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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 5h

I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 9h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 1d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 1d

Even coming from someone with sincere good intentions (and nope) there’s so many ways for something like this to backfire

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 1d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 1d

As I wait for these I’m adding materials into iNaturalist and organizing the cuttings. Trying to figure out how exactly to arrange the final versions based on theme, etc. also how to present the data on species, location, etc.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 1d

Testing two UV lights, distance, time, etc. very good results but some shadowing. Going to try to hold materials down against fabric first, then raise the two light sources higher so there’s less effect

The fabric and plants set up in a rig with two uv lights

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks! A gift from one of my partner’s students last year

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2d

Very happy with my cozy sabbatical corner

A corner of a living room with a drawing table covered in fabric a comfy chair and lamp and a dramatic painting

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2d

No productivity system can survive contact with my need to let the wild horses of my mind run free

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2d

There’s so many answers to this and almost all of them are fun

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2d

Sewing is so incredibly hard on the body.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 2d

Universities going to save so much money rebranding by just putting an “A” sticker in front of iSchool

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 2d

Hear hear!

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 3d

franklinsayre.com/sabbatical/r... #bagsabbatical

What story/ethics am I crafting with my research question?

(The following is a reflection that has at best been lightly edited and does not necessarily reflect my final thinking.) “It is with this in mind that I proposed to my students the following — sli...

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 3d

Joining in to see just how far the eyebrow waggling can go @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 4d

if you want resilient young people who can learn and adapt support them finding a passion. it doesn’t matter if it’s soccer or computer programming or cosplay or knitting or mountain biking. it’s something they can use as a scaffold for every other part of their life.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 4d

Doing a side research project during my sabbatical where I’m interviewing students who’ve used the Makerspace about their influences, perceptions, and experiences and I’m so grateful to get to be in my 40s and have a career where I work every day with so many creative curious interested students

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 5d

We're settling in for @aelang.bsky.social's @scholarslab.bsky.social talk connecting literary studies w/explorations in 3D making to visualize, explore, inspire new approaches to interpreting & appreciating poetry. Lovely to see colleagues from the west coast & UK time zones! Livetweeting 🧵: +

aelang @aelang.bsky.social · 5d

For people wanting a distraction from the end of the world who are into critical making/literary DH/info viz/Dickinson, I'm giving a talk on 7 Oct (12pm EST/5pm GMT) at @scholarslab.bsky.social on plotspaces, a thing I invented to think about spatial imaginaries cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

a clear resin cube with text on one face and a curved design extending from another face in front of a window

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 5d

Obviously signing Trump’s compact is the death knell for a university, but the fact that any of them are even *considering* it exposes something deeply rotten at the heart of their leadership. It should disqualify them forever.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5d

If no human at Claivate is double checking the AI generated metadata, what's to indicate it will increase visibility and relevance in any more meaningful way than not having that metadata at all? Hallucinations aren't helpful.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 5d

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

Dear Alex,
We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available.

Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records?

Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC? 

The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 6d

This is tomorrow! Tuesday, October 7th online. Free and open to the public. Come check out Anouk Lang talking about poetry, #DHMakes, process, and more.

Scholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 9d

Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace

Please join us for the next in our digital humanities series, the Tuesday Forums, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab, of the Library's DH Center. These presentations invite...

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 5d

#DHmakes klaxon!

Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 5d

I will add that if some talented illustrator wanted to create a line art/woodcut version of the ICE-Wizard Frog standoff & share it with me, I could probably be convinced to print news broadsides early-modern style @skeuomorphpress.org

Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · 5d

Oh I am on it. Printing this template out and bringing my loom to afternoon craft time at the library to get started.

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Franklin Sayre @franklinsayre.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly can’t argue with that

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Trump on AI: "In terms of medical, in terms of medical costs, in terms of knowledge, it's basically information. And information at a level that nobody thought possible before. So we'll see."

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