Brent Holbért
@ancient-amazon.bsky.social
Adventurer, photographer, writer, nonconformist, debunker, freedom junkie, archaeology enthusiast, questioner of all things, and critter lover. + I think I found ruins in the Amazon on Google Earth.
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Brent Holbért
@ancient-amazon.bsky.social
· Jun 18
3 different features + 1-color shot of a 15-meter-wide stairway from the possible site that I entered into the OpenAI Z Challenge to find ruins in the Brazilian Amazon.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.
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Andy Warhol looks a scream…
Andy’s 97th birthday today, here at the Factory with Lou, 1966.
📸 Stephen Shore
Andy’s 97th birthday today, here at the Factory with Lou, 1966.
📸 Stephen Shore
August 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Andy Warhol looks a scream…
Andy’s 97th birthday today, here at the Factory with Lou, 1966.
📸 Stephen Shore
Andy’s 97th birthday today, here at the Factory with Lou, 1966.
📸 Stephen Shore
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Here’s some dog content to temporarily distract you from the mess happening in the world
June 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Here’s some dog content to temporarily distract you from the mess happening in the world
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pause your scrolling and bide a moment, weary poster
June 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
pause your scrolling and bide a moment, weary poster
All my data, locations, related studies, and images on the potential lost ancient city in the Amazon is now public.
AI assessments for the OpenAI Z Challenge are also included.
I chartered a plane to fly over the site in August to film & photograph it.
Here is the website
ancientamazon.com
AI assessments for the OpenAI Z Challenge are also included.
I chartered a plane to fly over the site in August to film & photograph it.
Here is the website
ancientamazon.com
Ancient Amazon
Join the digital dig: Decode patterns and uncover lost Amazon cities with AI, fired-clay theory, satellite leads, and geospatial tools.
ancientamazon.com
June 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
All my data, locations, related studies, and images on the potential lost ancient city in the Amazon is now public.
AI assessments for the OpenAI Z Challenge are also included.
I chartered a plane to fly over the site in August to film & photograph it.
Here is the website
ancientamazon.com
AI assessments for the OpenAI Z Challenge are also included.
I chartered a plane to fly over the site in August to film & photograph it.
Here is the website
ancientamazon.com
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This is a pretty interesting hypothesis for why the Earth is absorbing more solar radiation.
Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption - Tselioudis - 2025 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption - Tselioudis - 2025 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption
Satellite observations show that in the past 24 years the worlds storm cloud zones have been contracting at a rate of 1.5%–3% per decade This contraction allows more solar radiation to reach the ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This is a pretty interesting hypothesis for why the Earth is absorbing more solar radiation.
Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption - Tselioudis - 2025 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption - Tselioudis - 2025 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution
Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature
Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...
www.nature.com
June 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution
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We now know what Denisovans looked like, thanks to DNA analysis that proved Homo longi (the Harbin cranium) is indeed Denisovan! 🧪🏺
1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis
Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.
www.livescience.com
June 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We now know what Denisovans looked like, thanks to DNA analysis that proved Homo longi (the Harbin cranium) is indeed Denisovan! 🧪🏺
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About 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests, our species learned to live just about anywhere. Later, that ability helped our ancestors expand from Africa across the world. Here’s my story on the human niche [Gift link] nyti.ms/3ZBc7ID
When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere
About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.
nyti.ms
June 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
About 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests, our species learned to live just about anywhere. Later, that ability helped our ancestors expand from Africa across the world. Here’s my story on the human niche [Gift link] nyti.ms/3ZBc7ID
3 different features + 1-color shot of a 15-meter-wide stairway from the possible site that I entered into the OpenAI Z Challenge to find ruins in the Brazilian Amazon.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.
June 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
3 different features + 1-color shot of a 15-meter-wide stairway from the possible site that I entered into the OpenAI Z Challenge to find ruins in the Brazilian Amazon.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.
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I have to say that the inclusion of an AI illustration for an archaeology article makes me doubt the veracity of the data.
I'm pretty open to creative interpretation but the horrific dollification of Neanderthals is unhelpful.
I'm pretty open to creative interpretation but the horrific dollification of Neanderthals is unhelpful.
Kids will be kids: The first #fossil collectors, apparently, were ... #Neanderthals (at least that's what finds from the Mousterian levels in Prado Vargas Cave in northern Spain seem to suggest).
archaeologymag.com/2024/11/nean...
archaeologymag.com/2024/11/nean...
