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"the leading edge of lethality"--I don't recall even Darth Vader or the Death Star head management using this term... NB word to the wise, alcohol reduces testosterone. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...

Chocker block with deadlines so I'm watching the Young Wallander on Netflix. Shot in Lithuania (pretending to be Malmö), all the actors are British or Australian (apart from the lead actor) i.e. NOT Swedish! And they're getting so many Swedish names wrong. Like Malmö! Where they are supposed to be!

Now that the Bayesian Workflow book is physically in the world, I am spending more time again on 3rd edition of Stat Rethinking. Lots of workflow stuff to weave into it. (Yeah I am still just using latex, you quarto kids get off my lawn.)

Killing physical discs is just the next step in diminishing your right to own your videogame library. This is how we reclaim digital ownership. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

In attempting to discover why today one says "Hot as Hades" -beyond confusion as an euphemism for hell when my understanding was "cold and gloomy" - I fell down a rabbit hole of ancient Greek art. Reddit can have nice links after all: www.reddit.com/r/GreekMytho...

The UK AI pushback: 42% of people are deliberately limiting their AI use and 70% of people think it would be difficult or impossible to avoid being exposed to AI even if they wanted to. New report from us at @kings-dfi.bsky.social : www.kcl.ac.uk/news/over-40...

living heritage with a seasoning of salt and sunshine :)

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Sydney’s 1789 smallpox epidemic came from the First Fleet and killed up to 220,000 Indigenous Australians: new research @theconversation.com theconversation.com/sydneys-1789...

Dirty 'button' unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway's last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Did Craig Ferguson, Max Headroom and Inspector Sledge Hammer have a baby?

somebody has talent for naming: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

this is your two week reminder! applications for the 2026/27 Practitioner in Residence cohort are due July 22! Come misuse some things creatively with us! Read the full prompt: drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-... Fill out the application: forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyU...

I commend the journal JOHD for the recommended list of related repositories openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/about#recomm...

We have extended the Games and Archaeological Play call for zines until July 17th! Anyone can submit a zine: you do not need to attend or register for the conference to submit. gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

Legendary video game designer and longtime Sony collaborator Hideo Kojima shares some somber thoughts on the end of physical PlayStation games.

<thinks> has Newscorp finally admitted there is climate change or are their recent articles merely cashing in on clickbait headings?

Right. So the new MS Outlook moved my Notes and only after I managed to find them, they're taking ages to download, if they are there at all. I have about 40 years of simmering rage towards MS Office products and MS keeps reminding me.

Big uni power? News to me, & her National party has billionaire patrons "There is a major issue around elites. There’s been this complicit relationship between big corporates, big universities, and big, lazy governments on both sides, and Australians have had enough." www.news.com.au/finance/work...

We are happy to announce the official return of the ArchaeoGaming Conference hosted by the ArchaeoGaming Collective. This is a 100% virtual event that is free to attend. We are currently accepting presentation submissions until August 16. For more details: archaeogameco.weebly.com/coninfo.html

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

just received a DELL email/advert to purchase a DEKSTOP. I wonder what they have against Dek.

In Australia apparently half of Parliament (Senate and MPs) are female-compare that to America...https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/fact-sheet/the-data-on-women-leaders/

I need to get in on these house of the dragon justifications for interesting tidbits of history theconversation.com/house-of-the...

House of the Dragon: four real historic women who inspired the show. Dragons may be fictional, but the struggle for the throne, influence and legitimacy in House of the Dragons has roots in conflicts that shaped real history. theconversation.com/house-of-the...

My book "Rethinking Virtual Places" (Indiana University Press, 2021) is now free online (thank you IUP) publish.iupress.indiana.edu/projects/ret...

Time for another ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Bodleian Library MS. Michael 619, f. 130r

You are *not prepared* for the noise that comes out of a mountain lion cub. Sound up! 🔊

Interesting "Here, the regime of the institution as guarantor for the objects' authenticity..clash with the regime of aggregated trust in an information process where it is important to know who the producer is" asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Would be an excellent name for a new Parliament Building.

I would never dare say Egyptologists can get obsessed about their discipline. But I have noticed some appear to have mummy issues.

On the remarkable Biodiversity Heritage Library, & the threats to its funding: "The BHL is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living & lost supplied by the world’s leading museums & universities. Now its future is in doubt" www.theguardian.com/environment/... #History

Should I tell people Australian-based researchers can join future EU applications? Too late! Good luck!

That morning you realise you have promised to write and review lots of stuff but you just want to wear flannel, plant more tiny fruit trees and have lots of cool little walks through forgotten places...

The Met Museum has 3D models to download (.gltf and .usd). I was particularly taken with this model www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

The Museum of Cultural History @uio.no is hiring a PhD candidate in Nordic #Archaeology, linked to the museum’s research on the #VikingAge. As icing on the cake, you’ll be working in the environment of the new Museum of the Viking Age, part of MCH, opening in 2027! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Is Macron getting taller or the other shrinking? They look basically the same height in this Washington post article! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

@archarise.bsky.social hey I just came across your last year TIPC blogpost - and did you know I actually am/have been involved in making parts of games about the past? But my first computer one was in the 1980s. So I'll try and rumble up something a little more uptodate. Oh and I made one at TIPC1!

Only just discovered dillinger.io for transferring markdown to word quickly, free, no signin, nice!

The #EAA is recruiting for the following positions: General Editor, European Journal of Archaeology (term commencing September 2026) Application deadline: 10 August 2026 1/

Have a Quest 2 or 3 handy? Time to travel to virtual Neolithic Malta and take a survey! tarxienvr.scss.tcd.ie care of Jonathan Barbara (www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-.... I am in meetings on holiday on the other side of the world from where I am normally supposed to be so I can't visit it .. yet.

today I heard someone say we can't talk with plants, well, maybe they can talk to us www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KAn...

Doom jazz, dark jazz, and noir metal. I have so much to learn!

In case you missed this 2024 story: Scientists are building FROG SAUNAS, and it's letting one species of endangered frogs rid themselves of a deadly fungal pathogen. Also, they appear to just, like, enjoy it. Frog sauna. Or 'frauna'. Or, alternatively, 'hopspital'.