In 2025 I made a New Year's Resolution to "get into movies" (see at least 25 movies, half in cinemas) and... yeah so I saw 429 movies? I'm low key obsessed with my letterboxd stats and I know I get a wrapped from them tomorrow, but there's a bunch of wild stuff in there that I want to talk about:

For a New Year’s Eve, a reading:

One of my favorite bits is to describe European history as "barbarous in-fighting on a minor peninsula while the real cultural achievements happened in the major empires of the world" because I'm not wrong and it really rankles the kind of person I enjoy rankling.

logging on

It is honestly fucked up that the whole body is like a system or whatever. My hips are super tight right now from a plane sleep and it's actually wrecking my whole life.

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

Here’s to 2026

Anyway, it’s okay to say AI was a mistake. If AI people didn’t want everything to be lumped in with the nonsense LLMs are forcing onto society, they had a decade to draw that distinction and never bothered to. Now the branding is stuck, sorry guys you have to have ideas now not just sneers.

Being an adult is just having a favorite spatula and being angry when it's dirty.

My final Directed By Women Viewing Guide of the year features 70 new releases (and restorations) that I have recommended throughout the year that you can now watch on streaming or rent, just in case you missed them during their theatrical release (plus some streaming films that bear repeating).

Really good week in movies! Huge fan of the Letterboxd video store so far. #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

thinking about setting the roomba free for the holidays, just opening the door and letting it go (in case its new years resolution is to kill)

Never mind, I'm unstoppable actually

I'm a strong, independent person who can do anything I set my mind to, but also I'm 5'1" with an arm-span to match and that's currently getting in the way of the home improvement project I'm attempting (connecting a Blu-ray player to a TV that I did not install).

Love texting the group chat with "Welcome to Over Thinking it With Larry, a recurring program of indefinite length:" and then having an extremely minor question that I should be capable of being normal about

if gender isn't a performance then why are there so many goddamn kpis?

At long last, we’ve created the Spectacle from classic French critical philosophy book Don’t Invent the Spectacle

Froma dentists office order to my home. @goodluckpress.co so excited to play this!

I'm on day three of winter vacation and I already have Tetris-vision for Dredge. Every time I close my eyes all I see is fish.

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

the secret of Pynchon is that he’s the “she let me hit cause I’m goofy” of literary fiction

People are saying that this is a problem for all library catalogues but that's not true: this is a problem for, in this case, Ex Libris Primo and more generally for outsourced proprietary library catalogues that libraries don't control. The answer, as always, is to build and control our own tech.

Turns out that libraries should've invested in building and maintaining our own catalogs instead of outsourcing to, frankly evil, companies like Ex Libris

Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?

I have an official DH Center Cord Grab Box in my office and it came in handy the other day. I felt like a superhero. I felt the joy of every dad who's ever kept the miscellaneous cords just in case flow though me.

The average high for Denver for the weak of Christmas is around 45f / 7c. It's going to be 70f / 21c or higher all fucking week. Halloween is normally a snowy holiday here. We instead have had one snow system, the second latest ever, starting on November 29th.

All the discomfort and struggle of "but writing is haaaaard" and "art is haaaaard" well, yes, true, and the hard is the point. Having the feelings, doing the thinking, practicing the craft is how you get better at it. Not by stealing other people's work and pretending you did a thing. You didn't.

Not as many movies as usual (Wake Up up Dead Man was a Saturday watch) because I've been busy as hell, but some real fun was had #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

I had to fulfill my art requirement somehow; took a 20th Century Art survey class because I like modern art museums, it fit my schedule, and there was space; added an Art History minor. Alternately I took Aymara one summer as an excuse not to go home to NY and had a grand time.

one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, “holy shit this is racist”

No one ever talks about the academic jobs that marginalized folks won’t apply to because of state or institutional reputation for hostility towards their group. Again, who it really at a disadvantage in any job market? 🙃

If I could give any grant writing advice it would be to work/write for an institution with a short name. "University of Colorado Colorado Springs Center for Research Frontiers in the Digital Humanities" takes up so much goddamn space.

[outlook auto reply] thank you for your email. until further notice i will be safe in a tunnel underground. i will not have access to emails. for urgent issues please calm down, it can wait.

What gets me about executives at movie/videogame studios being taken aback at consumer backlash to AI is that they seem genuinely surprised that we like the human beings that make the things that we like

To earn your stripes as a librarian, you must: 1. Create a LibGuide 2. Join and leave a listserv 3. Clean up something weird 4. Get rejected by ALA Annual

The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.

"No one person could make a modern airliner work by themselves so we leave green M&Ms in the cockpit to placate its spirit" is fun "planes can't actually fly, because of women in the workplace" isn't

😮 A university without a library ceases to be a university. Full stop. I’m flabbergasted that a “determination” about a library’s future — besides FUND IT AND STAFF IT — needs to be made by an institute of higher learning.

Nothing spikes my just... I was going to say anxiety but really it's rage like Adobe Acrobat. Yes, hi, I would LOVE to update Acrobat to access adobe sign more seamlessly. I need to route a lot of forms! But Acrobat just actively won't let me update the software for some reason and I want to scream.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

So much of the magic behind libraries is the mail. 📚

absolutely nothing melts my brain like a research day. fully half of the day has been dedicated to research & writing projects and I can't words anymore.

This is the exact lighting they use for the pic to accompany a profile of a professor who got suspended because he kept using slurs in class as a supposed intellectual provocation.

nothing can put a bigger smile on my face than reading that Microsoft has to scale back its AI ambitions because NOBODY uses copilot.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

It's International Scream and Scream Until Your Throat is Raw Day, happy screaming to all who celebrate!

#DHmakes 🥰

This is Pancho. He’s mad because he asked for five more minutes and then you woke him up five minutes later. Unforgivable. 12/10 (IG: panchothediva)