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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡

@fdeblauwe.bsky.social
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Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2026
Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.
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>>‘He has committed no offence other than wanting to defend heritage sites’: arrest of Iraqi archaeologists sparks backlash Many fear the real reason for Ali Tabar’s and Amir Al-Jumaili’s arrests are their campaigns against a controversial investment law<<
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‘He has committed no offence other than wanting to defend heritage sites’: arrest of Iraqi archaeologists sparks backlash
Many fear the real reason for Ali Tabar’s and Amir Al-Jumaili’s arrests are their campaigns against a controversial investment law
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Phone doodle: butterfly 3 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New Case: Four Gold Foil Birds of Prey from the Chinese Eastern Zhou culture’s Spring and Autumn period, contributed by Allison Casaly.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 29/09/2026
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Archaeologists Uncover More Than 30 Iron Age Houses Dating Back 2,500 Years in the Alps | Arkeonews
Archaeologists in northern Italy have uncovered more than 30 Iron Age houses dating back around 2,500 years, revealing the scale of a major Alpine settlement.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Phone doodle: botsing #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over oudheidkunde bestaan nogal wat misverstanden, maar archeologen graven niet de hele dag en classici neuzen niet voortdurend in stoffige boeken. Maar wat doen oudheidkundigen nou wél? Zes vragen voor numismate Fleur Kemmers. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/09/28/z...
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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
All solidarity with my UCU colleagues ✊️
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Archives and online catalogues are fragile, massively underfunded and rarely given priority. Yet this is the infrastructure on which academic and commercial research relies. Sigh.
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why do Neo-Babylonian legal contracts refer to "iron oxen" used to plow fields? Did the Babylonians invent tractors? Not quite, apparently iron oxen are a legal clause which means that the borrower has to replace any ox that dies during the term of the lease. The oxen are therefore "immortal".
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Sebastian Hageneuer @archaeobasti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The so-called “Stone-Cone Building” is perhaps one of the most puzzling examples of West Asian architecture. The construction technique is unparalleled. The walls are decorated with hundreds of thousands of coloured stone cones. 🔗 www.artefacts-berlin.de/portfolio-it...
Technical illustration showing the building's interior organisation and assumed installations. © artefacts-berlin.de
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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And I was just hearing about this!
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Archaeologists discover 'tomb of the very highest rank' in 2,700-year-old Etruscan cemetery
Archaeologists have discovered a massive Etruscan burial mound with a vast assortment of grave goods north of Rome.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Phone doodle: geel rood zwart #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs) talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/an-im...
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An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer...
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
And to be honest, though the systems are so complex you can never prove causation, the fact that our descent into the dumbest politics follows on four decades of systematic, institutional disinvestment from the liberal arts seems almost too on the nose and yet here we are.
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Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shorter post this time about what I call "competitive history", or the frustrating trend to typologize and compare historical places, people, and events. Or, in other words, the "RIP to them but I'm different" theory of history #medievalsky
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On "Competitive History"
A few weeks ago I was delivering a lecture on the Mongols, and noted how Chinggis Khan ruled over the "largest land empire in history," a phrase that gets bandied about all over the internet. I asked ...
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Phone doodle: RUR #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It seems to me that a solution to encouraging AI 'alignment' would be to hold AI companies and their executives legally liable - criminally, if relevant - for what their AI agents do.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Phone doodle: flower 4 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Merchants of Greek! Merchants of Latin! pedants! dogs! Philistines! magisters! I hate you pedagogs." — Victor Hugo (France, 1802-1885) LOL
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Phone doodle: spirals #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This blog by Akiva Sanders is very good. An archaeologist's ruminations on the people, nature and heritage of the Middle East. He focuses on SE Turkey in this article.
whatsurvivestheflood.com
Watching a City Drown
Submerged Cities Part One
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MOLA @museumofloot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: Among 180 objects valued at $70 million seized by the Manhattan DA, four antiquities were from Michael Steinhardt, one of the world’s largest ancient art collectors. Three of the objects are female Syro-Hittite Idols crafted in northwest Syria during the 2nd millennium B.C.E.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Phone doodle: traffic lights #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Phone doodle: war #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Phone doodle: timbre #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Let me tell you something obvious --iow, I don't reallt need to tell you. Job applicants want you to read their applications. Students want you to read their writing. No one wants AI to do it. That means you should write your own email, memos, and opeds. W abundant typos (ok that's jsut me).
