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

Phone doodle: the eyes 2 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

This vast 8m figure is known as a Telamon. It was one of many used as anthropomorphic columns to support the Temple of Zeus in Akragas (Agrigento). The temple was started in 480BC but the roof never constructed. It was the largest Doric temple ever built. A model shows how the figures fit in. 📷mine

Read the room and make NoAI your default. And read it again, and dump your duckai completely for good.

Should be default. Needing an add-on to remove an added feature no one wants is dumb as hell

Hey, here’s another idea: how about no AI, period? Others manage to work without it, y’know.

Can you just drop ai period? Thanks

There is a new, open access 🚨 📖 book tracing the global history of Zoroastrianism from antiquity (6th century BCE-7th century CE) to the Middle Ages—and then into modernity. My friend & top Manichaeism scholar @babelalexandria.bsky.social has a chapter as well. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Ik had wat gedachtes bij die affaire in Limburg rond het veronderstelde graf van D'Artagnan: de rol van andere archeologen, de rol van de pers, en de toekomst van de #archeologie. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/05/30/d...

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

How dependent were Belgian investors on Belgian Congo? This chart shows the share of Brussels Stock Exchange dividends paid by Congo-based firms, 1890–1962. By the mid 20th century, colonial firms were paying 30-40% of all dividends on the BSE.

Bonus: I am at this age where senior colleagues are passing on to me items, which they may themselves have inherited. I feel so honoured, but with institutions no longer supporting the storage of papers and books, what are we to do?

If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

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

When you get rid of all the books and periodicals and switch to digital resources, you’ve given up resources you own in exchange for subscription services. Now you’re vulnerable to price increases and the disappearance of essential information. I’ve always been a fan of having MORE choices.

Phone doodle: do not enter #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

>>An international team has mapped more than 1,000 kilometers of canals and ditches in the Ararat Plain, in Armenia. Among them, 134 kilometers could belong to an irrigation network built 2,700 years ago by the kingdom of Urartu, which transformed arid lands into fertile fields.<<

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

John Cole caglecartoons.com/cartoonist/john-cole

Phone doodle: forgotten glory #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

The moments where he says “I” really jump out.

I got my Ph.D in 1994, also not a good time. Worked a few full-time years but mostly put together part-time jobs, did some historical writing for pay (largely drying up even before AI). It's possible but difficult, and there are a lot of things you'll never be able to afford.

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

Phone doodle: uitbundig damast #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Science-fiction and archaeology, my favorite combo :-) Short story. >>Hanna and Dr. Ver’wan walk into the facility ruins. Underneath the dirt, the dust, the ruin of five thousand years’ wear and tear, there are clean lines of metal-alloy and the vague shape of the facility that it had once been.

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

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

New Case: Neo-Assyrian Gold Earrings, contributed by Isabelle Marie Gomez. When the Iraq Museum was looted during the US invasion of Baghdad in April 2003, this ancient pair of earrings disappeared, along with tens of thousands of other artifacts.

Phone doodle: squares and stripes #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Phone doodle: green and blue 13 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

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

Phone doodle: what’s on my mind #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

>>Researchers Manage to Distinguish the Handwriting of Different Hittite Scribes in Cuneiform Tablets with Artificial Intelligence<<

Ik vraag me regelmatig af waarom browsers niet spontaan crashen, gegeven de hoeveelheid rommel die ze moeten doorgeven. Als A.I. werkelijk intelligent zou zijn, hadden de computers allang zelfmoord gepleegd.

Phone doodle: yellow and blue 7 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

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

>>Archaeological Evidence for the Time Traveler — Tia Tashiro<< >>Teresa finds the first site right after she gets back from maternity leave, Daniel snug in a baby sling at her chest. He’s quiet as far as babies go, sleeping through the night already, and she’s grateful: she can’t have him …

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

This is bad but I think this is a place where AI is revealing a pre-existing problem. I think peer review is a good thing and in an ideal world one of the things it would catch is fake citations. In practice that’s really hard under our current system.

Phone doodle: mask 8 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Please also understand, when I am talking about 'global economic shocks' and such, I am not worried about 'line go down.' A global recession is painful in the USA or Europe, but it is *lethal* in developing countries if food or energy become unaffordable.

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

Phone doodle: take-off #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

Genetics, language, culture, and the peoples of the Indian subcontinent aeon.co/essays/ancie...

Phone doodle: horse glamour #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

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

Phone doodle: yam may 33 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

This is both a correct description of the current situation and also very clearly the thing that needs to change. Higher education cannot survive without public support and that will never be forthcoming until we convince a critical mass of the public to support knowledge for its own sake.

A Cuneiform Tablet Workshop Found in Ancient Nineveh Reveals That Assyrian Scribes Never Fired or Carefully Prepared Them