Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Jun 21, 2022Meanwhile elsewhere in the anthropocene, the plot of Iain M. Banks’ novel Matter pops up in a CNN headline 🤣 Don’t poke at any ancient alien tech you uncover guyscnn.comA 3,400-year-old city in Iraq emerges from underwater after an extreme drought | CNNArchaeologists rushed to excavate the site earlier this year before the water levels rose, once again submerging the ancient city underwater.4338