I'm offering my "Museums, Playful Engagement, and Digital Technologies" course again this Fall at Harvard Extension. And this year, it'll be a flexible attendance web conference, so you can take it without needing to be up nights in the Eastern Time Zone! courses.dce.harvard.edu?details&srcd...

Been on a wicked BB boi kick lately. One of the best concerts ever and it's never talked about. youtu.be/xJYfOGb3sKw?...

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia

"Google built the AI, Google offered it to users, so Google owns what it produces, 'because it alone has influence over the AI's offering and the algorithms with which the AI operates.'"

Creators, producers, and presenters of immersive experiences take note!

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

some dope earlier this week tried to gaslight people by saying the pushback on AI mirrors the pushback when the internet went mainstream and no it fucking does not! people were excited about the internet! ffs it wasn’t 100 years ago, a lot of us were THERE

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Denny Carter on the elected Democrats who seem to understand the contours and challenges of competitive authoritarianism: https://badfaithtimes.com/these-democrats-seem-to-understand-the-situation-2/

Looks like another prime example of the time-honored “art museums = all museums“ genre.

Happy perfect date day

Ashamed Meta Employee Just Tells Everyone He Works As Guard In Private Prison For Disabled Children https://theonion.com/ashamed-meta-employee-just-tells-everyone-he-works-as-g-1851012454/

Commentary: You Can’t Even Watch A Movie Anymore Without Seeing Some Theme Explored https://theonion.com/you-cant-even-watch-a-movie-anymore-without-seeing-some-theme-explored/

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

This is great! 😂

Apparently the Pope has read Baudrillard.

This year's KP book Seasons of Larp's PDF version is out and it's free. Go check it out: www.nordiclarp.org/wiki/Seasons...

Back from a brilliant weekend at Knutpunkt so I'm naturally on my making-up-definitions-and-picking-apart-larp-and-theatre bullshit. though, genuinely: I do think there's something here in how we (best) ready people for different events chloemashitermakesthings.wordpress.com/2026/04/20/p...

Costume is your cheat code to quicker audience buy-in and buy-back. Thanks to @bridgecommand.bsky.social for the opportunity to share how much fun it is to see guests drape themselves into the universe of the show!

George Lucas has really been vindicated in the past few years, because tell me that ain't exactly something Bezos (or Musk or Thiel) would pull, and we've all seen the state of Congress lately...

It's going to be wild if humanities & social science departments start moving en masse to software like LibreOffice, Zettlr, and Scrivener in order to avoid the incessant & unavoidable AI pleading & nagging built into Word. Like if this prof wasn't an outlier? Wild.

A classic example of what being led by donkeys looks like. Forget about understanding all of American history. They don’t even understand recent American history.

McCormick: "We were horrible in Vietnam until we did Rolling Thunder Two, then we won. As soon as we do half-measures, we lose. The faster we get this over the better. If we seize Kharg island, it could be done almost flawlessly. If we have enough firepower, it would be very easy to defend."

okay finally there is good news (please don't let this be an early April Fools joke)

“Mystic Seaport Museum Workers ‘Go Union,’ Join AFSCME” — WNY Labor Today #UnionNews #AFSCME #museum

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Found the most bluesky board game possible.

"Every step we take towards deGoogling, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction." New from me: The first step toward getting off Google, feat. @cyberlyra.bsky.social buttondown.com/creativegood...

Bro what the fuck

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

These last few days Trump has felt particularly Mad Kingy, raging against his opposition, spiraling more and more out of control. It is remarkable how much these four "injuries" listed in our Declaration Of Independence speak to us today 7/

The idea of a Gene Roddenberry & Lucille Ball action figure two-pack is equal parts hilarious and beautiful. I'm stunned. Here's hoping this launches a sub-line of behind-the-scenes Star Trek figures. I'm pulling for DC Fontana and Wah Chang in the next wave.

2026 basically

Rümeysa displays such humanity and compassion in the face of state sponsored oppression. This is worth your time to read.

'Hearing someone (Carney) so clearly name the truth was cathartic, and I could draw so many parallels with how this collective story can inform our personal relationships to AI, Big Tech, and impulses of surveillance capitalism towards an all-pervasive, AI Big Brother.'

A deadline, says Ryuta, is a powerful technology. #FACT2026 BOOM

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

The crowdfunding page for Odysseus, the epic Battlestar Galactica-inspired blockbuster larp, is out in preview! Super thorough and really polished, while remaining unmistakably grassroots. Very excited about this one!

New CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.