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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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electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
Apparently Drake received funds under the skills development program that the government was using to deflect funds away from colleges. That's neat.
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santiagomayer.com
Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h
Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.
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electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
The ai bit is the least interesting part of this story. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/canada-ai-hallucinations-legal-defense
Canadian man fined for submitting AI hallucinations as part of legal defense
Jean Laprade ordered to pay $3,500 in legal saga of ‘hijacked planes’, Interpol red alerts and ‘inappropriate use’ of AI
www.theguardian.com

electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Bring in the Chinese EVs. Fuck stellantis. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/15/canada-auto-stellantis-us-investment
Canadian jobs ‘sacrificed on Trump’s altar’ as Stellantis announces US investment
Mark Carney says automaker’s move to inject $13bn into US is ‘direct consequence’ of Donald Trump’s tariffs
www.theguardian.com

electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 8h
In a meeting, fighting over how the pot of money gets split. Tempted to argue for pure lottery. Get rid of all the bean counting. One lottery, automatic entry, once a year, divide. Boom.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h
my god discord is a piece of shit place to try to do anything useful. i spun up discord for student use a few years ago and each year it's gotten worse. I've used slack until that became unusable, tried zulip, spun up mattermost (best, but no buy-in from students/colleagues) and what with ai […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Re lb- the answer is 'yes'. But the real question is 'would Canada have the gumption to do that' and that answer is 'no'.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
Drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs
https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-3vq0mhZ_TQeoEwm_eG3NNw%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0
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Carol Chiodo, Ph.D. @digitaldante.bsky.social · 1d
for all of my #dhmakes peeps: super excited about this new journal interlace-journal.org It builds on some of the fantastic work from Sarah-Marie Belcastro and Carolyn Yackel: www.toroidalsnark.net/mkbook.html 🧵🪡 💻
Interlace home page
Interlace: A Journal of Mathematics and Fiber Arts
interlace-journal.org
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electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
things I needed to do today: many
things I needed to do and actually did: none
faffed around fighting with a stupid idea in code and lost the entire day? True.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
this is probably best case scenario for perth https://ottawacitizen.com/news/former-shopify-executive-has-a-plan-to-re-invent-algonquins-perth-campus
Former Shopify exec has designs on reinventing Algonquin College's Perth campus
Toby Shannan says the campus can thrive as a private college specializing in training the trades.
ottawacitizen.com

electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
My niece has started curating some of the materials at our village dance hall.
Matched-tone Brandes headphones, found while we were fixing the footings at the back of our dance hall.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
My annual reminder that if you must have Thanksgiving, October > November
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 5d
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 · 5d
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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thetnholler.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d
“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 · 5d
🇪🇺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 · 5d
Ontario University librarians here: Omni has an API? Documentation somewhere?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 5d
“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 · 5d
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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ryancordell.org
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 5d
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 · 5d
$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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climatehistories.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Athena @climatehistories.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
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.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
AnnaAnthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
#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 · 6d
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.