead of particles?`

It's Aetherial mechanics, like what Lorentz and Tesla believed in:

Here's the timestamp:
https://t.co/QK9PXmDHoz

[bull market genius @bull_genius]

earthquake GCR / megaquake theory explained for dummies

in the past few days theres been quite some attention on @BlerGoom and @mxdondevivo warning of an imminent mag 10 massive earthquake (never seen before) in the nw pacific rim region which would be an extreme tail risk event that would significantly cripple markets and cause huge damage in the region

while new to the topic ive been doing my part to understand where they're coming from (pls correct if i got it totally wrong).

my map here shows 6.5+ earthquakes in the region in the past 15 months.

boiled down to basics: the pacific plate has been moving to NW/NNW while being locked in the southern part causing a strange silence in south pacific/south america which is usually a seismically extremely active spot. on any given year there are usually multiple 6.5 happening there, while its in total silence now.

on the other side, we have seen a rare pattern of activity in places which have been calmer previously, with 7+ quakes happening at all crucial points (tohoku subduction zone, kuril-kamchatka trench, aleutian trench and alaska) and a huge 8.8 in kamchatka, which is one of the 5 strongest quakes in the past 80 years and on record.

last week we had a 7.6 + a consecutive swarm of earthquakes with activity very similar to the buildup to the 2011 great tohoku earthquake which was a 9.1 and damaged fukushima nuclear plant. japan has issued a megaquake warning for the first time since 2011.

this all combined with increased anomalous space weather (solar stroms) which has been linked to trigger seismic events on earth leads to an elevated risk of a very large seismic event in the nw of the pacific with all of the market events on the map being foreshocks to the big one.

earthquakes are very hard to predict in their timing and magnitude but one can agree we have only like 100+ years of data and the current setup looks very much anomalous and the tail risk is definitely much higher than usual.

wdwt chat?

[iso @isopopy1]

Monsieur. Zeroni will never get the chance to curse your family for always and eternity

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Gender-swapped ‘Holes’ TV series has been canceled at Disney

It would’ve followed the same story — with the detention camp kids reimagined as female

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

This one is magnum opus 🔥