Francis Deblauwe ๐บ๐๐ญ๐๐ ๐๐ก
@fdeblauwe.bsky.social
Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American
Nice Etruscan sculpture!
FabienBP@fabienbp.eurosky.social ยท 5h agoSuperbes ! A Kainua/Marzabotto, l'รฉquipe archรฉologique a dรฉgagรฉ un puits rempli d'objets en trรจs bon รฉtat, dont deux statuettes fรฉminines en bronze etun plat en bronze, et d'os humains (deux squelettes qui scellent le puits et marquent la fin de son utilisation). www.facebook.com/MNEMarzabott...
๐จ Kansas voters once again reject GOP efforts to trick them into losing abortion rights. The no vote prevails on an amendment that wouldve replaced the indy commission with direct (partisan) elections for Supreme Court justices โ which the AG promised would "slowly & quietly" let GOP stock the court
New discovery: A monumental 2,500-year-old marble statue has been unearthed at Sardis in Tรผrkiye. The 2.2-meter-high statue, the sculpture depicts a young man and is dated to 470โ450 BC. During the Roman period, the statue was reused as paving material and laid face down,...๐งต1/2 ๐บ #archaeology
"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury
Monumental 2,500-year-old marble statue unearthed at Sardis in Tรผrkiye: www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/monu...
The Worldโs First Newspapers May Have Appeared in Medieval China. www.medievalists.net/2026/05/the-...
The Worldโs First Newspapers May Have Appeared in Medieval China - Medievalists.net
Long before newspapers appeared in Europe, medieval China had printed publications reporting on politics, government decisions, scandals, and military affairs during the Song Dynasty.
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Tell Taban / แนฌaฬbetu (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_Ta...), interesting archaeological site near Hasakah in NE Syria. Excavations started after my time digging in the area.
(2015) Dynastic Marriages in Assyria during the Late Second Millennium BC, in: B. Dรผring (ed.), Understanding Hegemonic Practices of the Early Assyrian Empire: Essays Dedicated to Frans Wiggermann, PI...
(2015) Dynastic Marriages in Assyria during the Late Second Millennium BC, in: B. Dรผring (ed.), Understanding Hegemonic Practices of the Early Assyrian Empire: Essays Dedicated to Frans Wiggermann, PI...
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Today is Porajmos Memorial Day. Today we remember the half a million Romani people murdered by Nazi genocide. Dikh He Na Bister
>>The credits sequence of The Ghost in the Shell (2026) consists of a montage of the history of computing technology, from ancient times until the modern day. It opens with YBC 7289, a Mesopotamian student tablet that contains an early approximation of the square root of 2<<
This has created a situation in which *everyone* - "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" - has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies. 25/
Suresh and his team at Hermit Tech now have a policy of not even asking about ongoing AI projects. They've learned that by the time an AI project has begun, no one will discuss it honestly until it reaches a crisis point. 33/
Suresh describes this as a literal religious mania. In the 500+ employee businesses Suresh studied, the only people who were promoted - or even spared from being fired - were people who professed "religious declarations of faith" about "the transformative power of AI." 23/
debates about academic meritocracy arent new. but astonishing to see so many dynamics that involve literally penalizing success. when the consultants tell a university to fire everyone above X grade. when good teachers are rewarded withโฆ more teaching. +specialists are ordered NOT to specialize
So as they go after Fauci like this and everything that Fauci represents (which ultimately is the idea that we have obligations and responsibilities to each other), we need our own narrative pushing back. Their criticisms of Fauci are not in good faith, they don't need to be taken seriously.
Also, quack pseudo archaeologists will have a field dayโฆ Sighโฆ
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social ยท 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a โbomb blast and craterโ to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Ebayโs harassment spree against a perfectly nice couple in Massachusetts is one of the craziest stories Iโve ever covered. Six years later, the victims have finally gotten their due. from @laurengoode.bsky.social
Ebay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment Campaign
For months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up.
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This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.
What blows my mind with AI is the people who are like "how could you possibly function without it?" To which I say, "you, YOU literally did until what like 3 years ago? Did it degrade your brain that fast that you can't figure out how to do the thing you trained for years and earned a PhD to do?"
Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social ยท last wk.Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
Within months, the APL began operating as union-busting muscle for rich oligarchs, and against any and all critics of the Wilson Regime. Every city in the country had a chapter. Itโs the largest vigilante force ever assembled, and no one remembers that it existed!
