YSK that the Museum of the Earth, one of the world's best scientific museum, desperately needs help. It owns exceptionally rare dinosaurs fossils and the collection could be sold
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/science/museum-of-the-earth-ithaca-fossils.html?unlocked_article_code=1._k8.IAnp.AnqrEJ_kHHIY
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Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 239d
OP created their account 47 minutes ago and has started the usual mass posting.
This is going to be another self deleting spam account.
linatio1@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 239d
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 239d
I mean seems to fit the pattern of such accounts to a T but alright we shall see.
I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 239d
Lol. He already deleted his comment
n0respect@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 239d
upvoting their comment just for the irony they did
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 238d
What are the accounts for? Do they try to sell something just before deleting?
Blackfeathr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 237d
I'm not entirely sure. The best guess I have on that is, they're pushing a narrative or shilling specific websites like nytimes (which all of these accounts I've seen so far have shared from very heavily).
Someone else mentioned it could be a person that got salty that they got banned from some communities and are having a shitfit making a bunch of accounts and deleting them before they get banned again.
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 237d
I salute them for helping improve the Fediverse’s resilience.
homes@piefed.world · 16 pts · 239d
Sold to whom? Who else could be trusted with these artifacts?
This very much feels like some kind of bullshit advertising to get the public on board with an obvious scam.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 239d
Private collectors
homes@piefed.world · 8 pts · 239d
Obviously, but my comment was intended to expose the inherent flaws
And, really, private collectors make up only a tiny bit of a market. Most of the world are perverts. Be realistic here…
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 237d
But you could be a pervert in your very own dinosaur exhibit...
SuperEars@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 239d
Paging Joe Burrow