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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
bondi's people made errors? https://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/luigi-mangiones-death-penalty-case-shouldnt-be-tossed-u-s-prosecutors-say?tbref=hp
Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case shouldn’t be tossed, U.S. prosecutors say
Mangione’s lawyers claim Bondi didn’t properly weigh evidence that might argue against the death sentence.
ottawacitizen.com

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ryancordell.org
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13h
I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how to look
Through other people's eyes
The pope, crooning into a microphone with cardinals and people in suits all around

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 16h
I will keep this simple:
Fuck off doofus.
sincerely,Canada
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
GOP lawmaker demands $300B in defense dues from Canada
Canada defends NATO commitment as forward progress at 'breakneck' speed
www.politico.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20h
Rocking the chats with Practical Necromancy for Beginners, per Amazon:

#812,492 in Books
#1,179 in Archaeology (Books)
#3,244 in Artificial Intelligence

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/whooping-cranes-were-almost-extinct-until-canadian-ornithologist-george-archibald-learned-to-dance-with-them-1.7476788

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
lb - anglophone quebecers already are 100% quebecers. how about you treat as such, you pompous twat. ah but wait; you only get to be a 100% quebecer if you support his party/separation. and even if you did, you’d still not get the 100 because after all: anglophone.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 1d
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.

www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
www.publicbooks.org

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Looking at a new press, grinder, box dumper for the cider mill. Looks like around $70k all told. Hooo boy. Gotta shift a lot of apples to pay that all back.

Now, if I was trying to buy a vehicle that cost that much (not that I can) a bank wouldn't be bothered, car loans happen every day.

But […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The Feral Goldfish

... If I was going to set up a band...

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justinling.ca
Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 1d
This draft text also gives Russia total amnesty for war crimes.

The response thus far from Europe and Canada has been consistent — we stand with Ukraine, we haven't seen the proposal, no deal without Ukraine.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 1d
The text being proposed by Washington is basically the same deal that Steve Witkoff tried to foist on Ukraine earlier this year. I broke down the nuance of it here: www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/next-time-...
Next Time, in Moscow
Trump thinks peace is at hand. He's being played.
www.bugeyedandshameless.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
omigod. yes, this makes total sense: https://slate.com/technology/2025/11/climate-change-global-warming-united-nations-two-degrees-celsius.html “take the example of measuring a child’s temperature. Let’s say it starts out at 39 degrees Celsius. That’s equal to 102.2 degrees Fahrenheit—a true […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
shameful. absolutely shameful.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/21/trump-ukraine-deal-disastrous-kyiv-zelenskyy

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
i need a quick system to allow students to respond with text or vote in polls for a class next week. web based, free. I want them to suggest technologies for a bracket on The Most Important Thing We Learned in The History of The Internet. They'll suggest, I'll quickly make a bracket, then […]
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 2d
The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza.

Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: The Trumps’ latest money-making scheme has a little-known Canadian connection. Can we do anything about it?
It's a refuge for criminals and a cash cow for the man who wants to annex us, yet bitcoin is still being mined in Canada.
www.thestar.com

electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Well that's not at all good https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/democrats-condemn-trump-military-video-post

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d
“Adversarial poetry.”

Love this. Obvs.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Excited to see this in the world -Reframing Failure. It's good, go read it! OA too.
https://read.uolpress.co.uk/read/reframing-failure-in-digital-scholarship-a56118ab-e4eb-4eb4-9dca-e8c343c6441b/section/acdb4255-02d1-4d43-9483-d913afe8777a#int

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Lb: argh

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 3d
YEP:

"Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
If I were to buy a laptop, not wanting Windows shit and getting increasingly irritated with Apple, would it be worthwhile looking for something already linuxed, or get nice specs windows machine and overwrite with Linux?

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/interplay-co-founder-and-pioneering-game-developer-rebecca-heineman-dies-at-62/
arstechnica.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
The clock on this computer was out of sync, even though it's supposed to connect to apple's time server to get the date/time, right? So I turned that off, changed the time to the correct time last night. Just now I notice it's an hour slow. How can a computer run an hour slow? This is probably a […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
We have a cart in our department where unwanted books are given away. A one way free library, as it were.

Anyway, I thought it needed a little bit more pizzazz
A display of books. Above there's a sign showing a creepy clown beside a scary bunker door. On the wall pointing to the door it says 'free books'

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Trying to watch a reacher film, with Mr Cruise and boy it sure isn't good. But not as bad as the second and third seasons of reacher with Alan what's his name. I should've just watched season one with Al and none of these other things

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 4d
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Recently, it was mooted that the department could raise funds by running a summer camp. That we could replace budget shortfalls this way, and any such monies would be safe from the university.

In case you were wondering how everything's going.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
3d hologram box project, conniving with digital projector and 3d print of artefacts...
A black box that will host a peppers ghost illusion with a 3d print of a jawbone

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
@ryancordell.org all true... in my report-on-how-you're-progressing-with-code assignments though, AI *love* to slap emojis onto multiple headings and subheadings that are never present in actual student-written work... (a function of the area of interest being programming? Perhaps).

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d
I was reading someone talk about the difference between an academic ML conference and a hypey industry AI conference and they said ‘it’s like the difference between chemistry and alchemy. Or between astronomy and astrology.’

I really like that