
Not in the picture: a really, really mad dragon.
They made Atou absolutely adorable! Seeing her embarrassed at the start, then pouting after the charity...
Also, great job highlighting the contrast between how Atou sees Takuto vs. how the dark elves see him. Not just in look (he looks like a shadow, that was already in the manga and novel), but also in "mood", he's supposed to be an Eldritch abomination from their PoV and the anime did a great job at it.
The opening was also cool IMO.
...perhaps I'm a bit too excited because it's one of those series I anticipated quite a bit, but so far it's a decent start IMO.
- some episodes of Ah! My Goddess, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Overlord, and Darling in the FranXX.
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2
- The Lion King
- Matrix
It might look completely random, and... well, it is! I'm rebuilding my "videos" directory, that I share in my LAN. By doing so I always hit something interesting, drop whatever I'm doing, and watch it.
[Warning: I'm mostly rambling.]
As usual you need to be careful with metaphors: they break once pulled hard enough.
The metaphor implies the security layers are independent, and always addictive. Often they aren't - they interact with each other, and often the presence of one layer makes the other worse. It's like double bagging condoms - they rub against each other, so they make you less protected than if you wore a single condom.
The "holes" are often dynamic, and they might change place over time. Sometimes the vulnerability crossed a hole of the first slice, hit the second slice and stayed there, until the second slice's hole aligns with it. Then the vulnerability crosses into the third slice, so goes on. If you're dealing with human beings, that's basically any system.
"NEEDS MORE LAYERS!" is not always the solution. Sometimes you're better off - in cost and security - if you replaced a few layers with a better one. Try mozzarella instead of Emmenthaler.
This is yet another case where people don't notice the root of the problem, because one of the branches is so fucking large it takes the whole scene.
Spot the common element between the text and the following:
- When Internet Explorer still existed, Microsoft gave you no way to remove it.
- Later on (Edge times), Microsoft went out of its way to ignore your browser preferences and shove Edge down your throat.
- Google: Enable Play Protect? Enable Play Protect? Enable Play Protect? Enable Play Protect?
- "Because we're not designing a desktop for people who like to choose their own terminal emulators." - Bastien Nocera, GNOME dev
- Plenty pieces of software offer you a choice between "yes" and "maybe later", but rather curiously avoid the word "no"
- "Subscribe to our newsletter!" (i.e. spam). The only negative answer is worded like "I'm braindead trash thus I don't want to subscribe".
It's always about actively disempowering users. Even if technology was expected to do the opposite.
Why this matters: because even if the image + text generators went away, or got heavily regulated, or whatever, the problem still persists. And it'll still pop up elsewhere.
Solve this disgusting "Stop treating those THINGS as if they were human beings! They're users, not humans! Those things exist to be herded!" mindset and you'll solve the problem.
If I had to guess, most people in RVs would rather live in a house. It's just houses are not affordable in USA; I've seen posters from there talking about this in Lemmy all the bloody time.
Based on that I don't think prohibition is the right way to go. Instead make sure people can afford houses, and the problem goes away. Additionally the ones living in an RV by choice would be even freer to keep with their lifestyle - those are likely not an issue when it comes to zoning laws, as the main reason you'd want to live in a wheeled home is to travel.
Fuck neoliberalism. I might not like those kids giving thumbs up to authoritarianism but they're less worse than neolib, it's like comparing elephant shit with cat shit.
That said: a few Hexbear users are fairly reasonable, but plenty of them remind me 11yos. Specially in groups. db0 threw the bait, in a humour community for anarchists... and they all ate the bait, with malagueta sauce. No, wait, Scorpion Trinidad sauce. While screaming "I CAN STAND THE HEAT!" amidst their torrential tears.
Eventually the thing gets old, db0 gets bored and tells them to disengage.
It was funny that the nanny - who was supposed to take care of the kids - was there too. And he's another 11yo! He forgot to edit his comment and say EDIT WOW THANKS FOR THE GOLD KIND STRANGER! They might've left Reddit, but they still behave more like redditors than like decent people. Also, I saw a neoliberal Anglo supremacist there. Full of gullibleness. He still didn't think on the purpose of this utterance. And yes, I'm still laughing my arse off that muppet.
