Kevin Moskowitz
@kamoskowitz.bsky.social
History @ Georgia Southern, PhD @ UTA. Technology, environment, and urban development. Digital humanities advocate. Views are my own.
I’m finally working on the actual book proposal for my dissertation (putting real words to real [digital] paper instead of just talking and thinking about it) and I’m amazed at how much better I wrote some of this than I remember it being? My introduction chapter… is kinda fine?
Bezos' WaPo has an editorial today saying data center concerns are overblown and we should celebrate all of the benefits they bring to communities. To avoid providing the outlet more clicks, I'm not providing a link but instead pasting here its deceptions about water impacts.
You know what? An upgrade is an upgrade and I’ll take one triple digit day over one double digit day next week. (No I’m not looking at Kokomo and getting depressed) 😂
I suppose this would surprise a whopping nobody but man the Jeep Compass is comp(lete) ass
Real quick can someone add “ir” to the scrabble dictionary
This is a very serious problem for libraries, archives, and knowledge-keepers of all kinds. If you don’t control access to your collections, *you do not have collections.* If we do not have permanent access to records, stories, & sources of knowledge then our histories and memories are not our own.
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 4w ago"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
T-Minus Six Days Until I Am No Longer A Texas Resident
T-minus 1 week until I am no longer a Texas resident 👀
I’m currently making a new walkthrough video for my surveys for how to use Word, Pages, and LibreOffice (just say no to cloud word processing) to write and format their documents…
Tara Shea@tsbhoney.bsky.social · 4w agolast year i had many students that were truly afraid of messing something up on a computer like my mom was back in 2001. I had office hours for college students who didn't know how to download a document, what a hard drive vs cloud doc was, how to change formatting and even font. I enjoyed helping!
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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NEW: Indiana Historical Society layoffs hit education, exhibits teams One former worker said it feels like the organization was "gutted from the inside out." mirrorindy.org/indiana-hist...
Indiana Historical Society layoffs hit education, exhibits teams
One former worker said it feels like the organization was “gutted from the inside out.”
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Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · last mo.Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last mo.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
As a boy, my grandparents wouldn't dream of buying a Ford b/c Henry Ford—who was long dead by then—had been a rabid antisemite. 40 years later, I'm amazed that so many people who deplore xenophobia remain willing to buy a Tesla.
FWIW I grew up in the district Haley Stevens represents and no one talked like that. It’s an extremely cosmopolitan, wealthy, and diverse area. Our next door neighbors were immigrants from Iran and Ukraine. My friends were from Mexico and India. The put-upon “okie-dokie” accent is condescending.
This framing is dumb for a reason I think a lot of people miss: There’s more than a salary at stake! Making $50,000 a year in a white collar desk job is more “lucrative” than making $50,001 working a physically grueling job where your joints, muscles, and spine are ground to dust!
NPR@npr.org · last mo.If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
Someone just sent me this photo from Chicago, unbelieveable
🚨 CFP Available for MHA Conference 2027 🚨 Hosted by the Indiana State Archives, the conference theme is "Meeting in the Midwest - Intersections and Intersectionalities" Dates: Thursday, May 20–Friday, May 21, 2027. Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Dec 1, 2026, to midwesternhistory2027@gmail.com
Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate
Always play this Steve Earle song on this day, sung from the point of view of an Irish immigrant soldier in the 20th Maine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z63w...
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YouTube video by Steve Earle - Topic
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Fireworks actually suck shit. I'd be really captivated by them if I lived a thousand years ago but my house has electricity, I've ridden in a helicopter and seen two of the Avatar movies in IMAX. Grow up.
Celeste Headlee@celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe dangerous air quality will last for 24 hours. When asked about the health impacts of the excessive and unnecessary display, an EPA spokesperson said, "Fireworks are awesome."
It’s insane how both of these franchises have just completely lost my interest; Borderlands 2 and Civ5 are beloved in my friends circle but I frankly forgot Borderlands 4 ever came out and Civ7 just doesn’t… do anything to justify its existence? Civ6 was mid but is cheap as heck 🤷♂️ /rant
