Sebastian Heath

Sunday Morning GAERHF thread. Mood? #GlobalAntiquity

Also thinking. gaerhf:associated-pleiades-url predicate on a per object basis as grouping mechanism? Right now, GAERHF is "object based". Most records have no indication of higher-level spatial/cultural grouping. Mostly a side effect of data entry stage. How to do that well and how to express in ui?

A "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure" video.

A thread on the current state of coverage of the Arabian Peninsula in "Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure". Though I missed this one, which was staged in GitHub: gaerhf.org#female-khor-... . #GlobalAntiquity 🧵

The guy is really bad at governing. Making a mess of it.That’s just the facts here.

Getting done generating maps for a bit. Choose the center of your world: Alexandria (Egypt), Begram, Berenice (Egypt), Palmyra. And see how close it is to elsewhere. Something like that. <10-ish seconds to generate all four maps and easy to add other sites to the python. (Which I'm happy to share.)

Working on the little script to generate these. Definitely "vibe coding" here. Map title now indicates center. Here's Palmyra. #GlobalAntiquity

The president has no inherent powers. Congress has no inherent powers. The courts have no inherent powers. Each only has the powers granted by the Constitution and that was made by "We the People." The inherent powers are ours. (This is all pretty basic and #SCOTUS has been getting it wrong.)

Feels like it’s worth noting that Trump got less than half the popular vote. That’s becoming stale news. He’s now just an unpopular president. But yeah, last time we really checked, more people voted for someone other than Trump. There was never a mandate.

Roughing out visuals for a big picture talk on Roman Art. Two maps: Berenice on Red Sea and Begram in Afghanistan. Both sites are "nodes" in long distance exchange. 1000 km radii on an equidistant projection for each. Do territorial states matter? Sure. But also not? (Like I said, "roughing out.")

I don’t mean to say you’re wrong. Not at all. I was heartened by approach to a wider antiquity allowed for here. I like to think there are departments – mine included? – letting our PhD students create profiles that would be competitive for this position. 2-and-2. Part of what makes it a good job?

This is an interesting #job description from Rutgers, "Assistant Professor, Global Ancient Art, Architecture, Material Culture": arthist.net/archive/50717

Text with following reply to Cuomo campaign. “Yo. I'm voting for the socialist. Don't agree with him on everything but he's shown he cares. Shown he can set the agenda for a better city.”

My response to a text from the Cuomo campaign. Prob won’t be read so I post it here. #NYCVotes

Meshtastic radio in hand on train.

Indulging in some geekery by bringing a #Meshtastic node along with on commute to ISAW. On the LIRR. No acks yet…

I am Spartacus.

Turkeys and deer in backyard.

Zoom in and those are turkeys and deer chilling in same backyard. Seen during my bike ride on North Fork of Long Island, LI.

Battled Azure's Docker container setup. Image wasn't working. Failure at start, auto-restart cycle. Issue was my new M4 MacBook was generating an Apple Silicon specific image. Once I built with "--platform=linux/amd64" all was good. A lot of "Digital Humanities" is "Digital Plumbing". And pain. #DH

A thread on the work @epoehler.bsky.social and I are doing to build out Linked Open Data for Pompeii.

Opinion | Kathy Hochul: Why I Am Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

I’m not the biggest @governor.ny.gov fan. Her last campaign was lame – even low energy – and delaying Congestion Pricing was a low point. But she has risen to the moment many times recently, including with this endorsement: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/o...

Blog #109: Graduate Student Feature with Lylaah L. Bhalerao: On Serendipity and Sanskrit in the Study of the Mediterranean World We are kicking off the 2025/26 academic year over here at Peopling the Past with a blog by Lylaah L. Bhalerao, a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York Univer…

Here's a conundrum... What a great @peoplingthepast.bsky.social post: peoplingthepast.com/2025/09/12/b... . But as full disclosure, the author is an @isawnyu.bsky.social student. I'm her chair (my great honor). So don't believe me, go check it out. (And my congrats/empathy to Lylaah!)

I took the Aeneid with him. I'll let that sentence speak for itself. That's how good the class was. RIP and thank you.

Hey, Mike: What did Trump see? What did he know? How'd they get him to flip? What did he say?

Flask A simple framework for building complex web applications.

Quick note that I've put in a bit of time to switch 2 flask apps from passenger to gunicorn. Nothing against passenger. Had worked well. gunicorn providing all I need within python venvs. pypi.org/project/Flask/ gunicorn.org . Also using fastapi & uvicorn ( fastapi.tiangolo.com & www.uvicorn.org ).

Are they on Bluesky?

I’m all for a multi-polar world. But it’s nice to be invited so this is pretty embarrassing for Trump, especially since he stans them all. And anyway, where is he these days??

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Grand juries need to refuse to indict. And juries refuse to convict. Happening already, I know. Keep it up.

Not on display, I don’t think. But did I miss? Who knows history of the/a Dartmouth Numismatic Collection?Probably some, right?? #questions

And the gallery on the history of the museum is good - by which I mean fairly transparent - on collecting issues.

Reliefs from Nimrud.

Signage for reliefs.

Overall gallery signage.

Three heads.

I happen to be on Dartmouth Campus. (Personal trip to area.) A few pics from ancient Mediterranean gallery of Hood Museum. Nicely installed.