3 buses, 2 trains, and 1 tram — our collective creativity is right and good the illinois state fair blue ribbon winner in needlepoint is a population heat map of the state

Any equivalent in Chicago? beesinthed.com

Support HB-1813!

Local news coverage of Indiana University-Bloomington's Faculty Council endorsing a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC). Faculties of three state flagships so far have called for a united front: Rutgers (whole system), IU-Bloomington, UMass-Amherst. Michigan starts voting this week Who's next?

Gerhard Richter, Confus, 1986 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136932

Come work with me! We have a new position available in my department for a User Experience & Assessment Librarian. We have great faculty and students, fascinating digital and analog collections, and support for novel solutions. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/31818 #LibraryJobs, #LibraryUX

Now more than ever

Indicator sprites from instructions for the Triumph / Adler Gabriele 10/20/30 typewriters. more: archive.org/details/triu...

Mirror of the 18F site, if you want to download the guides: preserved.org.uk/18f.gsa.gov/...

So I guess we’re an R1 now. Carry on… news.luc.edu/stories/pres...

The University of Illinois Chicago may be dissolving its School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics in the coming weeks and terminating all of the school’s nontenured faculty at the end of the academic year.

Flow maps would be so cool applied to web traffic metrics

I really like “Just Room Enough Island”

I wonder if AGI will see gorillas chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-e...

Happy early valentine @tiffanyfunk.bsky.social

Piet Mondrian, View from the Dunes with Beach and Piers, Domburg, 1909 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135520

Harvard Library's "Data.gov Archive" is mirroring Govt. data "to preserve and authenticate vital public datasets for academic research, policymaking, and public use." #data #datarescue #libraries lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02...

University of Minnesota Libraries has produced a great resource for finding and protecting government #data during the current crisis #libraries #datarescue libguides.umn.edu/c.php?g=1449...

✷ TRASH ANIMALS ✷

#DHmakes check out this gorgeous jacquard weaving in progress! ⚓

Circus Quixote intends to both reflect the enduring story of Don Quixote and the fantastical legacy of Lookingglass. Opens Thursday and runs through the end of March. Check it out! www.wbez.org/theater-stag...

My shelf ice is enticing but dangerous. Best to stay off it, humans 🌊🌊

Some good datavis recommendations in this thread

The true digital divide in Europe (by reddit user theworldmaps) Note: Oct 2022 data

City of Detroit Receives $10.5 Million Grant for Construction and Planning of Joe Louis Greenway #cycling #ebikes #cargobikes tinyurl.com/59dydt7h

Got to attend a presentation today about a Toronto-Chicago passenger rail connection through Detroit/Windsor! Amtrak has been able to negotiate using the CPKC Detroit River Rail Tunnel once a day without affecting freight operations. (1/2)

A pattern for troubled times: Row 1: put your phone down Row 2: pick up your hobby supplies Row 3: make something for at least an hour Row 4: take a photo of your make Row 5: share that photo to your timeline (with alt text) Row 6: like others' makes. Rep rows 1-6 until time for tea.

Maraña: Organismo #chicagopuppetfest What a cool set

At some point they’re going to go after Wikipedia and the Wayback Machine. More decentralised global efforts needed. “He who controls the past controls the future.”

Take back your attention.

Sigh

On the way down to Champaign

Easy Rider, retired; an old abandoned Ohio factory that became the storage place for a massive motorcycle collection, also later abandoned. This place was demolished a year later, and sadly no idea on the fates of the bikes... #abandoned #urbex #motorcycles #EastCoastKin #photography

Needed this

i bet being full feels so good for the moon

this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology

‘Techno: The Rise of Detroit’s Machine Music’ includes a 45-minute sound installation by the Underground Resistance collective.

In case you've somehow forgotten that librarians are the best, a reminder: Librarians are the best.

Honey, what's wrong? You've barely touched your

OK how could I not post this.

Illinoisans can now vote on whether they want a new state flag. Votes will be accepted through Feb. 14. to.wttw.com/3PxRSWA

I was wondering why they weren’t gtfo

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

Infovis can be: a. Personal, b. Non digital (or merely digitally enabled), c. Not trying to solve a problem or whatever

Great news: Bird deaths plummet at McCormick Place Lakeside Center after safety film installed www.chicagotribune.com/2025/01/09/c...

Art Deco terra cotta, Chicago