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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 scholar.social/@electricarchaeo on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Daniel Rigal 🇪🇺 🦋 @danielrigal.bsky.social · 2h
Can we stop referring to Alberta separatism as an independence movement? That's not what it is, any more than Brexit was about British sovereignty. It is about peeling off part of a union so it can be crushed and made subservient. Congrats to the Albertans on being smarter than us Brits!
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
i dunno, the rest of the world isn’t a theme park for you, what were you expecting. www.wired.com/story/they-fled-trump…
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They Fled Trump’s America. Now They Regret it
The internet told them Europe was a social paradise. Turns out the trains are awful, the health care isn’t free, and people can be really mean.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 13h
To put it another way, are Americans the only ones who love games where a primary activity is litigating the rules of the game? It’s so weird on just a minute’s consideration
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
You don’t take the oath? but it’s a constitutional requirement. you're not a lawmaker and any laws you and fellow oath-less comrades ‘make’ are not constitutional. seems simple concept, but watch us fuck this up.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
“ There is a very real possibility that legislators could sit in the National Assembly and pass laws that are not valid because they have no legal authority to be in that chamber, having not affirmed their constitutionally required oath to the Crown. An equally pertinent question: Having […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13h
yeah, ok. let's do it. www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9zrdpg72…
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Our bikes are 'not for jousting,' says Lime after Hackney duel
Footage emerged on social media of hundreds of people gathered in east London to watch a bike joust.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15h
I'll just have you know, Geoffrey, that on Amazon _practical necromancy_ is #4,495,155 in Books and #7,832 in Archaeology (Books) , and in Frederick's Books of Thetford Mines it's _prominently_ displayed in the window, so there.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Tow truck people did not release my car to the insurance people so now that needs to be sorted out, and tow truck people aren't answering their phone today it seems, so I'm off to the industrial wastelands of the outer southern reaches to see if I can find and liberate my car
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”
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US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says
Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h
#Quebec’s strategic Maple Syrup reserve is empty!!! Nooooooo!!! ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/229393…
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La réserve stratégique de sirop d’érable à sec
La réserve stratégique de sirop d’érable québécoise est à sec et des occasions d’affaires pourraient filer entre les mains de l’industrie acéricole.
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
“… the grass fire was a kilometre away and considered sufficiently under control that training exercises were allowed to continue Saturday afternoon at Canadian Forces Base #Wainwright in central #Alberta. However, conditions — including a violent, sudden 100km/hr windstorm — sent those flames […]
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M. Grégoire @mpjgregoire.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
I hope that Albertans vote decisively against moving towards a referendum on separation today. There are many good reasons to reject separatism in Canada; for me, the fact that it is disloyal is sufficient. But take it from a Quebecker, even the debate about separation is destructive […]
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
“ Emirhan Duman took a unique approach. He abandoned cellular signal, satellite connection, or mobile data in favor of shortwave frequencies—perfect for getting a message out of a smashed car or collapsed building. Yet rather than try to sell walkie talkies, he leveraged the most well-known […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
"Occam’s razor suggests a more direct explanation: Trump is a weak man who is intimidated by stronger and smarter men. His humiliating relationship with Putin is different only in degree from the way he interacts with other authoritarian leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping and North Korea’s […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
I wonder, doesn't they whole 'strong mayor' law conflict with this one? Couldn't the mayor's office just ignore? ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/o…
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Seven Ottawa bike lane projects facing 'major impacts' due to new provincial law
The list includes the O’Connor Street bikeway project, which has been in the works for more than a decade.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026
The dog jumped up on the bed and stood on my chest. I opened my eyes and looked up at him. He looked down on me. Then he sneezed.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
I would love to get an electric bicycle instead of having to buy a new car. But in this city? To commute? Coming from the southern reaches? Every journey would include a non negligible chance of being smeared on someone's bumper. I look at Catherine McKenney's bicycle plan from the last […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
A small part of me gets an enormous kick out of the fact that the word 'necromancer' appears in this piece […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
Carbonation is tricky. This looks interesting. www.zytho.ca/in-line-carbonation #cider
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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
"QS had expressed concern that Romi would get an unfair advantage over other candidates" SHE HAS TO WRITE BY BLINKING. WHAT ADVANTAGE? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zxj8g… This is a very typical response to disability accommodations. They are seen as giving the disabled person an […]
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 18/10/2026
"QS had expressed concern that Romi would get an unfair advantage over other candidates" SHE HAS TO WRITE BY BLINKING. WHAT ADVANTAGE? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zxj8g…
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Student who spells by blinking is denied chance to sit exam
Romi Loffler is battling to take her history exam with reasonable adjustments allowing for her condition.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
So our cider mill is named after the village dance hall. You can see some pictures at coronationhall.com But let's talk about ghosts. A few years ago my brother wrote and produced a play, performed at the Hall, about the Dagg Haunting, which took place on a farm not far from us (this is […]
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Dr Alice Violett @alicemcalicepants.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Any car can be a flying car if you drive it badly enough.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026
Last market day of the season. 1° this morning. Ugh
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
"You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the […]
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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
"So, Elon's network is now a security liability for every country on Earth, because at any time the United States can just switch it off. And no treaty or agreement with the US can ever be trusted again, not when they are all subject to the President's whims. Every election might be a new mad […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Our semi automatic can labeler is on the fritz. #cider
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I've got an old MacBook pro. Might be fun to try to revive it with a new OS. What's the consensus these days?
