Greetings from Silicon Valley! Enjoy the funny dance now because these things will probably be committing atrocities in a year or two 🥳

🚨 New article out now in Internet Histories! 🌊 A History of water quality data on the web, from 1997-2025 🤔 How do we know what's in our water? Through web-based data dashboards, which have changed a LOT in the last 20 years ➡️ Free eprints available now! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KS8KK...

🚨 New article out now in Internet Histories! 🌊 A History of water quality data on the web, from 1997-2025 🤔 How do we know what's in our water? Through web-based data dashboards, which have changed a LOT in the last 20 years ➡️ Free eprints available now! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KS8KK...

Submitted grades to the registrar. Spring 2026 is a wrap 🥳

To all who say "Let people enjoy things," I say "Let people hate things"

MacBook with aftermarket 'bass boost' button

Is WSOU the only radio station in America that regularly plays E-Town Concrete?

My paper "Historicizing Web-Based Environmental Data Dashboards: Surfrider.org, 1997-2025" has been accepted for publication in Internet Histories 🥳 It compares data structures, web source, and supporting documents from 1997 to 2025, to show how citizen science data curation changes over time

You know what's even funnier than typing "pubic" instead of "public"? Typing "sharting" instead of "sharing"

🚨BIG NEWS🚨 I just signed a contact with MIT Press for my book "Psychedelic Software" 🥳 We all know the 60s counterculture influenced home computing conceptually, but this book uses digital forensics to show how hippie theories of consciousness were baked into software at a technical level too

Big update, this article now has a volume number (62) and issue number (2)

In honor of the Artemis II mission, I decided to open this “Apollo Space Pen,” which I purchased as a souvenir from the Kennedy Space Center as a child in the 1990s. It didn’t work, but I have contacted the Fischer Space Pen company regarding their lifetime guarantee

Just registered for the Archival Education and Research Initiative conference at University of British Columbia this summer. I'll be speaking on the Digital Curation in Archival Education Roundtable. #AERI #AERI2026 Revisiting the 2010s "Canadian Riviera" sound in preparation ra.co/features/2740

Someone told me I have a “Portland vibe” and I don’t know how to take it

If Elf Bars and Galaxy Gas can have fun fruit flavors, I think my asthma inhalers should too

several of my students called me 'john hodges' this week and i can't tell if it's an honest mistake (easy to make, for sure), or if i'm being trolled

Big congratulations to the contract faculty at NYU who went on strike to secure better contracts and won this week 🫡🫡🫡 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/n...

I hope it works as well as every other meta product 🙏

(whispers) he only eats if you get paid

Deep thoughts about grade inflation because a screenwriter liked my 2.5-star Letterboxd review of his film

Tech companies and their supporters will try to make you feel like a fool and Luddite when you believe that their “innovations” are stupid. But sometimes their “innovations” are legitimately just stupid.

San José mentioned! 🥳🥳🥳 www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Leon Tolvi and Ruben Reyes of Video Americana, a Puerto Rico coin-op distribution company, pose with an After Burner upright cabinet shortly after being granted Sega distribution rights for the island in 1987.

In New Jersey we all went to Manhattan for a play once a year or so. But we also went to see the site of the Hindenburg explosion, which is arguably more notable

This email for a Department of War cybersecurity initiative looks like a laser tag ad

Ski resort ownership has been heavily consolidated by two Colorado-based companies for 10+ years now, so it’s notable to see their biggest challenger (Indy Pass) moving operations out of the Rockies and into New Hampshire www.wmur.com/article/blac...

I have many complaints about management, but I am glad to see them display at least single vertebrae of spine in this particular instance edsource.org/2026/csu-sue...

A major victory! ✊ "This is a member-driven landmark achievement that will have an enormous impact in Kansas. This would not be possible without the courage of our members, who dug in and fought so hard because they knew that a fair contract was possible.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

They want to get rid of faculty so bad, they are like slavering at the prospect

From NYT interview with Alysa Liu This is why I like the French designation of “sport de glisse,” aka gliding sports. We don’t really have an equivalent in English but it’s really useful as a way to categorize sports like skiing & ice skating together, along w/ others like skateboarding & surfing

just assume every 'secure' service is a honeypot www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Never really thought about it until today: New York is the only state with coasts on both an ocean and a Great Lake

There is a specific kind of gentrified pizza restaurant in New York City that's designed to mimic the chain restaurant pizza that transplants from far-flung regions are nostalgic for.

Follow the rules and you end up with an ACSM file Become an outlaw and you get a beautiful PDF

New article by Britt Paris, Serita Sargent and me in Big Data & Society We discuss collective bargaining around AI and how organized labor can meaningfully push back on—and even refuse—the pervasive narrative of AI inevitability journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

People who say that regional accents are disappearing obviously haven’t heard a NYC-area radio ad for Top Dog Law

Imagine you're prepping a DJ set. There's a track you want, but it's out of print. Only available on Discogs for $100+. No digital version for sale anywhere. You check on SoulSeek. You find it. You're stoked. And then it turns out you got the AI Homer Simpson version 🤣 www.vice.com/en/article/i...

Shoveling my car out during the snowiest season NYC has had for ten years or so, I had a scary realization: there’s an entire generation of drivers out there who grew up with almost no experience driving in snow 😬

the management class is accomplishing absolutely brilliant stuff

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If you're a grad student and you ever feel stung by a rejection, please know that I have one paper I'm still working on despite getting it rejected repeatedly for five years now. I've published so much in the meantime I don't even remember half of it. But I'm at my desk today, revising it again.

This seems like it should be a bigger story. But it's not, probably because the lying corporate press hates to admit when protests actually accomplish something denverite.com/2026/02/17/p...

I love how much paratextual information accumulates on an old scientific report. Here we see at least 3 or 4 different layers of document history before it became the Biodiversity Heritage Library's canonical scan

Tax season means listing weird stuff from my mom’s basement on eBay

Happy adoption anniversary, Snake! Four years ago we adopted this Texas dirt dog with a messed up eye and named her after the eyepatch-wearing protagonist of “Escape from New York.” Her eye is fine now, but the name and the legend remain

I really like this NTS radio show, and I listened to several episodes before I realized that the thumbnail was very subtly different each time

Teamsters at all 22 of our campuses are set to strike next week 😳. Management is trying weasel out of a raise they already signed off on by swapping it for one-time payments. All over quibbles about the definition of 'ongoing' funding csulauniversitytimes.com/teamsters-lo...

I love getting targeted ads for new luxury cars. First, there's no way I can afford that. Second, even if I could, I would buy a ten year old Japanese economy car instead.

Phantom dog syndrome: I see a mailman and wonder why I don't hear barking