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Shawn Graham
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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 · 1h
Every day I check the front pages, looking for an obituary.

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Thomas Sibley @trs.metasocial.com.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Without going down the rabbit hole myself yet, is there prior art out there about transforming one QR code into another via a minimum edit distance?

Thinking along the lines of: imagine there's a QR code out there you want to "enhance" and you're equipped with a sharpie and white-out pen […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h
Greetings from the very cold market stall
A box of hard cider

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
stupid ford https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/ottawa-future-toronto
Ottawa's future should not be decided by Toronto's new rules | Opinion
When decisions about purely local matters are made at Queen’s Park, not City Hall, political accountability is diminished. | Opinion
ottawacitizen.com

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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 1d
Got to flip through @rondagrizzle.bsky.social's reviewer's copy & this book looks great—smart honest digital humanities understanding "failure" as useful & often necessary part of iterative, creative, experimental research (failures & methods/goals, not ethics/people) +

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Cool

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2502898-we-can-finally-hear-the-long-hidden-music-of-the-stone-age/
We can finally hear the long-hidden music of the Stone Age
Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric rituals to life
www.newscientist.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Well done m. Legault

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/thousands-of-outaouais-residents-could-lose-their-doctor-next-year-as-doctors-look-to-leave-the-region-9.7004285

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Having Dr. Amanda Montague be our postdoctoral colleague in community engaged DH has been one of the highlights of working around here lately! See what #carleton's StudioDH initiative has been up to under her leadership: https://carleton.ca/studiodh/ #dh
StudioDH - StudioDH
StudioDH has been created thanks to a $2.2M gift from a generous Carleton donor. This donation supports StudioDH activities and related experiential learning through the creation of three funds: a Student Experience Fund, which will provide students with opportunities to learn from experts in the field and network with peers from other institutions by attending […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
>140 students in the class; gave them the exam question today, gave them the whole period to talk with me and the TAs, ask for clarifications, get started on answering it, etc.

Alas. Very many fewer turned up than I had hoped.

A lot of people are gonna turn up at the exam and try to do this […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
From the leopard eating our faces file, this opening sentence:

"The architect of Alberta's politician recall legislation says it was never meant to be used as a political weapon" […]
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Stefan Bohacek @stefan.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #theweb #otd #onthisday #history
A photograph of a Daily Mail newspaper article from December 5, 2000, with the headline "Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'". The article includes a cropped photo showing hands typing on a keyboard in front of a computer displaying a website.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
if the university offered something like this… https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/government-early-retirement-notices
Federal government issues nearly 70,000 early-retirement notices to public servants
Age-eligibility rules for retirement have been lowered and what amounts to $1.5 billion in incentives are being offered.
ottawacitizen.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
i shoulda gone to #ff2025

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
LB fox, henhouse

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Sigh.... https://charlatan.ca/carleton-passes-impartiality-policy/
But we've got great students
https://charlatan.ca/students-protest-carleton-impartiality-policy/

But now it's verboten for eg a department to say, as a department, "we disagree".
BREAKING: Board of Governors passes impartiality policy - The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper
Carleton's Board of Governors voted to approve the controversial Institutional Impartiality Policy in a meeting Tuesday.
charlatan.ca

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 3d
Kateryna Rashevska, a legal expert from the Ukrainian Regional Center for Human Rights, reveals the existence of North Korean-run concentration camps for Ukrainian children abducted by the Russian invaders.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Sure wish my office window could close.

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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Hey Guardian, why don't you report on my 'digital vanity project' -- 3 months work supported by the SLV to experiment with ways of helping people explore place based collections. https://slv.wraggelabs.com/
Experiments with SLV place-based collections
slv.wraggelabs.com

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Correlation, causation etc, but this term I chose to take the train to campus every teaching day over driving and I've lost ten pounds. I stand the whole time, reading novels on my phone, then have a walk across campus in the morning and back again in the afternoon. I witness little human dramas […]
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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Trying out LLM Tool https://github.com/antoinelemor/LLM_Tool ("a research-friendly pipeline") - I like the text interface, which exposes the options nicely and saves every configuration choice as you work through the steps to set up LLM-assisted classification of research materials (with local […]
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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
A Nativity display at a church in Massachusetts is sparking a debate after swapping Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus for a sign that reads "ICE was here."

https://www.wpri.com/new-england/massachusetts/ice-was-here-massachusetts-church-displays-message-in-nativity-scene/

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
...downside: I now have a stack of notebooks that students have not/will not pick up. I lug them back and forth to class... I had asked everyone to get those slim hilroy notebooks for $1.25 from the dollar store, anticipating that I would end up with a stack but at least they'd be slim and light […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
"At the end of the day, most people do not give a shit about Ned Kelly’s rotating three-dimensional helmet,” they said, referring to a recent digital history project." […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
New from Damien Huffer & Evie Handby: Investigating Online Heritage Crime
New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HufferInvestigating
Investigating Online Heritage Crime: New Directions, New Technologies, Emerging Markets | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com

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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4d
C'est clair que la proportion des Montréalais qui parle le #français à la maison est en declin, mais la raison n'est pas parce que l'anglais monte (il est stable), c'est parce qu'il y a plus des personnes qui y parlent une autre langue. Si les enfants ou les petits-enfants de ces personnes […]
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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4d
« À peine nommé ministre de la Culture et de l'Identité canadienne et ministre responsable des Langues officielles, Marc Miller soulève déjà l’ire de plusieurs responsables au Québec, dont, à leur tête, le premier ministre François Legault. » […]
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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Update. The French 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 (#cnrs) is canceling the #webofscience and encouraging its affiliates to use #OpenAlex. It cancelled #scopus last year.
https://www.cnrs.fr/en/update/cnrs-breaking-free-web-science

#clarivate #elsevier #france #opensource #wos

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
"Everything that is wrong in museums starts with wall labels": A thought-provoking talk by Aaron Straup Cope on how collections are managed, all that's missing in their metadata, all the documentary records institutions have on collection items that *don't* make it into structured or public […]
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AI6YR Ben @ai6yr.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Forbes: Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
watching shaun the sheep movie, marvelling at the storytelling
(not farmageddon. the one where the farmer loses his memory)