THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...
My algorithm has inexplicably been 51% Charlie’s Angels (2000), and I had to get some sketches out of my system, even though I haven’t seen the movie in decades.
Zombear is a zombie bear mascot from Otaru, in Hokkaido, who swings his intestines around.
I am excited to be joining this department and the effort to educate students at UCLA on the technology landscape being built around them, so we might all think and imagine differently together.
UCLA launches nation's first digital humanities department
Future-ready students, forward-looking research: The new department brings a humanistic approach to AI and other emerging technologies.
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Job posting: Metadata Specialist: Work with the Smithsonian Office of Digital and Innovation on metadata and archival systems, primarily ArchivesSpace: GS-12, $102,415–133,142) www.usajobs.gov/job/881783800 (Note: there is a limit of 150 applicants for this role, SO DON'T DELAY!)
Information Technology Specialist
The Smithsonian Institution is the worlds largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo. This position is located in Office of Digital and Innovation (ODI), Off...
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Spare me from having to listen to the frozen two soundtrack or whatever from some lady’s cellphone in this waiting room
I remember when many of us hypothesized this during the MOOC IP grab. It sounded insane. Now:
James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat are we even doing here? www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/b...
@emilynussbaum.bsky.social talks about her love of cult Canadian TV show Slings and Arrows on the latest episode of the New Yorker's Critics Cult Classics podcast: www.newyorker.com/podcast/crit...
Critics’ Cult Classics: Emily Nussbaum on “Slings & Arrows”
The New Yorker writer sings the praises of a little-known Canadian television series set at a Shakespeare festival—which happens to be her favorite show of all time.
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I miss the days when I had the time and energy to turn a Tony Stark/Steve Rogers sequence from an issue of the Armor Wars arc into a Hall & Oates comic.
I work for the Flickr Foundation and every so often a new Flickr Commons image shows up that I think the librarian folks here would like to see. This one is from Grace Paull and was published in 1934. 📚 www.flickr.com/photos/libra...
I keep a list of sample podcasting assignments for college/univ instructors interested in developing their own. If you’d like yours included, share it here or DM me. Assignments that include detailed assessment rubrics are especially welcome
University of Utah employees are saying there isn’t enough space to accommodate a return-to-office mandate, that parking is insufficient and that some are already doubled and tripled up in offices. The mandate came down from U. leadership, a spokesperson said.
Here’s what we know about the University of Utah’s updated in-office work requirements
The change applies institution-wide, including University of Utah Health, but individual supervisors will have scheduling discretion.
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A sixteenth-century Humpen, or giant communal drinking vessel, depicting the various stages of a woman's life. As we all know, the two most important of these are the "reading to geese" era and the "being comforted by surprisingly buff skeletons" era.
Dressing up a little bit for a medical appointment in hopes that helps my concerns be taken seriously….
it seems like there is a certain kind of pundit who interacts with culture like they are preparing for a quiz or a lecture and I find that view of art to be so depressing and corny
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3w agoAxios writer: I melted my brain with AI. Not only can I no longer read, but I don't even understand the purpose of reading anymore. Here's how you can also do this. www.axios.com/2026/08/11/r...
Filling out the intake form for a new doctor's office, and I'm just gonna go out on a limb and guess that their patient portal was at least partially coded by AI... This does not inspire confidence in their HIPAA compliance.
