《404档案馆》讲述中国审查与反审查的故事，同时以文字、音频和视频的形式发布。播客节目可在 Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify 或泛用型播客客户端搜索“404档案馆”进行收听，视频节目可在Youtube“中国数字时代· 404档案馆”频道收看。

欢迎来到404档案馆，在这里，我们一起穿越中国数字高墙。

尽管中国的言论审查和舆论管控日趋严峻，国家对公民的监控也无处不在，但我们依然可以看那些不服从的个体，顶着被删号、被约谈、甚至被监禁的风险，对不公义勇敢发出自己的声音。

中国数字时代在“404媒体”栏目中长期记录这些被当局审查封禁的媒体或自媒体。

本期节目，我们将介绍遭到封禁的媒体、自媒体账号为：梁文道《八分半》播客、木蹊说、有病要讀書plus。

一、梁文道｜To：《八分半》的朋友，哪怕是飞鸽传书

《八分半》是香港文化人、传媒人梁文道于2024年4月推出的付费单囗播客，主要面向中国大陆听众，收费299元人民币。节目除了讨论文艺作品，也关心社会热点事件，以及世间一切有意思的物事。《八分半》是中国付费播客的“顶流”节目之一，仅播客平台“小宇宙”上就有超过3万5000人付费收听。

2025年7月2日，梁文道在节目中提及已被停刊的香港媒体《苹果日报》和《壹周刊》，并以英文名“Jimmy”隐晦提及这两家媒体的创办人黎智英。香港当局以港版国安法指控黎智英“串谋勾结外国势力”。

7月下旬，该节目在喜马拉雅等多个平台下架；8月19日，该节目也在播客平台“小宇宙”被下架。

梁文道曾对媒体《香港01》表示，被多平台禁言15天，节目将在8月初恢复更新。然而直至8月19日小宇宙下架前，《八分半》并未恢复正常更新，仅在8月6日发布一首音乐称“两周没见了”，再无更多内容。

8月20日凌晨，《八分半》在小宇宙发布通知，称由于“技术原因”无法继续在小宇宙更新，对此深表歉意。有听众在这条通知下发布蜡烛等表情表示支持和怀念。此后，节目页面被删除，小红书等其他社交媒体账号也被封禁。

之后，梁文道发布了一段20多分钟的录音向听众致歉。

编者按：版权归原作者所有

相关阅读：

• 【404媒体】梁文道｜To：《八分半》的朋友，哪怕是飞鸽传书
• 【404媒体】小宇宙等播客平台下架梁文道节目《八分半》

二、木蹊说：请停止说谎

微信公众号“木蹊说”长期针对发生在中国的各类热点事件、社会舆论话题发布评论文章。中国数字时代收录了多篇该号所发的文章，其中部分遭到审查删除。

目前，在微信平台搜索“木蹊说”，已无法展示相关账号内容。

在该号于2022年12月31日发布的文章《2023，请停止说谎，相信真话的力量》中，作者写道：

真话，是这个时代最稀缺的东西。

因为说真话越来越少了。

我们看到的是大V们四处带节奏，一边在外国置产买房，申请绿卡，一边描述国外水深火热、阴险狡诈。

我们看到的是专家们睁着眼睛说瞎话，一边自己布洛芬和进口药，一边向农村朋友推销中成药。

[…]说真话，是这个时代最稀缺的品质。

因为这个时代并不奖励说真话的人。

李文亮医生说真话，被训诫。张文宏医生不过是一再重复自己三年都没怎么变观点，突然就成“汉奸”。

说假话的呢？

有的在日本，每日离岸爱国。

有的在美国买房，然后让你别吃西药。

有的主动染阳写日记，一天流量、打赏好几万。

还有的自己都过意不去了，在骗完钱跑路后还不忘出个视频教育你，告诉你为什么会被他骗，如何防止被他的同类骗。

而那些扛住了生活的平凡人呢，就在充斥着假话的舆论场，以讹传讹，自我感动。

渐渐地，不堪的成了被褒奖的，普通的成了优秀的，平凡的成了英雄的，牺牲的成了感动的。

渐渐地，常识成了真理，真理成了阴谋，正常的人成了异类、成了不合群。

我真的看不下去了。

有些牺牲本可以避免的，有些感动本不应该存在。有些错误更要去反思，去追责！

而不是一句“新年快乐”，一切就翻篇的。

今人不自哀，后人哀之；后人哀之而不鉴之，亦使后人而复哀后人也。

病毒不会随着新年钟声的敲响而消失。

那些擅长说假话的人，不会因为到了新年就洗心革面，重新做人。

时间不是解药，时间只是遗忘药。

都说文艺工作者要不辱使命，不负时代。

怎么完成使命呢？

我想，首先就是去播种说真话的种子。

即便有些真话不能说，那也要做到不说假话。

这三年，遗憾有之，荒诞有之，可歌可泣亦有之。

而我们的良心，就是忠实的记录这一切，不要扭曲回忆，不要忘记伤痛，不要跟着一些人说谎作恶，干点有出息的事儿。

没有一个人会被真话带偏。

没有一个社会会被真话扭曲。

没有一个国家会被真话辜负。

三、有病要讀書plus｜天将降大任于斯人也

微信公众号“有病要讀書plus”，发布文章对中国网络上的热点话题进行评论，同时对极端民族主义、极端爱国主义进行质疑和嘲讽。目前，在微信平台搜索该号已无法显示。

中国数字时代收录该号所发布的多篇404文章。

疫情期间，该号发布讽刺文章《天将降大任于斯人也，必先测其核酸，查其绿码，盘你疫苗……》

文中作者写道：

这几天网上发生了个很搞的事情，起因是孟子的名句“天将降大任于斯人也”，如今的教科书把“斯”改成了“是”，然后网上就吵起来了。

有人说自己学的是“天将降大任于斯人也”，有人说自己学的是“天将降大任于是人也”，前者有的说“天王老子来了也是斯人”，后者有的说“绝对是是人，说斯人的都是嘴犟”。

结果有这么多人吵得如此真情实感和龇牙咧嘴真是令人震惊，大有粉圈互殴的气势。

我问了我周围七八十年代的小伙伴，他们都很不服气，我们的教科书绝对写的是“斯”，你以为我们当初屁屁是白揍的？

我觉得这点事情就是人教社的问题，你就格局高一点，承认有别的版本是天将降大任于斯人也，就没有这个争论了。

你硬要摆出一副我才是天下正宗你们都是歪门邪道的样子，强调自古以来都是天将降大任于是人也，这等于硬生生的把我们这些学过“天将降大任于斯人也”的记忆给抹去了。

换谁不疑惑呢？

说来说去，是和斯的意思在这里是一样的，都表示这个。

如果你不是直接引述孟子原文，说天将降大任于斯人也不算错，因为语意并无分别。

我奇怪的是，就这么件不算事儿的事儿，怎么能吵那么久，网上的讨论竟然达到了亿的级别。

这只能说明，现在既能引起争议又安全，达到广泛传播又不触及任何G点的话题已经不多了。从最早的甜咸粽子，到今天的“斯人”“是人”，媒体也是辛苦了，以前用来挖掘真相的能力，全面转向正儿八经地扯犊子了。

