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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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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 13h
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 13h
Phone doodle: gesternte #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 22h
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-i...
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Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare?
For years, and especially in the last month or so, we’ve been...
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Phoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 07/10/2026
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congre…
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gave a conference paper on Assyrian deportation yesterday in which I argued that Assyriologists rely too much on royal propaganda as a source and as a result vastly underrate its brutality. Archival sources paint a very different picture. Modern comparisons suggest at least 25-30% mortality.
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Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary @akkadiandictionary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wie klingt Akkadisch? 👂 In der Reihe "Klang der alten Sprachen" der Akademienunion ist gerade unser Beitrag über die akkadische Sprache erschienen.
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Wie klingt Keilschrift? – Klang der alten Sprachen: Akkadisch
YouTube video by Akademienunion
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Phone doodle: herfst #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Belgium @brussels.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026
in brussels www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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‘There’s always been a belittling of African women’: honouring history’s invisible heroines
Congolese photographer Pamela Tulizo uses costume and vivid scenery to celebrate women’s strength and give a new perspective on slavery
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sterk opiniestuk van Belgische collega's. www.demorgen.be/meningen/zon...
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Zonder archieven geen historici, en zonder historici geen collectief geheugen
Leidinggevenden van vakgroepen en opleidingen geschiedenis aan alle Vlaamse universiteiten luiden de noodklok na de aankondiging van drastische besparingen in de erfgoedsector.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Same first name, also a Belgian-American :-)
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 06/10/2026
80% of all journalists/reporters currently writing about the plague should read this: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/06/08/b...
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The Black Death – everything you need to know
There are so many myths & misconceptions going around about the Black Death that I thought it might be a good idea to put a bunch of facts together.The topic seems to be extra popular among the…
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Phone doodle: shimmering 2 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you for reporting on this. I try to never to post or forward any AI slop but, yes, I fell for the Parton-Curry cartoon too…
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Unfortunately, this did turn out to be an impersonating AI slop cartoon. Sorry! Here's more on how this is getting more common, unfortunately.
niemanlab.org
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
OpenAI's chatbot isn't just imitating the magazine's style. It's also falsely attributing AI-generated images to real artists.
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Paul Zimmerman @paulczimmerman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Archaeologist: the cup is an ED I solid footed goblet, and we already have a shit ton of those.
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Rahm Emanuel deserves the political wilderness both for his morally bankrupt actions and his utterly worthless political instincts
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
This is your occasional reminder that generative "AI" in particular could have been developed on public domain materials and/or licensed and compensated works but the major players intentionally, methodically and systemically chose to steal labor from working creative folks instead
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
voor die mensen willen zorgen, voor welke samenleving vechten we dan nog?<<
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
>>Politici liegen als ze zeggen dat hon- derdduizenden mensen in de invaliditeit van vandaag op morgen weer aan het werk kunnen. Wie dat op hoge poten en met luide stem verkondigt, bedoelt eigenlijk: we duwen ze nog wat verder in de ellende. Maar als we niet meer
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Phone doodle: happy 3 #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No?
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fascinating lecture!
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Making Milk: Mongolia’s Unique Role in Dairy’s History
YouTube video by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology
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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Another one, more elaborate. To do with Napoleon, set to music it looks like? purl.stanford.edu/gc145qv0911
a nearly 20-line rebus, with a portrait of napoleon at the top and some text off the to the side.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
of the looted antiquities.<< >>How has artificial intelligence changed your work? We don’t use AI. Ever. We’re not allowed to.<<
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
that we seize, with each phone, with each email account, we gather information. And what we have learned over the last 15 years is that the antiquities trade is very incestuous. There really are only a dozen to two dozen major traffickers who are responsible for the vast majority
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
you start step by step. You begin the journey – the journey to Ithaca. It might take 20 years, but it begins with a single step. And so with each step, with each arrest, with each seizure, with each conviction, we learn more information, we gather more material. With each computer
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
>>… Matthew Bogdanos, chief of the New York County District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU), whose work has helped secure the return to Greece of another 15 ancient artifacts that had been stolen in the past.<< >>When we started doing this in 2011, as with anything you begin,
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Inside the fight against antiquities trafficking: ‘We now know where to look’ | eKathimerini.com
“My goal has always been to put us out of business. I would like to be unnecessary,” says Matthew Bogdanos, chief of the New York County District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU), whose w...
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Phone doodle: out of the blue #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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18-year-old in ICE detention for more than 200 days: 'They just took me away'
Elder Chavez Carranza has spent more than 200 days in an immigration detention center in Louisiana, hundreds of miles from his home in Albertville, Alabama.
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Christopher W. Jones @cwjones.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Fort Hays State and Drexel are treating their natural history collections like part of the endowment to be liquidated at will rather than an inheritance to pass on to future generations. richardconniff.substack.com/p/another-na...
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Phone doodle: archangel #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Preliminary results of excavations at Türkmen-Karahöyük (South Central Turkey)(Late Bronze Age-Hellenistic) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvRi...
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James Osborne | Great King Hartapu and Beyond: Türkmen-Karahöyük and an Iron Age Ruler
YouTube video by The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
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Eleanor Robson @eleanorrobson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
📖 I have a new article out! "The Forgotten Workers of Kish: Iraqi Archaeological Labour in Early 20th-Century Hillah", IRAQ 88 (2027), First View online preprint #openaccess 💰From the Forgotten City of Kish project (2022-25), funded by the Nahrein Network at UCL www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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THE FORGOTTEN WORKERS OF KISH: IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABOUR IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY HILLAH | IRAQ | Cambridge Core
THE FORGOTTEN WORKERS OF KISH: IRAQI ARCHAEOLOGICAL LABOUR IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY HILLAH
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Phone doodle: edel #imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 01/10/2026
Niels made a new cartoon! www.facebook.com/CouldBeWorse...
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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/10/2026
For me, the act of writing is how I learn what I’m writing about. I don’t know why people want to outsource that.*
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Archaeologists outside of academia aren't faring much better lately…
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whale-shaped church pulpit tradition in Central Europe (and a nice whale-decorated ambo forerunner in Italy)
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
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What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If the argument for women should know better than to go into a rape den like a frat house, explain to me why a rape house like a fraternity is allowed to exist at all.
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Francis Deblauwe 𒉺𒊏𒀭𒋛𒄑 𒊌𒉡 @fdeblauwe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
>>Professor Kate Klonick, who studies online speech and platform governance, summed it up nicely: “All networked technology comes down to chat.”<<
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Ban Kids From Social Media And They’ll Just Chat In Public Radio Podcast Comments
Eleven months ago, I wrote about what I thought was a truly fascinating find: that some kids appeared to be using some random old NPR podcasts on Spotify as a personal chat room to get around various restrictions. It was mentioned, somewhat in passing, on the "How to do Everything" podcast last October, where someone...
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