Maxime Lamoureux-St-Hilaire

Cover of Issue 13 of The Mayanist, representing a Tzeltal Maya shaman performing a ceremony.

New #TheMayanist issue, co-edited by Sarah Newman and Franco Rossi, on #Maya #Ontology through the lens of #Anthropology, #Archaeology, and #Epigraphy.
#Art by Lucerito Ochoa Say.
www.goafar.org/themayanist

Pollution Is Colonialism

This morning I took some time to engage once more with Max Liboiron's #Pollution is #Colonialism. Every time, this book challenges and provokes thoughts. Can't recommend it enough.
www.dukeupress.edu/pollution-is...

Making a Monster Episode one of Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks.

Fabulous mini-pod, #sharkweek series by #Radiolab. First episode includes an insane account of a rare shark attack.
radiolab.org/podcast/maki...

I often think about this.

Fabulous map

STOP COMPETITIVE AI GROWTH. That is how AI will destroy the world as we know it. Not following some dumb robot overtake plot. Those kinds of narratives are silly smokescreens.

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

#GenAI is gobbling up #energy, from chips to queries. As this continues, we run ahead towards a catastrophic rise in carbon emissions, #resource depletion, & scarcity wars.

This piece by #MIT researchers is scratching the surface of this topic pretty well.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

A Maya lady sits down, offering incense, in front of an ancient Maya temple/

New (12th) issue of The Mayanist just released!
#Bilingual, #Open-access, #illustrated #journal on the ancient #Maya. Beyond #archaeology, this issue is all about #epigraphy. #Watercolor #art by Lucerito Ochoa Say.
www.goafar.org/themayanist

Call for Papers!

The Drift is not a place of arrival, but of movement, slow, erratic, persistent. It is a space for thought that slips, for language that leaks, for research that resists tidy conclusions. We welcome work that meanders, that ferments, that doesn’t quite fit elsewhere.

This new translation of a 2020 The Mayanist article "De Belice a Bagan: Enmarcando un análisis comparativo de las sociedades tropicales" by Gyles Iannone, completes our 2nd entire #bilingual issue. Art by Aaron Alfano.
Find it here: www.goafar.org/themayanist
#archaeology #Maya #openaccess

I'm seeing lots of posts about "the farmers doing this to themselves", or "not yet feeling the squeeze" but in truth, every American depends upon these farmers. In that sense, these farmers did it to every Americans. The double blow of no work force and tariffs may cause a US famine.

I had a fabulous conversation with my 4.5 y'o daughter this morning about #online piracy. She was simultaneously excited that #pirates do exist (unlike #vampires or #dragons), but oh so confused by how they can possibly operate without boats or parrots.

Can you name the site?
#ancientbluesky #Maya #ancientmaya #ancientarchitecture #archaeology

This was one of my all-time favourite. As an anthropologist, it's always amazing to hear our perspective portrayed in the media. As I was fully hoping she'd recommend Graeber's Debt, I was elated to hear her recommend it as part of your 3-books bit. Congrats on a fabulous episode, Mr. Klein.

As always, it's an honour to see one my photos (of La Corona Element 56, excavated in 2015) used by a press to which I contributed. It would be even more fun if I had either been asked (I would of course have agreed), or even told about it 🤷
#epigraphy #archaeology #ancientbluesky #Maya #Guatemala

A very timeline pod drop.

The feedback I get on BSKY is simply mind-blowing. I must be doing this like a pro. 😆

#Digital #archaeology connections. I'm currently designing an online, asynchronous Intro to Arky course. Please share your favourite resource with me :) Looking for virtual sites and visits and such. Merci :)

Looking forward to being able to read this one in Canada. I'm wrapping up Podany's "Weavers, Scribes, and Kings", and I'm officially hooked on Mesopotamian epigraphy. The contrast in the records that we have for the Maya world are fascinating.

Regime changes, as liminal periods, are fraught with surprises and dangers.

My 4 y'o daughter is a fan.

Opinion | Don’t Believe Him Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

Opinion | MAGA’s Big Tech Divide The journalist James Pogue explicates the strange tensions between big tech and the new right.

@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
David Graeber is quoted and heard in this excellent and recent podcast by Ezra Klein:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/o...

Such an exciting time! Our second girl fell in love with the strategy and rapidly decreased her milk intake. Kidney beans rapidly became a favorite.

Spoiler: they only found the cave's shadow.

Damn. Good luck!

Every weekday #morning, I walk both of my girls to garderie, and then #walk to campus for work (1.5 km). These days, at 815am, the sunrise is spectacular. #Proximity, as a life choice, is a vastly underrated way to impact one's carbon foot print. But in many contexts, it is also a precious luxury.

YouTube video by NPR Podcasts A rare dive into David Lynch's mind | Wild Card with Rachel Martin

A rare, excellent, and recent interview:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmi...

David Lynch on His Memoir Room to Dream and Clues to His Films “People are detectives and we have life to find clues about in the same way we would with a piece of cinema.”

David Lynch, creator of the best TV show -- Twin Peaks -- and of amazing films -- e.g., Mulholland Drive -- but most importantly one of the most unique minds of all times, has passed. Somehow, I'm certain he was at peace.
www.vulture.com/article/davi...

An ancient Maya pyramid covered in vegetation.

I miss #Chiapas. In #Palenque back in 2018.
#Archaeology #AncientBlueSky #Maya