I always got requests from folks at the prison!
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Space archaeologist, hab consultant, ancient Mediterranean, heritage | Prof at Chapman U | Fellow at USC | Explorers Club 50 | https://issarchaeology.org / http://brickmoonspace.com | He/him | Settler on unceded Tongva land (LA) | avi by Zach Weinersmith
I always got requests from folks at the prison!
Which station? I was on the unfortunately now-defunct WRVU Nashville
There's no chiropractor out there who wants to take a crack at this?
I'm not paying super close attention to these games, but he seems to be making a lot of plays
you, lost in obscurantist semantics: the great question of our time is whether or not the Large Language Model is conscious
me, an incisive pragmatist: if the Large Language Model can't be tried at The Hague, I'm not sure why it matters
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Again, only Republicans are allowed to ever talk this way about Real Folkz living in America, & there is a straight line through the last 160+ years of American history to "Non-Christians are not Real Americans & don't belong here."
I'm not sure I understand how the AI is "100% wrong" if it was correct within 200 miles and 5 years. That seems like a pretty good result to me, if the options were "anywhere at any time" or even just "anywhere since the invention of photography."
Keeping my data secure is a big one for me. And not falling into methods that produce lots of errors I can't diagnose. And all the ethical stuff around environmental and social impacts.
Gerhard Richter's stained glass window in the south transept of the Cathedral of Cologne
A damning report on the continued retention of human remains, especially from colonial contexts (nb Ireland virtually never included in these lists), in British museums. Rather amazed to see the 6th largest collection is in βArmagh, Banbridge and Craigavonβ?!? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
One of the UK's leading centers of space science and engineering is looking for a new director plusportal.perrettlaver.com/VacancyDetai...
Theyβre at 73%, letβs help them get to 100%
The lane is open for a 2028 candidate to pledge to accept jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court
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FOR ALL MANKIND (1989) Jim Lovell, Ken Mattingly, Russell Schweickart
Dir.: Al Reinert 5:00 PM PT
The story of the Apollo missions to the moon, told by the astronauts themselves.
1h 26m | Documentary | TV-PG
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Taking bets on how far below 50,000 the DJI will be the next time Bondi testifies to Congress
The uranium we bombed into the ground so deeply that it is, by all reports, completely inaccessible to Iran itself? Due to the giant bombs the US dropped on the facilities housing it just last June? Now we're going to go dig it up and "secure" it? π€¦ββοΈ
Don't excavate in "annexed" land
www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/06/r...
move slow and repair things
Death cult in action
I don't think people fully understand how bad it is to have less confidence in others than Italians do
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We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised!
Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
You're absolutely rightβthat was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leadersβthey were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.
On two different occasions, twenty years apart, I was in a train compartment where the emergency brake was pulled on the way into Bologna station
The latest publication from the ISS Archaeological Project, a study of the usage of scientific/experimental facility usage from 2009-2024. This work was inspired by questions from Sierra Space, who wanted to know what facilities Orbital Reef would need.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How different parts of a site are used is a fundamental archaeological question. But the fact that we did this in response to a problem faced by space station designers proves the ability of archaeology to contribute to improving lives in our contemporary society.
How different parts of a site are used is a fundamental archaeological question. But the fact that we did this in response to a problem faced by space station designers proves the ability of archaeology to contribute to improving lives in our contemporary society.
The latest publication from the ISS Archaeological Project, a study of the usage of scientific/experimental facility usage from 2009-2024. This work was inspired by questions from Sierra Space, who wanted to know what facilities Orbital Reef would need.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...