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
I've gotten more requests for reviews this fall than ever before. It's a bit overwhelming. But I'm doing my bit by not writing a damned thing. (I've got a blog and a project site, who needs journals? electricarchaeology.ca archaeologyimpossible.github.io ) (don't yell at me, I […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
"here’s my definition of a world-class city: one where all of its residents can live and get around with reasonable comfort, with a mix of interesting things to experience that are uniquely tied to the city’s culture or geography." […]
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026
Heads should roll over this one. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sovereign-ci…
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 15/10/2026
Also if you read it and really love it, there's a Fan Edition we're mailing around where you can comment and highlight your favorite parts and in the end it goes back to @walshbr.bsky.social. Sign up here!
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"Embedded Pedagogies" Fan Edition
If you'd like to participate in the Fan Edition of "Embedded Pedagogies" for Brandon Walsh, please let me know and I'll follow up for your address! If it's not realistic for you to be a stop on the bo...
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
macleans.ca/politics/americans-are-…
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
@quinnanya.me these are awesome
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 15/10/2026
Sharing the Good Word of Broadsheets on my office door at Stanford. #DHmakes
Quinn's office door with a poster for the digital humanities program, a postcard that says sewing is magic, and the Broadsheets poster
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
on a related note, the provinces are too damned big and have too much power.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
doug ford is pretty hot on what is federal responsibility and what is provincial, but he sure does like to intrude on what is municipal eh?. go, be the mayor of toronto like you always dreamed, fuck off and leave the rest of us alone
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Neville Park @nev.status.nevillepark.ca.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
From Geoffrey Bercarich (link) #bikeTO #BikeTooter #Toronto
Photo from above (drone or high-rise) showing over a dozen police cars near Bloor & Islington
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
remember folks, every accusation is a confession with these shitgibbons www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hoekstra-w…
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
New treachery by the American President. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/…
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy feels ‘betrayed’ by Donald Trump over Starlink access
Ukrainian president accused US president of picking the other side over four years of war
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
thank you for the kind words folks. i feel fine (but am getting checked out). first round of paperwork submitted.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
So asshole speeding rear ended me at a red light. My car is a write off. How's your day?
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
If this is to be believed, #ottawa will continue to embrace mediocrity, narrow vision, more cars, alas ottawacitizen.com/news/sutcliffe-ca…
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Sutcliffe campaign's internal poll shows sizable lead for incumbent mayor
The incumbent mayor's campaign commissioned the poll, which was collected online from 1,000 respondents in late September.
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Anna Haunthro @annaanthro.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
#Ontario NDP urges Premier Ford and PM Carney to come up with a plan to buy #Stelco as US owner goes back on promise to not layoff the plant’s #steel workers globalnews.ca/news/12100918/ontario…
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Ontario NDP urges Ford, Carney to buy Stelco as firm eyes layoffs | Globalnews.ca
Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles told reporters Tuesday that public ownership of Stelco is emerging as the only option to save roughly 350 jobs.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026
At a talk at library and archives Canada. The speaker is standing in front of a backdrop depicting books on a shelf. But behind the backdrop is an actual shelf filled with actual books. Hmm.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
this whole this-part-of-the-province-is-on-this-timezone-this-part-another business is getting out of hand
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026
gizmodo.com/youtuber-says-cops-paid…
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In news that will surprise no one, it turns out that police are only too happy to use automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras—the kind made infamous by Flock—to track ordinary citizens, but are considerably less enthusiastic about citizens using the same technology to track _them_. While ALPR technology is not new, its use has exploded over the last few years, with Flock at the forefront of both widespread adoption and resultant controversies. There has been story after story about misuse of the data collected by such cameras, whether it’s stalking ex-partners, harassing immigrants, or ruining the lives of completely random people. It’s little surprise, then, that police might be leery of having ALPR devices pointed at them: they know only too well how the data gathered by these devices can be, and is, misused. This point was demonstrated recently by Canadian software engineer and YouTuber Anthony Sistilli, of Brampton, Ontario, a city that recently spent 2 million Canadian dollars on “high-resolution cameras, along with automated licence plate recognition technology.” A month or so ago, Sistilli built his own ALPR camera and set it up to track the movement of police cars. He posted several videos on TikTok about the camera, explaining how he built it and how it works, describing it as “a personal Flock surveillance camera to Flock the Flockers.” > @anthonysistilli > > i built a personal flock surveillance camera to flock the flockers (only tracks police cars) > > ♬ original sound – Anthony sistilli Local police got wind of this, because according to a video posted on YouTube earlier this week, two officers from Peel Regional Police allegedly turned up at Sistilli’s front door to ask what his “intentions” were for the data he gathered. In this video, Sistilli points out the rich irony of the situation: “One of [the officers] took the time to specifically mention how scary it would be for them, because people would be able to find out where they lived, when they got on their shift and what they were doing throughout the day, and that that type of powerful information could put them personally at risk [from] any bad apples that might want to track them down.” Sistilli’s long-form YouTube video uses the visit as a jumping-off point for an extensive discussion of ALPR cameras and their use, looking at how companies like Flock market their products in an aggressive (and, arguably, deceptive) manner to municipalities, whether they actually reduce crime (go on, guess), the lack of transparency about the collection and retention of data, and a bunch of other issues around the technology. It’s well worth watching. Peel Regional Police did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
ħighly recommend
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
spending the day having a midsomer murders marathon.
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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026
yknow, if you joined Confederation you could have thanksgiving at a sensible time of year.
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