One ship, many treasures! Also, once Phaeacia was closed off from the outside world, Odysseus could corner the market on autonomous-piloted ships, using the pound of gold from each Phaeacian as seed money to reverse-engineer the ship pilot. Odysseus is a king; can he be a CINO?

Yeah! Yesterday, I pretended to be born yesterday with my six year old. We explored topics like, "How do I know something is alive?" and "What is 'funny'?" Best improv all week.

To be clear, that's not fact-checking. GenAI has no sense of fidelity to accuracy or semantics. Asking ChatGPT or another platform what a historian would say is likely worse than asking no one at all, and it's a very far cry from asking an actual historian about what they study. GenAI doesn't know.

What I like in that quote (Winchester MS fol. 21r-21v) is that Merlin emphasizes protecting oneself both from others ("be you never so sore wounded") and from one's own sword (which is what a scabbard does). Care, including self-care and trust, matter a lot.