@olsonkyleg

Archaeology & heritage @WUSTLAnthro. I write about US-Iran cultural diplomacy, collections stewardship, the archaeological in art, & why the past matters today.

 St. Louis | Philly
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Joined December 2012
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Andrew Fogle
@andfogleOct 23
It pains me to post anything that risks flattering Iranians but Persian really is just an incomparable delight in the ear and on the tongue and I think this is why elites all over a global neighborhood fell for it for centuries. Irrestible to human physiology like sugar.
MRJB 🇬🇧🇨🇦
@DrMichaelBonnerOct 23
Greatest sounding languages of all time: 1. Persian 2. Latin 3. German 4. Syriac 5. Avestan
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I need to be incredibly honest with you: they didn’t have phone
𝚛𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚝@rawatthekiidOct 22
how did earlier scholars master mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and religious law, while most scholars today struggle with basic academic literacy? when did scholarship become so intellectually impoverished.
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yeah i dont 100% co-sign but this is increasingly where i'm at. everyone interesting i know is playing around with genAI and seeing what it can and cannot be useful for and all the namby-pamby bullshitters whos main thing is 'i like books' are in full ostrich mode
Joe Weisenthal
@TheStalwartOct 22
AI IS AMAZING I know it's hip to worry about the decline in book reading and how chatbots will impoverish our brains. But TBH, this is not at all what I see. I wrote about how we're in this wild moment for intellectual flourishing and how all of us are the children of dancers.
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there's only one way to properly deal with the curation crisis and properly fulfill item no. 1 of our code of ethics (stewardship) and that is to throw everything we've got at it & given the limits of human/financial capital available to most/all of the institutions involved...
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all im saying is. dont be making others read generated prose, that's gross (except for when its admin pablum then w/e), but lord have mercy the things that are possible for me to do now because of genAI that I only dreamed of as a grad student with no computational chops...
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@ any internet researchers/archaeologists: Archive any old legacy PHP blogs/sites you care about, as there is a nonzero chance they will vanish from the live web forever in the coming days.
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lol the "notable graves" at Bellefontaine is quite a rogues gallery
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Kyle Olson retweeted
scary kyo 🐾@hajidereeOct 19
one-sided love makes you want to kill yourself
✧@AiredLmao_Oct 18
i wanna experience one sided love so bad, the peak yearning, the little efforts, the tiniest interactions making your day…slow burn love stories just hit different, one small moment at a time it sounds so beautiful 🤍
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i have a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach that eventually the boomer property tax revolt will foment a reverse-polarity version in young people ("well then why should i keep paying Social Security taxes?") and the entire concept of cooperative public goods disintegrates
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lol when I tell you St. Louis’s municipal corruption is off the charts this is the shit I’m talking about ksdk.com/article/news/local/…

St. Louis police board held an emergency meeting to give its chief a new contract. The deadline was...

Chief Tracy gets $295,000 plus a $24,500 retirement fund. He was already under contract. The mayor calls it a manufactured emergency.

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lol excuse me that nathan fielder movie is how many minutes long again?????
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Come hear me talk about my book next month!
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i had a free slot in my schedule for my world archaeology survey so i asked the students what topics they'd like me to cover. i obliged in spades, including to the ONE student who said 'political rot in the sciences' that poor kid had no idea what they were in for
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foundational experience for me was doing archaeological fieldwork in totalitarian monarchies and dictatorships in grad school. i have too many examples of the politicization of science from my own life that have nothing to do with professors being left wing to be able to shut up
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im sorry but you cannot beat me with a weaksauce culture-war rejection of the Strong Critique of Objectivity. i will simply overpower you with my own life story. science is not about Truth, it is about Power. eat my shorts clowns
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Kyle Olson retweeted
ashley ray@theashleyrayOct 13
it has never been easier to be charming. i am batting 100 at my local coffee shops and restaurants. charisma is as easy as being able to handle a convo about the weather now
kate wehwalt
@mcmansionhellOct 13
no one has any social skills
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I'm slowly but surely working through my back-catalog of blog posts. Got through some of the easier stuff and now onto the whackadoodle side of things. Anyway, hope you enjoy! (Link below)
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