Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…

Kristen C. Howard explores the ethics and practices of exploitation and labour in the digitization of heritage materials and sources.

gablet & label

Until you're dead every coach is a life coach

When I was a kid I got a tape recorder one Christmas, me and my brother used to leave it recording in empty rooms then closely listened back to the tapes, ears straining through mono tape hiss and council house room tone hoping to find evidence of supernatural activity

i was 12 years old about to turn 13 when a dj at the radio station’s booth handed me a copy of UNDER THE BUSHES, UNDER THE STARS at a Dayton music festival (Sep 8, 1996)

and ever since then i’ve been listening to GBV.

nice brief writeup of their trajectory here

Forensic geology gone wrong...
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Quartz variety chalcedony Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida, USA On loan from the Yampol Family and The Mineral Trust The Yale Peabody Museam

Quartz variety chalcedony The Yale Peabody Museam

I can’t get over how this quartz looked like a theater with a rapt audience. You never knows what’s happening inside rocks, lol.

just hoping it sounds cool, without ever a thought to diatonic harmony or semitones… our prelapsarian bliss

Nowadays, experimental music makes up a tiny percentage of what people listen to. But in the early days of music, 40,000 years back, it was basically all experimental. That was the dominant scene back then, just doing weird vocalisations while someone’s blowing into a vulture bone.

#MolluscMonday Rare example of an Ordovician orthocone nautiloid with a fractured shell. Photographed in the stone floor of the King’s Gallery at Hampton Court Palace last week.

in the 1980s & early 90s you could buy videogames at a store in the mall called Babbage’s. (after Charles Babbage, one might guess…)

Wow, this experience
all from the same Now

to perform this kind of hard-hitting critique, you have to have a humanities background

as acronyms go, STEM is an incoherent mess. it is canceled. thanks everyone

'hamnet-era'

Carnation by Alexander Booth (2025), displayed with a mini binder clip against a wooden background

CARNATION in the wild ... copies still available--! Write for more info

screenshot of a reposted post describing Florida as "world leader in Sentence exports" over a fake tweet by XWYZ 7 New (a station in Detroit) with a mugshot of a woman with bleached blond hair and a black eye patch below the headline "A Florida woman is facing charges after using a kayak in a mall fountain while dressed as a pirate and shouting orders at shoppers". The photo is captioned ORLANDO FL PD (a quick internet search will show that OPD mugshots are not captioned that way).

just hits too many of the right buttons there's no stopping her now

those 20 or so vols. of German Classics made for an enormous & monumental project, all in all

"I love Mistake"

Brian Catling, "Where Does It All Come From?" (2021)

have you seen AI Perec?

Heading to the newsagents with a flame thrower if anyone wants anything?

i also try to maintain a semblance of my former life by getting around on bike, on foot, or public transit. Mamdani is just like me for real

some people collect vinyl, some people collect tapes, some collect CDs, some people collect musical instruments. such is life

97 dB is a bit much for an elementary school dance in a gymnasium if you ask me. (no one ever asks me)

what

REVANCHE (on Criterion Channel) is great; i enjoyed it quite a lot

NDG, Montreal

9 January 1631 was ‘fatall. but happye.’ to Drummond of Hawthornden, that poet notes in a very accident-heavy chronicle of his life.

they hate him for his media literacy and reading comprehension

The catalogue is a Kunstkammer in which you could get lost. Jean Paul, Kathleen Tankersley Young, James Thomson, Doesborch's ‘Of the newe landes’, Verhaeren's ‘Tentacular Cities’, Breton's ‘Fantasticks’ (1626), ‘The Adventures of Lady Egeria’ (1585). Check it: asterismbooks.com/publisher/em...