God decided none of us has been good and He’ll just have to check back later.

Pure genius.

At #TEI2025 the venue for #TEI2026 is announced as Vancouver, both UBC and SFU to take place 10-16 August 2026. Watch this space. @teiconsortium.bsky.social

Closing keynote at the #TEI2025 meeting with Diane Jakacki and Julia Flanders

#TEI people on the city tour of Kraków this evening.

Wonderful welcome for the @teiconsortium.bsky.social and #TEI community from the local organising committee of the #tei2025 conference and our incredible hosts @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social:

Diane Jakacki and Elisa Beshero Bondar with Jan Rybicki introducing the #TEI Conference.

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In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them." ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025 www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

Having to agree with Rand Paul hurts me.

Florida Decided There Were Too Many Children

BRING OUT YER DEAD

I miss the old brand #CDC

The corporatization of universities has been a disaster.

So the sandwich guy ... beat the wrap

I don't want to repost the awful stuff in that Chat GPT suicide case. But I will say that Chat GPT should be destroyed, financially and legally. The data centers should be disassembled and recycled. Sam Altman should go to prison.

DC statehood now.

The latest thing Trump has done to DC: Scare the visitors away. Damaging all the businesses, large and small, that depend on them. Along the National Mall today, 1pm, on a stunningly beautiful Saturday afternoon in late August. (Article and more photos to come later today.)

I think people from the @TEIConsortium or @adho.org would help us enormously if they found the time to intervene here and describe use cases from our field for a modern XSLT in the browser: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11578

Seriously. That’s enough.

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.

Arabic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies, Religion, & more—decimating the humanities destroys our ability to understand the world, act in it, and envision a future. Blue states are complicit in this destruction of scholarship and teaching @uoregon.bsky.social

Pray for me. This afternoon I must spend an hour and a half on mandatory training so that I remain eligible to apply for grants that probably don’t exist any longer.

Trying to push through despair at the slow death of things I care about under the current dismantling of US academia and get this project finished. Feels a bit like I’m doing a puzzle sitting on the deck of the Titanic. I wonder if I’ll finish before everything sinks.

They are clearly doing whatever they can to create the conditions where someone gets shot. Presumably in order to find out if they can get away with it.

Feel like one political party kidnapping an opponent should be bigger news

🔥🔥WATCH: “Rappers are smarter than economists”👇🏽 @dossdiscourse.bsky.social explains more cops doesn’t lower crime it just means more money for private prisons— Addressing poverty/hunger/health care lowers crime… but Trump’s trillions transfer just made all that MUCH WORSE… meaning crime will rise.

#TEIFriday A brief thread in (1) #EpiDoc history and (2) open data pubication:

Jeez. We must have driven right by this like a block over on our way back from seeing friends in Columbia Heights. We’ve been in DC all day, and it’s Absolutely Normal. Not a crime wave in sight, btw. Well, other than in the WH.

Ain’t no dumbass like an Ivy League dumbass.

It will be bleach-based, no doubt.

XSLT *should* be part of the web platform. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/xslt-is-still-important/

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Working on my slides for my #Balisage talk next week and getting heavily distracted by my mostly unwritten paper for the #TEI annual meeting in September. This is very on brand for me.

The downside to running a university like a business is that it will act like a business and simply adapt to government pressure rather than stand up to it.

We knew this was coming. The admin is going to want to fold immediately, so it’s up to the students, staff, faculty, and alumni—the people who really *are* the university—to agitate for our integrity.

Apropos of nothing, but my dad once bought a Lada for the Child Care Board in Barbados (I assume it was the cheapest station wagon they could get). That thing had the *most elaborate* toolkit I’ve ever seen in a car. Dad: “That doesn’t bode well.”

brave DNC plant in RNC headquarters: we salute you for putting a lada on that poster

Y'all! There's only 2 more weeks to register for the Annual Meeting! Get on it! tei-c.org/news/2025/07...

Today was the last day for a whole bunch of great colleagues who took voluntary separation offers. Incredibly sad, and a massive loss of institutional memory all at once.

"The man who is not yet mayor is to blame for a shooting that happened under the watch of an ex-cop mayor who's thrown every available dollar at the NYPD," insists sex pest

The replies here are so funny because they’re all like “oh SKYDADDY?!?! You talked to SKYDADDY?!?!” and I don’t know what to tell you but a lot of people from a lot of different faiths actually do pray about stuff to think about it particularly this old ass Sunday School teacher from North Carolina

They have an excellent reason for it: because they may in the future be held accountable for their crimes.

This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1

A reminder that registration for the TEI Annual Meeting is open! See tei-c.org/news/2025/07... for the registration link and the conference program.

Wait?! To use direct messaging on #bsky I have to go through #AgeVerification and give all my personal data and gov ID to a multi-national *Games* company that assumes I'm a parent?! I'm all for keeping children safe, but this seems poorly thought out. www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/o...

I’ve low key wondered for a while if chatbots end up getting banned for just this reason. Humans have always had the capacity to drive ourselves crazy, but this seems like a shortcut.

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