儒家文化，就真的很爱扯“天将降大任于斯人也”，扯来扯去，就那几个字在原地转圈。

实际上，现实社会的绝大多数时候，老天苦你心志，劳你筋骨，饿你体肤，空乏你身，都不是为了降大任于你，而是为了让你更好地奉献与服务那些不苦、不劳、不饿、不空乏的已得大任之人。

再说了，疫情期间，现在老天即使想降大任给你，也已经不管你饿不饿肚子了，都要先测你核酸，查你绿码，盘你疫苗，调你轨迹先了。

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今天凌晨，特斯拉公布了他们的《宏图计划第四篇章》。

与以往聚焦汽车或能源产品的蓝图不同，特斯拉这次描绘了一个更遥远、也更理想化的终点：一个由 AI 和机器人主导的「可持续富足」的社会。是的，特斯拉的战略重心已经从「可持续发展」，转向了对未来社会形态的构想。

这个构想的核心，不再是车，而是生产力本身。马斯克说：

特斯拉 80% 的价值，将来自 Optimus（人形机器人）。

回顾特斯拉宏图计划的第一篇和第二篇，它们的逻辑清晰而务实：

2006 年的第一篇章，为特斯拉画出了一条从高端小众市场切入、最终走向大众化车型的产品路线图，解答了电动汽车的生存和市场定位问题。十年后的第二篇章，则围绕已经站稳脚跟的汽车产品，构建了一个包含太阳能、储能、自动驾驶乃至共享出行在内的完整生态。

这两份计划的共同点，是它们都聚焦于特斯拉自身的产品与商业战略，回答的是「特斯拉要做什么」。

转折点出现在 2023 年的宏图计划三。

它看起来不再是特斯拉的一份商业计划，而是一份面向全球经济的分析报告。特斯拉用海量数据，试图从物理学和经济学的第一性原理出发，去论证全球全面转向可持续能源的可行性。

果不其然，这份报告换来的是特斯拉的股价大跌——

它描绘了一个极其宏伟的，需要大量工业产能才能实现的目标，却也因此暴露了，依靠现有生产方式，根本无法填补的巨大生产力鸿沟。这是一个系统性的问题，远非特斯拉一家公司所能改变。

而在最新的第四篇章中，马斯克似乎还是没能给出更务实的答案。它没有选择回归到更具体的商业或产品规划，反而将蓝图的尺度再一次放大，从改造全球能源体系，升级到了重塑人类社会本身的生产力结构。

这使得第四篇章看起来同样不像一份「商业计划」，而更像是一份关于未来的「愿景」。

在这份新的蓝图中，人工智能（AI）被提升至驱动一切的底层技术，成为整个系统的大脑；而人形机器人（Optimus），则是负责执行所有生产任务的物理实体。而汽车、储能等特斯拉现有的硬件业务，都将成为其 AI 能力的下游应用场景。

这一切的前提，是机器人本身必须能够被大规模制造。

特斯拉认为，通过借鉴汽车行业的规模化生产经验，快速地大规模生产机器人来替代人类劳动力，在逻辑上是可行的。它们的最终目标，是建立一个全新的、由机器驱动的生产体系，从而实现生产力的指数级增长。

这样一个由机器驱动的生产体系，必然需要一套全新的社会经济来与之匹配。在马斯克的 X 平台上，被讨论得最多的问题是：

当机器人取代人类劳动力时，那些失业的人该如何维持生计。

马斯克是这样回答的：

未来将实现普遍的高收入（而不仅是基本收入）。每个人都将拥有最好的医疗、食物、住所、交通和其它一切。
这是一种「可持续的富足」。

马斯克提出的这套「普遍高收入（UHI）」的构想，核心机制是通过对机器人创造的巨大生产价值进行征税（例如以消费税形式），再由政府以高额收入的形式分配给所有公民。

X 上有支持者认为，生产力的提升还会伴随着物价的下降，这份「收入」的购买力也会大幅提高。

然而，这一构想的实施路径、政治阻力以及对社会结构的冲击，都是悬而未决的难题，特斯拉并没有在他们的「宏图计划」里提到这些。甚至当我们把这套构想置于具体的国家情境下审视，它的复杂性还会更加突出，尤其是在中国。

抛开这些，特斯拉自身也正面临诸多现实问题。

前不久，被马斯克寄予厚望的 Dojo 超级计算机团队宣告解散，团队的负责人彼得·班农（Peter Bannon）也将离职。Dojo 曾被定位为特斯拉在人工智能竞赛中获取算力的核心，马斯克对此的解释是「整合资源发展 AI5、AI 6 以及后续的芯片」。与此同时，特斯拉的汽车业务在欧洲和中国也没有那么顺风顺水了。2025 年上半年，特斯拉中国市场销量同比下降约 5.4%，其中二季度更是同比下滑了 13.5%。

这些内部的动荡与外部的挑战，都与第四篇章所描绘的指数级增长和「富足的未来」，形成了鲜明对比。

总之，从这份「宏图计划」来看，特斯拉已经对他们的战略方向作出了重大调整，它们的雄心，已经远远超出了商业的范畴。

只是，一家科技公司可以设计和制造改变世界的工具，但要实现马斯克口中的「可持续富足」，远非一家公司之力所能及。

以下是特斯拉宏图计划第四篇章全文：

引言

自特斯拉成立以来，我们每一版的宏图计划都聚焦于我们的北极星：实现不受约束、毫不妥协的可持续性。

人类是工具的创造者。在特斯拉，我们大规模、低成本地制造实体产品，目标是让每个人的生活变得更美好。

随着人工智能（AI）技术的影响力与日俱增，《宏图计划第四篇章》所阐明的使命，也就不足为奇了。

特斯拉故事的下一个篇章，将帮助我们创造一个我们刚刚开始想象的世界，其规模将前所未见。我们正在打造能将人工智能带入物理世界的产品与服务。

近二十年来，我们孜孜不倦地努力，通过发展电动汽车、能源产品和人形机器人，为这场技术复兴奠定基础。

现在，我们将我们的制造能力与自动驾驶技术实力相结合，以提供全新的产品与服务，它们将通过由全人类共享的经济增长，来加速全球繁荣与人类的兴盛。我们正在大规模地统一我们的硬件和软件，并在此过程中，创造一个更安全、更清洁、更愉悦的世界。

