Someday I will make a video essay on how the brilliance of Backrooms is that is speaks to the universal human ache of those moments of profound and unacknowledged trauma that never get memorialized, have no monuments to them, yet still exist in a space and time with a part of us no one ever finds.
I absolutely wish Andy Warhol, Mira Schendel, and Francis Picabia were alive and doing information design
Ever design something and look at it and think "this is so ugly and basic it's perfect"
we have so much stuff happening this week! tomorrow we'll be taking some things to the Boulder Public Library for a Technology Petting Zoo with elementary school age patrons - we'll also be bringing the MTV Karaoke Machine and a couple typewriters
The Creation of the Canadian Public Library System www.canadashistory.ca/explore/arts... Tracing public libraries from their roots to modern times
The creation of the Canadian public library system - Canada's History
Tracing public libraries from their roots to modern times
canadashistory.ca
Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!
Gander COO Jen Mitchell spoke with Macleans to talk about the new chapter of Canadian social media: macleans.ca/technology-3...
Canada Needs Its Own Social Media. So I Helped Build It. - Macleans.ca
Gander gives Canadians more control over their data and online lives
macleans.ca
Dałdałagamł -Transformation Mask @quaibranly, musée du quai Branly in Paris as part of Premières Nations, Arts et cultures du Nord~Ouest de L’Amérique, 29 September 2026 – 17 January 2027.
A lovely little Gander update landed yesterday. 🌙 Dark Mode: cozier Gandering that's easy on the eyes. 🔇 MUTE WORDS + TAGS! FOR A DAY! A WEEK! FOREVER! EXCLUDE PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW! Oops. Sorry. Volume was on high. ✨ For You Page: tweaks to bring you more interesting convos from further afield.
Hamilton is briefly mentioned in my upcoming book “Complexity and Emergence” — she programmed the computer simulations that inspired Edward Lorenz to found modern chaos theory.
Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d agoRIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.
Esther Schindler@estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d agoRIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
This picture will always be iconic. RIP Margaret Hamilton who wrote the software that successfully guided NASA’s Apollo missions through the moon.
In our Calling Bullshit course we have a whole lecture about this sort of slop. At least the MIT Sloan Management Review has higher production values.
Tony Stark@tonystark.bsky.social · 6d agolol new defense chart from “How the Army Fights”
Running dark mode through its paces. Or, as one member of the Gander team described it: “The cozy kind of dark mode.” Right in time for fall.
Groups are coming to Gander. (Once we are done testing them). Open and invite-only communities + cozier spaces for your closest people. They'll even be able to share into the main Gander feed. We’re following the ATProto Spaces alpha design, interop groups are the goal.
Dark mode and MUTE WORDS are now live in the Gandershire! 🪿🐦⬛✨
Space Unicorns! SPOOKY SEASON is here again! Uncanny Magazine Issue 72 Part 2 is LIVE ON YOUR INTERNET! buff.ly/39JTYSQ
Ontario - "What is the most important reason to support the ALTO project?" Speed/Time savings compared to VIA: 13% Provides new train service: 13% Canada doesn't have high-speed rail: 12% Traffic congestion reduction: 11% Jobs/economic opportunities: 9% Others: 42% Mainstreet / Sept 29, 2026
I'm honored to be opening the Association of Research Libraries 189th meeting this morning in Arlington, VA with an address entitled "Information Foraging in the Digital World".
You know where you can find this book in Winnipeg! (It's at Other Places Books)
The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · last wk.The Outstanding Novella category recognizes for speculative works ranging from 17,500-39,999 words Congratulations to THE RIVER HAS ROOTS by @amalelmohtar.com #2026IgnyteAwards
My dream of going on a roadtrip and seeing my beautiful-ass country is within grasp. I need to go east first, I've been west. Then, maybe if I can figure it out, north?
Been broke for so long and it feels so good to be able to splurge again on a knowledge haul for my little resource library. I have more works I want (I no longer live near an academic/research library) but these were long-overdue additions for me:
35) Stella Mike, 36) Clara Bird, 37) Edna Sauve, 38) Victoria Baldhead, 39) Gladys Meechett, 40) Alice Gamble, 41) Philomene Ichmakew, 42) Marie Therese Reentach, 43) Mary Anne Seeyapussum, 44) Marie Therese Paul, 45) Irene Prosper