Jill Anderson

potentially-inflatable-frog sticker...

Once again, I'm sure I will spend the entire time waiting on tenterhooks for her to get rid of her absolute garbage husband.

Right?!?!?!

"Apple Plus PLUS TV"

university-system-wide ILS migration

@frost42.bsky.social

Being cynical makes you feel like you're able to predict the future, I think.

I mean, surely there's some connection between the constant cognitive dissonance and illogic (the brain keeps trying to parse the crazy) and decline in executive function.

I had that poster when I was in grad school (my dad showed me Spellbound when I was a kid). One time when I had some people over, I found a small group in front of this poster, moving their arms around, trying to understand the arm placement in the poster...

I saw Reds when I was in high school and it played such a big role in me eventually becoming a historian. As a teenager I was so enamored by the whole bohemian Scene it portrayed; when I got older I was more aware of the relationship/cause dynamics. Such a great movie.

It's like we've come full circle: civil-rights and antiwar protesters were able to build on photographs/recordings of what they were resisting etc. Now we have endless capacity for recording/distributing images, but we don't trust images, so we're back to this kind of lying being plausible again.

I worked at the Harry Ransom Center while I was in library school and we got a fair number of researchers there to work with the Crowley papers.... research.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/fin...

@frost42.bsky.social

I'm not familiar with this one, but intrigued...

Two years ago today I arrived in central PA to start a dream job after 13 years someplace less dreamy. Still happy to be here. Still occasionally having to remind myself that I live here now.

A Short Poême About the Twenty-Firƒt Century:

I *worked* downtown (not midtown, actual downtown) and am coming up on my 2nd anniversary of getting the hell out...

Please don’t share deepfake “AI” videos. Even as a joke. Not cute.

Also, the whole "they won't be able to sleep at night bc they don't know what they believe" reads like a bot glitching out.

.... "they don't know what they believe" .... about a *halftime show*??

"You'll REALLY never want to eat sausage again!"

(Though maybe it would work as a reminder of why FDA et al = good)

Now in print: the scented version of "The Jungle"! /s

It is definitely NOT "wear a necklace of garlic" season, says the "American Red Cross" 🧛

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

thought abt this a lot in library school in the late 2000s actually... bc Information!discourse felt lk seamless white plastic to me, I appreciated how the employee level of the library I worked in had messy, uneven small purple tiles laid into the wall around the elevator. Looked like human work.

Speed liaising!!!!

"Age yourself with a movie you saw in theatres as a kid"

congratulations! 🎉

The Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration Database is live at historyofincarceration.com.

Both the platform and the data are very much a work in progress, and we will continually update it over the coming years. I hope that it is useful, and if you would like to contribute, please do be in touch.

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

@thetattooedprof.bsky.social's latest in the Chronicle - on welcoming AI critics to the table when deliberating on policy - is spot on: www.chronicle.com/article/some...

Mexican Mulling Cacao homebrew kit just added to our ChariTea collection! $6 of each spice pouch sold is donated to UFW to support their ongoing work.

Our Mexican Mulling Cacao is a cozy home-warming cuppa in celebration of our farm workers!

$6 of each 2 oz packet supports @ufw.bsky.social, a labor union offering innumerable support pathways for America's farmers, from immigration resources to legal representation to clothing and food drives.