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I’m old enough to remember the death of web crawler search engines—the general enshitification of metatags that made Infoseek and Altavista and a dozen others increasingly useless. Here’s how you get AI free results on google. Results are still crap, but now you don’t have to wade through AI for ‘em

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Every time someone responds to an obviously normative-aspirational claim ("this not who we are", "this is not America", etc) with some I'm-very-radical descriptive rebuttal ("er actually America has always done <similar bad stuff>") an angel dies. Like, no joke, dead. Direct causal result of this.

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archivists: we have no help maintaining the overwhelming pile of digital projects that were funded by one-time grants and have extensive recurring resource costs, this is a huge problem for literally every discipline venture capitalists: would you like a sexy robot Amelia Bedelia that doesn't work

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My sign for the No Kings protest in Chicago. It was big. I don’t want to out anyone I don’t know so I’m not posting pics, but it was big and on message!

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Want to learn hieroglyphs so you can read objects in museums? Take my upcoming class, Handy Hieroglyphs www.eventbrite.com/e/handy-hier...

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Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...

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Our colleagues at the University of Warsaw - Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology have made this seminar available on YouTube. It is part of a series on Deir El-Bahri (second of three seminar links I am posting): See first comment to this post for the link to the lecture.

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

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it's that time of year again. PEARL IS BACK

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One for Stargate lovers. Stuart Tyson Smith advised on the use of Ancient Egyptian in the OG 1994 Stargate movie. A screen print of the abstract is included with alt-text! You can read the article at doi.org/10.11588/aeg...

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Egyprian God Flanked by Two Crocodiles, 664–525 B.C.E., or later. Linen, ink, 20 7/8 x 9 7/16 in. (53 x 24 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1820E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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I’m sad I have to say this, because it ought to be obvious, but murdering Jews while yelling “Free Palestine” is evil. It is antisemitic. Too many folks on my feed are what-abouting because they agree with the shooter’s politics. That the other side is evil doesn’t excuse lack of self reflection.

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The Enigma of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, Elizabeth Siddal, Lizzie Siddal: The Struggle to See Beyond the Muse-Turned-Lover www.ahimaov.com/post/the-eni... | by Bryleigh Pierce for the @ahimaov.bsky.social blog

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Are you in Chicago? Then you should come to my conference on Friday and Saturday at ISAC. It’s on how technology can be used to better integrate museums into their communities! isac.uchicago.edu/programs-eve...

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This is #myfirstpaper it is on a coffin in storage at the Hearst museum at Berkeley. The texts on it are highly abbreviated and written in strange places. This is still one of my favorite pieces. My pieces have moved onto using multiple pieces to say something bigger. academia.edu/resource/wor...

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Want to know exactly how That Criminal of South Africa and That Criminal of Mar-a-Lago are starving the education of your children, the production of your food, the production of your electricity and the treatment of your cancer? democrats-appropriations.house.gov/100-days-tru...

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Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis is available in #Openaccess via Universität Zurich’s website at: www.zora.uzh.ch/view/subject... There are currently 327 volumes in this series covering Egypt, the Tanakh, and the Near East. Have fun scrolling through this collection 1 of 2

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Gaming Exec Gets Blood All Over Bonus Check After Culling Studio hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

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Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

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Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ I revisited Heraklion Archaeological Museum a few days ago to see these fabulous clay pots with octopus decoration. Made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete about 3,500 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology 🏺

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BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

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I have drawn fanart for this video.

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Greetings, #Bluesky! We are The #Myst Documentary (Directed by @philipashane.bsky.social) 🌲 The movie is currently in development heading into the final interviews! ⚙️ You can late pledge here to get in on some cool rewards while there's time ⬇️ fulfillment.fangamer.com/kindling/the...

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Here is a little taste, and you can find more on the Hearst Museum’s website! portal.hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/catalog/86ce...

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Speaking of coffins with blue backgrounds, I am in the SF area for #ARCE, and we just finished photographing a fantastic blue-backgrounded set for the new Book of the Dead in 3D site! www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~bookofthede...

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