Yo, anyone want to be a Bird Identification Machine Learning Software Engineer for the wonderful Cornell Lab of Ornithology, home of the Merlin app?!? It’s remote! I do not have these skills but maybe you do! #jobs jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

The last thing they find on my phone when I disappear.

The Persistence of Memery #art #illustration #OhMyGodISpent23HoursOnThis #memes #painting #dali #PleaseLaugh

On which, see www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Some further reading, while you're here: endings.uvic.ca/index.html The Endings Project is IMNHO a really important resource on best practices for the afterlife of digital projects. kdl.kcl.ac.uk/about/archivin… Kings DIgital Lab's approach to the problem of maintaining unfunded sites.

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

This follows a retirement. #lisjobs 📜https://phxc3c.rfer.us/UIOWA7gaVOl

CELEBRATING FRIDAY WITH NANCY & SLUGGO

John Coltrane / The Tiberi Tapes: A Preview of the Mythic Recordings [Full Album] youtu.be/AJCAkZ2yUR4?...

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

🧵 The arguments behind landmark Supreme Court rulings have never been freely available… until now. More than 125,000 #SCOTUS records & briefs (1830–2019) are now open on the Internet Archive. Full announcement ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u... @wolflawlibrary.bsky.social

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight.io poll: Trump approval falls to 35% as rating for handling prices hits a record -46 www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-21...

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

Greetings all. I'm looking for a podcast producer to help do a (much) more regular BLOOD IN THE MACHINE show. I thought I'd start by reaching out here, and to the broader BITM community. If this sounds like it's up your alley, details are in the link below:

New Tom Waits with Massive Attack. Devastating. youtu.be/L-57FrioeuE?...

*That’s* where I left them.

Happy Ruination Day to all who celebrate

I kept waiting for the audience laughter at the end only to realize this wasn’t an SNL fake C-SPAN voiceover

Trump gets McDonalds DoorDashed to White House and then takes Iran war questions with delivery person

What can large-scale studies tell us about reproducibility? In our webinar on April 16, researchers from COS, I4R, and META-REP will discuss findings from three papers—one from the recently published SCORE effort—and insights on reproducibility, transparency, and credibility cos-io.zoom.us/webin...

ORBÁN CONCEDED

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

The Edge of Sentience (print edition) is released TODAY in North America. And the online edition will remain free forever at academic.oup.com/book/57949. It's been great to see the ideas already generating lots of discussion and commentary.

A panel of experts from multiple social science data archives—including the ARDA, @icpsr.bsky.social, @qdr.bsky.social, and @ropercenter.bsky.social—shared about resources that are widely available for teaching and learning about data. A recording of the workshop is available at the link below.

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Somehow I hadn't connected in my head that Thomas More who wrote Utopia was the same person as the guy from A Man For All Seasons.

There’s an impeachment resolution out as of April 6th. Now my thing is if they’re actually gonna go through with this on the House floor

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

remember those other branches of government

I am excited to announce the beta release of @verasight.io’s Free AI Survey Programming Tool: Doc2Survey, that automatically converts any survey drafted in a Word or Google Doc to a programmed Qualtrics survey (.qsf file). We are making Doc2Survey available for free! www.verasight.io/doc2survey

Still processing. 🤯 It appears Milla Jovovich, yes, the actress from Fifth Element has written an incredible llm memory system. github.com/milla-jovovi...

Dream Vision; A Nightmare (1525), by Albrecht Dürer, who died #onthisday in 1528. The watercolour and accompanying text describe an apocalyptic dream he had on the night of 7-8th June 1525. More art depicting #dreams here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-dreams #OTD

bsky.app/profile/nott... reproduction is not replication.

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

This worries me most about AI in science. It's what happened with the advent of Stata and SPSS. They enabled incredibly rapid advances in the sciences and also set the stage for the replication crisis. Sadly, so many scientists simply don't understand the stats they are using.

this is HILARIOUS therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...

eatin spaghetti, germany, 15th century

Feb 3, 2025 - We started fighting to save our data. July 3, 2025 - We launched #SaveOurSigns with Minn librarians. April 2026 - We are still talking about the importance of public data as a public good. ❤️🛟

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music Several dozen folks did Some even dubbed music over the original clip. I haven't been able to get this out of my head. So I give you A Bluesky exclusive: Reservoir Ducks 🐣 🪶

BREAKING NEWS on federal data standards

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This one hurts...when I was writing my last book, Kidder's Soul of a New Machine was one of the books about computing that got me fired up to do the project www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...