Lindsay Bloch

Always watching: How ICE’s plan to monitor social media 24/7 threatens privacy and civic participation ICE’s dragnet is expanding across social media, putting everyone’s digital lives into the realm of border and immigration enforcement.

ICE is building a 24/7 social media monitoring program that would scan Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and dozens of other platforms. Private contractors would turn public posts into enforcement leads fed directly into government databases.

cartoon: in the style of Egyptian heiroglyhics the lyrics to the Time Warp have been phonetically translated and help illustrate characters from RHPS Caption; Rocky Horus Picture Scroll

From the Larchives: The Rocky Horus Picture Scroll. One of my favorite works. I had the assistance of an Egyptology PhD student to translate the Time Warp phonetically. Enjoy :)

Closeup of thumbnail painted with copper luster sprig on white ground, on top of a ceramic plate with the same design.

nails painted white with copper luster band. Thumb has a floral sprig in same copper luster. In the background is a plate painted with the same design

Ceramic sherd painted with a copper luster sprig.

Back to basics #maniarchaeology today. Maybe the most common ironstone pattern, this simple sprig motif in copper luster is called Tea Leaf, produced throughout 2nd half of the 19th century by many different makers.
Sherd image courtesy Jefferson Patterson Park

🏺 Great writeup of our collaborative project with the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to understand and revitalize potting traditions!

Paycor Job Openings at Monticello

🏺 The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery (DAACS) is hiring an archaeological analyst, based in Charlottesville, VA. bit.ly/DAACSanalyst

Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands: Reverse Engineering a Novel Pottery Type Palmetto Ware is a low-fired earthenware that was developed in the Lucayan Islands (The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and Turks & Caicos Islands) ca. AD 700–800. Its production and use by the Lucayan...

🏺DYK that the first people in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos made pottery with dust that originated in the Sahara?!

Our new article confirms this, and a whole lot more about how the Lucayans engineered pottery in this challenging environment.

doi.org/10.1080/1556...
@emikracht.bsky.social

4th image of mug in the Longridge Collection, UW Libraries:
search.library.wisc.edu/digital/A3V7...

3rd image courtesy Maryland Archaeological Conservation laboratory: apps.jefpat.maryland.gov/.../tin_glaz...

left hand holding a small sherd. Fingernails and sherd are decorated with a design of blue grid with red stars inside and green at the intersections of lines.

Artifact image of sherds decorated with blue grid and red stars with green accents on a white ground.

Decorated sherds and a black and white image of a complete tankard with the same checked design. Text reads, "Chinese or common shape cup with painted star and grid pattern in blue, red, and green (left). This vessel may have been made in Bristol in the early 18th century in a fashion known as Bristol blue-red-green. Whole mug with similar pattern from a private collection on right. Angelica Knoll, 18CV60, c. 1650-1770."

A complete mug decorated with blue grid design with red stars inside. Top area has decorative border and reads "Union".

New 💅 based on this awesome early 18th c. English Delft (tin-enamel). The distinctive color palette of blue, red and green is called Bristol, though it was also made in London.
This vessel was found at George Washington Birthplace, and was likely used by the Washington family.
#maniarchaeology

🏺Nice work, @archfieldnotes.bsky.social!

🏺 Great writeup of our recent work!

Fox kit introducing themself!

my modest disagreement is that i think it is important to signal virtue even if, privately, you are a piece of shit. performing decency is an important part of maintaining the norm that decency is part of a well ordered society.

iron horseshoe fragments and iron shaped into rectangular chisel/celt forms. Figure 4 of article.

🏺New article! "Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast"

We found XRF of iron artifacts can distinguish 16th c. assemblages from later materials based on the iron purity.

What assemblages should we zap next?

Read it here for free: rdcu.be/euzoz
#archaeology

YouGov poll, just out: "Should ICE agents be required to wear uniforms while making arrests?"

Yes: 68%
No: 18

A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.

You know you’re winning when you post “We are NOT the Gestapo!”

3. UPDATED: What types of awards are being terminated? Awards that are not aligned with program goals or agency priorities have been terminated, including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), environmental justice, and misinformation/disinformation.

🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️

NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page.

It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad.

❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards.

The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

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Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

🧪 Another round of NSF grant terminations is expected today.

But here’s a silver lining: there’s already a webinar for you today at 2 pm ET if you’re in that boat!

(Tries to find the dark humor in moments like these…)

🤞 for a good recovery.

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

my hand laying over a pile of small white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted black, each with a decorated button painted on.

my left hand palm up to show a handful of white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted with buttons to match, one per finger, on a black background.

my hand laying over a pile of small white buttons with colorful patterns. Nails are painted black, each with a decorated button painted on.

🏺 New #maniarchaeology inspired by 2 of my favorite things: porcelain and buttons! Prosser-molded porcelain buttons were made post-1840 and are very common archaeologically. However, the original transfer-printed designs on some of them, known as "calicos" are often worn away.

Remember, these forms are NOT toys. They are not jokes. If these forms are to be effective, they should under NO CIRCUMSTANCES be flooded with incorrect information, which would render them useless. So definitely do not do that. Do not do it one time, or a dozen times, or even hundreds of times.

NSF Implementation of Recent Executive Orders Information for the NSF community regarding executive orders.

NEW: Today, NSF "disestablished" most of its scientific advisory committees.

These are committees of outside experts convened to help shape NSF programs. Only five statutorily required committees remain, the rest are gone.
www.nsf.gov/executive-or...

If you are National Guard or active duty military & you are ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of your fellow Americans, call the Gl Rights Hotline 1-877-447-4487
There is support, you don't have to go through with it.

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

3/4. If we accept the idea that moving a person from one place to another undoes rights and disempowers the judiciary, we are endorsing the basic Nazism practice that enabled the killing of millions.