El Cabbage
@alcabbage045
He/him/هو/إيّاهُ; Particle physics PhD candidate with a love for science and the humanities
Turns out the answer is no, but the silence isn’t too informative because the book actually lives up to its title (unlike many other contemporary works of the same name) and nearly exclusively covers battles and raids
Following up on @islamicorigins.bsky.social’s dissertation 5 years later: was a version of the marital age Hadith found in Musa Ibn Uqbah’s Maghazi?
I’ve seen many variations of this joke, but I never got the setup. It seems to presume that some teachers actually do ask students caught eating or chewing gum if they “have enough to share with the class.” But the punchline to these jokes implies the teachers aren’t expecting an unironic…
So fans regularly disrupt a protected ecologically sensitive site, and now the cables will be placed close to an *actual* Bronze Age inhumation site, all to appease a bunch of overgrown children who don’t want their fictional grave for a fictional character disturbed?
The most recent thing I watched was the original Star Wars hexalogy for the first time. So if you haven’t seen that yet either, I’d recommend it (yes, including the prequels) lol
Probably Istanbul, though a big part of that was due to the Hagia Sophia museum, which has now been reconverted into a mosque and its Christian artwork covered up A close second is Sharm El-Sheikh, but I haven’t been since I was little, and probably won’t ever get to go back :(
As much as I’d love to spend my life being a student and learning one special interest after another, I don’t think such a thing is financially feasible, sadly :(
UK funding for invaluable astronomy and particle physics research is being decimated, despite an overall budget increase, in favor of funding for more AI slop: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Fascinating article! I think the biggest surprise to me was that there’s a Greek word of obscure origin that Beekes *didn’t* posit a pre-Greek etymology for (even more ironic that his Indo-European etymology isn’t convincing, and the name *is* likely of non-IE origin)
You know how Islamophobes sometimes wear shirts or sport tattoos that say “Kafir”? I think I found the equivalent of that for Judaism
Wiktionary claims that Arabic زنبور is from Aramaic zibbūr, which is in turn cognate to dabbūr “bee/hornet”. Even if the loan from Aramaic is valid, despite the intrusive n, is d>Z an attested sound change in any variety of Aramaic?
Interesting and unexpected mention of “kingdom of the Arabs” in the Syriac Alexander Legend (Neshana), which Tommaso Tesei dates to the mid-6th century with a revision in the early 7th. Is this a last-minute update to reflect the Arab conquests? Or a reference to Romans’ and Sasanians’ Arab vassals?
Some of the questions were way too vague or loaded to answer meaningfully, but I’ll take Mamdani as my spirit politician
Pozdniakov & Vydrin make a forceful case for the inclusion of Mande within “Niger-Congo”: iling-ran.ru/web/ru/publications/journals/languageinafrica/7-1 What do we think? @maartenkossmann.bsky.social @lameensouag.bsky.social
Normally I don’t subject Bluesky to idiocy on Twitter (or vice versa), but I came across a take so mind-boggling stupid that now the rest of you have to see it too
Yeah, it’s a “hard exercise” because you have to be psychic and guess the gender of the musician and baker
Me when I cold message an academic whose research I’m interested in: “Of course I know you’re super busy, so no pressure to respond :)” Me when they don’t respond:
“Palestinianism” is not a thing, but anti-Palestinianism has evolved into a grotesque bigotry unto its own, connected to but also distinct from garden variety anti-Arab racism and Islamophobia
Dawkins seems to have “developed strong beliefs that [a LLM is] sentient”
Elad: “Democrats’ alienating their base helped Republicans win” The replies and QTs: “So you’re saying Republicans aren’t to blame?”
Tragically, it appears that the microdata from 1882 to 1976 were accidentally or deliberately destroyed, leaving only the 1848 and 1868 censuses, as well as a few remaining registers of the 1882 census that managed to survive destruction drive.google.com/file/d/0B4sC...
In 2022, anonymized samples of the 1848 and 1868 censuses of Egypt released on @ipums.bsky.social. This is an exciting start but we can go bigger. Imagine how valuable it would be to researchers and genealogists alike if the full censuses were digitized, and the images made publicly available?