I built a small thing for the University of Salzburg: A 2D visualization that displays artworks according to the materials they depict. Layout is generated dynamically using the UMAP algorithm. Pick different materials from the list, and explore new neighborhoods! material-wahl.imareal.at

From the Rocket Science Department at the #NYTimes

Actually, there is a sharp line to be drawn between science and the humanities. The difference is methodological: The “scientific method” consists of publishing papers formatted in two or more columns; whereas humanities papers are arranged in just one column.

I have lit candles for the US in cathedrals, little churches, and temples in my travels since 2016 - not picky. 7 candles, 4 incense sticks all over Japan for two weeks. All to no avail. Thought maybe if I got more specific at a Tendai Buddhist temple at Nachi falls today…

orbis.stanford.edu in the wild, 14 years later

Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600.bsky.social · last mo.

Map shows travel time from Ancient Rome. You can see clearly that travelling by ship was much faster than travelling by land. The Mediterranean Sea is relatively small and countries all along could be reached quickly for trade and war. Source: buff.ly/2sahw9S

Last Two Weeks in the #PleiadesGazetteer (31 August - 14 September 2026): Over the course of the last two weeks, the Pleiades editorial college published 37 new and 197 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Anne Chen […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

Call for citations: does your article, chapter, book, etc. cite Pleiades as a data source? If so, we'd like to add a citation to our new "Pleiades in Use" blog section at https://pleiades.stoa.org/docs/pleiades-in-use . Reply here or drop us an email at pleiades.admin@nyu.edu Boosts […]

🧵 The Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) v0.4 is live: edops.computingplace.org Give it a place (settlement, historical polity) & get a structured "environmental signature" of the drainage basin(s) it occupies: hydrology, climate, terrain, etc. + climate & land use over time 1/3

On this Labor Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.

Mode…

Claude has these observations...

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this is the kind of design costume designers make to tell you who are the bad guys in a space movie

This must not be allowed to happen.

Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Only dictators need to advertise themselves with triumphal arches when they don’t have any triumphs to celebrate www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...

I move around too much to have a cat, but I take pictures of them all over...Chiang Mai, Istanbul, Oxford, Butrint. #caturday

a Magritte sky on my morning walk in Denver, mourning Nepal and Dolly

Some news. Peripleo github.com/britishlibra... is set for a re-boot thanks to the Research Software Maintenance Fund www.software.ac.uk/research-sof.... We're going to rebuild Peripleo as an open, accessible, browser-based map app that can be configured without coding skills or hosting costs 1/2

De Adder

Reverse topography

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 2mo ago

Accretionary Arc xkcd.com/3285/

Wanted: **comprehensive** list or map of temples of #Artemis (and of other deities). #ClassicsBluesky #ancientHistory #ancientReligion please boost for reach

Dr Penny Goodman@pjgoodman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It would be good to be able to see a distribution map of her ancient temples, and compare it with similar ones for other deities, but I'm afraid I don't know of a source for something like that. Maybe others here do?

Very excited that the MapReader team will be collaborating w/ @bertspaan.nl @mradamcox.bsky.social & @openhistoricalmap.org on some infrastructural work linking up MapReader w/OHM & Allmaps! nlnet.nl/project/OHM-...

Some teaser screenshots for v0.4 update to Environmental Dimensions of Place Service (EDOPS) platform, releasing in a couple of weeks. Delivers parameterized environmental data profiles ('signatures') for any terrestrial location, w/tools to explore in sandbox and workbench pages. Writing docs now.

📯 The Core Italian Itineraries are now available in easy-to-use TSV format with accompanying Data Vocabulary on the project GitHub: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

EMDigIt/Core Italian Itineraries at main · rmidura/EMDigIt

EmDigIt (Early Modern Digital Itineraries) explores spatial data in early modern travel guides. It processes route details, stops, and points of interest from historic itinerary books using Python,...

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"This is how you rebalance the Senate and Electoral College. Minority rights are still protected. You’re not abolishing the Senate or moving to a national popular vote. You’re reforming existing institutions." Not to say these are minor tweaks:

The HULK SMASH Plan for Fixing America

JVL’s grand scheme for how to build the new American founding.

lnk.thebulwark.com

If you haven’t recently used Claude Code*, you might not understand where AI is at davidpreichert.substack.com/p/if-you-haven… #AI #agents

I am always both smarter and more knowledgeable after a @timothysnyder.bsky.social lecture. If you like hearing what he has to say here and his blog, check out professor mode. It’s first rate.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Lecture 2: "A World of Empire" Totalitarianism did not emerge from nowhere. It was a response particularly to empires that Europeans had created. Free online course: "Hitler and Stalin Today" Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca Full lecture: youtu.be/PDOGV5Gl6SE?...

A welcome development!

DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon)@dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DH2026 is running real-time AI translation across the programme. Live subtitles in English, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. Open the link posted in your session room, pick your language. Nothing to install. This is the first time we have tried it. dh2026.adho.org/ai-translati...

“I’ve got this thing and it’s […] golden”

Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Impeach this corrupt villain

One Who Understands https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/489986

Calling yourself a democratic socialist invites the shift to 'communist' in GOP messaging and even to 'Nazi' (national socialism), because they can rely on general ignorance of what these labels mean - for MAGA, but across the board. There needs to be a vocabulary-ed meme campaign. #OwnGoal

David Rothkopf@djrothkopf.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m interested. Other than the term “socialist” just what DSA policies to do so-called mainstream Dems oppose?

Boosting for Indigenous archaeologists 🏺

James Stout@jamesstout.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'd love to speak to a Pueblo archeologist or a Pueblo person who can comment on the proposed mineral leases in Chaco Canyon and the tremendous damage that will result.

Claude-speak is striking sometimes: "...it's the kind of gap that surfaces mid-build, and the sufficiency test after increment 1, which is me trying to give the scope guard teeth rather than a sentiment." "...teeth rather than a sentiment"? Makes perfect sense but no human would ever utter it..