IRIS’s welcome wall, featuring a quilted rainbow banner, a quilted public library sign, an appliqur namer that reads i-r-i-s, and two letterpress prints. One print reads “HTML is the letterpress of the digital world,” and the other features an image of a Luddite throwing something (presumably a clog), with the text “Maybe it’s just vaporware. luddites pointing out the (tech) emperor has no clothes since (well before) 1811. Luddites didn’t “fear technology.” They broke the machines that allowed the rich to enshittify livelihoods. Who’s your tech for? No tech’s adoption is inevitable (lol blockchain). Glitch their cistems.”

An image of a letterpress print titled “This is a printing office.” Text: THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE Like all technology: human choice, if evil or good This place is not a place of honor but it could be a place of hope Refuge of arts, craft, community, learning, a megaphone for justice, fearless truth slipping bit rot & digital censorship; or playing at a whitewashed past; to pretend away present fascism The center of danger is here; the center of hope is here The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours (the possibility, too From this place you may send words of justice, liberation, reparation, collective care; or serving capital, stoking hate A press is but its printers Friend vou stand on ground Myou make sacred-or not THIS is a PRINTING-OFFICE Remixed text (in italics) from Beatrice Warde & Sandia National Laks; & new text by Amanda Wyatt Visconti, VA Ctr for the Book FINFUSE

More art for IRIS, courtesy of @literaturegeek.bsky.social’s @wolfproofpress.com! Critical tech, care ethics, and creative scholarship are all essential to IRIS’s ethos, and it’s so cool to see that inscribed on the space like this. #DigitalHumanities

A cardboard mailer addressed to me from Amanda Wyatt Visconti of Wolfproof Press. It’s a large envelope (maybe 18x24?) and has “Pls don’t bend” written on it in marker to protect the artwork inside

Mail day 👀 courtesy of @wolfproofpress.com🐺

These prints got a little waylaid — big shoutout to USPS for finding them again through a missing mail request! How great to have a national mail service that provides reliable support, even when they’re swamped #InfrastructureIsAPublicGood

A group of seven people stand outside in front of a garden. From left to right: Dr. Jacquie Shea, Colin Strasser, Mauri Johnson, Rayna Sims, Dr. Meg Smith, Kezia Miller, and Dan Schreiber

Kezia Miller gestures at a slide while presenting her digital edition. The edition shows her markup schema, an example of marks up text, and two images of handwritten text demonstrating an emendation and a misspelling

Rayna Sims presents her digital timeline of the ecology of St. Stanislaus Conservation Area

Mauro Johnson looks up at a slide while presenting his video essay on Saint Stanislaus Conservation Area. The slide offers a few images of the park and connects them to broader issues of historical interpretation

Congrats to our SIUE presenters at the STL #DigitalHumanities Showcase!
💿 Kezia Miller, “Beautiful Dreams of the Past: Preserving Family Histories through Textual Recovery”
💿 Mauri Johnson, Rayna Sims, & Colin Strasser, “Digital Storytelling on the Hiking Trail at Saint Stanislaus Conservation Area”

They read spec fiction about imagined AIs and journalism about AI outputs/impacts. Those underpin our conversations about ethics. We start from cost-benefit analysis and then shift the vocabulary from costs to injury (to others) and sacrifice (voluntary), and from benefits to affordances.

Artificial intelligence (AI) The use of artificial intelligence tools (especially generative AI) is ethically complicated and in many cases falls under the plagiarism policy. My goal for you in this course is that you develop your own tech ethics, including AI. Here are a few starting points for us: • I will not require you to use AI, even to test or challenges its capabilities. • You may not use generative AI for day-to-day assignments, where you’re meant to experiment with technologies, build things, break things, and reflect on the process. Those are all activities that can only be productive if you do them yourself from start to finish. • You may choose to use such tools for your final project, if you discuss it with me in advance. I’ll want to see that you understand both the benefits and the drawbacks of the tool you choose, as well as that you’re engaging with it critically in process and product. • Editing tools like Grammarly are permitted for your regular writing assignments, but please know that I’m not assessing those for grammar and spelling (so long as I can understand the point you’re making). Instead, I’m looking for thoughtful engagement with your experience of the tool or website and with the themes and questions we’re addressing in class.

Mostly from a sociopolitical and ethical perspective. My objective is to help them cultivate an AI ethics that aligns with their values. I don’t use it in my own practice and never require them to use it, but I emphasize that their needs and commitments may lead them to different practices.