I'm almost sure db0 knows why those kids are mostly defederated. And the reason his instance doesn't do it is because, good or bad, they're left-wing presence in the fediverse.
Hexbear users who might take offence with my comment are encouraged to address their complains about their precious feelings being violated to this form.
It's basically my experience with translation, too: asking a LLM is a decent way to look for potential ways to translate a specific problematic word, so you can look them up in a dic and see which one is the best. It's also a decent way to generate simple conjugation/declension tables. But once you tell it to translate any chunk of meaningful text, there's a high chance it'll shit itself, and output something semantically, pragmatically, and stylistically bad.
I'm not. You can't lose trust on something if you never trusted it to begin with.
I. Talent churn reveals short AGI timelines are wish, not belief
Trying to build AGI out of LLMs and similar is like trying to build a house, by randomly throwing bricks. No cement, no foundation, just the bricks. You might want to get some interesting formation of bricks, sure. But you won't get a house.
And yes, of course they're bullshitting with all this "AGI IS COMING!". Odds are the people in charge of those companies know the above. But lying for your own benefit, when you know the truth, is called "marketing".
II. The focus on addictive products shows their moral compass is off
"They", who? Chatbots are amoral, period. Babbling about their moral alignment is like saying your hammer or chainsaw is morally bad or good. It's a tool dammit, treat it as such.
And when it comes to the businesses, their moral alignment is a simple "money good, anything between money and us is bad".
III. The economic engine keeping the industry alive is unsustainable
Pretty much.
Do I worry that the AI industry is a quasi-monopoly? No, I don’t understand what that means.
A quasi-monopoly, in a nutshell, is when a single entity or group of entities have an unreasonably large control over a certain industry/market, even if not being an "ackshyual" monopoly yet.
A funny trait of the fake free-market capitalist that O’Reilly warns us about is that their values are always very elevated and pure, but only hold until the next funding round.
That's capitalism. "I luuuv freerum!" until it gets in the way of the money.
IV. They don’t know how to solve the hard problems of LLMs
Large language models (LLMs) still hallucinate. Over time, instead of treating this problem as the pain point it is, the industry has shifted to “in a way, hallucinations are a feature, you know?”
Or rather, they shifted the bullshit. They already knew it was an insolvable problem...
...because hallucinations are simply part of the LLM doing what it's supposed to do. It doesn't understand what it's outputting; it doesn't know if glue is a valid thing to add to a pizza, or if humans should eat rocks. It's simply generating text based on the corpus fed into it, plus some weighting.
V. Their public messaging is chaotic and borders on manipulative
O rly.
Stopped reading here. It's stating the obvious, and still missing the point.
The website's quality decline has been for ten years or so. I remember well how it used to be; if I had my first account there it would be, like, 16 years old? (Good riddance.)
I'm glad people mentioned PieFed there (+10 score as of now!), as well as old style forums. (I'm hoping those eventually join the Fediverse. But even if they don't, they still have a place in my heart.)
After Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein, now it's Lyon.
I expect "[insert European government] ditches Microsoft" to become more and more common news, until it becomes non-noteworthy.
Group name: None, individual drawing. I'm just reserving the space in case anyone wants to do stuff that interacts with it (like critters climbing it, etc.)
Matrix: none
Template: link
Fun fact: it's a tree. Very wood. Much leafy.
- Group name: Parabellum.
- Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#parabellum-canvas:matrix.org
- template URL: N/A, see note.
- Fun fact: named after Caesar's "si uis pacem, para bellum" (if you want peace, prepare for war).
NOTE: the group's goal is to coordinate attacks against the largest country flag in the canvas, whichever it is. Void, random doodling, etc. is welcome.
further info, including channel rules.
Channel rules:
- Be a reasonable and decent human being. (e.g. no bigotry)
- No divisive off-topic or NSFW content.
- No fragmenting the movement from the inside: apology to large country flags, JAQing off, sealioning, etc. This will be strictly enforced.
- No cheating, doxxing, or encouragement of.
- Have fun.
The target is always the biggest country flag. Drawings in the flag are disregarded; only width x height counts. In the case of a tie, the leftmost flag takes precedence. Focus preferably on most iconic features of the flag.
Observers are welcome, as long as they follow the rules. You're also free to join the group even if you belong to another group, just make sure there's no conflict of interest.