Neanderthals were the first fossil collectors, new evidence from Prado Vargas Cave reveals
Upper Cretaceous marine fossils discovered in the Prado Vargas Cave in Spain suggest Neanderthals may have collected them for reasons beyond practicality
archaeologymag.com
November 26, 2024 at 10:16 AM
I have to say that the inclusion of an AI illustration for an archaeology article makes me doubt the veracity of the data.
I'm pretty open to creative interpretation but the horrific dollification of Neanderthals is unhelpful.
I'm pretty open to creative interpretation but the horrific dollification of Neanderthals is unhelpful.
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This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings.
Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.
Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.
Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.
Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.
Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.
Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.
May 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings.
Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.
Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.
Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.
Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.
Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.
Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.
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New Discovery:
Stone Age Seafaring to Malta🏺🧪
Conversation with Drs. Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social and Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social about their archaeological investigations and their new paper
Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
Stone Age Seafaring to Malta🏺🧪
Conversation with Drs. Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social and Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social about their archaeological investigations and their new paper
Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
New Discovery: Stone Age Seafaring to Malta with Dr Eleanor Scerri and Huw Groucutt
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
New Discovery:
Stone Age Seafaring to Malta🏺🧪
Conversation with Drs. Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social and Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social about their archaeological investigations and their new paper
Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
Stone Age Seafaring to Malta🏺🧪
Conversation with Drs. Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social and Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social about their archaeological investigations and their new paper
Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...
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I dunno the entire "A.i." industry seems bad.
I have good news for people looking for the example that best illustrates the current VC/ai landscape.
Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to 'cheat on everything' | TechCrunch
On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin "Roy" Lee announced he’s raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures for his startup,
techcrunch.com
April 21, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I dunno the entire "A.i." industry seems bad.
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Currently, it’s not much more a hint of life as the lottery ticket in my back pocket is a hint of my having a million quid by Monday (15/n)
April 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Currently, it’s not much more a hint of life as the lottery ticket in my back pocket is a hint of my having a million quid by Monday (15/n)
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Properly mind-blowing event yesterday east of Annapurna II (NE face visible here, 7,937 m, Nepal)! 😱
Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and the absence of snow at the moment 🧊
The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️🌪️
Source www.tiktok.com/@lakpasherpi...
Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and the absence of snow at the moment 🧊
The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️🌪️
Source www.tiktok.com/@lakpasherpi...
April 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Properly mind-blowing event yesterday east of Annapurna II (NE face visible here, 7,937 m, Nepal)! 😱
Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and the absence of snow at the moment 🧊
The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️🌪️
Source www.tiktok.com/@lakpasherpi...
Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and the absence of snow at the moment 🧊
The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️🌪️
Source www.tiktok.com/@lakpasherpi...
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Apes Freaked Out When I Spoke Their Language
YouTube video by Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约
youtu.be
March 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Astronaut Returns From ISS With Annoying Space Accent
theonion.com/astrona...
theonion.com/astrona...
March 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Astronaut Returns From ISS With Annoying Space Accent
theonion.com/astrona...
theonion.com/astrona...
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Metal BEFORE pottery!? Someone needs to invent a Time Machine to go back and remind these uppity foragers of the ladder of civilisation!
New evidence for copper metallurgy in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B.
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-... 🏺
How Anatolia’s last hunter-gatherers pioneered copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago - Türkiye Today
New findings in Anatolia show that hunter-gatherers were experimenting with copper metallurgy 9,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of early technology.
www.turkiyetoday.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Metal BEFORE pottery!? Someone needs to invent a Time Machine to go back and remind these uppity foragers of the ladder of civilisation!
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Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says
CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.
arstechnica.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.
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Bruce Willis voice: "Learn to code, they told me. You'll have a good career."
Closes lighter and racks machine gun.
Closes lighter and racks machine gun.
March 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Bruce Willis voice: "Learn to code, they told me. You'll have a good career."
Closes lighter and racks machine gun.
Closes lighter and racks machine gun.
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Lizard cast aways 🧪🦎
The mystery of how iguanas crossed the Pacific Ocean may be solved
The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.
www.sciencenews.org
March 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Lizard cast aways 🧪🦎
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Tracks in the ground in New Mexico are thought to have been made by people pulling long pieces of wood laden with goods 22,000 years ago.
22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles
Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive vehicles to transport things
www.newscientist.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Tracks in the ground in New Mexico are thought to have been made by people pulling long pieces of wood laden with goods 22,000 years ago.
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“Not a 'holy molar' at the Art Institute of Chicago after all." 😆🦷
Art Institute’s elaborately displayed tooth, thought to belong to John the Baptist, turns out not to
Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th century, too young to belong to Jesus' sainted contemporary. Experts say th...
www.wbez.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“Not a 'holy molar' at the Art Institute of Chicago after all." 😆🦷