You can't understand the Renee Good killing without Ashli Babbitt. It's not about hypocrisy. It's about fascism. www.thebulwark.com/p/renee-good...

Quilt map of foreclosed Albuquerque properties, by Kathryn Clark. One in a series.

Winter sunrise, Santa Fe

Well ok then…

The land has been year-walked. The future has been met in the lanes and ways. The cunning folk have conferred. On the doors of The Raven, The Woodwose's Crown and all the other pubs they use, the proclamation has gone up: 'This is the YEAR OF THE GREEN PATHS.'

Would be a boon to the hearing impaired as well 💯

This describes the most interesting of the ways I use llm-bots, and is remarkable on several levels apart from the several societal downsides. An irresolvable dilemma for me at this point.

Spellbound by the hundreds of works by Gustav Baumann at the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe yesterday. How is it I’d never heard of him?

Oops, left out the url to my web site that explains me more fully...https://kgeographer.org

I'm now seeking part-time development contract(s) after a semi-retirement phase of personal research. Projects or experiments in spatial humanities, geo-inflected NLP, LLM stuff, software design, data modeling & munging all possible. DM me if you think of something and RT if inclined. Thx.

I’m sorry but ‘heritage American’ makes you sound like a tomato

The @nytimes.com thinks that while a $350 carryon is great, a $730 would serve me better. I might not be in their target demographic.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

and then retrieve the information they hold in computable form? And then make it FAIR LOD?

The first reporter to speak up, interrupt, and call Trump out to his face while he is berating, insulting and personally attacking another female reporter for no reason will be a national hero. You may lose access, but you will be a legend forever. At some point, someone has to.

I just wrote a list of what I think are the 5 things the #PleiadesGazetteer needs most in 2026 (in no particular order): hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

I had a year-long experiment with AI (LLMs) & creation myths. Stopped after realizing I could only expose LLM capability(?) to interpret metaphorical text in societal context, not the myth concepts themselves. Neither of which I’m competent to judge. Comments welcome. kgeographer.org/glos_on_paus...

Arrived in Santa Fe for a month’s stay, so…

ㅤ Snake Gate — Abaty Tyndyrn [Tintern Abbey], bank of the River Wye, Monmouthshire ㅤ

Rothko is growing on me. No particular reason.

Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell. Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.

Q to the hivemind: I'm wondering if anyone else around here's been building RAG systems for cultural collections/museums? I'm curious about what/how you're indexing. Metadata, transcripts/chunks? Images full or segmented? LLM-generated descriptions? What's your queries and response workflow?

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

Phase A of my GLOS project digitized, and built exploratory tools for, canonical folklore indexes. Phase B, which attempted concept induction from creation myths using LLMs has stalled. Turned into a study of LLM interpretive capabilities, not myths. Inevitably. Blog post explains: kgeographer.org.

Hasta luego Europa

Today I joined ~200 others at the Les Camposines memorial site in the mountains of Catalunya, honoring those who died in the Batalla de l'Ebre in 1938. I heard my uncle's name read as one added to the plaques this year, and in some sense laid him to rest after 87 years, thanks to the Catalunya govt

The program for the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium is now online. Registration will open soon. The symposium is Dec 4 & 5. Plan to check out the Thematic Sessions, Paper Sessions, Emerging Researchers Panel, Keynotes, and Interview. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/program.html

The programme for the Linked Pasts Symposium is now live! This is online goal-oriented meeting taking place from 1-12 December for building, planning & learning about the application of linked open data (LOD) to historical texts, events & data 🔸More: www.atrium-research.eu/events/linke...

Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12) linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

NYC born and raised. This great cover illustrates the world I saw growing up. I left in my late 20s. You can take the boy out of NY but you can’t take the NY out of the boy. Mamdani’s win is a breath of fresh air today.

Last night I went to the Puca Festival in Trim, Ireland. It's all fun and games until someone unleashes a giant demonic hare.

You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

Going back and forth: do I end my 4-year plus #LongRoundabout’ nomadic trek and resettle in the US, or carry on in a #Don’tStopTillYouDrop (DSTYD) extension, adding South America and other new for me places.

Paul Klee says Happy Halloween (detail from Fairy Tale of the Dwarf, 1925)

Due to return to the US in 2 weeks. To this. On the way back stopping in Spain to attend a memorial ceremony for Spanish Civil War deceased, where an uncle I never met will have his name inscribed on a plaque with others who died in Batalla de l’Ebre in 1938. Wondering what he would be doing now.

Is this photo real? wtaf? Also, when I type “wtaf” I’m offered these emojis. Who says AI and surveillance are useless?

cc @jvl.bsky.social

cc @elijahmeeks.bsky.social Seems like just…decades ago. Another project that followed on in the same vein several years ago is althurayya.github.io

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

It’s not hard to imagine the conversation setting Bannon’s relationship to Trump after his exit from the “orbit”: Bannon: “no need to appear with me or mention me; I’ll just say the shit you can’t, straight up. That’s what I do.” Trump: “deal” or vice versa

Some thoughts from recent talks: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-a...

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social puts a fine point on this “giddy nihilism.” Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Why, was there a protest yesterday? Nothing about any protest on the @nytimes.com site right now.

#NoKings Miami!

A few hundred people, 2 frogs and a few bananas at #NoTyrants in Vienna today #NoKings either

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/