Duolingo would work better for me if it weren’t so transparently manipulative. Like, that behavior will have precisely the opposite effect on me.

I honestly try not to be this person.

#DH Awards 2025 nominations open until 2026-02-27. What #DigitalHumanities resources updated in 2025 do you think deserve recognition of some sort? Nomination categories at: dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

I assume this means we’re actually playing a back 3? #MUFC

Fair. Musk’s body count must be higher than Thiel’s at this point.

Sir, I don’t think you understand. I NEED that lasagna. It’s very important to me.

Really seriously please take the 30 seconds and actually fill out the form.

🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨 Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025! Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday. 🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...

The CFP for ACH2026 is now live: ach2026.ach.org/en/cfp/ The theme this year is Emergence/ia and the conference will be virtual and bilingual. Submit proposals by 11:59pm on 2/2/2026 and save the date for June 24-26, 2026!

The emoji in Teams are so upsetting that it may cure me of using them.

Calling the #AncientSky, #Prosopography and #TEIFriday crowds: Please join us for a workshop on SNAP:DRGN secondary recommendations for TEI XML next week (general intro on Monday, working session on Wednesday) Info and booking: linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

Dan's post is great, as usual! It's exciting to move to full-page models that allow us to engage with the text and avoid mucking around with image processing. But we don't need to pronounce a eulogy on paleographers yet. The War Department and Jane Austen examples are likely known to the LM. 1/

The student-run Daily Tar Heel is doing stellar reporting on deep struggles over #UNC's School of Civic Life and Leadership, created by the legislature, here's the latest from reporter Aidan Lockhart: www.dailytarheel.com/article/inve...

Donations for families in need in Durham urgently requested: myemail.constantcontact.com/Funds-urgent...

We all finally had the talk a few years back and concluded that everyone hates turkey. This year, for the second time in a row, we will be doing Piepallooza.

At intermission at the Jordan HS production of Water for Elephants. It’s brilliant. The kids are all right. cejordantheatreandchorus.ludus.com

This is the fatal flaw of US society, that some people, like some corporations, are “too big to fail.”

Trying very hard to work while I’m too angry to concentrate. My daughter’s HS seems to have failed to send in her materials in time for her early action applications to be accepted. Just fuming. 😡

You know, I used to think it was a bit much how some people talk about their pets.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Wife at grocery store says it looks like it did in 2020 right before the lockdown, so that’s ominous.

Should a volunteer use #AI to help them transcribe pages for a #crowdsourcing project? That question got me thinking about why, exactly, my answer is "no" and what kinds of purposes different transcriptions may be used for. content.fromthepage.com/can-voluntee...

#EpiDoc Office Hour: Wednesday Oct 22 at 17:00 BST / 12:00 EDT. github.com/EpiDoc/Tutor... Feel free to drop in at the open zoom link if you want to know more about EpiDoc, have specific questions, need technical help, are thinking about a project or just want to hear what other people are up to.

Covid and flu vaccines on board. Up yours RFK!

Been saying this for years to anyone who’d listen. Excess capacity == resilience and agility. Not the opposite.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

A really interesting piece about the indebtedness of the University of Chicago and how it is destroying its academic reputation - killing the humanities subjects - so it can finance prestigious buildings by top architects. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

⚡ The #TEI2025 Book of Abstracts has just been published, edited by Joanna Hałaczkiewicz (@jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social). doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @teiconsortium.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

In other words, the shadow docket lets them have their cake and eat it too. They can give Trump whatever he wants and still be able to rule against a Democratic president in any similar circumstance.

Hey, Roman military historians! Are "tutela", "armicustos", and "duplicarius" offices/roles/assignments/ranks on Roman navy ships? I'm thinking so, but see what you think .... (via this open-web thread on my Fedi account)

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚 --- UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

So Fed Ex weirdly delivered my package to a random address and sent me a shot of someone else’s front door as proof of delivery. 🤷🏻‍♂️

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

I had a judge presiding over one of my cases ask me if I had been a defendant in one of his cases because he recognized me. I was like nope. I'm counsel. I was dressed impeccably in a vintage Calvin Klein suit that I'd paid way too much money for. It happened in 2005ish and I still think about it.

Uh, the man operating as President of the United States has illegally deployed the military into another US city with the intention of provoking dissent that will be met with lethal violence, and you want to negotiate with the people who think this is fine? What the fuck is wrong with you?

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