这就是可持续的富足 (sustainable abundance)。

中心思想

1. 增长是无限的

一个领域的增长，并不需要以另一个领域的衰退为代价。资源的短缺可以通过技术的进步、更强的创新和新的思想来弥补。

那些赋予我们驱动机器能力的技术，引发了工业革命，拓宽了我们的经济格局，为所有人创造了更多机会。半导体和互联网等突破性发明，在人类体验的方方面面——从创造更多就业、提供更广泛的信息渠道，到实现更深层的人际连接——都扩大了社会和经济机遇，而非削弱。

我们渴望超越所谓的「可能」，这将促进实现真正可持续丰裕所必需的增长。

2. 创新消除限制

几个世纪以来，人类的主要交通工具是马。而后，在过去五十多年里，由化石燃料驱动的内燃机汽车成为了标准且理所当然的交通方式。那种认为电池可以被经济地、大规模地生产，足以让交通行业摆脱化石燃料的想法，在当时看来似乎是痴人说梦——直到特斯拉引领了前进的道路。

通过持续创新，我们克服了电池发展的技术限制，并建立了一个由可再生资源驱动的产业。

3. 技术解决实际问题

在向可持续丰裕加速迈进的过程中诞生的产品和服务，将通过解决真实世界的问题来推动人类进步。为了进一步加速创新，我们让每一款产品的制造都比上一款更高效、更可持续。

太阳能发电和大规模电池储能正在提高我们社区清洁电力的可用性和可靠性——并且是以更经济、更可持续的方式。

自动驾驶汽车有能力极大地提升交通的经济性、可用性和安全性，同时减少污染，尤其是在我们日益密集的国际化大都市中。

Optimus——我们的自主型人形机器人——不仅在改变人们对劳动本身的认知，也在改变其可用性和能力。那些尤其单调或危险的工作和任务，现在可以通过其他方式来完成。通过这种方式，Optimus 的使命是把更多时间还给人们，让他们去做自己热爱的事情。

4. 自主性必须惠及全人类

我们在特斯拉制造的工具，帮助我们打造能够促进人类繁荣的产品。

我们如何开发和使用自主性——以及它为我们带来的新能力——都应以其提升人类福祉的能力为指导。通过我们的自主技术，让所有人的日常生活变得更美好、更安全，这一直是、且仍将是我们关注的焦点。

5. 更广泛的普及推动更强劲的增长

要建立一个繁荣且不受约束的社会，就必须能大规模地制造出价格亲民、技术先进的产品。这有助于进一步推动社会的民主化，并在此过程中提高每个人的生活质量。精英制度（Meritocracy）的标志在于创造机会，让每个人都能利用自己的技能去实现他们所想象的一切。

每个人都应该获得这些机会，而技术的增长可以帮助确保我们每个人都能最大限度地利用我们最有限的资源：时间。

我们正在加速世界向可持续富足的转型

我们必须明确一点：要克服这一挑战将是极其困难的。消除稀缺性需要不懈的努力和精湛的执行。有些人会认为这不可能实现。还有很多人会为我们在此过程中不可避免遇到的每一个障碍和挫折而喝彩。但一旦我们克服了这一挑战，我们的批评者们终将看到，他们曾经认为不可能的事情，确实是可能的。而这对我们来说没关系，因为最重要的是，我们能共同为子孙后代创造一个可持续且真正富足的未来。

所有值得的旅程都是漫长的。而它们都始于第一步。

我们的第一步是制造一款激动人心的跑车——Roadster。接着，我们利用这些利润来资助更亲民、但同样激动人心的产品——Model S 和 Model X 的研发与生产。然后我们重复了这个过程，带来了 Model 3 和 Model Y 以及后续车型。

这个过程要求我们走出许多步，其中有些是小步，有些则是大步。但最终，每一次胜利都引向了下一次胜利，即使经历了失败，我们也能不断积蓄势头。我们的势头让我们得以构建出一个全面整合的可持续产品生态系统，涵盖从交通到能源生产、电池存储和机器人技术。

今天，我们正处在一个革命性时期的风口浪尖，为前所未有的增长做好了准备。而这一次，对特斯拉和全人类而言，它将不再是单一的一步，而是一次飞跃。我们将要开发的工具，将通过重新定义劳动力、出行和能源这三大基本构成要素的规模和普惠性，帮助我们建立一个我们一直梦想的世界——

一个可持续富足的世界。

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In the first article of this pair looking at paintings of windmills, I covered traditional views up to the first of the pre-Impressionists. This article takes this account from around 1850 up to the period between the two World Wars. Although the development of steam power during the nineteenth century brought great changes to many industries, windmills continued to flourish until the middle of the century, and even then they only declined gradually until the Second World War.

Samuel Palmer’s Summer Storm near Pulborough, Sussex from about 1851 refers to Dutch landscape painting, in a very Kentish context. A storm is seen approaching the rolling countryside near Pulborough, now in West Sussex. On the left, in the middle distance, a small bridge leads across to a hamlet set around a prominent windmill, whose blades are blurred as they are being driven by the rising wind.

Windmill styles differ outside northern Europe. When Jean-Léon Gérôme travelled down the River Danube in about 1855, he claimed to have witnessed this moving scene of Recreation in a Russian Camp, Remembering Moldavia (1855). A group of Russian soldiers in low spirits is being uplifted by making music, under the direction of their superior. Gérôme has captured an atmosphere which few of his other paintings achieved: the marvellous light of the sky, the skein of geese on the wing, and the parade of windmills in the distance, all draw together with the soldiers in their sombre greatcoats.

The following year, JC Dahl’s Burning Windmill at Stege is an unusual fire-painting following a traditional sub-genre of the Dutch Golden Age. Although painted well before Impressionism, Dahl echoes the red of the flames in the field and trees to the left of the windmill, and even in his signature.

During the winter of 1864, Johan Jongkind returned to the Netherlands, where he painted this Winter View with Skaters, which is more overtly pre-Impressionist.

Jongkind’s watercolour sketch of a Windmill at Antwerp of 1866 is even more painterly.

Claude Monet’s second visit to the Netherlands in 1874 ensured that The Windmill on the Onbekende Gracht, Amsterdam (1874) became a part of the history of Impressionism. This shows a windmill known as Het Land van Beloften, De Eendracht or De Binnen Tuchthuismolen, which was built in the late seventeenth century, and was moved from there to Utrecht just a couple of years after Monet painted it on the banks of the River Amstel.

