Mark Oehlert
@moehlert.bsky.social
#innovation #learninganddevelopment #socialimpact #anthropologist #historian xAmazon, xDoD, xUnity, Caps and Kraken fan. Gradarius Firmus Victoria https://www.linkedin.com/in/markoehlert
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Mark Oehlert
@moehlert.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Relentlessly Curious and Deeply Engaged | Mark Oehlert | Substack
I'm relentlessly curious about how technology, learning, and culture intersect, inform, and influence each other and I am deeply engaged with how those forces work inside our organizations and impact ...
markoehlert.substack.com
wow. Someone def turned on the faucet here. With so many new faces, I thought an intro would be in order.
I’m Mark, an anthropologist and historian who has worked in tech and L&D for 20 years. xDoD xAmazon I’ll pick up posts here but write mainly here: markoehlert.substack.com nice to meet y’all
I’m Mark, an anthropologist and historian who has worked in tech and L&D for 20 years. xDoD xAmazon I’ll pick up posts here but write mainly here: markoehlert.substack.com nice to meet y’all
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I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
This thread is dad joke gold.
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This thread is dad joke gold.
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"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN
October 21, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"doxxing" was named after the first person doxed, Robert Dox, 4520 Jacobs Ave, Belview, MN
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Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/
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Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.
October 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.
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Everything is awful except fiction.
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2025 - Reactor
As someone who works in a school in Southern California, August and September are chaotic months with too much to do competing with weeks of baking heat and an overwhelming desire to be back on summer...
reactormag.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Everything is awful except fiction.
reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
reactormag.com/must-read-sh...
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I hope you all read this from me.
To describe the current state of the world as a daily show of deepening horrors is a massive understatement.
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
However, I read something today that I think more people should see and read.
I hope she doesn't mind my me sharing it here.
I'd rather be an X-Men by @gailsimone.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I hope you all read this from me.
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"By all these lovely tokens September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."
Helen Hunt Jackson
#photography #photographyOnBlueSky #nature #naturephotography #fall #autumn #ponds #photo
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."
Helen Hunt Jackson
#photography #photographyOnBlueSky #nature #naturephotography #fall #autumn #ponds #photo
September 13, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"By all these lovely tokens September days are here,
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."
Helen Hunt Jackson
#photography #photographyOnBlueSky #nature #naturephotography #fall #autumn #ponds #photo
With summer's best of weather
And autumn's best of cheer."
Helen Hunt Jackson
#photography #photographyOnBlueSky #nature #naturephotography #fall #autumn #ponds #photo
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Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!
Brown University - Early Modern European History, Brown University | H-Net
networks.h-net.org
September 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!
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STUNNING
"Traditionally, wearing blankets was functional, but I thought, If fashion evolves, why can’t Native wearable art evolve too? So I used metallic thread to make the blanket shimmer, adapting an old form to a contemporary aesthetic."
hyperallergic.com/1014669/mari...
"Traditionally, wearing blankets was functional, but I thought, If fashion evolves, why can’t Native wearable art evolve too? So I used metallic thread to make the blanket shimmer, adapting an old form to a contemporary aesthetic."
hyperallergic.com/1014669/mari...
The Diné Weaver Who Turns Microchips Into Art
Marilou Schultz, a math teacher and fourth-generation weaver, pushes the boundaries of the art form by combining technological aesthetics and Diné techniques.
hyperallergic.com
September 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
STUNNING
"Traditionally, wearing blankets was functional, but I thought, If fashion evolves, why can’t Native wearable art evolve too? So I used metallic thread to make the blanket shimmer, adapting an old form to a contemporary aesthetic."
hyperallergic.com/1014669/mari...
"Traditionally, wearing blankets was functional, but I thought, If fashion evolves, why can’t Native wearable art evolve too? So I used metallic thread to make the blanket shimmer, adapting an old form to a contemporary aesthetic."
hyperallergic.com/1014669/mari...
My old blog has been dead for a while but this still feels like the passage of tech time.
August 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My old blog has been dead for a while but this still feels like the passage of tech time.
There’s only one shirt to wear when you’re going in for a cortisone shot in your back.
August 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
There’s only one shirt to wear when you’re going in for a cortisone shot in your back.
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that summit could've been an email
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
that summit could've been an email
I’m not to disagree w Sam J.
July 31, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I’m not to disagree w Sam J.
Who else in GenX basically got a polisci degree from Doonesbury?
July 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Who else in GenX basically got a polisci degree from Doonesbury?
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Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
July 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
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The discovery represents one of the last undocumented Easter eggs from the pre-Steve Jobs return era at Apple.
After 27 years, engineer discovers how to display secret photo in Power Mac ROM
Developer solves mystery of hidden JPEG from the beige G3 era.
arstechnica.com
June 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The discovery represents one of the last undocumented Easter eggs from the pre-Steve Jobs return era at Apple.
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Don't forget people. Tonight is the premier of the PBS docuumentary about Hannah Arendt. 9 pm ET
Wow. I cannot imagine a documentary that would be of greater interest to me. The timing is... insanely right.
Premiere is 6/27/2025 at 9pm ET www.pbs.org/wnet/america... via Maddow
Premiere is 6/27/2025 at 9pm ET www.pbs.org/wnet/america... via Maddow
Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny - About the documentary | American Masters | PBS
Discover Hannah Arendt, who transformed her time as a political prisoner during World War II into daring insights about totalitarianism.
www.pbs.org
June 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Don't forget people. Tonight is the premier of the PBS docuumentary about Hannah Arendt. 9 pm ET
What’s a good name for that half-smile that you give to someone you pass in the office hallway? Like you’re acknowledging you see them but you don’t know them…
June 26, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What’s a good name for that half-smile that you give to someone you pass in the office hallway? Like you’re acknowledging you see them but you don’t know them…
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Just got around to reading Sam Altman's latest missive, "The Gentle Singularity."
I am astounded by his sheer amount of denial and self-delusion about the current state of the actually-existing world.
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
I am astounded by his sheer amount of denial and self-delusion about the current state of the actually-existing world.
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
June 25, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Just got around to reading Sam Altman's latest missive, "The Gentle Singularity."
I am astounded by his sheer amount of denial and self-delusion about the current state of the actually-existing world.
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
I am astounded by his sheer amount of denial and self-delusion about the current state of the actually-existing world.
blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...
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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
June 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
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Our work on Great Zimbabwe used surface hydrology, ethnographic survey and geoarc to show that dhaka pits, previously interpreted as clay pits, were likely intended to collect and store water.
These smart local adaptations to water scarcity are so interesting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These smart local adaptations to water scarcity are so interesting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
June 15, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Our work on Great Zimbabwe used surface hydrology, ethnographic survey and geoarc to show that dhaka pits, previously interpreted as clay pits, were likely intended to collect and store water.
These smart local adaptations to water scarcity are so interesting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
These smart local adaptations to water scarcity are so interesting
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...