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The #BuildingBookLabs25 symposium @skeuomorphpress.org went by too fast. Thanks to everyone I met this week for your kind advice and encouragement.

Was homesick til I saw this lol

My heart goes out to active grantees who have received cancellation notices, and to the young people working under some of those grants. I hope that someday soon we will build it all back up.

I owe much of my career so far to NEH grants. For me, it was the ladder up to my first job out of college, and then into grad school. I would not be in academia, more particularly DH, if assistantships on grants hadn't paid better than my fast food job at the time.

A blood orange olive oil cake and a mango pistachio cardamom cake

I missed out on Cake Picnic tickets (as did a lot of folks) but we cake picnic'd at home just fine. #DHbakes www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...

I don't really have adequate words for how sick this makes me. I think both UPMC and the grant indirects systems are broken, but a $100+ million cut to medical research in the city's largest employer will be immediately devastating.

I am afraid this spells the beginning of economic devastation for Pittsburgh. UPMC, very much part of U of Pitt, is the backbone of the research and tech renaissance, the largest employer in the area, a $2.5b (tax-exempt) land owner, and a major health insurer.

I love the weird rhythm of working on the C and P with a pedal. Takes a while to get the hang of but it can be so quick!

Should I take this season's crop pestilence (found grain weevils while trying to make rice tonight) as a sign of judgement or is god telling me it's okay to spend $100 at the container store?

What I ultimately wanted was to retain the rights to my writing, which is actually the thing they'd never agree to 🤪

Idk if this is the bubble bursting or not-- but anyone who is shocked by competitive undercutting fundamentally misunderstands where the "value" in AI is derived.

I once met an OpenAI employee who agreed with me that expert annotations are worth more than they offer. His solution: OpenAI should offer equity in exchange for your intellectual property. He looked genuinely aghast when I suggested OpenAI was wildly overvalued.

Is this a sign to get a ReMarkable? To reevaluate my trusted readers? To tomorrowify??

Had a dream in which I received handwritten feedback from a colleague but in a very helpful git-like diff view...but all the comments were about how I should replace the words I was using with the word "tomorrowify"

These woodcuts are exquisite! I'm so excited to see how the final editions come out.

We Only Have Ourselves: The How-Tos and DOs and DON’Ts of Mutual Aid For all of humanity’s many, many flaws, one of our most redeeming characteristics as a species is an almost-universal desire to connect with one another. When terrible things happen and communities…

Mutual aid is not just a disaster response, it’s a way of caring for one another, building stronger communities, and preparing for whatever life may throw at us next. It’s a labor of love—and a way of life.

I put together a reading list (and words of advice) for LitHub: lithub.com/we-only-have...

this puts a damper on my heist-based corpus construction idea 🥸, but does make me think about new possibilities for found corpora, like anarchist library online

Sweet Potato Buttermilk Pull-Apart Rolls (Published 2022)

recently made cinnamon rolls but with this sweet potato roll dough: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023...

I'll be giving a paper titled "Climate Manifestos and the Anthropocene" on Friday morning.

Attending my first MLA this week. Also my first trip to NOLA. If you have tips, recs, or cautionary tales I'd love to hear them!

Family holiday bonding for yinzers: watch a movie filmed in Pittsburgh, point at every landmark and name it. Especially good if there are car chases which splice together anachronistic locations. Tonight it's Jack Reacher, but Striking Distance is my fav.

The Pittsburgh Salad remains one of our finest cultural exports...we do not claim the Altoonan abomination. Another regional pizza trend is cold (!) shredded mozz on top from a place called Beto's. It's divisive, personally not a fan.

I made a starter pack for grad students in DH, to build visibility for a rising group of scholars.

If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment!

go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY

Thank you! He will love this. My favorite weird one in the collection here is the giant ham.

I love when research takes me to someone's Web 1.0 site: still fully functional, every publication in PDF form, no broken links. Browser prevents you from using the search feature (the browser is a coward).

A hand-drawn, whimsical typewriter with blue keys, printed with a risograph printer.

No idea if I was added to a new starter pack or if yinz are from #DHmakes territory but glad to meet you!

I'm a second year PhD student in English and a member of @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social. I'm dipping my toes in print practice this fall, here's a risograph print WIP:

An animated GIF of the picket line in which a man wearing glasses and a mask carries a large sign with four colored rectangles on it past the camera. Other protest signs can be seen in the background. The large sign says: Who We Are - analysts, designers, engineers, product & project managers, in a yellow box. Management’s Unlawful Threats - forced RTO, pay cuts, surveillance, termination, in a green box. Management Has Violated - health guidelines, trust, status quo, the law, in a blue box. What We Deserve - just cause, no exceptions, in a purple box.

ELECTION DAY STRIKE: We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of @nytimes.com management.

#SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Election2024

Also a fun advice line you can call: 415-300-1515

Cool work from Chia Amisola on religious experience, computation, digital aesthetics: www.instagram.com/hotemogf?utm...