Brent Holbért

Ancient Amazon Ancient Amazon Ruins, Lost City, Lost Civilization

Congrats!
Here's a possible emerging issue in The Amazon worthy of a debate.
I admit the hypothesis is a bit of a ceramic use leap, but many material science peer studies, several AI's, and hundreds of satellite images hint there might actually be something there.
ancientamazon.com/dataset-on-d...

I'm flying over the site on the 20th. I leave for Brazil tomorrow. It is a confirm or debunk trip.
I'll post while flying over the site. I was told the plane has Starlink.
Stay tuned.

Andy Warhol looks a scream…

Andy’s 97th birthday today, here at the Factory with Lou, 1966.

📸 Stephen Shore

Here’s some dog content to temporarily distract you from the mess happening in the world

pause your scrolling and bide a moment, weary poster

Ancient Amazon Join the digital dig: Decode patterns and uncover lost Amazon cities with AI, fired-clay theory, satellite leads, and geospatial tools.

All my data, locations, related studies, and images on the potential lost ancient city in the Amazon is now public.
AI assessments for the OpenAI Z Challenge are also included.
I chartered a plane to fly over the site in August to film & photograph it.
Here is the website
ancientamazon.com

Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption Satellite observations show that in the past 24 years the worlds storm cloud zones have been contracting at a rate of 1.5%–3% per decade This contraction allows more solar radiation to reach the ...

This is a pretty interesting hypothesis for why the Earth is absorbing more solar radiation.

Contraction of the World's Storm‐Cloud Zones the Primary Contributor to the 21st Century Increase in the Earth's Sunlight Absorption - Tselioudis - 2025 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal - Nature Analysis of species distribution models in a pan-African database comprising chronometrically dated archaeological sites over the past 120,000 years shows major expansion in the human niche from 70 ka...

Published today in @nature.com our new study on the drivers of the successful dispersal of modern humans out of Africa! A huge, interdisciplinary team effort long in the making, headed by @elliescerri.bsky.social . Glad to have contributed! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #archaeology #Evolution

I wrote a fiction book about a lost Denisovan empire in Northern Canada's Mackenzie River Valley, and in it I claimed Dragon Man was a Denisovan. My anthropologist character in the book would be happy :)

1st-ever Denisovan skull identified thanks to DNA analysis Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

We now know what Denisovans looked like, thanks to DNA analysis that proved Homo longi (the Harbin cranium) is indeed Denisovan! 🧪🏺

When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere About 70,000 years ago in Africa, humans expanded into more extreme environments, a new study finds, setting the stage for our global migration.

About 70,000 years ago, a new study suggests, our species learned to live just about anywhere. Later, that ability helped our ancestors expand from Africa across the world. Here’s my story on the human niche [Gift link] nyti.ms/3ZBc7ID

3 different features + 1-color shot of a 15-meter-wide stairway from the possible site that I entered into the OpenAI Z Challenge to find ruins in the Brazilian Amazon.
Right click and save the image, paste into ChatGPT & ask it to extract the coordinates, paste in Google Earth to visit the feature.

I have to say that the inclusion of an AI illustration for an archaeology article makes me doubt the veracity of the data.

I'm pretty open to creative interpretation but the horrific dollification of Neanderthals is unhelpful.

This is a view looking down on a portion of Saturn's rings.

Find the white structures along the edge of the ring, near the top.

Now look at their shadows, cast on the rings themselves just below them.

Those white structures are giant towers of icy ring particles, some rising more than 2 km.

New Discovery: Stone Age Seafaring to Malta with Dr Eleanor Scerri and Huw Groucutt YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

New Discovery:
Stone Age Seafaring to Malta🏺🧪
Conversation with Drs. Eleanor Scerri @elliescerri.bsky.social and Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social about their archaeological investigations and their new paper

Archaeology with Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/ZGRjN20...

I dunno the entire "A.i." industry seems bad.

Currently, it’s not much more a hint of life as the lottery ticket in my back pocket is a hint of my having a million quid by Monday (15/n)

Properly mind-blowing event yesterday east of Annapurna II (NE face visible here, 7,937 m, Nepal)! 😱

Probably triggered by ice (+rock?) avalanche at high elev., given the reach and the absence of snow at the moment 🧊

The extent of the aerosol is... HUGE! ❄️🌪️

Source www.tiktok.com/@lakpasherpi...

YouTube video by Xiaomanyc 小马在纽约 Apes Freaked Out When I Spoke Their Language

xiaomanyc would be excused if he slips into ape every once in a while

youtu.be/drEfteACl-E

Astronaut Returns From ISS With Annoying Space Accent

Astronaut Returns From ISS With Annoying Space Accent
theonion.com/astrona...

Metal BEFORE pottery!? Someone needs to invent a Time Machine to go back and remind these uppity foragers of the ladder of civilisation!

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Bruce Willis voice: "Learn to code, they told me. You'll have a good career."

Closes lighter and racks machine gun.

The mystery of how iguanas crossed the Pacific Ocean may be solved The iguanas' 8,000-kilometer trip — one-fifth of the Earth’s circumference — is the longest made by a flightless land vertebrate.

Lizard cast aways 🧪🦎

This was the first feature I found. It is surrounded by a kilometer of consistent vegetation with many straight lines, right angles, and geometric features under foliage.

10 meter wide rooftop above the trees?

looks like stairs on the right and there are several right angles. This feature is above the 20- to 30-meter-high tree canopy

Thanks for responding! I don't want the location public, DM me. I fly over it in August for an aerial survey. It's in area archaeologists are not looking because, as one Amazon archaeologist told me, there is no stone.
The features look like Terracotta construction, not stone.
Here's a few more.

YouTube video by wickedwildabeast666 the word fuck

Depends, it could be a great compliment. If you have never seen this video, it is fucking hilarious. 😉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=26UA...

Charge pseudo archaeologists consulting fees for honest assessments of what they think they may have found. Really look into their hypothesis or finds. Archaeologists are terrified to be looped in with the flakes, but there is a great niche financial opportunity, and maybe unexpected discoveries.

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transport vehicles Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of people using primitive vehicles to transport things

Tracks in the ground in New Mexico are thought to have been made by people pulling long pieces of wood laden with goods 22,000 years ago.