Daniel Fandino
@danfandino.bsky.social
Historian, PhD. Digital Exploration Center librarian at UCF. American and Japanese history, popular culture, technology, digital history. Sorcerer Supreme, EVA pilot, Future Gadget Lab Mem. "I've studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines."
Absolute cinema.
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Absolute cinema.
Thrilled to begin a new role directing the UCF Libraries' new Digital Exploration Center!
UCF Libraries Welcomes Digital Exploration Center Librarian - UCF Libraries
The University of Central Florida (UCF) Libraries is pleased to announce the appointment of Daniel Fandino as the new Digital Exploration Center (DEC) Librarian. Daniel brings over seven years of expe...
library.ucf.edu
October 2, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Thrilled to begin a new role directing the UCF Libraries' new Digital Exploration Center!
One of those cat days.
August 14, 2025 at 9:32 PM
One of those cat days.
Happy Federation Day! On 12 August 2161, representatives from Earth, Andor, Tellar, and Vulcan sign the Articles of Federation, founding the United Federation of Planets.
August 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Happy Federation Day! On 12 August 2161, representatives from Earth, Andor, Tellar, and Vulcan sign the Articles of Federation, founding the United Federation of Planets.
Witch Watch episode 14 certainly committed to the bit.
July 7, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Witch Watch episode 14 certainly committed to the bit.
I had a busy weekend Marvel. Could we have held off on the Thunderbolts reveal spoiler just a little longer?
May 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I had a busy weekend Marvel. Could we have held off on the Thunderbolts reveal spoiler just a little longer?
Shizuoka is home to much of Japan's model kit industry, hence the slogan, "A Model City." Large sculptures like this dot the city.
April 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Shizuoka is home to much of Japan's model kit industry, hence the slogan, "A Model City." Large sculptures like this dot the city.
Best 300¥ I spent in gatcha machines this time around.
April 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Best 300¥ I spent in gatcha machines this time around.
Himeji Castle among the cherry blossoms.
April 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Himeji Castle among the cherry blossoms.
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First keynote of the Global DH Symposium 2025!
Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor
🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social
🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes
“Everything must change if we want to stay the same.”
#GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025
Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor
🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social
🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes
“Everything must change if we want to stay the same.”
#GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025
April 7, 2025 at 1:37 PM
First keynote of the Global DH Symposium 2025!
Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor
🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social
🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes
“Everything must change if we want to stay the same.”
#GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025
Minimal Lab / Maximal Labor
🗣️ Gimena del Rio Riande @gimenadelr.bsky.social
🎙️ Moderator: Kristen Mapes
“Everything must change if we want to stay the same.”
#GlobalDH #DigitalHumanities #DH2025
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Final day at #OAH2025!
We have free totes, pens, notebooks and stickers!
We’ve had great chats about how H-Net can help during these hard times for scholars. How can we work together?
We’ll be away for a meeting between 12:15 and 1:30, but otherwise please stop by and say hello!
We have free totes, pens, notebooks and stickers!
We’ve had great chats about how H-Net can help during these hard times for scholars. How can we work together?
We’ll be away for a meeting between 12:15 and 1:30, but otherwise please stop by and say hello!
April 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Final day at #OAH2025!
We have free totes, pens, notebooks and stickers!
We’ve had great chats about how H-Net can help during these hard times for scholars. How can we work together?
We’ll be away for a meeting between 12:15 and 1:30, but otherwise please stop by and say hello!
We have free totes, pens, notebooks and stickers!
We’ve had great chats about how H-Net can help during these hard times for scholars. How can we work together?
We’ll be away for a meeting between 12:15 and 1:30, but otherwise please stop by and say hello!
Happy First Contact Day! On April 5 2063 Zefram Cochrane will make his historic first warp flight, attracting the attention of a passing Vulcan ship. After the vessel lands, Cochrane leads a mob to slaughter the Vulcan invaders and seize their ship, starting the reign of the Terran Empire.
April 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy First Contact Day! On April 5 2063 Zefram Cochrane will make his historic first warp flight, attracting the attention of a passing Vulcan ship. After the vessel lands, Cochrane leads a mob to slaughter the Vulcan invaders and seize their ship, starting the reign of the Terran Empire.
Okayama castle on a cloudy morning.
