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Shawn Graham
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prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […]

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Marc @mdiluz.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy · 8h
Time for a #discord alternatives thread, for no particular reason.

I've actually been looking into all available options for the past few weeks for other reasons, so here's a thread to share what I've found.

In particular I'm looking for stuff like:
* Data sovereignty
* Strong moderation tools […]
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Jennifer 🍄 @jenyetagain.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 10h
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
…i forgot mattermost. i had installed mattermost to use with my dept colleagues in the spring of 2020… and no one used it. But with my research students i could compel. so maybe i’ll dust off my notes and try to remember how to do that

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
back when slack was new, I used it with my classes and it was fun/useful and then it enshittified. set up zulip for a few classes; worked, on a technical level, but never felt like a 'place'. moved to discord in 2020, inertia has kept me there, but god it's frustrating. thinking of moving my […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
In a bookstore. 'where are your books Dad?'

... sigh.

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José Albornoz @eljojo.ruby.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
They had a snowmobile show today in the ByWard Market, Canada is awesome!

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Anna Anthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Engineers in California have found that Self-driving cars and especially drones can be hijacked to obey new directions by simply creating fake road signs

“Potential consequences include self-driving cars proceeding through crosswalks, even if a person was crossing, or tricking drones that are […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/08/want-to-stop-trump-bullying-your-country-retaliate

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Open Datasets for Medieval Studies: Why We Need Post-Publication Peer Review of Datasets on the Middle Ages

A.L. McMichael, Laura K. Morreale, and Jesse W. Torgerson

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/979928

#dh #histodons
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
...I should probably try to tighten up some of the mobile layout stuff, arrgh css...

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
I'm so excited! @aelang.bsky.social used my polybius site generator to build "Visualising correspondence from the archives of Australian literature" https://aelang.github.io/letters/

#dh

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
How Substack Makes Money From Hosting Nazi Newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
What can you do with the metadata for a historical dataset? I was asked to find out... Link is to my data review of Adam Franklin-Lyons and Pavel Oleinikov, Datini Letter Collection Metadata in Digital Philology

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979932

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 2d
👉🏼“NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump

Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NSA detected phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump
Whistleblower says that Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff
www.theguardian.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
they boo’d vance (god we laughed when we saw on cbc), but nbc scrubbed it/cut away… let those men know they are despised every day of their mean petty lives.

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d
New study: The accuracy of #ai depends in part on how much knowledge is #openaccess.

"Artificial Intelligence and the Interpretation of the Past."
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aap.2025.10110

"Open access structures the types of information that are accessible for scholars to conduct computational […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
ah, buddy, you mightn't want to hitch your horse to that. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jivani-washington-trip-9.7072956

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
argh, this is what I want, and they don't have them https://www.ssbrewtech.com/products/carb-stone-replacements
Weldless Carb Stone (threaded)
Carb Stone Replacements Item(s) Included (1) .5 Micron Carb Stone Replacement. 17mm Weldless Carb Stones used on Standard 10 Gal and 1 BBL Brites. Not for Unitanks or BME Brite Tanks.
www.ssbrewtech.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
There is no creature more useless than a billionaire. Imagine having the power to make a difference, but consistently, deliberately, choosing the worst things.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/04/idf-bulldoze-gaza-war-cemetery-allied-graves-satellite-images

(Including plot set aside for Canadian UN peace keepers)

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Harrumph. Need new carbonation stones for the britetanks. But... the current ones are welded one piece assembly things that go through the tank wall. The whole piece screws out. But any replacements I can find aren't quite the right size. I think. The manufacturer has a 2.0 version that maybe is […]
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Edwin G. :mapleleafroundel: @edwing.mstdn.moimeme.ca · 6d
20 family doctors are leaving western Québec :flagqc: because of Bill 2, leaving 15000 people without doctors.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bill-2-western-quebec-outaouais-doctors-number-9.7072178
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20 médecins de famille quitteront l’Ouest du Québec :flagqc: à cause de la loi 2 […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/02/opinion/alberta-danielle-smith-separatism
Yes, Danielle Smith is a separatist
Alberta's premier says she supports "a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada." Her actions tell a much different story — one that makes her position on the issue impossible to ignore.
www.nationalobserver.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Toys and Other Things, January 2026

I make crap when I'm overwhelmed by other things. By that metric, January was a doozy: Wikiphonic: Songs from the Gap(s): Two distinct versions of Historical Friction: and (I like the second version better) Polybius site generator from static csv data […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
"Hate yourselves, they demand of us. “Canada only lives because of the United States,” Trump wails. No, it doesn’t motherfucker.

America never expected Canada to actually begin dismantling economic ties. They wanted to call our bluff. But we were never bluffing." […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
...why yes, I've had a couple of pots of coffee; why d'you ask?

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
...in which I riff on Pratchett's idea of 'narrative causality', where stories are a parasitical life form telling themselves into existence, and a webtoy that tries to sound the space between.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
On listening to the space between: narrative causality, parasitical stories, and language models

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around. Stories exist independently of their players. If you know that, the knowledge is power. Stories, great flapping […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Nobody knows how topic models work either

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
trying to move from sonification towards something more musical, not normalizing the embeddings and trying to map things a bit better... all that and meh I'm not sure... https://shawngraham.github.io/wikiphonic/
Geospatial Sonifier
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