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ArchaeoIain

ArchaeoIain@archaeo.social

<p>Australian retired archaeologist, Emeritus Professor at University of New England, Armidale. Book on (mostly the evolution of) art--Art or Scribbles was published on 8 August 2025. Published on bones, stones, language origins, art etc. Worked with Gamilaraay, Wangkamadla, Yulluna, Kalkadoon and Mitakoodi people.<br />We must have a politics which encourages equality and fights climate change. </p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/9783031904578" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/book/9783031</span><span class="invisible">904578</span></a></p>

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    @randahl@mastodon.social I think execution is too generous a word for it. These were straightforward murders.

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    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io surely the whole point of AI is that it will make LLMs from existing stuff (without regard to copyright, right). So a new AI thingpedia would be trawling Wikipedia and would have to be a simulacrum of the original from which it derived its model. The copyright issues will be enormous, but that is also why they are important.

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    I my favourite was a paper about chimpanzee stone throwing in the wild. It had more authors than stones thrown

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    RE: https://archaeo.social/@MichaelHarris/116535048824373937 Think about it. Nice cartoon. Do not have anything to do with AI

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    RE: https://expressional.social/@Peter_Link/116473545594844756 We need more discussion of this and not knee-jerks reactions from the Zionism lobby and various timid Australian governments.

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    @EdCates my temptation is to tell they they could use the phone.

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    @RadicalAnthro it has increased support for Palestine and name recognition. As well as opening people&#39;s eyes to the massive domination of our lives by governments influenced by money and ideologies they never approved.

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    Wow. That is the big one. I reckon Adelaide Writers&amp;#39; Week is dead now. Thanks to the Zionist lobby. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/13/i-cannot-be-party-to-silencing-writers-which-is-why-i-am-resigning-as-director-of-adelaide-writers-week-ntwnfb?CMP=GTAU_email

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    RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116179410900136068 So true. He never had any basis for good judgment, but the forces that can blackmail him for his involvement with Epstein are forcing has risk-taking which imperils us all, even outside Washington and Mar a Lago

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    RE: https://mstdn.social/@mcnado/116183662826194273 Just repeat that. But with emphasis. &amp;quot;They are NOT sticking to military targets.&amp;quot;

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    This is brilliant and depressing. WE should all read it. Australian armed forces are now guilty of illegal acts https://thepoint.com.au/news/260306-the-wrap-trumps-war-has-already-pulled-australia-in

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    RE: https://todon.nl/@LilithMonkey/116188565104572252 And Gaza and the rest of Palestine