I was asked for a 250 word author bio. I am not writing that much about myself; they got about 75.

My Wisconsin-born eldest (almost 9) was horrified. Wisconsin, the state that brought you cannibal sandwiches.

Same. I was thinking of starting one… I did them with students a couple weeks ago and wrote most of an article.

There are a couple of others, but the main/original is in Portland (I used to volunteer there). I haven’t, but that is probably one of the next phones for our house, considering our toddler chucked my spouse’s phone out the second story window (and tried to do mine, but fortunately it didn’t fall).

Same. I didn’t know you were doing a PhD! Exciting!

Yeah, I had my laptop start to die during my comps. 8 weeks, 3 questions, all on a computer that was crapping out. Get a backup (free geek ebay! We have a Linux mint desktop that my eldest uses from them. It’s a nice little machine).

MURENA. Autocorrect strikes again!

Mirena Fairphone Gen 6s are out. They’re designed to be modular with user-replaceable parts available…

Have you considered a de-Googled phone?

Jeez.

Eldest insisted on taking tuna salad for lunch to spring break camp. This will be interesting…

🤣

An opossum. They will play dead.

Swans and geese can be contained in IKEA bags…have any on hand?

Paws are called “murder mittens” for a reason…

Are there any rules here about the likelihood of said animal getting in the shop?

MapQuest is NOT forcing AI down your throat like Big Tech. Our directions are like grandma's recipes. They've worked for decades and nobody’s asking a robot to optimize her mac & cheese.

Well, one of the math nerdy friends…

I hope you do sometime, soon. I am in information science and my teaching includes vintage technologies…I need the audiotape mug!

That’s obnoxious.

Oh, Tanselle! I still have my copy…

This online course considers what might constitute a feminist approach to studying books, what the benefits of such approaches are, and how to incorporate them into our own work. We will center the textual object in exploring these issues, letting artifacts drive our questions rather than the actions of book makers, sellers, or collectors. Another way of putting this is that the course won't ask who women printing books were, but rather, who determined the terms on which we engage with books. This doesn't mean ignoring the many agents involved in book work, including the people involved in the long history of book trades, the academic field of print culture and textual editing, and the intersection of these with library practices. But it means that our work this week will be focused on generating questions about methodology rather than recovering names and histories.

We will also wrestle with the theory and practice of feminism, which has a history of different meanings for different communities, and how to develop it as an inclusive practice for our book work. If living a feminist life is, as Sara Ahmed argues, something we must return to over and over, something that we put into practice daily rather than something that stays in the classroom, how do we bring that into our spaces of book work? Through a combination of short advance readings about bibliography and feminism, course discussions, and your own work with textual artifacts, we will explore what questions are brought to the forefront when we approach our work through a feminist framework. Participants should anticipate two concurrent and two asynchronous sessions each course day, with those sessions being scheduled to accommodate the range of US time zones; asychronous sessions could involve exercises, readings, and off-camera discussions.

Discussions and exercises will also try explore different models of pedagogy in order to give participants a feel for what methodologies might suit them best. The course is intended to be of use to anyone researching, teaching, or acting as a custodian for rare books; although we will pay careful attention to the first centuries of western printing, since the study of those books have shaped the field of bibliography as a whole, the issues the course will consider cover all periods of book study. Participants should not expect to come out of the course having mastered a feminist history of books, but to leave with a set of tools to ask feminist questions of books.

Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...

hipster dude with circle glasses makes extremely bespoke pourover coffee

this is what it feels like to write code with your fingers these days

Satisfying and ultimately a higher quality, more enjoyable experience?

Your butt is not the grifter here (from the anti-corruption colon to all the other parts). Thats an earnest, well-thought out plan more based on sustainability than any other plan referenced here.

My brain auto-corrected your typo of “horse” to “hearse,” and that is now a genre I need. A hearse-driving hero.

If the ideas were ideas not laced with corruption, and I don’t know, that they are scams designed to grift the public and anyone backing them, that’d be great.

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

A PSA to turn off your Ring doorbells, in case the implications of that Super Bowl commercial are not clear! thehill.com/opinion/tech...

I got one a couple of days ago asking me about buying me out of my corporate share in a specific hotel chain that went to voicemail. It was absolutely wild.

Oh no!