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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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Ev Delen @evdelen.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11h
It's telling that the constituency office for the Minister in charge of Child Pornography Dissemination - that is to say, the minister who is explicitly refusing to even endorse investigating Xitter over their generation of CSAM - is sending 100% of calls to […]

[Original post on mstdn.ca]
Contact Details for Evan Solomon, the Minister of "Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation" (that is to say, the Minister of Strung Together Buzz Words) Email: evan.solomon@parl.gc.ca Hill Office: House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0A6 Telephone: 613-992-1377 Fax: 613-992-1383 Constituency Office: 409 Parliament street Toronto, Ontario M5A 3A1 Telephone: 416-972-2030

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h
re last boost, it’s not for nothing that i called the book practical necromancy

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
got the van running, via a boost. it has a new battery (two months ago). but there’s always something lurking in the electricals… you never know what’ll happen any given trip. 2011 model year. try to fix? sunk cost fallacy?arrrggh i hate this shit

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Hey #forkiverse people, and everyone else who has joined us recently!

You might be just learning about the thing that makes fediverse special, that it's made up of many communities spread across many servers running different platform.

Now, I won't […]

[Original post on stefanbohacek.online]
A chart showing the breakdown of fediverse servers I am connected to. Each server is represented by a rectangle with its size corresponding to how many users I am connected to on that server. The top 10 servers with most connections are highlighted in pinkish color, the rest are varying shades of gray. The top 10 servers are listed alongside of the data breakdown: mastodon.social: 882 connections (19.7%) mstdn.social: 135 connections (3.0%) hachyderm.io: 132 connections (3.0%) mastodon.online: 98 connections (2.2%) fosstodon.org: 88 connections (2.0%) infosec.exchange: 84 connections (1.9%) stefanbohacek.online: 70 connections (1.6%) indieweb.social: 59 connections (1.3%) mastodon.world: 57 connections (1.3%) techhub.social: 44 connections (1.0%)

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@sauterne.bsky.social thank you for the headsup

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Anna Anthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
‘Cancel your tickets’: Calls grow to boycott US-hosted #fifa World Cup over #trump admin

“Would you have gone to watch the Olympics in Nazi Germany in 1936?” asked Pekka Kallioniemi, a Finnish social media analyst with a focus on propaganda and disinformation, in a social media post on X.

“If […]
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mastodon.social

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Testing a new cider aromatisée... @ihember pretty, yes?

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
I suppose trying to explain how Mercator projection works, to Maga types, is a lost cause

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
and before you freak out, it runs on an air gapped raspberry pi and is basically a live updating histogram of words spoken.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Act of vandalism by Algonquin College, and a dereliction of duty of the province for getting us to this point.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/algonquin-college-perth-campus-closing-campaign-save-9.7039169

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
this would be kinda neat to have running during a seminar, etc

https://evanking.io/posts/summarizer/
A private ambient listener for homes and offices
An ePaper display shows the most common words overheard from nearby conversations. I wrapped up my PhD recently. It’s in “Electrical and Computer Engineering”, though it’s more descriptive to say that I spent my four years of graduate school working in “Ubiquitous Computing” or ubicomp. Ubicomp researchers aim to make technology that “fit[s] the human environment” rather than forcing humans to adapt themselves to environments dominated by obtrusive technology. Established by the late Mark Weiser at Xerox PARC in the early nineties, ubicomp has philosophical roots: Weiser was strongly influenced by the idea of “entanglement”, which suggests that humans are inextricably linked to (and influenced by) their surroundings.
evanking.io

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🦄 🅃🅁🄰🄽🅂🄸🄲🄾🅁🄽 🏳️‍⚧️ @transicorn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Fun Fact for Canadians:

You house two ICE Field offices

https://www.ice.gov/field-office/toronto

https://www.ice.gov/field-office/montreal

#ice #canada #montreal #toronto #elbowsup
Toronto
Consulate Tel: 1-416-595-1700 Post Mailing Address: Consulate General of the United States 360 University Avenue Toronto, ON M5G 1S4 Canada (+0 EST)
www.ice.gov

