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Max Channon

@maxc73

Former journalist and news editor who's taking a break from the world of work for a while.

UK เข้าร่วม Mart 2011
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
It's not every day the Secretary General of a health professionals' association credits a story you broke with helping to change Government policy and The Chancellor's Budget within days of it being released. Journalism still matters. #IR35 #LoanChargeAPPG bit.ly/2vDJfEQ
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Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock@Graham__Hancock·
As all who were with me know, I fell seriously ill in Egypt in February with a horrible lung infection that still lingers. I'm glad I was able to fulfill all my commitments, despite the health challenges, but this trip really brought me face-to-face with my own mortality! Thank you for being there with me, and for your love and understanding. I'll never forget.
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@cfeagans @DrDavidMiano I was using the term David used, Carl. Most you label 'pseudoarchaeologists' would not call themselves archaeologists, as they are not getting their hands dirty in the field - so perhaps a different term is needed... and Perhaps both sides need to stop trying to score points.
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David Miano
David Miano@DrDavidMiano·
[NEW VIDEO] Why has “alternative archaeology” become a dead end instead of a path to discovery? And why do these beliefs so often become part of a person’s identity? I offer my thoughts here => youtu.be/4uvD30xw_ZY
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@FlintDibble @DrDavidMiano We don't know what we don't know. Uncertainty is the engine of discovery. Humility is wisdom. Much of our history is yet to be discovered and - thanks to archaeologists in the field - we discover more every year. I don't think saying this should be controversial.
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@FlintDibble @DrDavidMiano Yes, I'm aware of this Flint. But even 5-10 years ago, many academics (admittedly not all) would have dismissed talk of large garden cities in the Amazon, linked by, as pseudo arch. And yes, their existence was proved by archaeologists - who should get their flowers
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Justine “That Woman” Warren
Justine “That Woman” Warren@adancingferret·
@maxc73 @Megalithic12000 I actually really like what came before the proto-cuneiform tablets. Tokens sealed inside clay balls called bullae. Tokens representing goods like beer or sheep to be sent. On arrival the bullae were broken open and tokens counted to be sure the right amount arrived
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Megalithic Mysteries
Megalithic Mysteries@Megalithic12000·
They're arguing over whether to call it "writing" while ignoring what it actually means. Structured symbolic communication with the same information density as early Sumerian script, 38,000 years before Sumer existed. The timeline isn't slightly off. It's fundamentally broken.
Jimmy Corsetti@BrightInsight6

While Historians & Archaeologists fuss over the definition of the word “writing”, they left out the “However” part… 📍It is indeed “written communication” via symbols, just like proto-cuneiform of the Sumerians, *except* this wasn’t supposed to exist 38,000 YEARS AGO!

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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@adancingferret @Megalithic12000 I see. I thought tablet on the left was 38k yo - but it's an actual proto-cuneform tablet which is presumably much, much newer? Having looked up story, items found in Germany are very cool & interesting - but also much more rudimentary. Calling it writing does seem a stretch!
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Justine “That Woman” Warren
Justine “That Woman” Warren@adancingferret·
@maxc73 @Megalithic12000 2/ gone on for decades. They may reflect notations of fertility cycles of animals, other simple notational methods, etc Very cool and very interesting, but also an area where it can be very difficult to confirm those very interesting hypotheses
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@adancingferret @Megalithic12000 Ah, I see. Beer reference was for illustrative purposes only! Still, the discovery of proto-cuneform nearly 40,000 years ago in German seems truly remarkable. Wiki suggests the previous earliest was thought to be around 9,000 yo in China... That creates a 30,000 year gap.
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@adancingferret @Megalithic12000 Justine - am I misunderstanding, or are you saying the proto-cuneform tablet is a 38,000 yo beer delivery record? I thought the oldest known beer was only about 10,000 BC!
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Justine “That Woman” Warren
Justine “That Woman” Warren@adancingferret·
@Megalithic12000 Proto-cuneiform emerged from the earlier clay token and bullae system connected to accounting and like them are primarily numeric rather than logographic, there is no syntax. That would be why there is debate even over proto-cuneiform being a true writing system Compare tablets
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@FlintDibble @jetpackjoe_ Doesn’t this conflate Classical Ilion with the Late Bronze Age city relevant to Homer, only demonstrated archaeologically after Schliemann? Prior to that, was there really a widespread archaeological consensus that a major Bronze Age city lay beneath Ilion?
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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble·
@jetpackjoe_ that is simply not true. Practically nobody thought Troy was not a city prior to Schliemann. we have records of Alexander the Great and others visiting Troy, we have records of Roman Emperors building temples there, we have records of medieval bishops there
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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble·
There is no evidence for the Trojan War. It's a myth, not a historical event Was there a city of Troy? Sure, we've always known that. Alexander the Great visited as did Augustus Caesar. It had a Medieval bishop Just because NYC exists doesn't mean Spiderman is real
Joshua D Phillips@JoshPhillipsPhD

