Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

New Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP) website is live. Try "Mythological Figure": palp.art/browse/#myth... . There's work to do. Exploring what the interface can and should be is absolutely part of the ongoing project...

And the great barge sank and the okies fled And the great emancipater took a bullet in the head In the head Took a bullet in the back of the head It was not December and it was not in May Was 14th of April, that is ruination day That's the day The day that is ruination day — Gillian Welch

The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future. Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure. Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!

Goodnight from The Girl In The Well pub, where Henry Fry’s claims that his stuffed weasel is possessed are being met with strong scepticism. Goodnight from Rebecca Wood, dreaming again of a shop that sells nothing but dolls’ eyes and four-faced angel charms. Goodnight from Hookland.

Heading to Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay by ferry from Buenos Aires tomorrow. Just an overnight stay, but NOT due to some manic need to add to country and World Heritage List totals. The weather will be nice and this is #GeographyResearch. It'll be 53 and 161.

12½ years ago, I made a map of all the buildings in the Netherlands. Unexpectedly, people loved it! Ever since, I have been wanting to make an updated version of the map. Newer data, higher resolution, more interactive! I never got around to it, until last week: bertspaan.nl/buildings

Coming up today, 10:00 EDT, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CEST. Register for zoom link: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi.... Explainer blog post with some detail: kgeographer.org/research

🤔 Curious..."may have" is fine in prose, but "less_certain" in a data model is not for many. I guess both is the answer, eh? 😉

cc @whgazetteer.org @rmostern.bsky.social

Made a good start on Computing Place, my capstone project looking into culture <> environment relations globally. First step: Environmental Dimensions of Place (EDOP) signatures for any given location. Tools linking them to cultural data will follow. Explainer: kgeographer.org/computing-pl... 1/x

I mean, who SAYS sh*t like this?

QS has once again ranked Pitt among the top 5 universities in the world for studying philosophy. #philsci https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/philosophy

Folks, the #PleiadesGazetteer has been nominated for the annual DH awards in the "dataset or model" category. There are, as always, many fantastic and important projects. If you use or have otherwise benefited from Pleiades, I hope you will consider voting for it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Once there was a glacier #findelmundo

I've undertaken 2 significant projects using AI in the last year and a half. First lasted a year and stopped when I discovered/realized LLMs were utterly inappropriate for the task. Painful knowledge gained. Second is ongoing, w/no interpretive ask and far more likely to proceed well and succeed.

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

We're very happy to announce that the Argentinian Drama Corpus (ArDraCor) 🇦🇷 was put on the #DraCor production server today: dracor.org/ar Work on ArDraCor will continue, led by @gimenadelr.bsky.social (hdlab.space, CONICET) & Ulrike Henny-Krahmer (RosDH, University of Rostock). #DigitalHumanities

Small update to #Annotorious, my #JavaScript image annotation library: You can now rotate rectangle shapes! #OpenSeadragon #IIIF #ImageAnnotation #TypeScript #React

That's it. I've had it.

Just this year established I’m half-Irish (Belfast & Cork). So Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit y’all. Other half is Galician Jewish, all coming together over corned beef I guess

When I visited this fine exhibit at Grand Teton last year I told a ranger it likely wouldn’t survive Trump, and he allowed that ‘maybe not’

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.

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