I · THE OBJECT · BRITISH MUSEUM
Hephthalite silver bowl
A silver bowl from fifth-century Gandhara carries images of two Huna tribes side by side — evidence, some argue, of brief peaceful coexistence between Kidarites and Alchons.
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23 JUL 2026
Day 204
I think, therefore I am.
II · THE IDEA · ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Adversarial Evaluation of Multimodal Reasoning
When a model can answer from one channel alone, success looks like reasoning. Tests that force speech and text, or tool and context, to be read together tell a different story.
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Written before source checking was enforced · facts in this lesson are unverified
III · THE WORK · ART HISTORY
Las Hilanderas
Five women spin and wind wool in a dim workshop. Behind them, on a raised stage, a tapestry retells a contest the painting itself may be staging.
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