April 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Okayama castle on a cloudy morning.
This has been my favorite manga of the past two years, glad it's gotten an anime adaptation!
Tune In to the Midnight Heart Anime Announces Heroines' Cast, Main Staff
Momoko Seto, Rumi Okubo, Sayumi Suzushiro, Miku Itō co-star in 2026 Gekkō anime
www.animenewsnetwork.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:44 AM
This has been my favorite manga of the past two years, glad it's gotten an anime adaptation!
The measure of an artificial man?
Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works
Computer scientist won’t give up fight to copyright AI-made art after court loss.
arstechnica.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The measure of an artificial man?
Reposted by Daniel Fandino
Five months before the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime Tokyo raid on March 9 and 10, 1945, was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.
'Eerie' sky, charred bodies: 80 years since Tokyo's World War II firestorm
Because of the atomic bombings and Japan's surrender a month later, the firebombing of Tokyo is often overlooked in history.
www.japantimes.co.jp
March 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Five months before the U.S. dropped atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the nighttime Tokyo raid on March 9 and 10, 1945, was World War II's deadliest using conventional bombs.
I'm still not sitting through the Endless Eight again.
How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof
When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years
www.scientificamerican.com
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I'm still not sitting through the Endless Eight again.
Reposted by Daniel Fandino
Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced.
Magnetic tapes at risk without digitization, archive groups warn
UNESCO has called for the digitization of audio and video recordings kept in academic and cultural institutions.
www.japantimes.co.jp
March 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Magnetic tape recordings used in videotapes and cassette tapes, which were popular up to the 2000s, are at risk of being lost as the tapes deteriorate and replay equipment are no longer produced.
Happy National Cat Day (猫の日)! Lord Regent Kyubey approves of your celebration.
February 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Happy National Cat Day (猫の日)! Lord Regent Kyubey approves of your celebration.
In many ways Marvel Rivals represents the modern day incarnations of some of the ideas about Japan in gaming that I discussed in my dissertation. It's also fun and I'm a now a Peni Parker main it seems.
February 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
In many ways Marvel Rivals represents the modern day incarnations of some of the ideas about Japan in gaming that I discussed in my dissertation. It's also fun and I'm a now a Peni Parker main it seems.
Reposted by Daniel Fandino
LIVE STREAM starting Thursday, February 20 beginning at 8:30 am EST (US): Fear, Faith, and Praxis: Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Panels on Teaching, Research, and Ethics:
networks.h-net.org/2025-ai-symp...
#AI #humanities #socialsciences #academicsky
Panels on Teaching, Research, and Ethics:
networks.h-net.org/2025-ai-symp...
#AI #humanities #socialsciences #academicsky
February 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
LIVE STREAM starting Thursday, February 20 beginning at 8:30 am EST (US): Fear, Faith, and Praxis: Artificial Intelligence in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Panels on Teaching, Research, and Ethics:
networks.h-net.org/2025-ai-symp...
#AI #humanities #socialsciences #academicsky
Panels on Teaching, Research, and Ethics:
networks.h-net.org/2025-ai-symp...
#AI #humanities #socialsciences #academicsky
My partner and I are like Nick Fury assembling the Avengers when we are trying to get a trivia team together. "We need a sports person." Bring up files of everyone we know. And by files I mean naming people and thinking if they ever mentioned sports in conversation.
February 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My partner and I are like Nick Fury assembling the Avengers when we are trying to get a trivia team together. "We need a sports person." Bring up files of everyone we know. And by files I mean naming people and thinking if they ever mentioned sports in conversation.
Reposted by Daniel Fandino
Don't miss the opportunity to engage with Ho Che Anderson and TreaAndrea Russworm at the 2025 Comic Studies Society Conference at Michigan State University. Learn more about the conference here-->https://buff.ly/4ghOcE7 @ProfessorTMR @msucal @msuenglish @msulibraries
February 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Don't miss the opportunity to engage with Ho Che Anderson and TreaAndrea Russworm at the 2025 Comic Studies Society Conference at Michigan State University. Learn more about the conference here-->https://buff.ly/4ghOcE7 @ProfessorTMR @msucal @msuenglish @msulibraries
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The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week
The online archive will include over 1,500 magazine issues and other gaming artifacts at launch.
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week