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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 […]

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Meeting a new person, coffeeshop. I write, "I'm the bald guy in the corner in the red shirt" Just about hit send.

Then read the autocorrected text:

"I'm the naked guy...."

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Wraithe @wraithe.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h
For those who celebrate
Promotional poster for the first annual WKRP Thanksgiving drop showing helicopters flying over the city skyline witb running people with turkeys arrayed underneath the helicopter The helicopters trailing a banner that says “radio personality Les Nessman reporting live!” November 22, 1978 “as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly”

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h
If it's going to cost serious money to comply with the law, go ahead with the plan and fight it in court. Screw you Doug.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/bill-60-ontario-bike-lane-ottawa-cancel-9.6993815

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Anna Anthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
#quebec #caq government to table bill banning public prayer, including prayer rooms in public institutions such as cegeps, colleges and universities.

Rights experts, Catholic bishops and other religious denominations file concerns & court cases over erosion of human and Constitutional rights […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
article screenshots, from this am and this afternoon, showing the difference. curious.
the article as first published, showing the cbc reporting something chatgpt produced as if it somehow matters. basically, it wrote, ‘it depends’ same article, but now the chat gpt stuff has been excised.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
we’ve got a new cider happening, featuring oak aging. we design a new label, and then send it and samples of the cider itself to quebec city for approval (everything from using the correct words to describe the level of carbonation, alcohol, residual sugar, to the size of fonts, french […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
oh ho! it's been updated, and all the gpt shit's been removed. Curious.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Pixel phone. I've turned off all ai shit I can find, but still some persists- in the messages app, should a photo be shared, a nano banana icon appears with the invocation 'Remix!' and i cannot find where to stop this. Settings for this app set to gemini off. Argh.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
why the ever loving fuck does this story devote a paragraph to what chatgpt says??

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/can-you-see-newfoundland-from-cape-breton-9.6991525?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
stellantis taking the piss
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/stellantis-canada-government-contracts-committee-brampton-9.6991997

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@stefan ah thank you!

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
panicked email from an MA student, who was using a drag-n-drop webeditor for some AR service, to build an experience they were going to deploy as part of a public history thing. I suggested Canvas might be their best bet: https://developer.playcanvas.com/tutorials/?tags=ar Other suggestions?
Tutorials | PlayCanvas Developer Site
PlayCanvas Tutorials
developer.playcanvas.com

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Anna Anthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
“In northern #quebec, an Indigenous-owned telecom company is bringing cell service to an area the length of Germany, as part of a broader push to connect #Canada’s many dead zones on rural roads and highways.
Eeyou Mobility, a #Cree-led telecom formed to serve an area mainly populated by […]
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AlsoPaisleyCat @alsopaisleycat.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
An unexpected report this morning that one of the few schools of craft brewing in North America is relocating from Chicago to Montréal.

Taking into account the challenges of moving to a Francophone jurisdiction in another country that itself is experiencing a reduction in the cap of […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
….”noooooooo! donnnn’t!” he yelled ineffectually as cat puking sounds emanated from the corner.

But the Cat did.

“oh noooooooo! Don’t!” he yelled ineffectually as the dog came to investigate.

But the Dog did.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
“ The constitution would also assert Quebec’s autonomy by unilaterally amending the Canadian Constitution, abolishing the lieutenant-governor and giving the province input on the choice of Supreme Court of Canada judges and senators.” […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Thoughts Brought To You By Shawn Sitting With A Stack of Paper Notebooks and A Computer In A Godforsaken Tim Hortons In The Snow

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
...It's just a shittonne of stuff to read and work through. I gotta figure out a more sustainable way of doing this, if only for my own sake. But I figure, if I can teach them/show them how to read and make sense of things, and how those thoughts they have while reading *actually count as […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
...and I hold on to that. Some students show real growth in this. Others do not. We've done 5 of them, and in my original vision, we'd have done 2 more. But I'm going to use that final block of time to show them how to move from this tool to finding things that speak to a question, using those […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
i built assessment in this class around writing historiographical precis/ research memo combos for the readings, using a model I pinched from Chad Black. https://hist1900a.netlify.app/docs/a-research-memo-pr%C3%A9cis/ These were all done by hand, in class. Returning feedback on them is […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/anger-still-simmering-in-western-quebec-over-doctor-pay-law-9.6989300

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
caveats: it's been a long time since I did any meaningful epigraphy.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Machines Reading Latin Epigraphy

...in which I try to retrain/fine-tune a spaCy model on Latin inscriptions There is a lot of Roman epigraphic data online; the EDH is a great source for this. But none of the databases (at least, the ones that I have looked at) seem to provide a version with […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
bondi's people made errors? https://ottawacitizen.com/news/world/luigi-mangiones-death-penalty-case-shouldnt-be-tossed-u-s-prosecutors-say?tbref=hp
Luigi Mangione’s death penalty case shouldn’t be tossed, U.S. prosecutors say
Mangione’s lawyers claim Bondi didn’t properly weigh evidence that might argue against the death sentence.
ottawacitizen.com

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 4d
I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips
And smell you in my clothes
Cinnamon and sugary
And softly spoken lies
You never know just how to look
Through other people's eyes
The pope, crooning into a microphone with cardinals and people in suits all around

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d
I will keep this simple:
Fuck off doofus.
sincerely,Canada
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
GOP lawmaker demands $300B in defense dues from Canada
Canada defends NATO commitment as forward progress at 'breakneck' speed
www.politico.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Rocking the chats with Practical Necromancy for Beginners, per Amazon:

#812,492 in Books
#1,179 in Archaeology (Books)
#3,244 in Artificial Intelligence

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/whooping-cranes-were-almost-extinct-until-canadian-ornithologist-george-archibald-learned-to-dance-with-them-1.7476788

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
lb - anglophone quebecers already are 100% quebecers. how about you treat as such, you pompous twat. ah but wait; you only get to be a 100% quebecer if you support his party/separation. and even if you did, you’d still not get the 100 because after all: anglophone.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 5d
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.

www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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