Emily Higgs Kopin

I have caught up on the drama surrounding the Neopets TTRPG (which I did help kickstart lol). I have so many thoughts and absolutely no audience for any of them

Book cover of Digital Degrowth: Radically Rethinking Our Digital Futures by Neil Selwyn

in a new city I like to wander from bookstore to bookstore, often rummaging for hours across different locations until I find books that tell me they want to come home with me

but sometimes the first book I see in the first bookstore I visit has a big fat “this is for you” sticker on it

this made me laugh way too loud at this coffee shop in Amsterdam and now me and the grandpas next to me are watching your video together. Prof Alvis you’re healing our cultural divides

sorry my reply guy instinct is faster than my “that‘s not even that funny” Wise brain

reindeer aren’t real, they’re made up for Santa like Minotaurs and narwhal. also, gloves???!!

A weathered leather bound book with a design devised in gold reading “Are we a stupid people?” With a large gold question mark and a lion holding a flag and a heraldic shield underneath. The bottom reads “By One of Them”

Today’s research deep dive brought me this leather bound book cover

I think intentionally activating your own diving reflex in order to physiologically force yourself to calm down is a technique we should be legitimately teaching to all schoolchildren alongside the Heimlich and Stop, Drop, and Roll. science rules

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Cover of the day

me halfway through attempting to explain to my husband “what I’m giggling about”: okay so the game is about a little girl from New Jersey. actually you know what it doesn’t matter. oh also just so I know, what do you know about orphan works

She reported her professor. Then the Reddit comments poured in. Part one of an investigation into an online smear campaign that followed a complaint against a music school.

Smear campaigns in Reddit comments have become a fixture of celebrity legal dramas, but they aren't just affecting public figures. For @spitfirenews.com, I investigated anonymous online attacks against a woman who reported a music professor for sexual harassment.
spitfirenews.com/p/she-report...

Elven Bikini of Juggling [STOLEN]

It's funny as a long-time adjunct to see these tenured goobers announce how excited they are to never think or write for themselves again. There are hundreds or even thousands of us ready and able to unburden them, if that would really make them happy.

from my English-speaking perspective, it’s quite easy to pronounce as long as I’m not looking at the word spelled out 😅 I’m sure I’m missing some phonetic nuance

I'm probably going to go twice, as bookends

Screenshot of Google Translate in Dutch, “Niemand van ons weet waarom die idioot Groenland wil.” The English from which this translation was generated is not included in the screenshot, but it was “None of us know why that idiot wants Greenland”

I like to practice key phrases even when I know most people there speak English

this isn't a joke about dutch, it's a joke about my ability to spell

Headed to Amsterdam tomorrow, T-minus 24 hours to learn how to spell rikijsjmuseum

YouTube video by Bleacher Report DACHSUND RACE AT THE HOCKEY GAME 😮

Love this video going around, hate when big accounts post stuff without any source or attribution

This is the Wiener Dog Race from the Green Bay Gamblers game, and the video was taken from the team's Instagram

the Sioux Falls Stampede has a similar annual tradition

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8C1...

PHILLY LET'S GET RID OF THE DICKENS STATUE IN CLARK PARK AND ADD AN ACTUAL REAL LOCAL HERO

I'm not sure how to get a statue of someone made (feels like I should know, tbh), but I think one of @kendraserra.bsky.social hand-in-hand with Cookie feels pretty appropriate here?

GREAT thread & writeup for those of us interested in video games OR IP law OR cultural heritage OR all of those things

posting this with both my "annoying memelord" persona and my "annoying archivist" persona, as both are thankful to @philsalv.bsky.social for sharing this peek into the process

if this is cereal for men, who the HELL has been crunchatizing me this whole time

I'm not saying that those of us in cultural heritage should take advantage of the current moment by repackaging all our previously-deferred collections management/infrastructure/technical debt projects as "AI readiness." But I'm also not NOT saying that

someone smarter than me should write something about the particular convergence of having to save this resource due to its defunded maintenance costs and also feminizing the acronym from a man's name to a woman's name

Large text says "I had concerns about LLMs, so I tried them out. What happened next surprised me" and small text says "Now I have a longer, more specific list of concerns, with documented examples"

working on a slide deck for an internal presentation. am I doing this right

LLMs as contrast dye for where resources are missing.

Because I’ve watched them before, all the episodes of 30 Rock on Hulu start about 2.5 minutes from the end. which is weird because I could have sworn we solved the “be kind, rewind“ problem