Sharing this great piece of journalism from local students on Google's proposed data center in a neighboring county!

www.powerinthedarkva.com

Excited to be offering a pre-conf workshop with Lisa Boutin-Vitela all about envisioning DH at your teaching-focused institution. We're hoping this will be a helpful reset and dream big moment for a range of folks.

I have so much to say I think I might actually write my own blog post.

Imagine being a Greenland shark. Deep under the ice, below any sight of the sun, you float almost motionless above the seabed. You do not know what is happening anywhere else in the world. You do not even know there is anywhere else in the world. This is the seven hundred years of your life.

A student just turned in a post that is supposed to be their reflections on final presentations. We haven't done the final presentations yet. I'm going home.

Also no direct quotes because it's behind a paywall?

When I'm less angry, I am fascinated by it. Sources are summarized way more than quoted because students aren't using a big quote to boost their word count like in the old days.

I hate what this has done to me! And also I hate spending more time on things than my students did.

I'm seriously losing my shit with all this AI generated homework.

It was just more just surprising to realize I felt as bad as I did!

No I need to be alone in the office so I can cry by myself!

It is weird to be as old as I've ever been and feel like I'm getting worse at teaching. Or the Chat of it all is really sending me to a bad place. Or both!

Well dang it! I almost hollered too because I want to get some prints from you! Class was so fun, great to have a model for approachable and collaborative printing for workshops etc.

Drypoint etching of a goose showing plate and print on grid background.

A sampling of druksel letterpress prints - random letters and numbers configured to make shapes or patterns.

I had a three art class weekend! Highly recommend! Saturday was druksels at @virginiabookarts.bsky.social, Sunday was watercolor, and Monday was drypoint etching.

A black cat swats at a toy on top of the obituaries page for April Fool's.

We're done. This is the only April Fools' joke I will be accepting. (From my local newspaper) www.thenews-gazette.com

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The only constant is change!! My trusty course website platform for so many years.

squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-mater...

Happy spring to everyone who just wants to sit and listen to the doves and the frogs.

There are some business profs who never got to make websites as a kid and it shows.

I put these Luddite prints up on my letterpress print store (store.wolfproofpress.com) if anyone is interested. (Store is new, so this is its initial test—let me know if you run into any issues?)

"LLMs contain the sum of human knowledge" is a wild thing to say also.

"The question was like, how do you encode all of that context?”

🤯🤯🤯

Well I'm going to go out and deal with non-native honeysuckle but I'm going to be thinking about how we've altered up our websites to avoid detection but it's our websites that are being used to power the confirmation machine.

If any DH-ers are looking for a summer camp experience, (team or solo), the CFP for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship is out! Held at @vassarlibraries.bsky.social in July, it's such a fun and productive time full of the best people. Happy to answer qs. iliads.org/call-for-pro...

Oh yes but I’m only discussing with people who have read The Madwoman in the Attic.

I have a little assignment where I got students a messy dataset and ask them to make sense of it and this year a student wrote that he’d just make an agent do all the historical research and I guess I’m a dinosaur now.

What about Wuthering Heights though?

The book The Madwoman in the Attic is featured in a green walled room.

Had to go back to the people who know what they’re talking about.

No one writing about Wuthering Heights has any idea what they're talking about.

Well at least instead of sitting on the couch crying about winter now I’m sitting on the couch crying about these poor athletes not all coming in first.

This is a nice piece about the secret security of small liberal arts colleges but hey maybe let’s not ruin the secret.