Steve Rothman
@steve02476.bsky.social
Anthropology Museum IT support, Cambridge Mass USA
Every once in a while I’m really charmed by someone’s imagination and expertise.
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CrankGPT — fully offline, human-powered local AI
A local voice assistant running on a hand-crank-powered single-board computer.
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June 16, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Every once in a while I’m really charmed by someone’s imagination and expertise.
squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
Thought proving piece. Maybe we can get rid of all the drug cartels peacefully by simply legalizing opium and coca leaves in the US ?
dgardner.substack.com/p/the-hundre...
dgardner.substack.com/p/the-hundre...
The Hundred Years' War
A brief history of the futile and destructive war on drugs.
dgardner.substack.com
March 8, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Thought proving piece. Maybe we can get rid of all the drug cartels peacefully by simply legalizing opium and coca leaves in the US ?
dgardner.substack.com/p/the-hundre...
dgardner.substack.com/p/the-hundre...
Nice short piece by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social - getting rid of stupid regulations sounds good, but actually fixing them is better. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/m...
The Most Reliable Scapegoat in Politics? Red Tape. (Gift Article)
Less regulation is an easy rhetorical pitch. Better regulation is harder to stump for.
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Nice short piece by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social - getting rid of stupid regulations sounds good, but actually fixing them is better. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/m...
Boston Globe has an intense story about the situation at the Harvard Peabody Museum.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/11/a...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/11/a...
Worlds collided when a museum steward found clues about her Chippewa family in Harvard’s possession - The Boston Globe
The Woodbury Collection lies at the heart of the Peabody Museum’s struggle to come to terms with its past.
www.bostonglobe.com
December 15, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Boston Globe has an intense story about the situation at the Harvard Peabody Museum.
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/11/a...
www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/11/a...
Glad to discover that the concept of a “museum” was not invented by Europeans.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigal...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigal...
October 22, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Glad to discover that the concept of a “museum” was not invented by Europeans.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigal...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennigal...
The word "evil" has been in the news a lot. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a great, very readable article about "evil" from a philosophical point of view. plato.stanford.edu/entries/conc...
The Concept of Evil (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
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October 11, 2023 at 7:19 PM
The word "evil" has been in the news a lot. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a great, very readable article about "evil" from a philosophical point of view. plato.stanford.edu/entries/conc...
Great archival photo collection housed at the Peabody Museum. The photographs of people in the Kalahari Desert about 60 years ago are wonderful, and it's amazing the care and thought the archivists used in cataloging the contents.
peabody.harvard.edu/blog/storyte...
peabody.harvard.edu/blog/storyte...
September 1, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Great archival photo collection housed at the Peabody Museum. The photographs of people in the Kalahari Desert about 60 years ago are wonderful, and it's amazing the care and thought the archivists used in cataloging the contents.
peabody.harvard.edu/blog/storyte...
peabody.harvard.edu/blog/storyte...
I guess summer’s not gonna last forever! (Lincoln Mass)
August 27, 2023 at 5:33 PM
I guess summer’s not gonna last forever! (Lincoln Mass)