Just like UNESCO last week, @icomos.bsky.social issues a statement of concern that omits who is targeting Tyre. Are you all for real? Let me help you for free, ICOMOS: Israel did that. I-S-R-A-E-L www.icomos.org/news/urgent-...
UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold.
It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on.
Sign & repost!! ❤️
Isis Naucratis
So here we go. Headlined by most media (but not all, see below) as “Wow, we never knew a stone at Stonehenge came from Scotland, and now we know it got there in a glacier”, this story began today with a press release from Curtin University, Australia 1/20
www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-r...
Academic boycott of University of Sheffield starts now. To protest at them docking pay for striking staff even after they had returned to work 😯
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
Next weekend I’m speaking at a one-day symposium in Chester on new research on Chester Castle, arguably this heritage-rich city’s least vaunted site. It’ll be great fun, come along!
Please share!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chester-ca...
New research by Curtin University has revealed how one of Stonehenge’s most mysterious stones was likely transported hundreds of kilometres across Britain t ...
www.curtin.edu.au
These aren't 'protests', these are racist mobs, fuelled by misinformation, and intent on causing violence. Biased media coverage and vacuous statements from politicians are not helping.
Any one got access to this? Does it have more details? I'd like to know how these cuts are going to fall... (archaeology is a high-cost subject, especially our science degrees)
I actually had time to take two photos on site today(!) - one is a large Roman storage jar, half sectioned, and the other a classic in the 'providing shade for photos category'.