Frits Thaulow’s painstakingly detailed View of Amerikavej in Copenhagen (1881) shows a windmill in the background, where it’s being used to provide power to the adjacent industrial site.

Volodymyr Orlovsky’s Ukrainian Landscape from 1882 shows one of the distinctive windmills on the elevated bank alongside a major river and its more populated floodplain to the right.

It may not have been Monet who first made the visual association between Dutch windmills and fields of tulips in flower, but his 1886 painting of Tulip Field in Holland must be its best-known depiction.

When Vincent van Gogh moved to Paris in 1886, he stayed with his brother Theo in Montmartre. He painted a series of marvellous views of the remaining windmills there, including the most famous of them all, Le Moulin de la Galette (1887), in whose gardens Renoir had painted his Bal du moulin de la Galette a decade earlier.

Paul Signac’s Rotterdam. The Windmill. The Canal. Morning (1906) is a Divisionist view of a windmill in the centre of this major port.

It was a Dutch painter who took windmills from Impressionism to the modernist styles of the twentieth century: Piet Mondrian.

Piet Mondrian’s gentle nocturne of Oostzijdse Mill on the River Gein by Moonlight from about 1903 is one of several views of windmills that he painted in Impressionist and post-Impressionist style.

When he started experimenting with vibrant colour and patterned brushstrokes in about 1908, this painting of a Mill in Sunlight marks his point of departure.

The Red Mill (1911) continues Mondrian’s move towards areas of flat colour. That year he left the windmills of Amsterdam and moved to Paris. To mark his move into the avant garde of that city, he dropped the second ‘a’ from his surname, going from Mondriaan to Mondrian. He became increasingly influenced by Georges Bracque and the Cubist works of Pablo Picasso, and the purely abstract paintings for which he remains well-known today.

Serhii Svitoslavskyi’s Ukrainian Landscape with Windmills, probably from about 1911, shows a small cluster of windmills with grazing livestock.

By the end of the First World War, milling grain had become more centralised, and the hundreds of thousands of small windmills across northern Europe lost their business. A few have been preserved, and some are still used for specialist products such as stoneground flour. But the unmistakable sight of a windmill on the skyline had been lost from much of the land.

During the 1930s, the Raviliouses started spending time in Sussex, where they became close friends with Peggy Angus, whose house The Furlongs at Beddingham, East Sussex, became a second home. Eric Ravilious became particularly fond of painting the chalk downs there, as in his Windmill (1934). This isn’t a windmill in the traditional sense, but a smaller wind-driven pump to extract water from the chalk, mainly for irrigation.

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This weekend we’re visiting the rolling chalk Downs in the south of England, including the North and South Downs to the south of London, the Chilterns to the north of the city, and the Berkshire Downs to the west. In the early twentieth century a steady succession of landscape artists moved out from London to live and paint in the hills of southern England.

By 1887, Edward Stott had moved to Amberley at the foot of the South Downs near Arundel in West Sussex, where he lived until his death in 1918. Peaceful Rest is one of his few paintings that was exhibited at the Royal Academy, in this case in 1902. This shepherd has stolen a moment as his small flock drinks from a pond. He’s lighting a clay tobacco pipe, with his crook resting on his leg. Most of the painting uses a limited palette, with three splashes of colour standing out: the man’s face lit by the flame, the watchful sheepdog behind him, and something blue protruding from the shepherd’s jacket pocket. Behind is a shallow chalk cliff at the edge of the Downs.

Stott also painted in pastels. His view of a Chalk Pit near Amberley from 1903 gives a better idea of the rolling chalkland around the village during the harvest, with cut stooks of grain ready for threshing.

At some time in the late summer of 1912, Spencer Gore walked part of The Icknield Way, shown here in his Fauvist view from that year. This is an ancient trackway running from Wiltshire to Norfolk, following the chalk downs of the Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills, where he had most probably made sketches of this view of sunset.

Edward Reginald Frampton’s undated view of The South Downs near Eastbourne, East Sussex shows the south-east coast of England during haymaking, with sporadic red poppies in the foreground. The land is otherwise peaceful and deserted, and its sky rises to eternity.

Paul Nash’s autumnal view of the Berkshire Downs was probably painted when he was visiting his father in his home at Iver, in the chalk downland of Berkshire, to the north-west of London.

Nash’s Whiteleaf Cross (1931) might appear unreal, but is quite an accurate depiction of a cruciform hill-carving in Whiteleaf Hill near Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire, not far from the artist’s family home. On a down set between small woods, a chalk escarpment has been cut with a trench extending to the symbol of a cross above. It is late autumn, with trees devoid of leaves, or their foliage a deep brown.

During the 1930s, Eric Ravilious started spending time in Sussex, where he and his wife became close friends with Peggy Angus, whose house at Beddingham, East Sussex, became their second home. He became particularly fond of painting the chalk downs there, as in his Windmill (1934), where a few barbed-wire fences mark its boundaries.

Around 1939, shortly before the start of the Second World War, Ravilious visited the famous White Horse cut in the chalk downs at Uffington in Berkshire, England. The Vale of the White Horse (c 1939) shows the view from an unconventionally low angle, in pouring rain. This hill figure is thought to date from the late Bronze or early Iron Age, around three millennia ago.

Percy Shakespeare’s painting of December on the Downs, Wartime, made in the period 1939-44, is a lesson in agricultural history. In the distance, on one of the rolling chalk downs in the south of England, are three horse-drawn ploughs tackling some of the steeper ground, while in the foreground are their successors, the light-wheeled modern tractor. Those are being operated here by women, as most of the men were away serving in the armed forces.

For once I end with a couple of my own paintings, admittedly not in the same league as those above. However, they show the downland where I live, and whose escarpments I walk.

This is the Worsley Obelisk on top of the most southerly downs on the Isle of Wight, looking northwards towards the east-west chalk ridge that runs from Culver Down to the Needles, with the city of Southampton in the far distance. The slopes of these hills are scarred by terracettes, once thought to be created by grazing sheep, but now postulated as being a physical effect on soil.

This view looks east across the village we live in, at Saint Martin’s Down, behind which lie Shanklin and Bonchurch, as shown in two of the paintings in the first of these articles. Since painting this ten years ago, much of the rough grazing on this down has been re-wilding and it’s now dotted with small bushes and scrub.

