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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So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.
#DougForAlabama
#DougForAlabama
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.
#DougForAlabama
#DougForAlabama
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Does anyone know how much the Antifa dues are going up in 2026?
November 25, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Does anyone know how much the Antifa dues are going up in 2026?
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What time do you get in?
Officially moving to Chicago tomorrow. I assume JB Pritzker will be waiting for me at the airport
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What time do you get in?
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Our University of Minnesota American Indian Studies department Dakota language instructor, Cante Maza sharing what Dakota people know, why "Minne" is part of so many place names in Minnesota.
Language expert shares why so many places in Minnesota start with "Minne"
YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota
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November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Our University of Minnesota American Indian Studies department Dakota language instructor, Cante Maza sharing what Dakota people know, why "Minne" is part of so many place names in Minnesota.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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Another sorry, not sorry from a writer who has gained financially and social capital by riding for decades on a myth of speculative Cherokee ancestry. #pretendianism
Canada: ‘Inconvenient Indian’ author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous
King has announced a genealogist working with the Tribal Alliance Against Frauds found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry in his family lineage
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Another sorry, not sorry from a writer who has gained financially and social capital by riding for decades on a myth of speculative Cherokee ancestry. #pretendianism
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“From the night of the massacre onward, Ms. Fletcher was never again able to sleep comfortably in a bed, she wrote…
“When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she wrote. “Imagine having the same horrible nightmare every night for 100 years.”
“When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she wrote. “Imagine having the same horrible nightmare every night for 100 years.”
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
“From the night of the massacre onward, Ms. Fletcher was never again able to sleep comfortably in a bed, she wrote…
“When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she wrote. “Imagine having the same horrible nightmare every night for 100 years.”
“When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she wrote. “Imagine having the same horrible nightmare every night for 100 years.”
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There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.
November 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
There are a lot of misconceptions about peoples' desire to work and to contribute.
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Don’t get me started on how they ruined google scholar
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“We built a relationship of trust,” Heckenberger recalls. “They taught me about their culture, and I taught them how to do archaeology.”
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
To unearth their past, Amazonian people turn to ‘a language white men understand’
A model partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people has helped rewrite the history of early Amazonian societies
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
“We built a relationship of trust,” Heckenberger recalls. “They taught me about their culture, and I taught them how to do archaeology.”
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
Rewriting the history of the Indigenous Americas one relationship of trust at a time! Fascinating research and model of ethical archaeology in practice!
Must read all of these... 😂
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
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November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Must read all of these... 😂
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this one broke me
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
When I was 4, I fell through a weird gap in the stair railing into the large pan of turkey drippings. It took my mom over a week to get all the grease out of my hair.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
this one broke me
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
just the most sitcom hijinks energy
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May took part in window-smashing campaign March 1912, and was sentenced to one month’s hard labour. This embroidery contains names women prisoners TWL.2012.24
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November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
May took part in window-smashing campaign March 1912, and was sentenced to one month’s hard labour. This embroidery contains names women prisoners TWL.2012.24
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@lselibrary.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Quiet part, meet out loud.
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Quiet part, meet out loud.
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Western climate litigants keep fighting
After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.
After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.
Western climate litigants keep fighting
After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.
www.hcn.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Western climate litigants keep fighting
After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.
After disappointing losses in Alaska and Montana, an Indigenous-led climate case is making strides in New Mexico.
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finished listening to the episode.
my biggest three takeaways from this talk:
1. just purchased Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology and will be reading it ASAP 🙏
2. @hypervisible.blacksky.app DROP THE PRE-ORDER LINK FOR YOUR BOOK RN 👿👿👿 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
my biggest three takeaways from this talk:
1. just purchased Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology and will be reading it ASAP 🙏
2. @hypervisible.blacksky.app DROP THE PRE-ORDER LINK FOR YOUR BOOK RN 👿👿👿 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
Had a good chat with @jasonkoebler.bsky.social for the @404media.co podcast. Got a chance to talk about how tech companies main pitch changed from “you exchange some surveillance for services” to “we get to spy on you all the time and it’s good, actually.”
Luxury Surveillance (With Chris Gilliard)
Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · 11/24/2025 · 1h 3m
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November 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
finished listening to the episode.
my biggest three takeaways from this talk:
1. just purchased Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology and will be reading it ASAP 🙏
2. @hypervisible.blacksky.app DROP THE PRE-ORDER LINK FOR YOUR BOOK RN 👿👿👿 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
my biggest three takeaways from this talk:
1. just purchased Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology and will be reading it ASAP 🙏
2. @hypervisible.blacksky.app DROP THE PRE-ORDER LINK FOR YOUR BOOK RN 👿👿👿 THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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So very proud of my Brooklyn College colleague Alex Vitale who is an renown expert in policing with his scholarship and especially his famous book:
November 25, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So very proud of my Brooklyn College colleague Alex Vitale who is an renown expert in policing with his scholarship and especially his famous book:
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Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.
"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.
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Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.
Geoff Bennett has more.
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I like this. The scale of our collapse into stagnation. Don't even imagine a Trillion. We'd be... geology.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I like this. The scale of our collapse into stagnation. Don't even imagine a Trillion. We'd be... geology.
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Oh, Tish James case dismissed too. Now Miss Hannigan has to start her orphanage.
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Federal judge dismissed indictments against Letitia James and James Comey | CNN Politics
A federal judge dismissed the indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on Monday.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Oh, Tish James case dismissed too. Now Miss Hannigan has to start her orphanage.
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“President Trump embraced a billionaire’s strategy to try to wring ideological concessions from universities. He blessed another’s role as Harvard University’s emissary for negotiations… Yet another billionaire helped steer cuts at the Department of Education — which a different billionaire leads.”
Wealthy People Have Always Shaped Universities. This Time Is Different.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
“President Trump embraced a billionaire’s strategy to try to wring ideological concessions from universities. He blessed another’s role as Harvard University’s emissary for negotiations… Yet another billionaire helped steer cuts at the Department of Education — which a different billionaire leads.”