“Dusty archives” aside, this is what really got my goat. 1) DH is a sprawling field that comprehends a huge number of qualitative approaches, and 2) a facial recognition algorithm is absolutely a quantitative method. Don’t conflate how you would handle a task with what happens in the machine.

Oh cool, we’re astroturfing public hearings already. Very ethical and totally convincing that they’ll act with care and responsibility toward city residents.

lol what a day for Josh Hawley to finally write me back about FY26 appropriations with a bullshit “don’t blame me 🤷‍♂️” email. I can’t even remember when I sent it.

Today at 3:30 p.m.
BOA Public Infrastructure Committee hearing on #BOAres111 for data centers.

Testify at city hall or via Zoom.
Email comments to: [email protected]

We need a moratorium, by ordinance, on #datacenterSTL

#ArmoryTIF #SLU353

Details:
www.stlouis-mo.gov/events/event...

This can mean nothing good for student data.

My autocorrect changed chat to Chat this morning, and I have achieved a new level of loathing for it. (Impressive, since it also autocorrects the Dr. in my title to my friend’s name Dru.)

Well, uh, psa: the trail at Saint Stanislaus is blocked, and if you try to go around the blockage, you might just slide down into Cowmire Creek and spend 15 minutes trying to claw your way back out of the 3ft deep muck. But at least my shorts will dry out as I bike back to the bus!

There's lots in medieval canon law that we'd find problematic, even repugnant. This isn't a call to fully adopt a medieval morality (although it's often thoughtful and rooted in principles of care & community). But this quote does articulate a need for accountability and potential for moral injury.

Ok, I did do a little poking around. One relevant and damning take is this one, condemning priests who through light penance "do not cure the wounds of sinners but rather bathe and stroke them," "making pillows to catch souls." Feels like an apt metaphor for the sycophantic soothing we see here.

I think the canon lawyers have some work to do to.

Had she actually sought out readily available answers from wildlife rehabbers, she’d have found that newborn rabbits can’t be safely moved, and doing so is in fact illegal in some jurisdictions. Convenience culture kills, and not just bunnies.

By adding experimental and experiential methods to archival, art historical, and archaeological research, living history practitioners produce artifacts and practices that, like digital surrogates, are generative through (not despite) their limitations.

Yesterday, medieval historian Dr. Thomas Morin visited Digital Curation& Storytelling to talk about living history practices as a material surrogates with their own affordances: silences, ambiguities, and contradictions provide opportunities for scholarly choices and generate new research questions.

What’s medieval armor doing in a #DigitalHumanities class? Opening up questions about the role of surrogate sources! We often talk about the affordances of digital surrogates: gains like access and linked data, as well as limits like the inability to convey material, multisensory knowledge.

The wide range of currencies and modes of exchange in the Middle Ages of course turns this specious analogy on its head. And don’t forget that trans people existed then too! #MedievalistsForTransRights

It’s World Car-Free Day today! It’s a great reminder to explore your non-car options and make some concrete plans for Week Without Driving (Sept. 29-Oct. 5). #CarFreeDay #WeekWithoutDriving #WeekWithoutDriving2025

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Despite its consistently abysmal ranking on best of Buffy lists, I adore this episode for tech ethics and materiality vs. digitality conversations! I’m excited tomorrow to talk about everything from internet dating then and now to the smell of books and sensory experiences in digital spaces.

Just finished my rewatch of Buffy S1Ep8, “I Robot, You Jane,” where they accidentally digitize a demon into the internet. I’ve assigned it for my DH/Technology and Literature class tomorrow, and if you don’t hear from me after, it’s because the class discussion will have turned me to dust.

Kazuo Ishiguro, call your office

100%. It exacerbates the existing cycle : When transit agencies lose funding and slash routes/frequencies, it becomes less usable. Fewer people ride, because fewer people CAN ride. But falling ridership numbers become a pretext for further disinvestment. The best way to improve transit is to use it.

Take a listen to @hrambsy.bsky.social’s interview about the Black Lit Network on @stlpublicradio.bsky.social! From the barbershop to the classroom, it’s a project deeply rooted in a genuinely public humanities. When you’re done, visit www.blacklitnetwork.org and try it out! #DigitalHumanities

What’s the term for corporations using grants and charitable giving to launder their reputations? (Maybe greenwashing works here too 💵)

David Stifter’s Sengoídelc textbook is beginner-friendly (and has fun little sheep cartoons!). I worked through it as a complete beginner with no formal courses available.