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.
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Karl Grossner, PhD. Geographer, nomad (still), #place, #zenstoicism™. Building an Environmental Dimensions of Place service (#EDOPS). Previously, @whgazetter.org. Denver, CO until mid-Sep
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
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![4-panel comic. (1) [Two people running] PERSON 1: They’re right behind us! PERSON 2 with ponytail: It’s OK! I have a plan. (2) [zoomed out view of group with weapons chasing first two people as they reach a small object on the ground] PERSON 2: This part of the continent used to be an island arc before it collided with North America. (3) [Person 1 looking behind as Person 2 hits buttons on small pillar sticking out of the Earth that makes a “beep beep” sound] PERSON 2: Just gotta access the control panel… Yes! It still works! Okay, full reverse! (4) [zoomed out view of map of east coast of North America. There is a jagged edge on the northeast, and an island with a jagged edge has separated from it.] FROM CONTINENT: *No!* FROM ISLAND: *HAH!*](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreieiupj3rcaosmcgmsjz4bi66iwly4uly6yoj4fs2nvjhud22lfpwy)
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 · 3w agoIt 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-...
NLnet; OpenHistoricalMap + MapReader
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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.
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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 · 2mo agoLecture 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 · 2mo agoDH2026 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 · 2mo agoImpeach this corrupt villain
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 · 2mo agoI’m interested. Other than the term “socialist” just what DSA policies to do so-called mainstream Dems oppose?
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..
Messi from the wing for the win. Maybe he needs to stay out there.
Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? I'd love a contact because hcommons.social/@paregorios/... Boosts for reach/visibility appreciated.
Tom Elliott (@paregorios@hcommons.social)
Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? There's no attribution pages anymore I can find and old http URIs are being incorrectly redirected to URIs beginning with "localhost" p...
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After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.
‘Once you acknowledge that most of the Americas were inhabited long before 1492, everything changes, starting with the idea that nature in its ideal state is what they used to call virgin wilderness, in which people don’t belong.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776
In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...
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I should say I love maps so much I've made several dozen of them, with the help of many others....
Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.
I routinely step back from intense engagement with Claude, developing a data instrument service, to consider the nature of that collaboration, its meaning to me and societal implications. This was a valuable read for me, and its framing for evaluation of AI slices along seams sensible to me. Thx.
Alan Liu@alanyliu.bsky.social · 2mo agoI posted on arXiv.org the preprint of my “AI Virtue: What Is ‘Good’ Knowledge in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?” arxiv.org/abs/2607.01776, which is forthcoming in a double special issue of “MFS Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI” in 2027.
The 12th Linked Pasts annual symposium will be hosted in-person from 23–25 November 2026 by the Centre for Digital Culture and Innovation, University of Porto. Call for participation linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2026/06/23/l...
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