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Shawn Graham
@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
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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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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
the kid is treating me to a rendition of seven nation army on the bass trombone

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
tom cruise…. jack reacher. man, that’s a trip eh?

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
birthday gift: foot spa. oh yes baby. feet hurt, this is a small luxury

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
@ihember i will get legless for science!

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
email from student in online class to tell me they’ve had an ah-ha moment, readings and exercise clicked, and they were excited to share how and why.

…that’s the stuff i love.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
@Nerdfest thankyou!

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
Another circuit around the sun accomplished

Reposted by Shawn Graham

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May Likes Toronto @mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 20h
CBC is manufacturing consent with this headline.

Current headline: "Two-thirds of Ontario school boards in deficit or just breaking even"

Better headline: "Ontario underfunds school boards enough to systemically force illegal deficits."

School boards breaking even is not news. It's not a […]
Original post on beige.party
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Scanning.
Matter and form 3 scanner set up to scan a blue transfer ware cup

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
So the train never came. The next train in x minutes just flipped over. Fun!

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
this city needs deamalgamation

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
perfectly ottawa. limebank station was finished. they laid a road down to it. sidewalks, lights, good pavement. three ish months later, all ripped up while they do put pipes etc under it and across.

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Bill Reese @reesecommabill.gardenstate.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
THE CANADIAN PREMIER LEAGUE IS FUCKING LIT!

#cpl #canada #fedifc

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
we’re so screwed re all this https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/lansdowne-2-0-changed-my-vote #ottawa.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
dreamt i had to free three pucks from the ice.

in my country i think this now means i am the chosen one

Reposted by Shawn Graham, Aidan O’Sullivan

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Wandering around Quebec city, looking up Wikipedia when I get to some historical plaque. Favorite so far related to Benedict Arnold's 'invasion'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Arnold%27s_expedition_to_Quebec

Anyway. Pretty bloodsoaked part of the world hereabouts in the 18th c.
Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org

Reposted by Shawn Graham, Klaus Oschema

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […]

[Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Again:

Don't believe them: LLM text generators creating lots of slop web sites *does not damage the Web*. It just makes search engines useless. #google is simply pivoting from a) providing Web search to b) letting you query a pre-trained LLM. This means that we’ll be back to hand-curated links […]
Original post on archaeo.social
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d
100!!!
Ohio State to hire 100 new faculty with AI expertise
The Ohio State University has announced a major Artificial Intelligence (AI) Faculty Hiring Initiative that will add 100 new tenure-track faculty with expertise in AI over the next five years. The ini...
news.osu.edu

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
GenX, all those leaded gas fumes when we were young, eh

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/07/gen-x-internet-radicalisation-populist
Meet gen X: middle-aged, enraged and radicalised by internet bile | Gaby Hinsliff
Who is driving the populist insurgency? It’s not grumpy pensioners or vulnerable teenagers – it’s my generation, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
New toy, giving the matter and form 3 a whirl. Shiny cup usually defeats scanning, so let's see....
A cup on a turntable; light shines on it, being picked up by the scanner to make 3d object...

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Matthew Loxton @mloxton.med-mastodon.com.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Just your occasional reminder that companies Do. Not. Need. To. Grow.

They can stay small, do good business, and make good profits, and any investors can be secure in the knowledge that their money is safe and that they will be paid out dividends every year.

Many really good businesses have […]
Original post on med-mastodon.com
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Take your kid to work day. So I took my kid to my lecture. Interesting to get some fresh eyes on things. Lectures work best when the audience gives something back. Kid picked up on that - "tough crowd". Yup exactly. Absolutely draining, all the energy was one way today. This always happens at […]
Original post on scholar.social
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
"yeah no yeah"

means you're talking to Canadians

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
in other news, i won't be teaching any more online versions of my course, after the better part of a decade here doing so. I used to like it. Felt it was a better fit for what I wanted to teach, how I wanted to teach it. Have taught async, sync, since 2005, one way or another. The End.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
type the em dash. Show me how you do it. What a wonderfully apropos emoji. Show me. Show me how you pop that in using your ancient laptop straining mightly to use jupyterlab. I want to see your markdown. Let's do this.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
use of emoji's in headings? check. Super organized headings, subheadings, and use of em-dashes to set off insights/etc? Check, check, check. O my student. My dude. What's the fucking point?

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Well everything else is rapidly going to hell but I did get flu and covid shots so there's that

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
someone looked at a spreadsheet. (the end point of that mindset is a university that teaches one class that everyone takes. a BA in intro to pysch)

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/u-of-o-suspends-honours-program-in-greek-and-roman-studies-9.6962030