过去大半年，Agent（智能体）是 AI 行业最常被提及的概念之一。

几乎所有厂商都在讲 Agent，概念不缺，demo 也不少，但真正做到产品级落地，始终缺一套完整的执行系统——既能理解复杂目标，又能调用多种工具串联任务流程，还要随时支持任务中断、修改与恢复，真正贴合用户工作流。

就在刚刚，OpenAI 正式发布 ChatGPT Agent 功能。

通过整合 Operator + Deep Research + ChatGPT 本体，用户只需描述任务，ChatGPT Agent 就能自主判断所需工具，自动访问网页、提取信息、运行代码、生成幻灯片或表格等，并可在执行过程中实时展示步骤、接受中断和修改指令。

发布会结束后，OpenAI CEO Sam Altman 在社交媒体上写道：：

观看 ChatGPT Agent 使用计算机完成复杂任务，对我来说是一个真正的「感受 AGI」时刻；看到计算机思考、计划和执行，有种与众不同的感觉。

亮点如下：

• ChatGPT Agent 将 Operator、Deep Research 与 ChatGPT 本体三合一，构建了一个统一智能体系统。
• 内置图形/文本浏览器、终端和 API 调用器等工具，支持手机端使用，任务完成后可自动推送结果；
• 可连接 Gmail、GitHub 等第三方应用，深度嵌入用户真实工作流；
• 在多项基准测试中表现领先，综合性能位居行业前列；
• Pro 用户每月享有 400 条调用额度，其他付费用户为 40 条，并支持按需扩展配额。

ChatGPT Agent 正式上线，能购物，能写 PPT，你的浏览器要被 AI 接管了

今天开始，你可以在任何对话中，通过聊天界面左下角的「工具」下拉菜单，选择「Agent 模式」来启用这一功能。

只需描述你想完成的任务，ChatGPT 能够智能地浏览网站、筛选结果、在需要时安全提示你登录、运行代码、执行分析，甚至输出可编辑的幻灯片和电子表格，总结任务结果。

整个执行过程是可视的——操作步骤会实时显示在屏幕上，用户可以随时中断、修改指令，甚至手动「接管浏览器」继续操作，确保任务始终符合你的目标和需求。

在今天凌晨的演示中，OpenAI 展示了 ChatGPT Agent 在真实场景中的应用能力。

比如，为即将出席的婚礼做准备，一直是个难题。现在只需发出请求，ChatGPT Agent 迅速搭建虚拟环境，自主判断应调用浏览器、文本解析器还是终端，并开始依次调取婚礼日期、查询场地天气、推荐西装搭配、筛选酒店。在这个过程中，模型可以与 OpenAI 研究员进行互动，并在适当节点请求确认需求。

更重要的是，用户可以随时中断任务。

比如当 Agent 在推荐西装过程中，OpenAI 研究员临时插入了「帮我找一双 9.5 码黑色正装鞋」的请求，模型立刻暂停当前任务，转而处理新需求。

同样地，当智能体认为有必要时，也会主动向你请求更多信息，确保任务始终与你的目标保持一致。如果任务超出预期时间或出现卡顿，你可以选择暂停任务、请求进度摘要，或直接终止任务并获取已有的部分结果。

「这种可打断、可多轮对话的机制，是我们这次训练模型的重点之一，」OpenAI 研究员解释道。

这一能力背后，是 ChatGPT Agent 对三大系统的统一整合：Operator 提供网页交互能力，支持自动滚动、点击、填表；Deep Research 擅长信息整合与分析；ChatGPT 本体则负责自然语言理解与智能推理。

ChatGPT Agent 是通过强化学习在复杂的任务中训练出来的，过去三者各有短板——前者难以深入分析，后者无法操作网页，而 Agent 将三者优势整合为一体，并辅以浏览器、终端、API 调用器等工具，形成一个完整的执行系统。

用户不仅可以在桌面端启动 Agent 模式，在手机端也同样适用。

任务完成后还将自动推送结果通知。在第二个演示任务中，OpenAI 研究员在 ChatGPT App 上传了团队吉祥物 Bernie Doodle 的贴纸图案，Agent 自动调用图像生成 API 设计贴纸样式，通过浏览器访问电商平台完成比价、样式选择、购物车添加，最终整理出定制贴纸的下单明细。

当然，为确保流程安全、灵活且清晰可控，面对涉及金额的支付环节，则只会由用户手动接管浏览器完成。

通过连接器，用户还可将 Gmail、GitHub 等日常应用接入 ChatGPT，让模型读取邮件、日历或代码库等上下文内容，并执行诸如总结今天的邮箱内容或查找下周空闲会议时间等任务。

一个更典型的应用场景是，OpenAI 研究员能够让 ChatGPT Agent 汇总自己在多项基准测试中的表现，并制作成幻灯片。收到命令后，Agent 会调用 Google Drive 连接器读取数据文件，用终端编写代码绘制图表，并生成完整的 PPT。

这类自动化能力，都是 Agent 深度嵌入工作流的体现。

不过，可以看到，ChatGPT Agent 生成的 PPT 在设计审美方面表现比较一般，并且，虽然可以上传电子表格供 ChatGPT 编辑或作为模板使用，但生成的 PPT 暂不支持二次修改。

需要说明的是，OpenAI 并不是让 Agent 像人一样打开 PPT或 Excel 文件，通过点击来插入文本框和公式，而是直接生成代码来创建文档。这种做法的好处是可以利用模型在代码编写方面的天然优势，避免因模拟点击操作带来的效率低下或出错，也降低了对计算资源的消耗。

The Information 报道指出，如果 ChatGPT 要直接编辑 PPT 或 Excel 文件，就需要启动一台「虚拟机」（即通过 ChatGPT 运行的虚拟计算机环境），这会占用更多计算资源。

而直接生成代码则更轻量、高效。尽管潜力巨大，但就目前来看，这一功能短期内很难对微软的 Office 或者 Google Workspace 造成冲击。

对于 ChatGPT Agent 功能，Pro 用户将在今天之内获得访问权限；Plus 与 Team 用户将在接下来的几天内陆续开放；企业版（Enterprise）和教育版（Education）将在未来几周内上线

Pro 用户每月可使用 400 条消息，其他付费用户每月可使用 40 条消息，并可通过弹性积分方案购买更多额度。

全线刷新「跑分」记录，Agent 战场迎来最强对手

ChatGPT Agent 能力的提升，也体现在「跑分」环节。

在评估 AI 解决跨学科专家级问题的基准测试 Humanity’s Last Exam（HLE）中，搭载智能体的 ChatGPT 模型以 41.6 的 pass@1 得分刷新纪录。在启用并行执行策略后，该得分进一步提升至 44.4。

在目前被认为最具挑战性的数学基准 FrontierMath 中，面对难度极高、从未公开的题目，ChatGPT Agent 在具备终端代码执行能力的前提下，取得了 27.4% 的准确率，远高于此前模型。

在这一复杂且高经济价值的知识型工作任务的内部基准测试中，ChatGPT Agent 在约一半的任务中输出质量已达到甚至超过人类水平，表现也显著优于 o3 和 o4-mini 模型。