Q-and-A
Q1: Why would I join it?
A: Reasons are up to the individual. We don't need to share the same motivation, only the goal.
Q2: What constitutes a large or small flag?
A: Up to debate but we don't need to set this line up, since we're picking on the largest one anyway.
Q3: What about the trans flag? Or the anarchist one?
A: Not country flags, we're leaving them alone.
Q4: What about drawings that are not part of the flag, but associated with it?
A: Leave them alone, and focus on the flag itself. And in the case the flag is built into a bigger drawing, focus on the elements of the flag, not of the rest of the drawing.
Q5: Vandalism is wrong!
A: Not a question, but whatever. This sort of online canvas is not just cooperation, but also competition. Also, people actually concerned about vandalism in the canvas know that the main source of said vandalism are large country flags.
Q6: If u dun liek it, than y u dun fuck off teh gaem?
A: No. People who want to get rid of large flags have as much right to organise themselves towards their common goal as you have to organise your flag. Deal with it.
Q7: as someone working on a large flag, I ask u, can u stop doin that?
Q8: excuuuuuse me, do you know that I'm entitled to have you listen to my defence of large flags?
Q9: ackshyually is this harassment?
No.
Q10: why do you hate [insert population]?
A: Our target is decided based on canvas area, not personal feelings towards the subjects of the government associated with that flag.
Q11: instead of fighting us, why don't you join us to build our MONUMENT?
A: I do monuments like this every day. In my bathroom, just after #2.
Yes. All my yes.
I think that, for most dbzer0 users (and quite a few landlubbers like me), being able to choose between a Lemmy and a PieFed instances is only positive. What you need to take into account is the additional work this incurs towards you guys, the admins; you'll be maintaining two instances instead of just one.
If my analysis is correct, the people in the Ukrainian government do know that Putin and Trump are on the same team. And they're trying to break it, by exploiting the fact Trump has a huge ego and a small brain. That's why Podolyak is framing the attacks as humiliating Trump.
After Zelenskyy was humiliated in the White House no less, he must know these people are Demons right?
When fighting a devil, sometimes you need to make a deal with another.
I'm low-key excited. It has been a long time since the anime series, it was a blast, and based on this trailer it seems the movie keeps rather well the "everything is so fucked up might as well laugh" feel.
Leosqualo da Vinci? Johaainnes Vermeer? 鳍白石 / Qí Báishí? ...Pi-cação?
I'm going to reply to myself because there's a huge discussion in the comment chain, and I'd rather speak freely than specifically address what they're saying. And because this is 90% rant.
A country is not the people it rules over. A country is not a human being. A country is an abstract structure of power. A country is an "it".
No country should be seen as having a "right of self defence" or crap like that; it's the same as saying "I hate people so much I'd put them on the same level as an abstract structure." It's genuinely disgusting.
And someone might say "well ackshyually the Israelis have a right of self defence". Sure; unlike the state of Israel, the Israelis are human beings, they do have the right. However (and this is important), the ones joining the war against Hamas and the Palestinians are not just "defending themselves"; they're putting themselves at risk to defend that abstract structure.
And people keep oversimplifying this shit as if it was "Israel was attacked, so it's self-defending". More accurately, what's happening is that the state of Israel was attacked by Hamas, and using the attack as excuse to kill the Palestinians.
It gets worse. The continued existence of that "it" is causing people to be killed, since it's an ethnostate on the same level as Apartheid South Africa. By assigning "it" a human right of self-defence, you're giving the "it" an implicit thumbs up to kill actual human beings. Now you aren't even putting human beings on the same level as an "it", you're putting them below the "it".
inb4 something that sounds pretty much like "B-but right of self defence! Apartheid South Africa is defending itself, from terrorists like Rolihlahla! Are you siding with the terrorists?".
(I do plan to read replies but I'm not arsing myself to reply to them.)
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Interesting video on the stone that allowed researchers to decipher Ancient Egyptian. Check comments for a few notes.
Additional links with press coverage: ArcheologyMag, Oxford.
For context:
The Huns were nomadic people from Central Eurasia; known for displacing a bunch of Iranian (e.g. Alans) and and Germanic (e.g. Goths, Suebians etc.) speakers, that ultimately invaded the Roman Empire. They reached the Volga around 370 CE, and one of their leaders (Attila) is specially famous. Often believed to be a Turkic people, but if the study is correct they're from a completely different language family instead.
