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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 […] [bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ] .. more

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
$600,000 annual salary. Gosh. You'd need a lot of money coming in to pay that out one would assume.

https://archive.ph/BFMHz
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Athena @climatehistories.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights and for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite […]
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AnnaAnthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
#alberta govt smugly stopped tracking class sizes.

Then it cynically changed its funding formula.

Now, they are issues in a teachers' strike.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-teacher-strike-funding-formula-class-size-data-9.6932618
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
A big theme in my history of the Internet class right now is 'how we learned to be online' so I'm watching Hackers and... Man.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h
Buy it up, there you go https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/dominion-voting-systems-sold

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
The rent-a-cop security at the strike are more often than not talking on their phones than eg taking down license plates, filming altercations and the dangerous driving going on. Some people are using their cars as weapons; it's only a miracle that they haven't actually hit people yet (there […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h
you know a gov't is in trouble when it introduces this kind of thing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-tables-draft-constitution-to-affirm-its-distinct-national-character-premier-says-9.6933153
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
...was looking for an open source CAD program, came across something that looked (at least in search result) promising, and its all about 3d printing guns. Yeah, no.
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."

-- Nick Clegg

#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech
The Verge headline: "Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would 'kill' the AI industry."
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
imagining waltzing into faculty board and proposing that we could save a lot of money by replacing the dean's office with Claude.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
trying to impose order on my chaosmachine by developing and implementing a johnny decimal schema

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Guy drove his Ford f250 with speed through the picket lines this morning at #algonquincollege #ottawa. Within a foot of strikers. Any Ottawa reporters on here? Ffs.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
yup, not a good combo of wet/dry/wet

https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/after-a-historic-harvest-in-2024-drought-has-dried-up-quebec-apple-growers-dreams-this-year
After 'a historic harvest' in 2024, drought has dried up some Quebec apple growers' dreams this year
“It was a very difficult year for cultivating apples. It rained for all of May, then we had three months of drought,” says orchard owner Jean-François Lussier.
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AnnaAnthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
‘No wonder they don’t like speed cameras’: #toronto mayor Olivia Chow comments on Ford cabinet vehicles fines

“Documents previously obtained by Global News show vehicles assigned to Ford’s cabinet ministers racked up 23 speed camera tickets in the past three years, totalling more than $3,300 in […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
mmmmmm microwaved some stale coffee from ten hours ago. taste the decay!
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Would be nice if #ottawa media got out there at the college to watch and document the abuse etc by public towards strikers
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
From the twentieth floor of Dunton Tower #carleton #ottawa
A view over a canal, farm, city, then distant hills, all in fall splendor
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Just been sent a video from the picket line at Belleville today, member of the public losing his shit at the picketers. #opseu

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
“ Up to 10,000 college jobs have already been lost in the past year and hundreds of programs put on pause. Just last week, Barrie’s Georgian College announced it was shutting down and selling off its campuses in Orillia and Muskoka/Bracebridge.
Ontario’s post-secondary funding is among the […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
“Outsource, automate and merge? Reports reveal what kind of Ontario college job losses and program cuts could be on the line

The province provided money for third-party efficiency and accountability assessments for 10 of 24 public colleges, surfacing amid a staff strike“

the star […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
send not to know
For whom the enshittification tolls,
It tolls for thee.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Installing r kennel in Jupyter lab desktop has turned intoa horrible shiny for a subset of my online students. Yay...

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
student work well organized, summarized, and headings all have emojis and a curious step-change in the quality of their markdown formatting.

...sigh. what's the f'n point sometimes...

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Here's a periodic reminder that it's just barely feasible to find a job in the infrastructure intended to make archaeological research possible, but not a job where you get paid to do the research for which that infrastructure is set up.

It's like if there were jobs for janitors and cloakroom […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
I never imagined "I'm rubber and you're glue / whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" would turn out to be a viable strategy in US political discourse
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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d
There is a renewed conversation around this, but for those not aware, this has been a very common abuse tactic during the last big Twitter/X-to-fediverse migration.

You can actually post a followers-only post, tag a non-follower, and only that person and your followers will see it.

Perfect for […]
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d
ICC Convicts Former Sudanese Militia Leader of War Crimes in Darfur
ICC Convicts Former Sudanese Militia Leader of War Crimes in Darfur
The International Criminal Court has convicted a former Sudanese militia leader of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in mass executions, rapes and torture in the Darfur region.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Sometimes I think kids sports exist only to teach that no matter what you do sometimes you'll be screwed over regardless
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
@simon i wonder if, somewhere, someone is now tasked with building in some guardrails for when someone does a pelican-on-a-bike request