在一个内部的投行建模任务基准中，ChatGPT 智能体的表现也显著优于 Deep Research 和 o3 模型。每个任务都基于数百项关于公式正确性、格式规范等评分标准进行评估。

此外，在公开评估模型信息查找能力的 BrowseComp 基准上，Agent 以 68.9% 的准确率刷新记录，较 Deep Research 高出 17.4 个百分点。在 WebArena 评估中，其网页任务执行能力也优于基于 o3 的 CUA 模型。

从平台视角看，Agent 能力的底层接口，正是浏览器。

在 Perplexity AI CEO Aravind Srinivas 最近的采访中，他表示浏览器将会是 AI 的「杀手级应用」。在他看来，浏览器天然具备让 AI 真正「动起来」的全部条件。

不同于传统聊天机器人，AI Agent 的理想形态不是停留在对话框中生成文本，而是具备实际行动力——从访问网页、提取信息、填写表单，到执行跨平台操作。而这一切，浏览器恰好具备所需的操作权限和上下文获取能力。

浏览器可以直接读取页面、模拟点击、自动执行任务，几乎无需额外授权。

在这个过程中，用户与 AI 共处于同一个交互空间：AI 可以自动执行任务，用户也能随时中断或接管，避免黑盒操作带来的不确定性。这种可控性与透明度，是当前许多上下文协议仍难实现的能力。

如今，随着 ChatGPT Agent 能力正式上线，所有声称要做 Agent 的厂商，恐怕都要重新审视自己的产品路径。

当 ChatGPT 从语言交互工具，转向具备协作、调度与承接任务能力的执行系统，开始接入用户的真实工作流，Agent 的可用性门槛，也在此刻被实质性地拉高。

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库克的「库克」，今天退休了。

过去十年里，接替现任 CEO 蒂姆·库克成为首席运营官的 Jeff Williams， 一直是苹果最像库克的那个人。

他低调、稳健，和库克一样懂供应链，他和库克的关系，就像当年乔布斯和库克。因此不少人都觉得，库克之后，他同样适合领导这家企业。

他的离开不仅是苹果最高决策层的一次重大变动，同时也意味着，另一位 CEO 有力候选者，现任硬件高级副总裁 John Ternus，接任库克的可能性更大了。

库克接班人，究竟是什么来头？

John Ternus 于 1975 年出生，毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学的机械工程专业，属于当今苹果领导团队之中少见的年轻血液。

他于 2001 年正式加入苹果。彼时苹果正处于乔布斯执掌大权的上升时期，虽然还只是一位小人物，但作为产品设计团队的一员，依旧能受到这家公司在乔布斯领导下的工程文化和实际理念熏陶。

2013 年，Ternus 正式晋升硬件工程副总裁，开始负责监督每一代 iPad 、AirPods 的开发，以及部分 Mac 的工作，比如毁誉参半的 Touch Bar，就是他接管 Mac 后带来的新功能。

而如果要评选 Ternus 迄今为止的最大贡献，那必须是负责了 Mac 从 Intel 到自研芯片的顺利过渡，并且挽回了 Mac 系列从 2016 年开始不断下滑的口碑。2020 年，他在苹果活动上，负责了 M1 Mac 产品发布的主讲工作。

M1 发布的同一年，苹果最重要的硬件产品，也就是 iPhone，也正式交到了 John Ternus 的手上。

在帮 Mac 打完翻身仗之后，2021 年，John Ternus 正式晋升硬件高级副总裁，并于 2022 年底接替 Jeff Williams 开始负责 Apple Watch 硬件。

苹果内部对 Ternus 的印象总体都不错。有内部人士透露，库克很喜欢 Ternus，觉得他演讲很精彩，对待他人也很温和，决策也比较谨慎。有人认为他身上「很多库克式的管理特质」。

Ternus 更喜欢亲自参与产品开发，有时甚至会绕过中层管理人员，直接与每位工程师一起解决问题。

近年来，Ternus 也在各大场合频繁「刷脸」，在多场苹果活动中担任主讲，可以看作是苹果内部在刻意培养，他有时甚至会负责一些不属于他的领域，比如在欧洲负责巡回演讲库克看重的环保议题，还接受过关于苹果芯片的电视采访。

外界对 Ternus 的认可度也很不错，有媒体评价他的魅力「仅次于 Craig Federighi」，同时也因为是一位懂产品的高管受到很多支持。

还有一个关键的考量因素：年龄。Ternus 今年 50 岁，而库克已经 64 岁，这意味着 Ternus 在库克之后，至少还能担任 CEO 一职十年以上，这也是苹果董事会所希望的，Williams 此前也因为年龄（62 岁）与库克相仿而不被看好。

当然，Ternus 在苹果内部也不乏反对者。一些顶尖工程师告诉彭博社，他们认为 Ternus 能快速晋升的原因，是他非常善于办公室政治，而不是因为能力有多优秀。

苹果内部也有声音，觉得 Ternus 比较缺乏创新的精神，更像是一位守成者。

这在他目前的生涯履历也已经有所反映。虽然苹果几乎所有的硬件产品都交给 Ternus 管理，但苹果这几年最重要的「Vision」空间计算产品和他关系不大，已经被砍的 Apple 汽车也与他无关，而为数不多的创新举动是 Touch Bar。至于自研芯片的 Mac，那更多还是按照苹果既定的路线前进。

一位优秀的高管，也不一定意味着能成为 CEO。有不少人也认为，Ternus 虽然评价很高，但还是缺乏了一位 CEO 所需的胆量和远见，并且「火候未到」，给人的印象更接近普通人，还不具备一家万亿公司 CEO 应有的气场。

更根本的问题是，Ternus 自己准备好了吗？虽然他拥有强大的技术资质、内部支持和适合苹果文化的气质，但人们对他的创新记录、管理才能，以及是否准备好领导世界上最有价值的公司之一，承担重大责任，存在合理的担忧。

苹果需要的可能不是下一个库克

去年，爱范儿曾经与 John Ternus 进行过一次对话，聊了聊最新的 iPhone 16 和 Apple 智能。

比起库克和 Jeff Williams，John Ternus 给我们留下的印象，更接近史蒂夫·乔布斯和 Jony Ive。

蒂姆·库克是一位优秀的 CEO 吗？上任十年，库克将苹果的市值翻了将近十倍，已经足够说明他是一位优秀管理者。

当然，在他的带领下，苹果的创新也趋于迟缓，批评者认为，苹果已经从乔布斯时代下灵感和美感并存的品牌，转型成追逐商业的企业。

虽然库克在多个场合都避免正面回应何时退休的话题，但他今年已经 64 岁，不可能永远掌舵。并且这两年，苹果的财报越发疲软，最大的中国市场不断下滑，Apple 智能和 Vision Pro 两个「战未来」的押注表现不尽如人意，外界需要看到苹果更多更有价值的创新。