The Xiōng-Nú are mentioned by Chinese sources as one of the "Five Barbarians" (i.e. non-Han people). They would've lived in Central Eurasia between 300 BCE and 100 CE or so, and eventually became Han tributaries.
The Paleo-Siberian language in question would be an older form of Arin, a Yeniseian language. Yup, that same family believed by some to have relatives in the Americas.
Uncover the mystery of the Voynich manuscript—a 600-year-old encrypted book that has never been decoded despite global efforts.

For further info, if anyone is interested, Stephen Bax claimed a decade ago to partially decode the manuscript; here's a video with his reasoning, as well as the paper he released. Sadly Bax passed away in 2017 (may he rest in peace), so the work was left incomplete.
The main idea behind this language is to become evolutionary food for other languages of my conworld. As such I'll probably never flesh it out completely, only the necessary to make its descendants feel a bit more natural.
Constructive criticism is welcome.
Context and basic info
The conworld I'm building has three classical languages, spoken 2~3 millenniums before the conworld present: Old Sirtki, Classical Tarune, and Mäkşna. And scholars in the conworld present are reconstructing their common ancestor, that they call "Proto-Sitama".
What I'm sharing here, however is none of their fancy reconstructions. It's the phonology of the language as it was spoken 7 millenniums before the conworld present. Its native name was /kʲær.mi.'zɑst/, or roughly "what we speak"; the language itself had no written version but it'll be romanised here as ⟨Cjermizást⟩.
Its native speakers were a semi-nomadic people, who lived mostly of livestock herding. They'd stay in a region with their herds, collect local fruits and vegetables, and then migrate for more suitable pasture as their animals required.
It was quite a departure from the lifestyle of their star travelling ancestors, who were born in a highly industrialised society in another planet.
Grammar tidbits
Grammar-wise, Cjermizást was heavily agglutinative, with an absolutive-ergative alignment and Suffixaufnahme. So typically you'd see few long polymorphemic words per sentence. Those morphemes don't always "stack" nicely together, so you often see phonemes being elided, mutated, or added to the word.
Consonants
Manner \ Set | Hard | Soft ----------------|---------|----------- Nasals | /m n/ | /mʲ ɲ/ Voiceless stop | /p t k/ | /pʲ tʲ kʲ/ Voiced stop | /b d g/ | /bʲ dʲ gʲ/ Voiceless fric. | /ɸ s x/ | /fʲ ʃ ç/ Voiced fric. | /w z ɣ/ | /vʲ ʒ j/ Liquids | /l r/ | /ʎ rʲ/
Cjermizást features a contrast between "soft" and "hard" consonants. "Soft" consonants are palatalised, palatal, or post-alveolar; "hard" consonants cannot have any of those features. Both sets are phonemic, and all those consonants can surface outside clusters.
Palatalised consonants spawn a really short [j], that can be distinguished from true /j/ by length.
Although /j/ and /w/ are phonetically approximants, the language's phonology handles them as fricatives, being paired with /ɣ/ and /vʲ/ respectively.
/r rʲ/ surface as trills or taps, in free variation. The trills are more typical in simple onsets, while the taps in complex onsets and coda.
The contrast between /m n/ is neutralised when preceding another consonant in the same word, since both can surface as [m n ŋ]; ditto for /mʲ nʲ/ surfacing as [mʲ ɱʲ ɲ].
Coda /g/ can also surface as [ŋ], but only in word final position; as such, it doesn't merge with the above.
Liquids clustered with voiceless fricatives and/or stops have voiceless allophones.
Vowels
Proto-Sitama's vowel system is a simple square: /æ i ɒ u/. They have a wide range of allophones, with three situations being noteworthy:
- /ɒ u/ are typically fronted to [Œ ʉ] after a soft consonant
- /æ i/ are backed to [ɐ ɪ] after a hard velar
- unstressed vowels are slightly centralised
Accent
Accent surfaces as stress, and it's dictated by the following rules:
- Some suffixes have an intrinsic stress. If the word has 1+ of those, then assign the primary stress to the last one. Else, assign it to the last syllable of the root.
