Phone doodle: to theatre #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

The initiative, run by the Saudi Heritage Commission, has returned dispersed objects to the National Museum and other collections. Learn more: mola.omeka.net/items/show/2...

CAMEL, University of Chicago #Iran How many years has it been already since I ran the Iraq War & Archaeology project? The more things change, the more they stay the same? (web.archive.org/web/20220320...)

Phone doodle: red, blue and yellow 2 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: double M #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: trendy #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: flaming 2 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Charlotte Salomon (1917-1943), German Jewish artist who created an autobiographical series of paintings while in hiding from the Nazis, until caught and murdered in Auschwitz #womensart #WomensHistoryMonth

Phone doodle: star gate #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

I'm wondering what the oldest work I can think of that I can point at and say, "look, introspection in an individualist way!" Maybe the Epic of Gilgamesh with Gilgamesh's self-doubt and concern with mortality? That gets me to c. 2000 BC and I don't know a lot of anything older than that.

>>I’ve read a lot of short stories about language loss, but this is the first where the language itself is the narrator. Here, a language brought to a new land slumbers and wakes as the few remaining speakers pick it up on and off through their lives. —> augursociety.org/mother-tongue/

>>Didn’t love this graphic novel but sure loved how the full-bleed images resulted in this fore-edge splendor<< disquiet.com/2026/03/15/f...

Phone doodle: red 4 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse. The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:

Phone doodle: fiat #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Almost twenty years after the last helicopter fled Saigon, nearly two decades after the last domino fell, John Balaban reports, "Whatever we left, nothing remains." Try to imagine the countryside without gunships overhead. The bomb craters have been filled, planted with eucalyptus and bamboo. 1/

A cute little clay sheep from a suburb (known today as Diqdiqqah) of ancient Ur

>>One might expect the scent of millennia-old mummified bodies to be off-putting, to say the least. Yet the smell is surprisingly pleasant, “because the ancient Egyptians used so many aromatic compounds, oils and resins that a lot of the original smell still remains,” Strlič says.<<

Phone doodle: glorious #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Tech jobs suck right now. Teaching jobs suck, nursing jobs suck, higher ed really sucks. Non-profit jobs suck in a way that was unimaginable two yrs ago Jobs that were once good are bad; jobs that were never great are worse than ever. Do *all* jobs suck right now? www.patreon.com/posts/152879...

Phone doodle: Straße von Ormuz #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

"The Lagash Archaeological Project has just completed its sixth season of excavation at Tell al-Hiba, an important ancient site in southern Iraq. This site is one of the earliest known cities in the world, dating back over 4,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia. Our team is using the latest

Good thread

Phone doodle: craft #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

It’s one of the relatively quiet tragedies of our social form that we have somehow created a system that dangles the possibility for an impassioned meaningful life on the other side of a random number generator job lottery meat-grinder

Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.

i genuinely do not understand why *anyone* would want a phd if they're trying to outsource their thinking to claude. like, there are no jobs, no work-life balance, no resources (for most of us), and the work gets tougher every year. the thinking is the only fun part, i promise.

Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia

Phone doodle: beautiful blue #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: finely #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: tornado #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.

Classics going down in the West, rising in the East?

Phone doodle: purple green yellow #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: eenenzeventig #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

>>Girsu (modern Tello, in southern Iraq) was one of the principal cities of ancient Sumer and served as the religious capital of the state of Lagash. Continuously occupied from around 5000 to 1750 BCE …<<

Phone doodle: sumptuous 3 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

Phone doodle: excellent #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Phone doodle: dipping #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: on fire #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

>>This gambit is … what the first President Bush did when he encouraged Iraqis to overthrow Saddam Hussein after his armies had been ejected from Kuwait. It’s a punt which signals that the White House will cede control of the situation to forces it can’t control or even well-understand.<<

My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

My new Strange Horizons essay is up! With a deliberately provocative title! WHY ALL SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY WRITERS ARE HISTORIANS Yes, *all* And, no, it isn't just for the reason you think... I've been working toward this one for a while, very excited to share it!

Phone doodle: luxuriant 3 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: yellow and purple #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. how many random people around the world built their identity around US signifiers. the decline of American cultural hegemony is going to have long term consequences we're only beginning to see. new post

'My Wife's Lovers', 1893 painting by Carl Kahler (1856–1906).