而 John Ternus 更像是乔布斯和库克的结合：既懂产品，也懂管理，能够带领苹果在正确的线路上前进，或许就能成为提振这家公司的关键人物，甚至可能是唯一的人选。

在最近由于 Apple 智能而进行的内部改组中，Ternus 也接手了 Vision 产品线的硬件工作，并且开始参与苹果具身智能和人工智能这些相对前沿的项目，释放一种比以往更加进取的信号。

那么，苹果最高掌舵人的交棒时刻，还要我们等多久？

在多个采访中，库克都没有正面回应关于何时退休的问题，不过有内部人士去年透露，他的任期至少还有三年。

如果结合苹果接下来的重点产品路线图，我们能预测出库克卸任的一些关键的时间节点。

2027 年，iPhone 迎来 20 周年，全新的「玻璃 iPhone」将发布。

2028 年，根据苹果的预期，将发布首款 AR 眼镜。彭博社报道称，空间计算已经是库克的首要大事。

库克很有可能会在 20 周年 iPhone，或者 AR 眼镜发布之后，选择将 CEO 一职交接给 Ternus。

可以预见的是，未来这段时间，Ternus 的一举一动，以及每个产品，都会推到聚光灯下，接受更多人的关注。

能否展现出一位领导者应有的领导力和统率力，将决定 John Ternus 能不能从「可能的接班人」，转变为「苹果未来的 CEO」。

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This is the third of four articles providing brief summaries and contents for this series of paintings telling myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and covers parts 37-54, from the fall of Icarus to King Midas.

Daedalus and his son Icarus try to escape Crete using wings of feathers and wax. Icarus flies too near the sun, his wings melt and he falls to his death. Daedalus’ nephew is transformed into a partridge.

37 The fall of Icarus

Calydon troubled by a wild boar. Many heroes hunt the animal, and Meleager is successful. He shares the glory of his prize with Atalanta, but his uncles take the prize, so Meleager kills them both.

38 The Calydonian Boar Hunt

Meleager’s mother Althaea avenges the deaths of her brothers by throwing a log on the fire, causing her son’s death. His sisters are turned into birds. Theseus travels home from the boar hunt and is entertained by Achelous, who explains how nymphs were transformed into the islands of the Echinades.

39 The feast of Achelous

Lelex tells of Jupiter and Mercury seeking hospitality when visiting Phrygia. Only the humble and poor couple Philemon and Baucis entertain them. The gods save them from a flood that drowns everyone else. They’re later transformed into intertwining oak and lime trees.

40 Hospitality to strangers and virtue rewarded

Achelous tells those at his banquet of three shape-shifters: Proteus the old man of the sea, Erysichthon who sold his daughter to assuage his hunger until he consumed his own body, and Achelous himself.

41 Shape-shifters and the Old Man of the Sea

Achelous and Hercules wrestle for the hand of Deianira. Achelous turns himself into a bull, and Hercules wrenches off one of his horns, which becomes cornucopia, the Horn of Plenty.

42 Wrestling for the Horn of Plenty

Hercules marries Deianira, but the centaur Nessus tries to abduct her, so Hercules kills him. Nessus gives Deianira some of his blood, and tricks her later into impregnating one of Hercules’ shirts with it, causing him to incinerate himself on a pyre. He is then turned into a god.

43 The death of Hercules

The birth of Hercules made difficult by Juno and Lucina. Other myths of Hercules as an infant.

44 The birth of Hercules

Dryope picks lotus flowers, and is punished by transformation into a Lotus Tree. Byblis dissolves into a spring after falling in love with her twin brother. A daughter raised as Iphis, a boy, who was transformed into a man immediately before marrying the woman Ianthe.

45 Dryope, Byblis and Iphis

Orpheus marries Eurydice, who is bitten by a snake and dies. He travels to the underworld and pleads for her to be allowed to return with him. That’s approved, provided he doesn’t look back. Near the end of their return journey, he does look back, and she fades away back into the underworld. He then shuns women for three years in his grief.

46 Orpheus and Eurydice

Cyparissus befriends a stag, then accidentally kills it, and in his grief is transformed into a cypress tree, now grown near cemeteries. Orpheus tells of the young Ganymede, who was abducted by Jupiter and taken to Mount Olympus to be cupbearer to the gods.

47 The cypress tree, and the abduction of Ganymede

Hyacinthus, lover of Apollo, is killed by the god’s discus, and transformed into the purple hyacinth flower.

48 Killed by Apollo’s discus

Pygmalion rejects libidinous behaviour in women, and remains celibate. He carves a statue of a woman in ivory, and asks Venus for a bride like her. His statue is transformed into a woman, they marry, and have a daughter Paphos.

49 Galatea transformed from a statue

Myrrha is made pregnant by her father following a deception. He tries to kill her, but she flees and calls on the gods, who transform her into a myrrh tree. Nevertheless, her baby is born, and becomes Adonis.

50 The making of myrrh and birth of Adonis

Venus tells Adonis of the story of Atalanta, who had been told not to marry, and became a fast runner. Hippomenes challenges her to a race for her hand in marriage. He tricks her during that by dropping three golden apples provided by Venus, and beats her to the finish as a result. He didn’t thank Venus for her help, so the couple make love in a shrine to Cybele. As punishment they are transformed into lions to draw Cybele’s chariot.

51 The race between Hippomenes and Atalanta

Despite the warnings of his lover Venus, Adonis goes hunting, is gored in the groin by a wild boar, and dies. His blood is turned into the red anemone.

52 Death of Adonis

Orpheus is attacked by a mob of Bacchantes, torn limb from limb, and dies. His remains are dispersed into rivers, and his soul reunited with Eurydice. The Bacchantes are transformed into an oak wood.

53 The death of Orpheus

Bacchus grants the wish of King Midas, and everything he touches is transformed into gold. This proves a disaster, so Bacchus removes that gift. Midas loses a music contest with Apollo, for which he is given ass’s ears.

54 How Midas got his touch and his ears

This next batch of updates to my apps includes more popular tools, covering iCloud, document versions, sparse bundles, and Time Machine backups.

iCloud

Cirrus gives you detailed insight into what’s stored in iCloud Drive, provides a ready-made log browser for checking what’s going on, and a simple test for syncing. Version 1.16 has an overhauled interface, and has been rebuilt with a new app icon ready for macOS 26 Tahoe. This version supports macOS from Big Sur onwards.