- If the primary stress fell on the 5th/7th/9th/etc.-to-last syllable, move it to the 3rd-to-last
- If the primary stress fell on the 4th/6th/8th/etc.-to-last syllable, move it to the 2nd-to-last.
- Every two syllables, counting from the one with the primary stress, add a secondary stress.
Phonotactics
Max syllable is CCVCC, with the following restrictions:
- complex onset: [stop] + [liquid]; e.g. /pl/ is a valid onset, \*/pw/ isn't
- complex coda: [liquid or nasal] + [stop or fricative]; e.g. /nz/ is a valid coda, \*/dz/ isn't
If morphology would create a syllable violating such structure, an epenthetic /i/ dissolves the cluster.
Consonant clusters cannot mix hard and soft consonants. When such a mix would be required by the morphology, the last consonant dictates if the whole cluster should be soft or hard, and other consonants are mutated into their counterparts from the other set. For example, \/lpʲ/ and \/ʃp/ would be mutated to /ʎpʲ/ and /sp/.
Stops and fricatives clustered together cannot mix voice. Similar to the above, the last consonant of the cluster dictates the voicing of the rest; e.g. \/dk/ and \/pz/ would be converted into /tk/ and /bz/ respectively.
Gemination is not allowed, and two identical consonants next to each other are simplified into a singleton. Nasal consonants are also forbidden from appearing next to each other, although a cluster like /nt.m/ would be still valid.
Word-internal hiatuses are dissolved with an epenthetic /z/. Between words most speakers use a non-phonemic [ʔ], but some use [z] even in word boundaries.
Romanisation
As mentioned at the start, the people who spoke Cjermizást didn't write their own language. As such the romanisation here is solely a convenience.
- /m n p t b d g s x w z l r/ are romanised as in IPA
- /k ɸ ɣ/ are romanised ⟨c f y⟩
- "soft" consonants are romanised as their "hard" counterparts, plus ⟨j⟩
- ⟨j⟩ is omitted inside clusters; e.g. /pʲʎ/ is romanised as ⟨plj⟩, not as \*⟨pjlj⟩
- /æ i ɒ u/ are ⟨e i a u⟩
Use this thread to ask questions or share trivia, if you don't want to create a new thread for that.
[Note: the purpose of this thread is to promote activity, not to concentrate it. So if you'd still rather post a new thread, by all means - go for it!]
A Trojan Echo in Clay: Hittite Tablet Discovery Reinforces Homeric Traditions A remarkable new discovery has emerged from the archives of Hittite texts, shaking the very foundations of how we perceive the Trojan War and its historicity. Unearthed and recently published under the auspices of Oxf

Quick summary: a tablet written in Hittite, from a likely vassal to their king, recounts how Attaršiya [Atreus?] of Ahhiyawa [the Achaeans] and his sons attacked Taruiša [Troy]. And at the end there's a fragment in another Anatolian language, Luwian, saying the following:
>wa-ar-ku-uš-ša-an ma-a-aš-ša-ni SÌ[R\ >wrath.ACC god(dess).VOC? si[ng
So roughly "Sing, oh goddess, the wrath..."
This is pretty much how the Illiad starts in Greek:
>μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος\ >mênĭn áeide theā́ Pēlēïádeō Akhĭlêos\ >rage.ACC sing.IMP goddess.VOC Peleus.GEN Achilles.GEN\ >Sing, oh goddess, the rage of Achilles [son] of Peleus
Here's a direct link to the journal article.
Summary: phylogenomic study found that Hexapoda (insects, springtails, headcones) is a sister clade to Remipedia (venomous, cave-dwelling "crustaceans"). So it's basically the same that happened with birds and dinos, except with bugs.
Feel free to use this thread to ask small questions or share random language / linguistics trivia, if you don't feel like creating a new thread just for that.
(Just to be clear: yes, if you want to create a new thread for your question/trivia, you can. I'm only trying to stimulate discussion in the comm.)


This infographic is still incomplete; I'm posting it here in the hope that I can get some feedback about it. It has three goals:
- To explain what federation is. No technobabble, just a simple analogy with houses and a neighbourhood.
- To explain why federation is good for users.
- [TODO] Specific info about the Fediverse, plus some really simple FAQ.
