Ben Carter
@archaeoscape.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Open. Community/ Public. Digital. GIS. LiDAR. Landscape. Small scale + non-hierarchical. Andes, Ecuador, Maine, Pennsylvania. Studying the construction of landscapes of resistance... Maine-iac. Views are my own (not my employers).
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ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
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November 20, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ESQUIRE: “ICE is hiring literally anybody, and it’s terrifying… people who flunk the exam, criminal records… yet they’re allowed to tear children from their beds at night.”
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work.
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How to Negotiate with Russia
Account for history, law, and above all Ukraine
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November 19, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We hear that Putin and Trump (or their emissaries) have been secretly consulting about a settlement to the war. Given the inherent traps of allowing an aggressor to decide the outcome of his war, I try here to give a sense of how negotiations might actually work.
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
snyder.substack.com/p/how-to-neg...
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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I love this attitude
So many whistles, too!
One of Charlotte’s nicknames is “the hornets nest” for its pro basketball team.
ICE and CBP continue to make bad choices: first they went after the bear (CA), then riled the frogs of Portland, and now they’re poking a hornet’s nest.
Stupid and reckless.
One of Charlotte’s nicknames is “the hornets nest” for its pro basketball team.
ICE and CBP continue to make bad choices: first they went after the bear (CA), then riled the frogs of Portland, and now they’re poking a hornet’s nest.
Stupid and reckless.
November 19, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I love this attitude
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Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Last Thanksgiving, two Dallas Police officers knocked on my door, citing a tip from the FBI national threat operations center that I was beating my girlfriend. The incident report confirms this. Today, I obtained a file from the FBI via FOIA that states the FBI has no record of receiving such a tip.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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“Methane emissions across the supply chain are a key indicator of poor environmental and operational practices in the fossil fuel industry. Reducing [them] in the energy sector is the most effective and rapid way to cut greenhouse gases in the short term.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?
With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls
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November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Methane emissions across the supply chain are a key indicator of poor environmental and operational practices in the fossil fuel industry. Reducing [them] in the energy sector is the most effective and rapid way to cut greenhouse gases in the short term.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hell yeah, I’m definitely ready for this!! Too bad it’s almost 3 years away.
Pennsylvania’s Working Families Party is recruiting candidates to run against Pa.'s Democratic senator, John Fetterman.
The party is also pledging a robust ground game and fundraising to whoever a potential challenger they support may be.
The party is also pledging a robust ground game and fundraising to whoever a potential challenger they support may be.
Pennsylvania’s Working Families Party pledges to support a primary challenger against Sen. John Fetterman
“Senator Fetterman has sold us out, and that’s why the Pennsylvania Working Families Party is committed to recruiting and supporting a primary challenge to him in 2028," the group said.
www.inquirer.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hell yeah, I’m definitely ready for this!! Too bad it’s almost 3 years away.
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🚨 I will never look away. Neither should you. This is what ICE is doing. They are not police, they are untrained, morally bankrupt monsters. This cannot go on. We need to organize for these children. They may have weapons and power, but we see this. This is fuel. 1/2
November 18, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🚨 I will never look away. Neither should you. This is what ICE is doing. They are not police, they are untrained, morally bankrupt monsters. This cannot go on. We need to organize for these children. They may have weapons and power, but we see this. This is fuel. 1/2
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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
Larry Summers tells @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
he’s stepping back from all public commitments in light of his messages with Epstein, saying he is “deeply ashamed” and hopes “to rebuild trust and repair relationships.”
He will continue teaching.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 18, 2025 at 5:10 AM
So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.
Got it.
Got it.
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
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AI-induced psychosis: the danger of humans and machines hallucinating together
We’ve always relied on friends and family to confirm our sense of reality. Now we’re increasingly expecting AIs to do it instead.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our sense of reality is intimately entwined with our interactions with other people. What happens when those interactions are instead with social AI? See my piece on (so-called) ‘AI-induced psychosis’ in The Conversation
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
theconversation.com/ai-induced-p...
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'Quiet piggy!' Trump delivers startling insult as female reporter asks about Epstein
Swinish man say whaaattt? 😤🤦🏽🤦🏽
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Swinish man say whaaattt? 😤🤦🏽🤦🏽
www.rawstory.com/trump-267430...
'Quiet piggy!' Trump delivers startling insult as female reporter asks about Epstein
President Donald Trump lashed out at a reporter Friday after being asked about Jeffrey Epstein, hurling an insult at her and refusing to answer her question about efforts to release files on the disgr...
www.rawstory.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:21 PM
'Quiet piggy!' Trump delivers startling insult as female reporter asks about Epstein
Swinish man say whaaattt? 😤🤦🏽🤦🏽
www.rawstory.com/trump-267430...
Swinish man say whaaattt? 😤🤦🏽🤦🏽
www.rawstory.com/trump-267430...
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We don't take teaching seriously enough.
Update from The Harvard Crimson on Summers: he’ll step back from public commitments, but remain in the classroom, continue his directorship of a center, & keep his University Professorship. How is this in any way holding him accountable for his actions? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Summers To Step Back from Public Commitments Amid Epstein Scandal | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawerence H. Summers will step back from all public commitments in an effort “to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me,” he wrote in a statement...
www.thecrimson.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:14 PM
We don't take teaching seriously enough.
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Women were likely, as women, to take the next generation’s part, not this one’s; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Women were likely, as women, to take the next generation’s part, not this one’s; they wove the links men saw as chains, the bonds men saw as bondage.
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"Wherever Afro descendants are located, they are most vulnerable to climate and environmental impact”
“Climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”
#coloniallegacies #Afrodescendants #Indigenous #Jamaica
“Climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”
#coloniallegacies #Afrodescendants #Indigenous #Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
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November 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"Wherever Afro descendants are located, they are most vulnerable to climate and environmental impact”
“Climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”
#coloniallegacies #Afrodescendants #Indigenous #Jamaica
“Climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”
#coloniallegacies #Afrodescendants #Indigenous #Jamaica
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YES!!!
Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a U.S. permanent resident from South Korea, has been released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody after being detained for months.
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U.S. permanent resident released from ICE custody – AsAmNews
South Korean U.S. permanent resident Tae Heung “Will” Kim has been released from ICE custody after being detained for months.
asamnews.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
YES!!!
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why would i hate people for being of a different race, ethnicity, sexuality or gender than me when i can instead hate SHITTY SOFTWARE and the LAZY SHITASSES WHO MAKE IT
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
why would i hate people for being of a different race, ethnicity, sexuality or gender than me when i can instead hate SHITTY SOFTWARE and the LAZY SHITASSES WHO MAKE IT
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This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.
November 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.