Came across Vance Packard's The Waste Makers today. I never realised the idea of 'planned obsolescence' was so old. And I guess we took none of his advice.

Thanks @trailnetstl.bsky.social for another great community ride, celebrating Juneteenth! Lots of new-to-me Black St. Louis history, fantastic entertainment, and a good chunk of roads I hadn’t ridden before.

Yeeessss. I assigned this one for the digitization unit in my Digital Curation and Storytelling class last fall. I have to confess, though, that the youths were mostly not impressed.

Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Welp, I guess I'm assigning an episode of Buffy to the students taking my political economies of print class next spring.

What kind of doofus would wear wide leg pants in a torrential downpour? The same kind that would manage to slip into two giant puddles and soak both their shoes before even making it out the alley #stlwx

I saw a vanity plate BGTD this morning, and that’s probably “Big Ted” or something. But I might gently suggest workshopping that one next time.

A few months ago, I noticed this scam #DigitalHumanities journal, with AI articles attributed to fake or stolen author names. They've now replaced those articles with new ones by seemingly real authors. Same vol, same issue, totally different pubs.

dr. meg smith@megsmith.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New scam journal alert for #DigitalHumanities! Digital Humanities and Society Studies - not just predatory, but fully AI-generated with fake authors (or in at least one case, a recognizably stolen name). The publisher's been flagged before as being shady, but this journal is particularly egregious.

Last week, I had the honor of presenting some preliminary research at American Society of Irish Medieval Studies' panel in honor of Dr. Kieran O'Connor at ICMS 61. Thank you to @clemsondh.bsky.social and @megsmith.bsky.social for both allowing me to attend and presiding over a great panel!

Every day’s a good day to check on your digital humanities project’s discoverability. Talk to your friendly local cataloging librarian or DIY with the Digital Humanities DDP framework. #DigitalHumanities digitalhumanitiesddp.com

The Digital Documentation Process - The Digital Documentation Process

TUTORIAL This website will serve as a guide to the Digital Documentation Process (DDP), a set of best practices for cataloguing and preserving digital projects. The DDP makes digital humanities (DH) s...

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TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 3mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Writing! At the Bus Stop Book proposal, public transit, and thunderstorms create some extremely cozy vibes. #stl #stlwx

Today I am grateful for people who share their book proposals on @kcommons.bsky.social, which mostly means I am grateful to @eve.gd! Process documents are super useful and so hard to find.

Things are going well at our sibling campus, I see www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/new-ai-...

New AI degree at SIU sparks ethical concerns from students

Southern Illinois University will offer a Bachelor of Science degree in artificial intelligence in fall 2026, raising ethical concerns from some students.

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Congratulations to @megsmith.bsky.social! Last week, she received the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the Saint Louis University Department of History. The award recognizes all the fantastic, collaborative work in IRIS, supporting history & the humanities at SIUE and beyond! #DigitalHumanities

Who needs a blow dryer when you live in the Midwest and a storm is coming? #stl #stlwx

Just a little over a week left to apply for this job! The application portal will close on May 1st. #DigitalHumanities #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs

dr. meg smith@megsmith.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey library folks! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Lovejoy Library is hiring a tenure track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions or direct them to the search chair! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/184021. #DigitalHumanities #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs

More art for IRIS, courtesy of @literaturegeek.bsky.social’s @wolfproofpress.com! Critical tech, care ethics, and creative scholarship are all essential to IRIS’s ethos, and it’s so cool to see that inscribed on the space like this. #DigitalHumanities

Mail day 👀 courtesy of @wolfproofpress.com🐺 These prints got a little waylaid — big shoutout to USPS for finding them again through a missing mail request! How great to have a national mail service that provides reliable support, even when they’re swamped #InfrastructureIsAPublicGood

Congrats to our SIUE presenters at the STL #DigitalHumanities Showcase! 💿 Kezia Miller, “Beautiful Dreams of the Past: Preserving Family Histories through Textual Recovery” 💿 Mauri Johnson, Rayna Sims, & Colin Strasser, “Digital Storytelling on the Hiking Trail at Saint Stanislaus Conservation Area”

The National Great Rivers Museum in Alton, IL has a simulator where you can try piloting a barge. It is humbling.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4mo ago

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

Hey @knightlab.northwestern.edu! My students are working on a StorymapJS assignment right now, and some (but not all) are getting an OSM error on the default basemap. Any chance this could be a quick fix, or should I have them change gears?

I'm always thinking about @halperta.bsky.social's lineage activity and ways we can set visible reminders at work. I'm thrilled to have @skeuomorphpress.org and @wolfproofpress.com prints hanging in my cubicle. Love having the words of @megsmith.bsky.social and Le Guin on display with my books!

Time for one of my favorite games, Is That a Grey Hair? No! It’s a Cat Hair on My Head!

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

Love a salty little subskeet, but also! I do in fact use transit in the classroom to get students thinking about issues of spatial justice and access. cuny.manifoldapp.org/read/small-d...

Action Committee for Transit@actfortransit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Gonna start saying this⬇️ No matter how you feel about transit, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that teachers understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their trips. Hear from three teachers who have been experimenting with transit in this American Educator article

Love to be internationally renowned for spontaneously rolling back pedestrian safety measures that were thoroughly researched, extensively planned, supported by public opinion, and implemented with taxpayer dollars

Julie in STL@hyperhouse.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’ve gone international! And props to the UK tabloid to be the only one talking pedestrian injuries and deaths. I know every interview we mentioned it but editorial control means not everyone is interested in prioritizing that part of the story. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

Hey library folks! Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's Lovejoy Library is hiring a tenure track digital archivist. I'm on the search committee and happy to answer questions or direct them to the search chair! Apply at apply.interfolio.com/184021. #DigitalHumanities #LibraryJobs #ArchiveJobs

Another big congratulations to Dr. Kristine Hildebrandt! Yesterday, she received her Distinguished Research Professor award and was recognized for her tremendous accomplishments in endangered language documentation, digital and public humanities, and innovative pedagogy. We are lucky to have her!

The @siueiris.bsky.social glowup continues! New additions include the public library symbol for our welcome wall and some cozy tea and books for our tea corner. #DHMakes

Things they tell you in history grad programs: Anything can be a text! Things they don’t tell you in history grad programs: Scat can be a text? This has been another dispatch from St. Stanislaus Conservation Area. #skystorians 🗃️ (It’s not really graphic media, it’s just poop.)

Happy birthday to the driver of the 90 bus! A couple guys just sang to her 💕 If you’re not riding transit, there’s a whole community you’re missing out on #PublicTransit #stl