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josh

@josh@fediscience.org

Prof of Anthropology & Social Informatics at Indiana University South Bend. PI of Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). #anthropology #archaeology #citizensci #civictech #culturalheritage #cyborganthropology #digiarch #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalrights #FOSS #GIS #informatics #openScience #openData #openGov #STS

Also #biketowork #canoeing #cooking #HoosierMast #running #SciFi

All communications here are mine, do not reflect my organizations.

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josh, to random
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If somebody in 1994 watched a rerun of the last season of Leave it to Beaver, that was the same year Friends premiered, and those points were as far apart in time as you are streaming the first episode of Friends today

miriamkp, to random
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I generally have a pretty short attention span, but when I’m doing (esp primary-source) research I can go for hours and hours while forgetting to eat or drink. One of the very few things I find fully absorbing. Unfortunately, writing is…not like that. 😬

josh,
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@miriamkp @cpgsaw
I've often described my job as a place where I get paid to go find out cool and important stuff and tell other people about it.

Also I continually do multidimensional assessments, send emails asking people to check boxes in secret web forms, and explain to my supervisors the functional relationships between SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams

zak, to privacy

is not “I want to be invisible on the internet.” That’s anonymity. Privacy is control over what others can do with your data. Your rights, your choices, your data ownership.

josh,
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@zak If you have cancer you want your medical professionals to share your health data rapidly and completely to get you the care you need. You want caregivers to share enough data with insurance to get benefits, but not so much you potentially get profiled. You want friends and family to know your status to get love and support, but not employers who might fire you for being a burden. Trade-offs are between info and abuses. Human rights are or are not. We can't hide in tech from social ills.

josh, to mst3k
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Just finished watching this documentary on asteroid missions in space exploration leading up the the Lucy mission. The doc itself ended with the phrase, “a not too distant future …” spoken over an image of an asteroid with some sort of deep tunnel mined into it connected to a spaceship (of love?)

https://youtu.be/-8-HMAw7bHM

josh, to random
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/edith-pritchett-cartoon-british-museum-elgin-marbles/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzAxNDA2ODAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzAyNzg5MTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MDE0MDY4MDAsImp0aSI6ImRhYTUxYzhkLTA5ZDAtNDY0Ny1hNTM5LWVmOWJiNmJmM2NmYSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDIzLzExLzMwL2VkaXRoLXByaXRjaGV0dC1jYXJ0b29uLWJyaXRpc2gtbXVzZXVtLWVsZ2luLW1hcmJsZXMvIn0.Yv6dNiExfU1hZhrTxCJMwzji6u7H-F5xrXwT5WPuK14&s=09

josh, to Anthropology
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“All the hominins made tools. A study of associations between stone tool evidence and fossil hominin remains shows that a wide range of species made stone artifacts … humans are far from unique in our use of technology. Our closest living relatives, chimpanzees and bonobos, are technical species that use a wide array of tools, mostly made from organic and perishable materials ...“

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/all-the-hominins-made-tools/

josh, to random
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[insert statement], then Tesla stepped up to the karaoke machine …

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=shared&v=_vCr1XFe0EE

josh, to random
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Hello darkness, my old friend. Malort six packs from Jeppson.

Six pack of Malort mini bottles in a human hand

josh, to random
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“EFF urged the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, the highest court in that state, to affirm that a witness who has no knowledge of the proprietary algorithm used in black box technology is not qualified to testify to its reliability … At issue is the iPhone’s “frequent location history” (FLH) … Generally, for information generated by a new technology to be used as evidence in a case, there must be a finding that the technology is sufficiently reliable.”

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/government-shouldnt-prosecute-people-unreliable-black-box-technology

josh, to tech
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New Torment Nexus just dropped

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7eky8/pentagon-scientists-discuss-cybernetic-super-soldiers-that-feel-nothing-while-killing-in-dystopian-presentation

josh,
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@Nonya_Bidniss Fueling armies with methamphetamines and liquor still works unfortunately.

josh, to random
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Dungeons and Dragons mashed up with physical media mail is peak late 20th Century, and I want all of these postage stamps.

https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2023/1130-usps-reveals-additional-stamps-for-2024.htm

josh, to random
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16% of my students this semester have had covid … and we still have two weeks left

josh, to random
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I love when the seams show in technology, like this touch screen airport parking lot kiosk. There’s some glowing information which the paper covers that I guess must contain some instructions or corporate logos that are not as helpful. Why isn’t there a big green screen button which reads “ticket”? How many people got stuck in the parking lot before some employee taped this paper up? The mind reels.

philipncohen, to ChatGPT
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It's not that writes great essays, it's that it writes better essays than many of my students do. This breaks the model of papers I used in my large classes, which involve a low level of instructor involvement with each student (go ahead - tell me I shouldn't teach that way anyway, then hire me 4 TAs).

josh,
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@philipncohen Intriguing. So what am I looking at here? What's the assignment description for your students?

josh, to RaspberryPi
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Advice Needed: Looking to get a @Raspberry_Pi starter kit for a 15yo. Suggestions for most enjoyable and/or successful setups welcome. Thanks!

josh,
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I'm thinking especially about this starter kit for @Raspberry_Pi which seems good ... anybody ever try it? Thoughts on a book/manual to pair? https://www.canakit.com/canakit-raspberry-pi-desktop-kit-black.html

josh,
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@cyclical_obsessive Thank you!

josh,
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@bigiain yes probably the software, thanks!

josh, to random
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How it’s going … how it started

How it started: a raw turkey on a grill

josh, to random
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“When on board H.M.S. ‘Beagle,’ as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabitants of South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent, and then the dragons arrived.”

  • Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species (1859)
josh, (edited ) to random
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In 2026 we will see free and open source generative AI as …

clmorgan, to Archaeology
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The cursed plague of box grid excavations, destroying all over the world, for almost a century, and STILL the American standard in the Levant.

Oh, yeah...good morning.

josh,
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@clmorgan digital representation of analog reality always loses nuance between the bits

DonnaLanclos, to random
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Sharing this because though I am not a veteran, I work with scholars who are. Also this is why I left my previous instance. https://lawriephipps.co.uk/account-suspended-you-are-not-welcome-here/

josh,
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@DonnaLanclos wow

josh, to Birds
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I spent the evening with about 8000 sandhill cranes in the Kankakee Marsh. Here’s a few of them (sound up!)

https://youtu.be/adkF6Ohk0Kg?si=tFRkNfdsxhdqMvgp

josh,
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And more cranes

Sandhill cranes in silhouette within a scope circle
Sandhill cranes against a sunset

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