Leaving in a few days for a seven week stay in Argentina. First time in South America, the missing continent for me. So I rented The Motorcycle Diaries tonight and the inveterate motorcycle road tripper in me is jealous. Eduardo Galeano is on Kindle for the flight, much to learn.

from @jasonheppler.org "Generative AI is really bad at doing history. But it can enable me to do good history." jasonheppler.org/2026/03/09/v... 💯 Have lots to say, but too busy implementing complex project-specific geo-statistical methodology w/Claude. Key: I drive the bus, b/c I can.

DOGE, ChatGPT, and the NEH...gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

The thrill Trump gets from having people blow up & kill other people, and from watching other people fight at UFC, comes from deep insecurity rooted in his personal cowardice. It makes him feel tough. It makes him feel adequate. Things he has never been but always wanted to be.

Context

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines". www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

Must be readin' my mail

What a shame I missed it.

Outstanding

Back in the day we heard that the Wide World of Sports was about the "thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." They left out the joy of performing with everything you've got. Saw a lot of that, and what a salve it was.

He Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/o...

Tried to imagine Donald Trump giving dap to Devin Booker at the All-Star Game as Obama just did - or even being there - and it broke my brain. #NBA #AllStar

Berkeley, CA sign needs to lose a couple of lights

I like to think color palettes are attributes of places, and plan to use them in artworks. So I wrote scripts for selecting and saving them from my travel photos. From right to left, on mostly small roads from Santa Fe to the East Bay, CA.

Did you know you can get a turnkey DH website for less than $5,000? Complete with an interactive map-based search, built-in content management system, hosting, maintenance, and support! dh.tools/fairdata #DigitalHumanities #Mapping #LinkedData

It's a tie - George Gershwin and Lou Gehrig

I just published v0.1.0 of tiny.iiif 🚀 - the first official release of my new IIIF server! • Publish images as IIIF instantly • Organize images with simple drag+drop • Image Service + Presentation manifests + user-friendly GUI all in one package Available now! github.com/rsimon/tiny-...

Excited to be giving a [virtual] talk at the Rutgers "A.I. and the study of antiquity" March 13. I'll mostly be talking about NLP for improving accessibility in ANS digital projects as well as some other computer vision projects for die linking and classification.

disgusting and beyond belief...but what is believable is a shifting landscape. where will we go over the next 3 years? I recall Ta-nehisi Coates saying in 2017, in effect, Pandora's Box was not opened when Trump was elected to his first term, but when Barack Obama was elected to his.

I can finally share the happy news 🚀 liiive.now — my tool for real-time collaborative annotation of #IIIF images — is going open source! First code is available here: github.com/rsimon/liiive Self-hosted setup coming by end of February. #OpenSource #DigitalHumanities

Need to publish images as #IIIF — but have only 30 SECONDS to do it? tiny.iiif to the rescue! 🫨 • Drag & drop images → instant IIIF Image Service • Create a folder → drag images in → instant presentation manifest! Work in progress, but already a lot of fun. Ping me if you want to know more!

And the good news continue: we have an open position for a University Professor (§99(1) Universities Act 2002) - in the field of "Digital Earth - Geovisualization"!

This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for “illegals trying to vote.”

Dear all, we have a shiny new website pelagios.org. We hope that it does a better job of setting out who we are, what we do, and why you might want to join us.

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

No, it doesn’t

I deleted Linked In like 15 years ago, but if anyone knows of research software engineering, digital humanities, or digital GLAM/cultural heritage jobs, please let me know.

Carl Sauer on geography as a discipline in 1925: "[The] contact of man with his changeful home, as expressed through the cultural landscape, is our field of work...we deal with the interrelation of group, or cultures, and site, as expressed in the various landscapes of the world." Works for me.

New #PleiadesGazetteer online events have been posted for January and February 2026: pleiades.stoa.org/events These include the three-part “Getting Started” workshop and a number of “editorial open sessions”. Registration in advance is required as outlined in the individual event notices.

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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...