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Shawn Graham
@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
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prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […] [bridged from https://scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ] .. more

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h
Doug Ford, screwing over everyone once again. https://archive.ph/uwEHW (requiring a ridiculous two years of Ontario highschool for a medical residency, thus shutting out immigrants.)
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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 13h
You ever think to yourself “but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?”

It turns out that “wear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown” is actually a really reasonable answer.

#portland #portlandfrog #uspol
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
https://gogeomatics.ca/before-its-too-late-tracey-lauriault-on-canadas-data-sovereignty-crisis/

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
Pretty ballsy at the coffee place to have the interac machine programmed with suggested tips of $1, $2, and $3 - on a $3 cup of coffee.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
faffing while waiting for my car to get fixed (spoiler: they made things worse!) I tinkered with an ascii city builder. https://github.com/shawngraham/forumnovum
GitHub - shawngraham/forumnovum: an ascii city builder game for use with my students. riddled with errors and bad assumptions: but that's the point.
an ascii city builder game for use with my students. riddled with errors and bad assumptions: but that's the point. - shawngraham/forumnovum
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Sigh. Car needed a new muffler pipe. Brought it in. Several hours later... "So we torched the gear shift cable..."

Swell.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Government hoping the part timers don't go on strike too. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/conestoga-college-part-time-workers-strike-vote-9.6933147
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d
“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
🇪🇺Your browser's #donottrack signal is now legally binding: As of today, enabling DNT means no more personalized political ads (and no nagging consent banners about it). Keep an eye on Meta & Co. Are they complying? Report any violations! […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Ontario University librarians here: Omni has an API? Documentation somewhere?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 1d
“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Am in a bookstore. In this aisle, a person having a video chat with the audio set extra loud. "I can't hear you say that again"

<Murder ensues. Sorry. Those are the rules .>
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d
Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads: VIVE LA RIBBITSTANCE
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
$600,000 annual salary. Gosh. You'd need a lot of money coming in to pay that out one would assume.

https://archive.ph/BFMHz
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Athena @climatehistories.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 has been awarded to Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights and for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite […]
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AnnaAnthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
#alberta govt smugly stopped tracking class sizes.

Then it cynically changed its funding formula.

Now, they are issues in a teachers' strike.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-teacher-strike-funding-formula-class-size-data-9.6932618
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
A big theme in my history of the Internet class right now is 'how we learned to be online' so I'm watching Hackers and... Man.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Buy it up, there you go https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/dominion-voting-systems-sold

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
This article by two astronomers details many of the points I just talked about and more, and just came out in The Conversation Australia, perfect timing: https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-deliver-sunlight-on-demand-after-dark-can-it-work-and-would-we-want-it-to-264323
A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?
Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The rent-a-cop security at the strike are more often than not talking on their phones than eg taking down license plates, filming altercations and the dangerous driving going on. Some people are using their cars as weapons; it's only a miracle that they haven't actually hit people yet (there […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
you know a gov't is in trouble when it introduces this kind of thing

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-tables-draft-constitution-to-affirm-its-distinct-national-character-premier-says-9.6933153
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
...was looking for an open source CAD program, came across something that looked (at least in search result) promising, and its all about 3d printing guns. Yeah, no.
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."

-- Nick Clegg

#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech
The Verge headline: "Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would 'kill' the AI industry."
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
What can you do? The FCC never opened up a comment period on RO's filing for launch, so there's no official way to protest. They may open it up later? Absolutely no info on that.

DarkSky International is working on a petition to be delivered to RO's misguided investors, I will share that as […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The costs to ecology:

These are too numerous to even try to list.

All life on Earth – including humans, migrating birds, pollinating insects, plankton in the oceans – depends on the natural day-night cycle of light and darkness. Many hundreds of scientific studies document the importance to […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Similar to astronomical observing with a full moon in the sky, it would restrict observations to only the very brightest handful of stars and planets. This would cause the vast majority of astronomy research to be impossible while one or more of these satellites is above the horizon.

Directly […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The costs to astronomy:

Have you noticed how bright the sky is the last few nights with the very bright nearly-full moon? Now imagine a point source 4x brighter, and moving across the sky. That's what they want to do

Astronomy requires dark skies to see faint celestial objects. Due to […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Having thousands of RO satellites in orbit would lead to frequent bright flashes all over
the sky for any observer on the ground. Even millisecond flashes of light at night have
been shown to disrupt human circadian rhythms […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Beams of light sweeping across the sky at night can cause problems for pilots and drivers. It has the potential to be a substantial distraction, and risks disrupting night vision, particularly with multiple beams. This could be risky around airports and could lead to accidents, similar to laser […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
The costs to safety and human health:

Although the ground illumination from the first satellite will be much fainter than the Sun’s, looking at the satellite with binoculars or a telescope could actually damage your eyes, similar to looking at a partial solar eclipse […]
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