DOGE's use of ChatGPT to terminate 97% of NEH grants (including ours) continues to make headlines this week.
Project director Mattie Burkert sat down with investigative reporter Evan Watson from KGW-8 (NBC news Portland) for an interview.
Read more and watch the video on our blog:
it's all just art. "porn" is just art that makes you horny, in precisely the way that "horror" is art that makes you scared and "metroidvania" is art that makes you write video essays
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Public Domain Review has excellent curation!
Also like www.cosmos.so/public-work (“visual search engine for public domain content”)
Public Domain Review has excellent curation!
Also like www.cosmos.so/public-work (“visual search engine for public domain content”)
Excellent piece from Kelly Boudreau, @miac.bsky.social & Andrew Phelps made me feel better about my own inability to provide a concise/precise def of 'cozy games,' going straight into the syllabus as a way to talk about both embodied gaming & genre. scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/items/a39f35...
One of my favorite albums of all time has a follow up and it is 🔥 music.apple.com/us/album/in-...
Instrumental soul / funk with all the best session players from Daptone Records. Need I say more? Also, listen to the 2016 album because it’s perfect.
Deciding it’s too dangerous to reveal just how unpopular the current president is seems like the worst poll result ever.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
Everyone should be following the digitization and posting of the Adam Jacobs Collection. A 10,000 live concert chronicle of rocknroll-live-in-Chicago between the mid-1980s and today. archive.org/details/aada...
NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
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It makes me furious that there is no way to force them to listen. AI crawlers have forced a future in which much of the information about the present is gated & the near past will disappear. All they need do is respect the rights and requests of people and orgs who produce news. They won't do that.
AI will not just rob the past and the present, without some way to limit access and be sure these systems will listen to instructions our first draft of history will disappear from the internet as archive-blocking media link-rots & sometimes dies totally. All that important context will be lost.
This sucks, and it gets even worse. I've noticed at least one site has employed a paywall process that even prevents paying subscribers from employing IA-style WARC creation from saving the site, with a script that reapplies the paywall in the WARC context. www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news...
This is where I once again feel sad for having lost Old Twitter and all my South Asian friends on there.
I was sure there was a project mapping all the medieval and Mughal sarais (caravanserais) across India — anyone know what I'm talking about?
Narrascope 2026 open call:
The Experience
Bridging the Physical and Digital Worlds through Narrative
Seeking projects in the realms of augmented/mixed reality, interactive installations, haunts, escape rooms, live performances that leverage tech, and more.
narrascope.org/experience/
WHYYYYYYYY
Where’s Open Access Hulk on BlueSky?? I need to rage with a friend, please.
Embroidered Zs in various shades of blue and teal in a spiral pattern on starry night fabric. A mix of orange, pink, copper, and clear beads are stitched into many of the Zs
Here it is! All of my sleep/insomnia visualized for 2025. One Z for each night. The thread colors represent the amount of sleep while the beads signify types of wakefulness. All tracked and coded manually in my sleep journal and stitched over the course of the year. #DHmakes
And you can listen here:
bsky.app/profile/jenn...
personally believe children (and adults!) should be allowed to reject sex
So the National Guard doesn’t get the little $1776 bonus, just Regular forces
Not a great look, since that part of the military is currently bearing the brunt of the administration’s domestic deployments and has 3 dead in the last 3 weeks (DC and Syria)
I understand anthropic sees this as a win but I laughed at “ It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared”
PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
SUV marked for Canton (MA) Animal Control parked in a driveway. A large tabby housecat with a collar is hanging on the rear passenger door and peering in suspiciously at the inside of the cabin.
Become ungovernable
The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public is looking to bring on new postdoctoral scholars to join our research community starting in 2026-2027. Come collaborate w/ our amazing, interdisciplinary team working to understand & help people navigate our complex information ecosystem!
You’re still trying to find the millennial Tom Hanks. I told you we can’t do it, and we can’t do it. Now, what we might be able to do it is recreate him. Recreate him but make him British.
