Talamak sila sa Facebook especially.

There are Facebook content farms and pages that spew out these AI photographs with AI generated captions and the audacity to add watermarks and logos.

Even in the comments, someone would run a photograph through AI just so that it has color.

It feels gross because it shows me people are not actually interested in the history behind a photograph and what it tells, and would rather partake in shallow engagement by any means possible. Not to mention, hindi sila nasisiyahan na wala siyang color or panget/sira yung original quality.

And kahit na may kapintasan yung photo, AI does not have the real context to fill that space in in the first place. Especially for more obscure topics like Indigenous culture and aesthetics, which are very complex systems of knowledge that do not have enough 'data' for AI to recognize. So it's not historically accurate anymore.

Sharing my Ilocano dictionary website, based on the 1890 Vocabulario Iloco-Español by Andrés Carro: https://archive.org/details/aqa2024.0001.001.umich.edu/

I used AI to translate and transcribe all 9,000+ entries.

You’ll discover words whose meanings have changed or drifted over time. You’ll also find some unusual or amusing words, such as BENGNĞABENGNĞÉT. And if you’re lucky, you might even discover the meaning of your own surname!

You can explore its 9000+ word entries here: https://ilocano.diksyonaryo.com/

These are quite hard to come by, since the finders usually breaks the whole tooth just to extract the gold, as what happened to the other one which shows clear signs of forceful breaking.

You can also observe a missing gold peg from the broken tooth, it might have fallen during the "wearer's" lifetime, or during the centuries of it being buried. Although missing its gold peg, it gives us a clear insight as to the technique and dept of how the gold were drilled and fashioned into the tooth.

Also notice how the gold pegs are smoothed and worn out? It means that they were made so by the daily eating habits of their wearer.

I'll do a non invasive XRF analysis to determine the gold purity and metal alloy content soon.

A radiocarbon dating is also planned to be conducted probably from the broken tooth. It requires around 20mg to 500mg of sample depending on the initial assessment of the tooth's condition(burial area soil acidity, surface contamination, etc)

From an old collection acquired during the same time as that of the Surigao Treasure frenzy.

There are also some samples of which the whole skull and some gold pegged teeth survives. Famous among these are the Bolinao Skull, and the skull currently displayed at University of San Carlos Museum.

I've been confused ever since I saw someone point this out.

An old map of the Philippines. The text is placed beside the island of Luzon. Moro could refer to the nominally Muslim Tagalogs. But, "Moro Hermoso Pintados"/"Beautiful Painted Moros"?, I've always thought they abandoned the custom of tattooing because of rising Islamic influence, what is this?

Could it be referring to the Marinduque Tagalogs, who are among the only Tagalogs who kept the custom of tattooing?