Shane Lin
@shane.logoff.website
Historian and digital humanities developer @ Scholars' Lab, UVA Library. He/him. Dogs, data, history of privacy and cryptography. Great sage equal of heaven.
Pinned
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ex-CIA instinct to depose presidents will take over, we're in the clear
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ex-CIA instinct to depose presidents will take over, we're in the clear
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They need to go full Louis XVI
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They need to go full Louis XVI
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also a quick shout out to some recent @assignedmedia.org reporting about FIRE continuing to make common cause with the right
Can a Group Allied With the Right Defend the 1st Amendment for All? — Assigned
FIRE, a product of the “academic freedom” campaign, wants to protect free speech for everyone. Yet its stances show deference to religious views and a persistent anti-queer strain.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
also a quick shout out to some recent @assignedmedia.org reporting about FIRE continuing to make common cause with the right
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
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New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts
Something that now occasionally comes to mind, as a 40 year old man who grew up and went to school in Texas: which peripheral weirdo from my past will end up in the Trump admin?
So, back in college, incoming freshmen were assigned an upperclass mentor as a contact person in the opening days of school. Mine was an earnest, kind of dweeby guy from Texas who I had no particular reaction to for good or bad and haven't thought about in three and a half decades.
He's this guy.
He's this guy.
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation.
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Something that now occasionally comes to mind, as a 40 year old man who grew up and went to school in Texas: which peripheral weirdo from my past will end up in the Trump admin?
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Strong floor, no ceiling
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling
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"strong floor no ceiling" describes a pit
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"strong floor no ceiling" describes a pit
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Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.
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This op-ed glosses over 2020 and the Gaza protests too quickly. You can't understand why so many young people aren't in the streets without a deep dive into both.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This op-ed glosses over 2020 and the Gaza protests too quickly. You can't understand why so many young people aren't in the streets without a deep dive into both.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul
This is just the latest turn in long-running and bipartisan campaign of Sinophobia. The Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans.
This has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This is just the latest turn in long-running and bipartisan campaign of Sinophobia. The Democrats are just as much to blame as the Republicans.
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no money for politicians
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
no money for politicians
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"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.
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And fuck them all unless they do
Schumer can be removed from his Dem leadership role this week - 23 Dems (and/or independents) just have to vote to depose him
And they should, given this is his fault.
And they should, given this is his fault.
This is a lovely sentiment but Schumer isn't up for re-election until 2028 and he knows this. At which point he will be 77/78. There's no mechanism to recall a sitting senator AFAIK.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
And fuck them all unless they do
Dems are turning an issue that they’re both winning and right on and making it a defeat that people should rightly blame them for. Amazing political acumen. Four dimensional goddamn Russian roulette.
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Dems are turning an issue that they’re both winning and right on and making it a defeat that people should rightly blame them for. Amazing political acumen. Four dimensional goddamn Russian roulette.
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What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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They should make telescoping flagpoles so I can fly the flag at double mast when people I don't like die.
October 1, 2023 at 10:57 PM
They should make telescoping flagpoles so I can fly the flag at double mast when people I don't like die.
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but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished
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November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
but to offer a concluding thought, the real problem with "we need a new renaissance" is that a "renaissance" is created not by doing fundamentally new/ better things but rather by demonizing people in the PRESENT as "backwards" and hence enemies to be vanquished
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There is no bigger disconnect in politics right now than the difference between what Zohran says he's going to do and what his opponents say he's going to do
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
There is no bigger disconnect in politics right now than the difference between what Zohran says he's going to do and what his opponents say he's going to do