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
“Basic income acts like venture capital for regular people” … i like that frame.
https://www.scottsantens.com/the-200-year-experiment-how-a-privileged-basic-income-in-brazil-proves-we-can-afford-to-be-universal/
The 200-Year Experiment: How a 'Privileged' Basic Income in Brazil Proves We Can Afford to Be Universal
From $500 to $15,000 a Month: How Decades of Data Prove That an Unconditional Basic Income Guarantee Fuels Ambition Instead of Laziness What if I told you that the Portuguese Empire accidentally ran one of the most comprehensive basic income experiments in human history? Not a one-year or two-year
www.scottsantens.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
@elotroalex.bsky.social i'll be interested to see what you get up to.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
"When models interact without human input, what emerges resembles an archaeological reveal, as the materiality of alignment practices becomes visible through their malfunction. This makes phenomena like this valuable for critical analysis as it demonstrates how computational systems encode […]
Original post on scholar.social
scholar.social

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
#dh A version of YaleDH's pixplot tool & image corpus similarity visualizer that runs on python 3.12, also extended to generate network edges, nodes for a similarity graph. Gist here with run-in-colab button https://gist.github.com/shawngraham/2882ab859a20062f0b34a7efca6f402b
A version of YaleDH's pixplot tool & image corpus similarity visualizer that runs on python 3.12, also extended to generate network edges, nodes for a similarity graph
A version of YaleDH's pixplot tool & image corpus similarity visualizer that runs on python 3.12, also extended to generate network edges, nodes for a similarity graph - pixplot-using-pytho...
gist.github.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
No Plato for you
https://boingboing.net/2026/01/07/texas-am-deems-plato-unnecessary-for-approved-thought.html

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
[Human remains, theft]

I expect he was probably going to sell them...

"Hundreds of human skulls and "decomposing torsos" found in Pennsylvania man's basement" https://boingboing.net/2026/01/09/hundreds-of-human-skulls-and-decomposing-torsos-found-in-pennsylvania-mans-basement.html

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Had my first business of history seminar yesterday. And yes there was a significant fraction who thought they'd signed up for a history of business, but they're prepared to give it a shot.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
LB, not unexpected, when a particular community is constantly demonized in political discourse in the province

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
@literaturegeek.bsky.social ah thanks folks! right back atcha!

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
ubisoft unionbusting
https://montrealgazette.com/business/weeks-after-unionizing-ubisoft-pulls-the-plug-on-halifax-studio

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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 3d
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members of the MAIA cost action, posing on the stairs of Kings Manor

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
scotiabank into the sea.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/news/scotiabank-ceo-trump-western-hemisphere-dominance

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Hey fun!

Did you know the serpentine belt can just drop out of a car?

Ask me how I know!*

*Don't ask.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Ruhroh

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/dog-chewing-heated-ski-glove-sparks-fire-in-orleans-home-9.7038460

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Anna Anthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
The same firm ran a campaign to save #cbc — and Canada Proud's push to defund it

“Evidence has now emerged that they were posted by the same strategic communications firm: Mobilize Media Group.

The contact phone number for the Canadian Media Guild’s ad campaign leads to Noah Alter, a Senior […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
“submit this fucker and let me move on with my life…” he thought, pressing the button

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Distant Viewer Explorer - https://distantviewing.org/dvexplorer/ excellent browser based exploration of visual data
Distant Viewing Explorer
distantviewing.org

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 5d
Anyway, rather than getting angry at lazy regime apologia (from a Canadian paper, no less) go read some good local reporting instead. racketmn.com/ice-shooting...
'Get the Fuck Out of Minneapolis' - Racket
Plus local politicians respond to the ICE killing of Renee Nicole Good and what you can do to help.
racketmn.com