The National Great Rivers Museum in Alton, IL has a simulator where you can try piloting a barge. It is humbling.

this is not what I meant by medieval public history

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Screenshot of an error on a StorymapJS story. The error reads "Access blocked. Referer is required by tile usage policy of OpenStreetMap's volunteer-run servers: osm.wiki/Blocked

Hey @knightlab.northwestern.edu! My students are working on a StorymapJS assignment right now, and some (but not all) are getting an OSM error on the default basemap. Any chance this could be a quick fix, or should I have them change gears?

That is some very esteemed company!

A green cubicle wall with two letterpress prints pinned to it. One is a trans gradient that says Infrastructure is something we owe to one another. The other is fiery and says in black Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

I'm always thinking about @halperta.bsky.social's lineage activity and ways we can set visible reminders at work.

I'm thrilled to have @skeuomorphpress.org and @wolfproofpress.com prints hanging in my cubicle. Love having the words of @megsmith.bsky.social and Le Guin on display with my books!

Time for one of my favorite games, Is That a Grey Hair? No! It’s a Cat Hair on My Head!

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Love a salty little subskeet, but also! I do in fact use transit in the classroom to get students thinking about issues of spatial justice and access.

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Love to be internationally renowned for spontaneously rolling back pedestrian safety measures that were thoroughly researched, extensively planned, supported by public opinion, and implemented with taxpayer dollars

Salary range: $55,000-60,000 per year
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Hey library folks! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Lovejoy Library is hiring a tenure track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions or direct them to the search chair! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/184021.

#DigitalHumanities #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs

I’m curious, were you thinking about Clarke’s “Nine Billion Names of God”? There seem to be some interesting conversations about algorithmic spirituality/devotion between the two pieces.

Kristine Hildebrandt poses wearing a VERY large medal awarded for her Distinguished Research Professor rank. She is smiling in front of a lovely background of green trees.

Another big congratulations to Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt! Yesterday, she received her Distinguished Research Professor award and was recognized for her tremendous accomplishments in endangered language documentation, digital and public humanities, and innovative pedagogy. We are lucky to have her!

Quilt art on a wall: a rainbow banner made of log cabin blocks, some bunting that reads “iris” on it, and a public library symbol (a person reading a book)

Quilt art on a wall: a steaming mug of tea on top of a stack of books. On the desk in front of the wall is a tea kettle and some tea bags

The @siueiris.bsky.social glowup continues! New additions include the public library symbol for our welcome wall and some cozy tea and books for our tea corner. #DHMakes

Future coprolite?

I love this, and I will be changing my syllabus stat!

A pile of as yet unidentified poop from a carnivore, maybe a fox. Photographed not because I’m a weirdo (or at least not only that), but in an effort to document the site’s current and past ecology

Things they tell you in history grad programs: Anything can be a text!

Things they don’t tell you in history grad programs: Scat can be a text?

This has been another dispatch from St. Stanislaus Conservation Area.

#skystorians 🗃️

(It’s not really graphic media, it’s just poop.)

This is an incredibly harmful take that perpetuates unfounded stigmas around transit as well as addiction. Transit is for everybody, and the community that forms there is rooted in shared experiences, regular encounter, and mutual care.

Happy birthday to the driver of the 90 bus! A couple guys just sang to her 💕 If you’re not riding transit, there’s a whole community you’re missing out on
#PublicTransit #stl

Wolfproof Press friendly prints for feral people

Yay! All my letterpress prints are now available to buy at my press online store: store.wolfproofpress.com
🎨🐑🫸 🐺🌈

I'll reshare past prints here this week, then move such for-sale print reminders to @wolfproofpress.com (so yall can opt in there or not, rather than see such mixed in here :D)

A screenshot of the apple weather app for St. Louis, showing that it’s currently 55, feels like 43. The high today was 92. The low tomorrow is 38. We are just randomly throwing numbers at the wall to see what sticks. The Arch is in need of recalibration.

Look at these numbers. Just LOOK at these goofy-ass numbers. #stlwx

The zoom for today’s zoning hearing on the Armory data center proposal is maxed out at 300 participants, with more people clamoring to get in. That means there’s still plenty of time to email your testimony to zoning@stlouis-mo.gov before the meeting ends! #stl #StLouis

IRIS Center Morning Bytes Introducing Manifold Manifold is a web platform for publishing rich, interactive texts, ideal for OERs, open access research, and student projects. It facilitates engaged reading through social annotation and reading communities. Come learn about this new IRIS-supported resource! Friday, March 20, 10:00 AM CFDI (Lovejoy, 2nd floor)

IRIS now supports Manifold! Create of rich, interactive texts and facilitate reader engagement through social annotation and reading communities. It’s a great choice for OER, student projects, and public scholarship. Learn more Friday at our March Morning Bytes!