Amanda Wyatt! Visconti

It might become difficult to explain why AI is not a replacement for the Humboldt model. Here's the tl;dr: education is tied to *ongoing* research. Convincing the uneducated that the *ongoing* part is the key is a snooze...

and thus we approach Borges' City of Immortals...

If you dig this pre-digital "ASCII style" typed art (historical memes!), check out @ryancordell.org's "Programmable Type: the Craft of Printing, the Craft of Code" which includes many examples, including his ID of this early memed "The Dude" art below (1883!) ryancordell.org/research/pro...

Metal type form for Urbs in Horto print.

And the type form.

Early early ASCII art rocks. A "how did they make that?" for historical (& very current, as here!) technology—letterpress for "drawing" art #DHmakes

Get Your Copy Zines are available by donation, with all profits going directly to the authors.

www.coastallinespress.com/p/get-your-c... Buy zines from Gaza to get the creators' work out there and to support them financially. Please add Coastal Lines zines to your library collections! 🇵🇸 📚

Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO

"What was the point of the shutdown if the Democrats are just going to cave for nothing?" The point was to do what everyone wanted for only as long as it took to win an election and then immediately betray them. The election was 3 days ago! The disdain they hold for us is majestic.

I don't think it's cowardice. I think that they are OK with what the GOP is doing. The sooner folks reconcile with this, the better.

In the midst of all that we are facing, I want us to think about who we are being told to look to for understanding in this moment, who is being propped up as the voice of wisdom, and ask how right were they in predicting this, a year ago, 5, 8 years ago, and then ask why they are being centered now

"The issuance of a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the federal order does not change the [reduced trans health]care provided currently under the Board of Visitors' resolutions from Feb. 21, 2025" (ie the "only following current legal decisions" soother=picky about what injunctions)

"UVA Health will continue to monitor legal developments...& provide our patients with the best care possible under VA+federal law" & "UVA agrees to comply with civil rights laws & to apply July 2025 Justice Department guidance *as relevant, to the extent consistent with judicial decisions*", and yet

=under "Why did the University agree to follow the DOJ’s July 29 guidance about civil rights law?" update 11/7. Earlier AFAIK was only public via wobbly citations (spoken in a closed faculty meeting & secondhand quote in a news article). Good to have publicly stated (still denying healthcare though)

UVA public confirmation of not interpreting their DoJ agreement as necessitating unscientific+hatebased attacks on folks not following rando gender norms: "The agreement does not obligate us to follow the DOJ guidance related to 'affirm[ing] sex-based boundaries rooted in biological differences'"

If I had a ZLuC BINGO card, I'd have Fire! reference on it, which I could now cross off. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire!! Fire is a Harlem Renaissance literary magazine/chapbook on the continuum of radical self-publishing, i.e., kind of a zine!

Many of us donate labor to our institutions (which don't appreciate it) for zine librarianship. The labor is for our communities, not the institutions. The work is some of our activism for which we don't need to be paid. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

unboxing Public Data Cultures book

Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.

Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.

Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! 🦔🌌💜

Because, as I have said, it’s only good universal use case is disciplining labor.

In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together "Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.

“The regime wants all of us afraid. It is counting on fear immobilizing us and perhaps even turning us against each other. Instead, what we are currently seeing in Chicago is that solidarity can overcome fear and can give people the courage and tenacity to fight for each other.” --Mariame Kaba

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Evil.

"Being trans is a new thing" meanwhile around her time were born:
- 1779: Thomas de Croismare
- 1786: Henriette-Jenny Savalette de Lange
- 1787: Christophe-Paulin de La Poix
- 1789: Dr. James Barry

6th Circuit Rules Cis Students May Bully Trans Students By Repeatedly Misgendering Them The Circuit also seemed to suggest that trans students could not misgender their bullies in return.

1. In a devastating decision for trans kids in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee, the 6th Circuit has ruled students can bully trans kids by repeatedly misgendering them.

Trans kids also are not allowed to return the favor to their bullies.

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What @alexsaum.bsky.social said 👇👇👇 but with the cool poster the organizers made

A group of people sitting around a table with stacks of paper and various book binding supplies

a table with stacks of paper and various book binding supplies. Hands are sewing sheets

Back in the binding circle @skeuomorphpress.org finishing the Le Guin books. Will be finally mailing them next week!

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

“The only trait less discriminating than gender for identification purposes is perhaps, ‘Are you human?’”

What I Need You To Understand, Notes from Chicago in Late October | dansinker.com

"What I need you to know is we are organized.

What I need you to know is that you need to get organized.

What I need you to know is they are coming.

What I need you to know is you can stop them."
- @dansinker.com on ICE's rapidfire terrorism in Chicago, & the power of community response:

I made poster prints with this a while back, and have been meaning to make more. I hadn't considered tshirts, but I've been meaning to try out printing on cloth & this would be good type for it, so I may try that!

Photo of a round boule of just-baked bread, with crispy split crust and everything seasoning baked into the crust

Yes please! I need to get back into baking, but my last good loaf was this #DHbakes