For reference: A timeline 1,200 BC - Trojan War 800 BC - Homer writes The Iliad and The Odyssey (recounting events from TW) 450 BC - Socrates 400 BC - Plato 350 BC - Aristotle 323 BC - Alex the Great (dies) 44 BC - Julius Caesar (assassinated) 30 BC - Cleopatra and Mark Antony (suicide) 0 - Jesus 27 BC - 14 AD - Augustus (first emperor of Rome)

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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@FlintDibble I didn't suggest it did. I was asking if the Homer's Trojan War could be a mythogising of historic conflicts between Mycenae and Troy, which Hittite historic documents appear to allude to.
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Flint Dibble 🍖🏺
Flint Dibble 🍖🏺@FlintDibble·
@maxc73 Read the description of the letter on the link you sent me. It's clearly not describing the Trojan War Myths take real places and set epic events within them. We can't treat them as historical documents This letter is a historical document
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Rebecca Tidy
Rebecca Tidy@DrRebeccaTidy·
I know that I'm probably over-sensitive now that I'm single + don't deal with another adult's emotions on the regular, but there's 100% a certain kind of man – and probably woman too – that uses their mood, tone-of-voice + language as a form of abuse + control.
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Max Channon@maxc73·
@DrRebeccaTidy @mhordern1 Yeah, hindsight is a wonderful thing... But once you've seen it, you can't unsee it - like you say, it seems so obvious.
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Rebecca Tidy
Rebecca Tidy@DrRebeccaTidy·
@maxc73 @mhordern1 I hadn't realised this was the case until after a break-up when I saw some Twitter posts about it. I was astonished when I realised, as it seemed quite obvious in hindsight.
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@mhordern1 @DrRebeccaTidy Once you're aware of it, the abuse cycle is obvious: idealisation-devaluation-discard-hoover. DARVO. Rinse and repeat until they get narcissistic supply elsewhere, claiming they were the victim - while the real victim is left questioning their sanity and grasp of reality.
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Martyn Hordern
Martyn Hordern@mhordern1·
@maxc73 @DrRebeccaTidy I’ve experience of both genders with close family members abusing like this. The behaviour is so strikingly the same.
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@_joffreyy I think it's a screw you to coercive and controlling abusers. Abusers - like survivors - come from all backgrounds and can be of any gender.
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joffrey
joffrey@_joffreyy·
We can’t say that Lily Allen’s West End Girl album is bad. The theme, the lyrics everything is perfect. She let it all out while staying classy, no anger, just calm and composed. The album is basically a big screw you to men and a giant FUCK to David Harbour. My album of the year
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@jwstarling Or what 'their woman' did. Female narcissists exist and do this to their male partners too. Lily's new fantastic new album isn't just about a man behaving abhorrently, it's about domestic abuse - and domestic abuse is perpetrated by all genders against all genders.
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Max Channon
Max Channon@maxc73·
@DecadeScrolling Narcissists slowly destroy their partner's sense of self and reality through gaslighting, to preserve their own false sense of self and reality. Lily's new album captures this perfectly.
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Decade Scrolling
Decade Scrolling@DecadeScrolling·
Here is my interpretation of the story told in Lily Allen’s West End Girl. Sit back, it’s long. Disclaimer: since the album is a work of autofiction, any likeness to real people is purely coincidence.
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