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
>>Archaeologists navigate Syria’s transition in war-torn Afrin<< Talks about what happened to archaeological heritage during the vagaries of the Syrian Civil War
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Archaeologists navigate Syria’s transition in war-torn Afrin
Afrin’s ancient sites suffered extensive damage during years of Turkish occupation and civil war. Archaeologists now navigate Syria’s political transition in heritage rescue efforts.
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turned down last week: 2 festivals with no budget for speakers 1 writing course with no budget for teachers 1 film project with no budget to option the book - plus they wanted me to write the screenplay. For free. Don't do it, kids. Don't work for free. Because to them, what's free is worthless.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Phone doodle: in awe #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Phone doodle: striving #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pakistani archaeological heritage
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Andrew Reinhard, PhD, RPA @adreinhard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
We were in logging country today in a Ponderosa forest and found a land claim blaze (JM8), and several bottles/shards (1890-1920) for soda and tinctures including Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root. McKinley County, New Mexico. September 19, 2026.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Phone doodle: strong #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
>>“AI allows you to get to a bad idea faster,” one of the sources said.<<
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
>>A new study sheds light on how Syrian archaeologists risked their lives to rescue approximately 30,000 priceless artifacts from the Deir ez-Zor Museum during the summers of 2014 and 2015 as the city faced the imminent threat of capture by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)<<
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How 30,000 archaeological treasures were saved from imminent destruction during Syria's civil war
A new study sheds light on how Syrian archaeologists risked their lives to rescue approximately 30,000 priceless artifacts from the Deir ez-Zor Museum during the summers of 2014 and 2015 as the city f...
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AQUAHUMAN! A hybrid figure merging human and fish-like features: scales, wide-open eyes, downturned corners of the mouth, distinctive traits reminiscent of sturgeons. Discovered at the Mesolithic settlement of Lepenski Vir, the sandstone sculpture dates to approximately 6200–5950 BC. 🧵1/3 📷 me
A rounded, roughly oval stone sculpture of a hybrid human-fish figure, featuring textured scales, wide-open eyes, and a mouth with downturned corners, displayed in a dark museum gallery
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
>>Thomas Schmidinger lecturer at University of Vienna and works at Associate Professor at University of Kurdistan Hewlêr (UKH) Besuch bei dem was von den Ruinen der späthettitischen Stadt von Tell Ain Dara (13. bis 8. Jahrhundert v. Chr.) übrig geblieben ist: 2018 hat die türkische Luftwaffe im
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Belgium @brussels.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
🇧🇪 🥳
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Phone doodle: orange and green 2 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is a good deep-dive into AI slop invading what used to be legit media sites. One thing I’m seeing more and more: slop outlets churning archaeology stories from 1-5 years ago and presenting them as news. 🏺🧪
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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month
Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.
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Jona Lendering @jonalendering.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Vandaag een blogje over tandheelkunde in het oude Nabije Oosten met, naar ons idee, een succes en een mislukking. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/09/17/a...
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Antieke tandheelkunde - Mainzer Beobachter
De tandheelkunde is zo oud als de mensheid. De Feniciërs maakten al tandprotheses en de Assyriërs konden een ontsteking genezen.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Phone doodle: green astroid #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Matt Barnum @mattbarnum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So many people think that the students who can't pay back their loans are going to like Vassar or Oberlin or even Harvard. In reality they're going to schools like Legends Barber College or Construction Training Center. www.npr.org/2026/09/16/n...
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In 1965, an American scholar bought her first stolen god from two boys outside a Kathmandu temple. Grains of rice were still stuck to it — offerings from worshippers. She paid less than $2 and wrote in her diary: "I don't think the temple will miss it at all." 🧵 www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Latest flu and Covid-19 vaccines: yay!
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