I sometimes wonder if structured deposition helped people deal with trauma in prehistory...

Fascinating art emerging from the archives of Peruvian collections at the British Museum. www.sdcelarbritishmuseum.org/projects/tra...

Nothing is going to improve in Canadian higher education until the political class accepts that we need to make it better rather than cheaper. How will we know they have accepted it? When they are prepared to put institutions ahead of voters and raise tuition.

This keeps being said by those in the industry and yet everyone else keeps promising this will magically get fixed. Just bizarre.

After golden hour 📷Minolta xd11 #believeinfilm #filmphotography

genuinely believe that a large number of political, economic and media elites do not realize that nearly half the voting public did not vote for trump

This one might have worked despite shoddy metering? 📷Minolta xd11 #believeinfilm

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Queen, Pink Floyd, or the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy audio book.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

A few snaps from labour day weekend in Orange County CA with the Minolta xd11 and some Kodak Gold. #believeinfilm #filmphotograph

All this - but also especially in science illustration. Pay for quality work, but also for what is gained in the *process*. Archaeologists that have worked with @kjkillackey.bsky.social, for example, come away having learned their evidential trails much, much better. Say no to AI slop.

It's also making Waterloo Region ground zero for the huge bubble popping.

Just deleted. A bit ashamed I hadn’t done so long ago.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

A friend of mine often quotes what he says is a Korean proverb: The traitor has the best patriot costume

Still getting a handle on the wide 24mm lens 📷Minolta xd11 🎞️ 25-year expired echtachrome slide film #believeinfilm

It's 2025 and Canadian governments don't build housing, they build and bury pipelines and highways.

One of my favorite use cases for Obsidian Bases is custom sidebar views. Here's one I made for "Related notes". It finds notes that have overlapping links and tags with the active note. The notes are sorted by a count of overlaps.

“Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. This finding is based on investigations and extensive evidence,” writes Navi Pillay, the head of a U.N. commission. “It has been corroborated by multiple sources.”

WTF

"Like the McCarthyism that swept through American society in the 1950s, irrational madness dominates American society." South Korean press speaking obvious truths American papers too afraid to publish Unlike U.S. editorial boards, speaks clearly and plainly about Trump administration doing and why

Toronto Union station. 📷Leica m2 #believeinfilm

This is an excellent analysis of what has been happening to post-secondary education in Ontario. It succinctly describes how the tuition cut and freeze by Ford directly lead to the explosion of international students, and how under funded ON universities are. thelocal.to/ontario-post...

Great work here by @anthromac.bsky.social , and science illustrator @kjkillackey.bsky.social. (Compare to the shit AI slop some sites are pushing on this story).

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

Einbinder on saying 'free Palestine' during her Emmys speech: "It is my obligation as a Jewish person to distinguish Jews from the state of Israel. Our religion and our culture is such an important and long-standing institution that is really separate to this sort of ethnonationalist state."

Wrestling is weird. Like really weird. But was a huge hit at Hamilton’s #supercrawl last night. (Sony a7cii)

What is there to be literate about even? You just type words into a box. The literacy bit is about knowing if you're being fed absolute nonsense by the chatbot, which requires subject level expertise. So the LLM is an extra layer of effort. It's all so stupid and wasteful.

Thanks @cadenceweapon.bsky.social - 20 years after I heard your first record, super fun to hear you in the streets of Hamilton.

Beach zen 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm

Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.

Long week. Here is a picture of a bike. 📷Minolta xd11 #believeinfilm

Truth.

Eyes wide open. Genocide.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

🏺Sarah and I recently appeared on the award-winning podcast Ologies, hosted by the amazing Alie Ward, and the episode is now live! Alie invited us to dive deep into the world of clay, ceramics, archaeology and history, and what a conversation it was! www.alieward.com/ologies/cera...

These eulogies are a farce and the places publishing them are no longer vessels of journalism.

Celebrating a hate monger who incited violence as the “right kind of politics” is quite the take.

Just terrific reflections by my mentor, collaborator, and dear friend Ann Stahl. What an impressive and inspiring archaeological career. Worth a read for what matters in our field. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies. No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

Laguna Beach sunset. 📷Rolleiflex 3.5e #believeinfilm #filmphotography #goldenhour

Here’s one for the “blame China” crowd…

A nice piece on recent work by my McMaster colleague Tristan Carter

in these bummer days what you need to get you through is the new Mountain Goats track out tomorrow. yes ok technically it's a song in which two men bury a third with little hope for either of them on the horizon, but little hope isn't none, right? righteo, all aboard! 30tgrs.ffm.to/armiesofthel...

Don't dance around it, don't make jokes about it, don't hedge as if it's merely suggestive of the possibility or we need more evidence to confirm. This is a literal signed confession that the president is a pedophile. He is guilty of that most monstrous of crimes. Say it plainly and directly.

Join me at McMaster! We are hiring an archaeologist scientist with preference (but not limited to) PEB and/or zooarchaeology. Geography open, although preference for North America, especially Eastern North America/Great Lakes region. Applications due November 26th! (Pls share widely.)

All dressed up and nowhere to go. 📷Minolta xd11. #believeinfilm

“And we don't care about the young folks Talkin' 'bout the young style And we don't care about the old folks Talkin' 'bout the old style too” (Peter Bjorn and John)