sam blickhan

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

#DHmakes klaxon!

Clippy the Microsoft paper clip

Does this creature have a soul

Must-Reads and the War on Chicago "Chicagoans will not be a conquered people."

I have a full day today, but I woke up early to put this edition of my newsletter together because I need you all to have this rundown of what we've been up against this week in Chicago as the federal assault on our city continues. To ignore these developments would be a damning mistake for us all.

State police assisted ICE in the performative brutalization and arrest of protesters today. @govpritzker.illinois.gov must answer for this.

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

Pritzker’s office phone line is open if anyone wants to register their opinion about this: (312) 814-2121

"Be loud for America" but not like THAT I guess.

Cop holding a rifle.

This is what the state of Illinois sent to greet protesters at Broadview.

It's important to note that penning people in to "free speech zones" & rolling out state/local cops in riot gear is a move that always ends with them being heavy-handed/escalating situations with protesters, but allows the state to change the narrative to "bad" protesters deserving harm.

Opinion | Mourn, or Else

Gift link: essential and sadly brave writing for dark times from Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd.bsky.social). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

YouTube video by NBC Chicago Pritzker calls for Trump to be removed from office

BREAKING: Governor Pritzker calls for the removal of Donald Trump as President by invoking the 25th amendment. EVERY governor should stand behind the Illinois governor. Governor Pritzker also cited health concerns for the president. He is clearly not well.

youtu.be/Dt4mrxNWQWs?...

Kaleb Horton, again: "It's sad how many RTs you get by saying the world is ending instead of admitting the scary truth that it's not and there's work to do in it."

Armed Border Patrol Agents Disrupt Peaceful Downtown Day: 'It's Horrifying' The federal troops were seen in Millennium Park, on the Magnificent Mile and in the Gold Coast — days after patrolling the Chicago River in a boat. "This is another brazen provocation from the Trump a...

This isn’t making our communities safer; it’s a performative show of force and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It needs to end. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/28/a...

ICE just chased everyone off the public road by the Broadview facility. They yelled for people to move and immediately began firing gas into the crowd, which included legal observers, press, and medics.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

frame - negation - kirby meme Top is a rectangle with a jagged line in the middle. The left side is labeled "Frame" "F is happening!" inside it says "we're sending in troops to stop the crime/antifa" The right side is labeled "Negation" "F is not true!" inside it says "but crime is down, the city is peaceful, antifa isn't a real organization, they're not legally allowed to do that" Below is a large image of Kirby, a round pink blob with eyes with a small version of the Frame F shape flying into his mouth. To the right is a large pink rectangle labeled "Kirby" "K is happening, that's why they're saying F" inside it says "normalizing presence of troops prepares for autocratic escalation including interfering with elections"

i got you, added a couple points

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

They’re kidnapping people off the street cartel-style I've become accustomed to being lied to every day by now. About Israel and immigrants and trans people to name but a few. But there has been a superlative concentration of lies this past week. A novel...

A deeply important read.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Digitised manuscripts and archives - British Library View more than 2,000 of our digitised manuscripts and archival documents, including the Sherborne Missal and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d...

And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez An immigration agent killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago. The initial narrative was quickly disproven by witnesses.

An immigration agent shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses. https://bit.ly/3IbeDjf

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

A brown dog laying on his back with paws in the air, with a blue leash attached to a grey harness. The photo shows a pair of legs and feet standing next to the dog, as if a person, the photographer, is waiting for this tantrum to end.

This is Bowie’s preferred method of getting out of something he doesn’t want to do… hoping the day gets better!

Craft Research Fund Grant | Center for Craft Grants up to $15,000 awarded to support projects that encourage, expand, and support scholarly craft research in the United States.

Possible grant op for #DHmakes folks! www.centerforcraft.org/grants-and-f...

Presently, by integrating generative AI into the teaching and learning process, we are not only misleading ourselves into thinking we are tackling education’s challenges, but we are also outsourcing a social, civic and democratic process of cultivating the coming generation to commercial and capitalist enterprises whose priority is profit. The AI industry has consistently demonstrated that it is willing to undo decades of progress towards fundamental rights (Peters, 2025), peace (Singh, 2025) and democracy (Zeff, 2025) and can easily close down education efforts (Holtermann, 2025b) by operating in an environment with little to no oversight and riddled with conflicts of interest (Menn and Nix, 2023), in accordance with these companies’ business models: maximization of profit and concentration of power. An industry with such an extractive business model, developing and deploying generative AI tools with little oversight and testing, cannot be a good steward for the betterment of education. Instead, integrating generative AI into education will result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering and cultivating the coming generations

"integrating genAI into education will result in commercialization of a collective responsibility: fostering & cultivating the coming generation"

and this responsibility can't be left to an industry that has aligned with authoritarian regimes, prioritises profit at any cost, and is powering fascism

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

The flag of the City of Chicago with three white stripes, two light blue stripes, and four red six pointed stars in the middle

The Chicago municipal device in black and white, a shape of the letter Y inside a circle, with a wave pattern inside it

stand for the flag / kneel for the cross