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josh

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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

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josh, to random
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Getting very excited to meet and learn from Prof. @KimTallBear when she comes to speak about at Indiana University South Bend later this week.

https://indigenoussts.com

josh, to random
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Tonight is mac and cheese night. Here’s my current go to …

https://web.archive.org/web/20190629181912/https://www.shugarysweets.com/copycat-panera-macaroni-cheese/

josh, to Anthropology
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The EU implements a public database of very large platform moderation decisions! I just found the base data for next year’s social media project in my social class

https://transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu/

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For perhaps the first time ever in my life, I have booked a conference hotel room for next April as soon as they opened reservations, saving both money and stress later.

josh, (edited ) to random
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Getting my combo COVID/Flu shot. I usually get pretty loopy for the rest of the day, trying shots at night so I won’t have to cancel classes tomorrow. What will happen?

josh, to Archaeology
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Rome, meh. How often do you think about Cahokia?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

josh,
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@ricardoharvin Nice. FWIW, Bret, the park archaeologist interviewed in that story, is a friend.

hoosiersocial, to random
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Hi #HoosierSocial - a quick "State of the Server" post. Our hosting plan has been upgraded again to the next incremental level at masto.host. We went from the Star Plan + Extra Resources ($29/month, 140 GB Media storage) to the Constellation Plan ($39/month 200 GB Media storage). Even at that, our Media storage consumption is already at 94% capacity! The Constellation Plan is estimated to serve 500 active users and our Admin dashboard says that we're at about 58 active users.

josh,
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@thekitmalone @hoosiersocial
Whoa. Somebody doing live streams over there?

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In the newsletter this week, considering inadvertent data visualizations — and their real-world effects. https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596b02b6ade4e24119ac1a18&s=650ef4ae5bf52764f851a360&linknum=5&linktot=72&linknum=5&linktot=72

josh,
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@pbump Very cool! You’re becoming an ethnoarchaeologist …
https://pressbooks.nebraska.edu/anth110/chapter/archaeology/

You might also be interested in the archaeological origins of “garbology”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson_Garbage_Project

I’d be glad to talk in more detail with you about how archaeologists study emergent material culture trends and wear patterns if you’re interested. And I’ll likely make this article an assigned reading next semester (thanks!)

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“The Constitution’s Fugitive Slave Clause required northern free cities like New York to return the self-emancipated to their southern enslavers, and the NYPD … were only too willing to comply, conveniently folding their hatred of black people into their reverence for the nation’s founding document. Armed with the founders’ compromise over slavery, [gangs of NYPD officers] terrorized New York’s black community from the 1830s up through the Civil War.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/so-called-kidnapping-club-featured-new-york-cops-selling-free-blacks-slavery-180976055/

josh, (edited ) to scifi
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Prepping next week's activity on as critique for my social and cyborg students.

We all watch a short film version of Car Wars by @pluralistic and then the class examines the plot from three different critical perspectives.

Students are working together as teams in Google Docs within the same classroom, F2F discussion, shared workspace.

Whole class shares and debriefs toward end of session.

Feel free to reuse CC-BY.

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I’m Erica Ortegas. I fly the ship.

Prepare to die.

Spoiler Alert: Ortegas’ amnesiac piloting was pretty cool

josh, to HashtagGames
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Loot It


https://youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM?si=27x5C03W9Tk2iOAB

josh, to Anthropology
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for 209 descriptions of hominins in historic and current scientific literature. Contains type espécimen details and references.

Ref and details: Reed, D, et al., 2022. Hominin nomenclature and the importance of information systems for managing complexity in paleoanthropology. Journal of Human Evolution. 175, 103308.

https://paleocore.org/origins/nomina/

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opened a tab to look at a footnoted book, saw the author described as a "trendist and thought leader," threw the entire house in reverse, now running away on many chicken legs

josh,
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@kissane

allafarce, to random
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"How I used Anthropic Claude to summarize a Congressional hearing in <5 minutes"

This is the experimentation we should all be doing! NJ @marcidale!

https://marcidale.substack.com/p/how-i-used-anthropic-claude-to-summarize?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1609972&post_id=137132996&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=15ykn&utm_medium=email

josh,
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@allafarce @marcidale
Yes, I did a similar exercise this summer to have AI summarize lists of salient quotes from interviews. I fed the quotes in a numbered list and specified that the AI should provide numerical references for the quotes which informed different parts of the summary (for cross-checking). Pretty good.

josh, to random
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Swiss government testing national Mastodon communications

https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

h/t @fediversereport

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/

josh, to random
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Dutch government testing national Mastodon communications

https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/meer-overheidsorganisaties-testen-mastodon/

h/t @fediversereport

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/

gerald, to ai

Anyone concerned with the future of work and the potential of should read this working paper from Harvard Business School... Or at least Summary post from Ethan Mollick (one the researchers)
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/centaurs-and-cyborgs-on-the-jagged

In a nutshell:

  • GPT4 and co improve quality and time spent on knowledge work by 25% on average (metric collected across 18 different tasks).

1/n

josh,
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@gerald so we can call the capital exploitation and abuse of the AI enabled working class a “centauromachy”

https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Centauromachy/centauromachy.html

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🤤?

josh, (edited )
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Nobody is voting for la tur cheese … I guess Bruno Latour was correct that people fear hybridity because of its power to cross boundaries of deliciousness

https://www.thespruceeats.com/la-tur-italian-cheese-591257

josh,
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@waltman there is really no winner here … our world would be poorer if any of these were not in it

josh,
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@mia you’re correct, but with a blend of cheeses … and your choices would be wonderful additions if only there were two more slots in the survey function

josh, to random
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Some no contest Trek from tonight. Feel free to add to the roster @nocontexttrek

josh, to random
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I have to admit, I did not expect this book to end with a discussion of the modern archival struggle against bit rot.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/curse-marquis-de-sade-joel-warner-review-fascinating-true-literary/

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