Criticism is welcome as long as constructive.
EDIT: OK, too much text. I'm clipping as much as I can.
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This is not some sort of fancy new development, but it's such a classical experiment that it's always worth sharing IMO. Plus it's fun.
When you initially mix both solutions, nothing seems to happen. But once you wait a wee bit, the colour suddenly changes, from transparent to a dark blue.
There are a bunch of variations of this reaction, but they all boil down to the same things:
- iodide - at the start of the reaction, it'll flip back and forth between iodide (I⁻) and triiodide ([I₃]⁻)
- starch - it forms a complex with triiodide, with the dark blue colour you see in the video. But only with triiodide; iodide is left alone. So it's effectively an indicator for the triiodide here.
- some reducing agent - NileRed used vitamin C (aka ascorbic acid; C₆H₈O₆), but it could be something like thiosulphate (S₂O₃²⁻) instead. The job of the reducing agent is to oxidise the triiodide back to iodide.
- some oxidiser - here it's the hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) but it could be something like chlorate (ClO₃⁻) instead. Its main job is to oxidise the iodide to triiodide. You need more than enough oxidiser to be able to fully oxidise the reducing agent, plus a leftover.
"Wait a minute, why are there a reducing agent and an oxidiser, doing opposite things? They should cancel each other out!" - well, yes! However this does not happen instantaneously. And eventually the reducing agent will run dry (as long as there's enough oxidiser), the triiodide will pile up, react with the starch and you'll get the blue colour.
Here are simplified versions of the main reactions:
- 3I⁻ + H₂O₂ → [I₃]⁻ + 2OH⁻
- [I₃]⁻ + C₆H₈O₆ + 2H₂O → 3I⁻ + C₆H₆O₆ + 2H₃O⁺
(C₆H₆O₆ = dehydroascorbic acid) Eventually #2 stops happening because all vitamin C was consumed, so the triiodide piles up, reacts with the starch, and suddenly blue:


EDIT: @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:
>Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: ()
Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.
Changes highlighted in italics:
- Instance rules apply.
- [New] Be reasonable, constructive, and conductive to discussion.
- [Updated] Stay on-topic, specially for more divisive subjects. Avoid unnecessarily mentioning topics and individuals prone to derail the discussion.
- [Updated] Post sources whenever reasonable to do so. And when sharing links to paywalled content, provide either a short summary of the content or a freely accessible archive link.
- Avoid crack theories and pseudoscientific claims.
- Have fun!
What I'm looking for is constructive criticism for those rules. In special for the updated rule #3.
Thank you!
EDIT: feedback seems overwhelmingly positive, so I'm implementing the changes now. Feel free to use this thread for any sort of metadiscussion you want. Thank you all for the feedback!
Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in humpback whale song.

Apparently humpback whale songs show a few features in common with human language; such as being culturally transmitted through social interactions between whales.
"The authors found that whale song showed the same key statistical properties present in all known human languages" - my guess is that the author talks about Zipf's Law, that applies to both phoneme frequency and word frequency in human languages.
[Dr. Garland] "Whale song is not a language; it lacks semantic meaning. It may be more reminiscent of human music, which also has this statistical structure, but lacks the expressive meaning found in language." - so while it is not language yet it's considerably closer to language than we'd expect, specially from non-primates.


Based on
- owenfromcanada's comment - the "pros" of Lemmy (memes, beans, etc.)
- ByteOnBikes' comment - about not making Lemmy advertisement too slick, like corporations would.
SVG source for anyone willing to give it a try. Made with Inkscape. The emojis were added as images because Inkscape.


Aue, patrue placentae! (Oi, tio do pavê!)
The document charred by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is being 'unwrapped' using X-ray scans and AI.

It's a 10m papyrus scroll from Herculaneum, one of the cities buried by Vesuvius' volcanic ash in 79 CE. It's fully carbonised but they're using a synchrotron to create a 3D model of the scroll without damaging it. Then they're using AI (pattern recognition AI, perhaps?) to detect signs of ink, so they can reconstruct the text itself.
The project lead Stephen Parson claims that they're confident that they "will be able to read pretty much the whole scroll in its entirety". And so far it seems to be a work of philosophy.

The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.