Puns: This machine kales fascism🥬In chard times leaf no one behind🥬Turnip the heat on ICE🥬Stem the tide of legislated racism🥬Napa fascism in the bud🥬Romaine strong vs hate🥬Lettuce resist🥬Cabbage patch the holes in our democracy🥬Squash fascism🥬Thyme to show up for each other🥬Endive deportations now+
April 22: Powered by Smart: A Prehistory of Everyday AI, a book talk with Profs. Sarah Murray (U of Michigan) and Rahul Mukherjee (Penn). Murray's book reveals a pathway that seeded hospitable ideas about AI.
Williams Hall 623. Registration required.
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/murray
Forthcoming and available for pre-order: "A book for those who love charts and graphs, and for those who create them, Data by Design offers historical grounding, ethical clarity—and the inspiration we need—to envision a more just future" @laurenfklein.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...
I also made a holographic sticker 🌈 of my "letterpress for the people! silly letterpress for the joyful people!" print as I wanted one for my laptop; up at store.wolfproofpress.com/product/stic... if you'd like one too (1st pic=sticker, 2nd=the print's typesetting photo)
I wrote about books as luxury items, specifically that books are being adopted by luxury brands at an increasing rate - Dior, especially, also Prada, MiuMiu, and now Coach book charms, in partnership with PRH.
IMO, books as a luxury aesthetic reveal cultural anxieties about reading and access.
Thanks @aearhart.bsky.social & @quinnanya.me for organizing a new #DHmakes Methodz talk on 4/24! Sign up at Quinn's link ⬇️ to receive the Zoom morning-of (it's also posted to the DHMakes Methodz site here: amandavisconti.github.io/DHMakesMetho...) 🐑🐑🐑🧶✨
The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.
Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.
Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!
CFP: Disney Culture & Society Research Network Fourth Annual Conference @disnet.bsky.social
“Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew”: Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney
10th-12th September 2026
Online
dis-net.org/conference/
I’ve posted the text of my talk from today’s DH Day at Purdue: “Anemoia, AI, & Skeuomorphism” is part of a longer piece I’m working on that tries to theorize the current “Material Turn in Digital Humanities”—essentially: why are so many DH folks printing & making & crafting? #dhmakes
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.
I have voted twice to advance articles of impeachment. We cannot wait. Congress must convene immediately and begin proceedings to remove this man from office for the safety of our nation, Americans, and the world.
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV declares the Iran War is “unjust” and “is not resolving anything.”
After suggesting Trump is committing war crimes by targeting civilian infrastructure, he called on Americans to contact Congress to help end the war.
cursive text, excerpted from the Declaration of Independence, with some of the quotes enlarged for emphasis: "The history of the present ... is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny... To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He is ... totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation."
cursive text, excerpted from the Declaration of Independence, with some of the quotes enlarged for emphasis: "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
He is ... totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. A Tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. #DeclarationOfIndependence #America250
If you like data, or making things with textile crafts (sewing, knitting, crochet, weaving, etc.), I've finally written something up about data visualization with textiles. More words coming over the next few months! #DHmakes
oh my god they finally did it. they finally invented a good printer.
ANNOUNCING: The International Journal of Disney Studies needs your help! We are looking for TWO editors to join us: an Editor (for those who bring knowledge and experience) and an Associate Editor (for those still growing). Applications due May 1st; more details: drive.google.com/file/d/1w-_h...
Tapping the sign
Another page from Valentin Haüy's book, which is ink-printed and, theoretically, embossed in French raised letters.
Close-up of a 3D scan render. There are very faint embossed characters just barely visible.
I flipped through the book and picked the page that felt the most tactile, which was still very flat. I didn't get great results, but there are results. Very faint embossed characters are visible on the scan. I tried a couple other pages and other settings on my scanner. This is the best result. 9/
Hey library folks! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Lovejoy Library is hiring a tenure track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions or direct them to the search chair! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/184021.
#DigitalHumanities #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs
🚨JOB KLAXON! The Winterthur Library is hiring a collections processor for the manuscript collection! secure10.saashr.com/ta/6002811.c...
Some pie charts for various categories (not in order) for DH Awards 2025.
Some categories (not all shown) have early leaders, but there are 17 days left to mobilise your own supporters to vote. Anyone may vote (once).
Anyone at all.
Closes 2026-04-17.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...
Or (if the lack of https bothers you) forms.gle/FvWp3NYs8hv1...
I am super excited for the Electronics Faire next week! These organizations will be tabling from 10:30 - 4:30 on Friday April 10th. Stop by to say hi and learn about the radical work they are doing with electronics. @tudigitalscholars.bsky.social
Repair Electronics Faire Keynote Presentation by Dr. Edward Jones-Imhotep. Keynote starts at 2:45 PM on Friday April 10th, 2026 in the Charles Library Event Space in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The electronics faire schedule (keynote, workshops, and more) is now live! Excellent time for a visit to Philly <3
sites.temple.edu/efaire/sched...
Promo image for the CalRBS Pop Bibliography class, running August 3-7
The application deadline for Pop Bibliography at @calrbs.bsky.social has been EXTENDED to April 15! Hurry and get those applications in!✨ www.calrbs.org/english-pale...
#mincomp CFP by Code4Lib, abstracts due 4/17: "Static websites for scholarly editions & other publications in the Humanities" (HT @rondagrizzle.bsky.social & @dhandlib.bsky.social)
I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here.
Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.
"Amazing Anaglyphs: Letterpress Printing in 3D-
Henningsen will discuss the history of anaglyphs, a form of stereoscopic 3D imaging, and demonstrate how to letterpress print 3D anaglyphs. Participants will have an opportunity to print their own anaglyph poster." This sounds amazing! #DHMakes
Screenshot of 3D modelling program Rhino. The object being edited is the title page of a book embossed by Louis Braille.
Screenshot of Rhino. Close-up of the same page, which shows the rough edges of the paper and holes in the page.
I'm spending this morning cleaning up some of my 3D scans from my trip to Musée Louis Braille. Starting with the book I've posted about before, which was embossed by Louis Braille in 1838. I love how the scanner is able to pick up the details of holes in the page and the rough edges of the paper.
This setting w/GitHub, if you don't want models trained on your code etc; & don't opt in w/Slack or Zoom if you want chat+DM privacy. (At public institutions: allowing AI zoom transcription or summaries apps puts those in public FOIAable record—so treat as speaking in public, not a private meeting.)
