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Francis Deblauwe π’‰Ίπ’Šπ’€­π’‹›π’„‘ π’ŠŒπ’‰‘

@fdeblauwe.bsky.social

Mesopotamian archaeology (PhD UCLA); heritage (The Iraq War & Archaeology); digital humanities (Alexandria Archive Inst./Pleiades); spatial analysis of buildings; doodles; Belgian/American

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I want to believe that this time it will lead to paid work…

04.08.2025 19:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Picking them off one by one.
Hang together or hang separately.

02.08.2025 06:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1413    πŸ” 396    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 10
modified version of chess where one side has all elite pieces and one said has all pawns

modified version of chess where one side has all elite pieces and one said has all pawns

spotted on Facebook: β€œRevolution chess,” from Erik Olin Wright’s unpublished 1974 β€œChess Perversions and Other Diversions.”

31.07.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Psychedelic medicine"

31.07.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There’s a pharma company named Gilgamesh. Of course there is.

Eternal life, anyone?

30.07.2025 22:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Agreed on what the actual ****.

This is reflected of a pretty fundamental failure to understand what historians do, because LLMs do basically none of my job and are completely incapable of most of it.

But they have the ears of the people that write the checks, so this is real bad news. 1/

30.07.2025 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 326    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5
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a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the back seat of a plane . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting in the back seat of a plane .

Will I really have to remove "UCLA" from my bio? Unbelievable cowards, the UCLA administration.

30.07.2025 20:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Despite Count von Count's name, 'count' meaning "nobleman" has a different origin than 'to count'.

Moreover, a count can rule over a country, but the words 'count' and 'country' have different origins too.

And yet, all of these words share one ancient element: a word meaning "with".

Here's how:

29.07.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 85    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 1

significant increase of its impact on Hawaii but I obviously have no clue. 4/4

30.07.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) Interaction of tsunamis and tropical cyclones PDF | Tsunamis and storm surge from tropical cyclones have devastating consequences for coastal settlements. Due to their importance, their incidence... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

tsunami. One more study looked at the effect of the non-concurrent 1995 Manzanillo earthquake and hurricane Winifred (1992) on the coast in Colima, Mexico.
β€’ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Anyway, I'm just curious. I doubt that this concurrence will cause any 3/4

30.07.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cyclones AND tsunamis, double trouble! | Earth Sciences New Zealand | GNS Science | Te PαΏ‘ Ao The Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption – the largest eruption in a century – generated a tsunami that prompted a beach and marine threat…

Pacific) Iona and a tropical storm Keli active a bit south of Hawaii. This is kind of a black swan event, this concurrence.
I tried to find some information about earlier occurrences but only found one: the 15 January 2022 cyclone Cody and Hunga Tonga volcanic
β€’ www.gns.cri.nz/news/cyclone... 2/4

30.07.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
earthquake map

earthquake map

cyclone Iona

cyclone Iona

tropical storm Keli

tropical storm Keli

tsunami warnings

tsunami warnings

I'm curious. So there was an 8.8 earthquake near Kamchatka (Russia) which caused a tsunami propagating through the Pacific Ocean. Here's hoping there be little or no victims of the ongoing earthquake cluster as well as the tsunami. However, there is also a cyclone (name of hurricanes in the 1/4

30.07.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

significant increase of its impact on Hawaii but I obviously have no clue. 4/4

30.07.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) Interaction of tsunamis and tropical cyclones PDF | Tsunamis and storm surge from tropical cyclones have devastating consequences for coastal settlements. Due to their importance, their incidence... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

One more study looked at the effect of the non-concurrent 1995 Manzanillo earthquake and hurricane Winifred (1992) on the coast in Colima, Mexico.
β€’ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Anyway, I'm just curious. I doubt that this concurrence will cause any 3/4

30.07.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cyclones AND tsunamis, double trouble! | Earth Sciences New Zealand | GNS Science | Te PαΏ‘ Ao The Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption – the largest eruption in a century – generated a tsunami that prompted a beach and marine threat…

and a tropical storm Keli active a bit south of Hawaii. This is kind of a black swan event, this concurrence.
I tried to find some information about earlier occurrences but only found one: the 15 January 2022 cyclone Cody and Hunga Tonga volcanic tsunami.
β€’ www.gns.cri.nz/news/cyclone... 2/4

30.07.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
earthquake map

earthquake map

cyclone Iona

cyclone Iona

tropical storm Keli

tropical storm Keli

tsunami warnings

tsunami warnings

I'm curious. So there was an 8.8 earthquake near Kamchatka (Russia) which caused a tsunami propagating through the Pacific Ocean. Let there be little or no victims of the ongoing earthquake cluster as well as the tsunami. However, there is also a cyclone (name of hurricanes in the Pacific) Iona 1/4

30.07.2025 03:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

exact same pattern as the iraq war where the dirty hippie anti-war protesters being retroactively completely vindicated just makes the elites despise them more.

27.07.2025 17:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2702    πŸ” 636    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 13

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

28.07.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 15603    πŸ” 4315    πŸ’¬ 268    πŸ“Œ 196

I keep posting about all of this because I think the distracting, difficult nature of adjuncting is worth talking about and my tenure-line colleagues are generally ignorant of it.

Their email doesn't randomly get shut off.

But I am expected to match their productivity if I want a permanent job.

28.07.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 139    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

If humans were like me, we'd still be living it up in Ur.

This year, we might start exploring the other side of the river, but probably not.

25.07.2025 19:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.

Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

24.07.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 463    πŸ” 156    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 10

It feels like there's always some bullshit edtech thing making its way through academia. I remember Second Life, MOOCs, more virtual education spaces, now this. Like they know how people are using AI in educational spaces and it's not through a fucking Keynes chatbot

23.07.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 10

Nope ;-)

24.07.2025 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What makes an academic career? Some thoughts about how contingent faculty positions warp the trajectory of an academic career.

Some thoughts about how contingent faculty positions warp the trajectory of an academic career.

joshuapnudell.com/2025/07/23/w...

24.07.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 54    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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TΓΌrkiye’s archaeology sector struggles beneath surface of global success - TΓΌrkiye Today TΓΌrkiye’s archaeology sector struggles under budget cuts, illegal digs, and weak coordinationβ€”despite global praise for discoveries like Gobeklitepe

Nothing unexpected but still bears repeating: archaeology everywhere is underfunded and understaffed, and too easily pushed aside by the authorities

24.07.2025 01:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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University Website

xkcd.com/773/

22.07.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starting photo

22.07.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phone doodle: resistance

#imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

22.07.2025 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Unfocused starting photo

21.07.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Phone doodle: fascinating

#imagemanipulation #digitalart #noAI #abstractart

21.07.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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