View through the window of the Hotel Revival showing the Washington Monument in Baltimore framed by floral curtains

Love you forever, Baltimore 💕

GitHub - upenndigitalscholarship/workshop-zineify-your-research: Materials for Penn Libraries "Zine-ify Your Research" workshop Materials for Penn Libraries "Zine-ify Your Research" workshop - upenndigitalscholarship/workshop-zineify-your-research

I ran a workshop for the first time this week on how to "Zine-ify Your Research" and I'm sharing here the ⁠slides and companion zine I made for it: github.com/upenndigital....

Feel free to adapt/remix/reuse if you're interested.
It's discipline-agnostic and ran about a perfect 60 minutes.

The Big Baltimore Kite Fest The BIG Baltimore Kite Fest SAT APR 11, 2026 | Patterson Park | Noon-4 p.m. Rain Date: SUN APR 12, 2026 (Rain Date call will be made Thursday morning)

I just saw today that friends will be flying their kites at the "Big Baltimore Kite Fest" this weekend! I think you're right and it's in the air (pun intended) share.google/gxkLcGBu14XA...

also, and i cannot state this enough, fucking around is actually critical to finding out

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The AI Con (with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Prof. Emily M. Bender and Dr. Alex Hanna will discuss their new book, The AI Con.

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social
and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con.

Register here:

virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Trying out contact lenses 👀 For those who wear them, have any tips for the adjustment period?

How to Publish Your Public History Work Series. April 7. May 5. June. National Council on Public History logo.

The first webinar in the “How to Publish Your #PublicHistory Work” series is this Tuesday, April 7 at 6pm Eastern! Speakers from academic journals and presses will go over their #publishing processes and what they look for in a good pitch. Sign up at: https://community.ncph.org/event/PublishPH

A lamp be ceramist Roberto Lugo with a hip-hop inflected Tiffany style glass shade

Philadelphia has always been a center for art and civic dialogue. This year, we’re honoring that legacy with Radical Americana. Organized by The Clay Studio, this city-wide series features 25 exhibitions from art + culture institutions responding to the 250th ✨🏛️
www.theclaystudio.org/exhibitions/...

ARDC Community Data Lab Co-design Workshop: HASS Geospatial Capability  | ARDC Join us to co-design a HASS Geospatial Capability based on Open Geospatial Consortium standards-based software.

If you're a humanities researchers who is interested in using geospatial data (or pulling it from their existing research data), do you want to come to a consultation on what you want and need in this area? link to register: ardc.edu.au/event/ardc-c... (online, 29 April, 12pm AEST)

A single daikon radish sprout emerges from soil in a pot

Hope is a daikon radish sprout emerging on a week of wildly-fluctuating weather

Handbook of Data Visualization with Textiles Coming April 2026

When I start teaching Data Visualization with Textiles next week, I'll have parts of a handbook for doing this kind of craft to share. If you want to add data to your own weaving, knitting, crochet, etc or learn a craft to use with your data, you can sign up to join the virtual class here. #DHmakes

IDA PEARL AGE 20 LIVED AT 355 e 4th St Died 3/25/1911 Triangle Factory Fire

Lizzie Adler Age 24 Lived Here 324 e. 6th St. Killed 3-25-1911 Triangle Fire We Remember

Gussie Bierman Age 22, Lived here at 8 rivington st & died March 25th, 1911 in the triangle factory fire

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire.

The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

A poster featuring various abstracted, pixellated images of tools, with the words: "WE ARE HIRING. Join our team at Tiny WPA!)

The great Tiny WPA in Philly (we need more such restorative experiments!) is hiring a Project Manager + Lead Educator, and will soon post a call for a full-time designer w/ fabrication experience!

www.tinywpa.org/careers

What if you could collect Wikipedia articles and make them battle?

Wikigacha, created by Japanese developer Haruki Sugiyama, turns every Wikipedia article into a collectible trading card.

I have taken time off in the past to run errands

Do All Jobs Suck Right Now? | Culture Study Get more from Culture Study on Patreon

Tech jobs suck right now. Teaching jobs suck, nursing jobs suck, higher ed really sucks. Non-profit jobs suck in a way that was unimaginable two yrs ago

Jobs that were once good are bad; jobs that were never great are worse than ever. Do *all* jobs suck right now?

www.patreon.com/posts/152879...

I hate car shopping above any other kind of retail situation. It's such a humiliating reminder that despite my ability to drop tens of thousands of dollars in one go, I will never command even the illusion of respect from a certain type of (sales)man.

DIY Methods 2024

DIY Methods, our little conference-by-zine about unconventional approaches to research, rises again! Maybe you'd like to make a zine on your weird/cool approach to methods, and receive a bundle of similarly weird/cool zines in the mail? Pitch submissions are due April 20th. diymethods.net

Shetland (not British, but Scottish)

Is not tomorrow, boy, the ides of March?

I just learned about this yesterday when I found one at my local wine shop! Amazing stuff 💕

Sure hope Tippi's estate made some $ off this

The footnote has footnotes! 💕

Laziness? 🤔

A grid of my slides - depicting various news articles, precedent research, some of my old relevant projects

Another grid of slides - mostly depicting work from my summer 2025 Design Index residency at the Cooper Hewitt

Another grid of slides -- more work from the Cooper Hewitt residency

Concludin slides -- including lots of stuff about hands and index fingers and fingerprints

If you're free on Friday at noon, I'm sharing "Pointing at Clouds: Indexing, Searching, and Citing in an Age of AI Smog" at the CUNY Grad Center's spring Friends of the Library lecture 👉🏽☁️

gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/05/d...

Grad students, sure, but I personally have rarely seen faculty come to that realization despite lots of nudging 😬

What does it take to stare down the government—and win? 🔐⚖️

Cindy Cohn joins Remarkable People to unpack encryption, metadata, Section 230, and the constitutional battles shaping your digital life.

We also talk about her powerful new memoir, Privacy’s Defender.

@eff.org

I would like to recreate Biscoff with a lavender icing to have with Earl grey tea, but I don't have a recipe or the skill to do it tbh

The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded.

2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning.

Go to quitgpt.org.
Cancel your subscription, delete your account.
And tell at least one person why.

My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...