As an actual, trained, PhD-having neuroscientist, hearing the “what is consciousness” discourse on this site makes me want to quit the entire internet.

Uplifting

A reminder that destroying historic/heritage sites is a war crime. It is, to put it bluntly, a terrorist tactic, deployed by deplorable groups such as the Taliban (Bamiyan Buddhas) and ISIS (Palmyra).

This is how cryptids are born

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out, focused on the closing of humanities depts. & museums. @otavano.bsky.social discusses the U. of Ottawa, @mokersel.bsky.social on the DePaul Art Museum, @meirazk.bsky.social & @vox-magica.bsky.social on shuttering religious studies depts, & Justin Vorhis on U. Iowa.

Funny thing is when you only ever cite one book, that's simply poor scholarship.

Reposting for later review (when the bar clears out enough to hear it)

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If they'll narc on you for spray paint, they won't hesitate to rat when you're resisting authoritarians.

Just to be clear, this is extremely uncool. Context is crucial to all archaeology, but ESPECIALLY petroglyphs. Once displaced, important properties of this heritage can no longer be reconstructed.

Although maintaining the status quo doesn't feel like much of a victory, it is also likely the limit of the court's power and the best possible outcome. www.yoursourceone.com/news/regiona...

Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs 🏺🧪 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Suggests the first hunter-gatherers arriving in Europe already developed a system of intentional and conventional signs on mobile artifacts.

*sigh* 🎣🐟 apnews.com/article/snak...

Stop the dependency, liberate yourself 🐧 youtu.be/lm51xZHZI6g?...

Ketchikan, Alaska. #ForestFriday #Scape #Photography #EastCoastKin

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The date for the next No Kings Day is set. But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵

I did the math so you don't have to. 2m 30s < 9h 37m 59s. Proof. #titanic #nauticalhistory

Nero: hold my beer

Unless I am sorely mistaken about the rotation rate of the Earth, 2m 30s is a far shorter span of time than "overnight." Although supposing this is in the Arctic Circle, the time of year (and whether we define "night" by rotational position vs. apparent sunset) becomes relevant.

He actually did it. The pilot of Air Force One told Donald Trump if he didn’t shut the fuck up, he turned the plane around and go home. Probably 🤷🏻‍♂️

Ea-Nāsir levels of historically public embarrassment

Elon Musk's DOGE was not a failure - for the people behind Elon. Sure, it cut no costs and ruined Elon's reputation, but it exfiltrated data from every federal agency and delivered it to Peter Thiel's Palantir, which then created the app ICE agents are using to target immigrant neighborhoods. 1/

Paper published

Fuck too real

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. takes a spin on Fire Island, New York in 1967 Happy #BicycleBirthday, Dr. King! January 15 (1929-1968)

tl;dr: real archaeology doesn't fit classic game mechanics well, but there's no reason a faithful representation can't be done! The article is actually quite good so I encourage a read. For my 2-cents, I think archaeogaming from a perspective of answering questions as opposed to "shoot-&-loot" works

Having a hell of a time preparing this presentation on federal cultural resource regulations while the entire regulatory framework is being dismantled by the fascist federal government itself. Like teaching a cooking class while the kitchen is burning down around us

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

This happened in our neighborhood. Literally. We're safe, upset, and deeply unsettled. US federal agents shot two people in Portland, police says ground.news/article/us-f...

The difference between the recent WA flooding and the current floods in Marin is that the people affected in WA were at least mostly rural/outdoorsy people with some basic life skills, whereas most people in Marin are useless rich techies that can't buy their own groceries... it's gotta be CHAOS lol

This is one of many reasons that I love getting to work on salmon habitat restoration projects for a Tribe...rivers really make you appreciate the agency of the land ❤️🏞️

I've never written the word "dick" so many times in an official report. IT'S IN THE NAME OF A MOUNTAIN OKAY #archaeology #professional

One of the things I love about Arendt is that through observation and insight, she managed to piss off just about everyone. She remains a role model for observation and critical thinking, despite a world full of the very same foolishness she warned us about.

Randall must've seen me at work today

Someone might want to check my math, but I'm pretty sure we're in the realm of 2*10^2 greater than the threshold mass. The real question is how tenuous is the atmosphere inside the trailer the moment before it implodes into a singularity?

Spacious houseboat with ample garage space for that off-grid living. Plenty of room for entertaining guests. Moorage not included.

Someone please school me on ways to detect wood-that-once-was. I do find that indirect evidence of woodworking can be underreported, but tbf checking margins of shell fragments for use wear (as an example) is not the most intuitive. youtu.be/ftZuAzua5Ak?...

Construction work in Lisbjerg Denmark led to the accidental discovery of a Viking-era site, kicking off an archaeological excavation that would reveal 30 noble burials from the reign of King Harold Bluetooth. Yes, THAT Bluetooth (as in the namesake for how your headset plays wirelessly) f24.my/BFtd

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? Almost all archaeology happening in the US is done as part of the state/federal environmental review process (and is currently being defunded/undermined by the fed govt)

Rio Tinto, AKA international wrecking balls.

Good article laying out how the administration is stripping cultural resource protections 🧪🏺

Empty lands: How 🏺 #archaeological tropes, from "social collapse" to "abandonment" perpetuate (settler) #colonialism. A view from the U.S. Southwest - and beyond, by N. C. Laluk and J. Aguilar: www.sapiens.org/archaeology/... via sapiens.org

Maritime archaeology is fundamental to cultural revival and a sustainable future #fundmyresearch #gimmegrantsplz www.abc.net.au/news/science...

San Pedro, CA's future in a few short centuries arkeonews.net/city-swallow...

A boat is a hole in the water into which you funnel grants and grad students www.newsweek.com/archaeologis...

And rock art. YOU'RE obsessed with rock art, too. phys.org/news/2023-07...

Pfft I'm not obsessed with boats, YOU'RE obsessed with boats 😤 www.livescience.com/archaeology/...