Cirrus 1.16 is now available from here: cirrus116
from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism.

Document versions

Revisionist gives you direct access to versions of documents saved automatically by macOS, and a powerful suite of tools to work with them. You can run checks to discover which documents have saved versions, then browse those, previewing them with Quick Look. It can save individual versions as new files, and create archive folders containing all versions, that can be reconstituted into the original with those versions preserved. Version 1.10 has an overhauled interface, and has been rebuilt with a new app icon ready for macOS 26 Tahoe. This version supports macOS from Big Sur onwards.

Revisionist 1.10 is now available from here: revisionist110
from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism.

Sparse bundle disk images

Spundle creates and maintains sparse bundle disk images, offering a range of supported file systems, and features such as compaction to maintain their efficiency. Version 1.9 has an overhauled window, and has been rebuilt with a new app icon ready for macOS 26 Tahoe. This version supports macOS from Big Sur onwards.

Spundle 1.9 is now available from here: spundle19
from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism.

Time Machine backups

The Time Machine Mechanic, T2M2, is the standard utility for checking your Mac’s Time Machine backups. It checks and reports on their performance, free space on backup storage, how much has been transferred in each backup, and much more. Version 2.03 has an overhauled interface, and has been rebuilt with a new app icon ready for macOS 26 Tahoe. This version supports macOS from Big Sur onwards, backing up to APFS.

Depending on any changes finalised in the full public release of Tahoe later this year, I may need to make further adjustments to its code.

T2M2 2.03 is now available from here: t2m2203
from its Product Page, and via its auto-update mechanism.

Enjoy!

This is the first of four articles providing brief summaries and contents for this series of paintings telling myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and covers parts 1-18, from the start to the fall of the house of Thebes.

About Ovid and his life; his other writings, and his banishment. References.

Introduction

The aim of the Metamorphoses, about telling tales of bodies changed into new forms. The origin of the world from chaos, through a summary of pre-history and the fall of the Titans. Lycaon transformed into a wolf by Jupiter. Jupiter’s proposal to destroy humanity.

1 Creation and Lycaon’s cannibalism

The flood, and its survivors Deucalion and Pyrrha. Stones turned into men and women of the next generation. Apollo destroys the Python, and institutes the Pythian Games.

2 The flood and the Python

Apollo inflamed with love for Daphne, and his attempt to rape her. Daphne saved by transformation into the laurel.

3 Daphne becomes the laurel

Jupiter’s rape of Io, and her transformation into a white cow. Detected by Juno, who puts Argus to keep a watch on her. Inset story of Pan’s attempt to rape Syrinx, who is transformed into reeds. Mercury kills Argus, whose eyes decorate the peacock. Io as a cow driven to Egypt, and there returned to human form, to be worshipped as a goddess.

4 Io as a cow, the eyes of Argus, and Syrinx

Phaëthon son of Phoebus persuades his father to let him drive the sun chariot. Disaster strikes, Phaëthon is killed after much of the earth is burned by the sun. His sisters transformed into poplar trees, and their tears into amber. His friend transformed into a swan.

5 Fall of Phaëthon

Callisto raped by Jupiter in the form of Diana, cast out from Diana’s followers, and transformed by Juno into a bear. Jupiter transforms Callisto and their son into the constellations of the Great and Little Bears.

6 Callisto victimised

The white raven turned to black for telling on others. Minerva leaves a basket containing the infant Ericthonius with Aglauros, who discovers the basket also contains a snake. The crow downgraded in the order of birds for reporting that to Minerva. Apollo kills his unfaithful lover Coronis, but rescues his unborn child, who becomes Aesculapius.

7 Gossip and the death of Coronis

Mercury’s theft of Apollo’s cattle, and Battus turned to stone. Mercury’s love for Herse, and her jealous sister Aglauros turned to stone.

8 Aglauros turned into stone

Jupiter in the form of a bull abducts and rapes Europa.

9 The abduction of Europa

Europa’s brother Cadmus directed to found a city. His men devoured by a monster, who is killed by Cadmus’ javelin. He sows the dragon’s teeth, which grow into warriors, who help Cadmus found Thebes.

10 Cadmus and the founding of Thebes

Cadmus’ grandson Actaeon stumbles into Diana when hunting. He’s transformed into a stag, and killed by his own dogs.

11 Actaeon changed into a stag

Jupiter gets Semele pregnant, and she insists on him revealing himself to her in his full divine glory. She is consumed by flames, and her unborn baby is sewn into Jupiter’s thigh to be born as the god Bacchus.

12 Death of Semele and Jupiter’s surrogate pregnancy

Tiresias changed from man to woman, then back again. Blinded by Juno as punishment, but given prophetic powers by Jupiter. Echo too loquacious for Juno, so her speech is limited to repeating the words of others. Echo falls in love with Narcissus, but he falls in love with his own reflection, dies and is transformed into narcissus flowers.

13 Echo and Narcissus

Pentheus warned to worship Bacchus, but he defies the god’s cult, and is torn limb from limb by his own mother and sisters, as foreseen by Tiresias.

14 Death of Pentheus

Two lovers meet outside their city, but she arrives first and flees from a lioness. He sees her shawl bloodied by the lioness, assumes his lover is dead, and kills himself with his own sword. His blood changes the colour of mulberry fruit from white to red. She finds him dying, and kills herself.

15 Pyramus and Thisbe

The adultery of Venus and Mars. How the Sun was first to witness that. In revenge for the Sun telling Vulcan of her adultery, Venus makes the Sun fall in love with Leucothoë and rape her. Her father buries her alive, and she’s transformed into a frankincense tree. Clytie’s unrequited love for the Sun, leading to her transformation into a sunflower.

16 Adultery and Unrequited love

The nymph Salmacis desires Hermaphroditus, son of Hermes and Aphrodite, but he won’t oblige. They are transformed into a single body, both man and woman.

17 Hermaphroditus

Summary of the fall of the house of Cadmus, founder of Thebes. Juno seeks vengeance on Ino by summoning the Fates from the underworld to drive Ino’s husband Athamas mad. He kills one of their infant sons, she leaps from a cliff with the other in her arms. Venus intervenes, and Neptune transforms them into gods. Cadmus and his wife leave Thebes, and are transformed into snakes.

18 Ino and the fall of the house of Cadmus

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Elon Musk 真是个讲故事的好手。

The future should look like the future.

虽然看着有些冰冷，虽然还有一段时间，但把这么激进的设计落地，真的令人佩服。

尤其那只手，和那辆大车。

我要收回之前的话，Tesla 不是下一个丰田，丰田太小了。

它更像「通用」，即是 GE，也是 GM。