Reposted by Hannah Hopkinsmichael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lots of people will weigh in with thoughts on Anne Carson in the coming days, but I will just note that she wins the epigraph game 439466
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Our machines are disturbingly lively INDEED 000
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsJosh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 30/09/2026How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜 49830
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsNPR @npr.org · 25/09/2026Across the country, lost-and-found networks seek to reunite objects with disaster survivors. The work can take years. In some cases, it's impossible to pick up all the pieces. n.pr/4rBLq3mn.pr 27510
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Join Jen Clary-Lemon and me at RSA Institute! FIELD NOTES ON NATURECULTURE takes us from the Louisville Nature Center to downtown Louisville to learn from and with practices of noting. We'll walk, we'll experiment with field research tech, we'll make zines. All the info: bit.ly/naturecultur... 013
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 02/09/2026Graphic design is now, always has been, and forever will be our passion. 746448
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026This weekend I encountered the Boss Level of Technical Education: teaching my 94-year-old grandma how to watch Traitors on a streaming service by herself. 89610
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23/07/2026It’s not “your” data, it’s data about you. 🙃ajc.comWhy you can't access surveillance data collected about you in GeorgiaYou're probably being recorded all over Atlanta. But what if you want to see the data being collected about you? Credit: AJC|WANF|GDOT|O.C.G.A. Title 35 24014
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsAlan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 01/06/2026A first-of-its-kind feature of _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ is the inclusion of authors' "infrastructure manifests": dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica...dhdebates.gc.cuny.eduAppendix | Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital HumanitiesThis volume reimagines the digital humanities (DH) through the expanding field of critical infrastructure studies as it explores how DH builds on and extends the field’s theories and technologies. Inc... 152
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsRob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Data, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianism by Prince K. Guma in Urban Geography www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comData, AI, and infrastructures of resistance under authoritarianismExisting studies across Geography and related fields have yet to develop a sustained account of how new and emergent digital technologies reconfigure popular resistance and dissent under authoritar... 061
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I know this place is no 🐦app when it comes to crowdsourcing creative ideas, but... Might anyone be able to share e.g. of urban exploration-oriented viewfinders — e.g. kits to focus + frame observation in the physical world? Here's my class experimenting w/ Katie Giritlian's photo frames.... [1/2] 7188
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsAlberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalismopenvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.comData Feminism for Data Visualization 311850
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 18/05/2026By the time I prove I’m not a robot, run dual-factor authentication, reject cookies, and turn off AI summaries… I really do forget what/why I was trying to read in the first place. 020
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Thinking about "rational, comprehensible, even sympathetic" designfastcompany.comHow Ikea Designs Its (In)famous Instruction ManualsLove 'em or hate ‘em, a lot of thought goes into that Ikea stuff you throw away after assembly. 110
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/05/2026Coming tomorrow to Canvas, if your university subscribes at the Canvas Next tier (IDK what that is either) and your IT department enables "Ignite AI." community.instructure.com/en/discussio... 84531
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 02/04/2026This is the @ainowinstitute.bsky.social's North Star Data Center Policy Toolkit, a set of policy and action recommendations for fighting against "AI" data centers at the local, state, and federal level. datacenters.ainowinstitute.orgdatacenters.ainowinstitute.orgNorth Star Data Center Policy ToolkitThis policy toolkit is primarily geared toward stopping, slowing, and restricting rampant data center development in the US at the local and state level. 2172103
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Dreamy report design for the tech comm hive. 000
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsQuinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 27/04/2026Looking for something joyful, fulfilling, and very human that lets you assure the Powers That Be that you're making students "AI ready"? Tell them you're doing what they do at Stanford! The #DataSittersClub is delighted to share little tl;dr #3 on bringing textile dataviz to the classroom. #DHmakesdatasittersclub.github.ioGetting 'AI Ready' with TextilesNo computers required! 02513
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Thinking about sidewalks: forms, materials, textures, maintenance, disrepair. Loved learning more about tabby: "[It] wasn’t the preservation of this one site that interested me, so much as these relations that reached across time and distance." placesjournal.org/article/tabb...placesjournal.orgTabby Concrete: An Eroding Architectural HistoryLinked through Black and Indigenous heritage, tabby concrete is a cross-generational, transnational building material that architectural historians must preserve. 010
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsScholars' Lab @scholarslab.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Check out @winnieepm.bsky.social's new site & learn about her work: "My craft is asking difficult questions. I believe community-making & kinship drive the world for the better." A DHer focused on design+infrastructure studies, completing a cultural studies PhD in Spanish while working at SLab:winnieepm.github.io 044
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsAccessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...medium.comWriting Alt Text for Data VisualizationHow do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try 05841
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsMél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 20/04/2026This has been restored! Thanks to folks in Mexico who'd made a copy and re-shared it with me... not sure how it got deleted but it's back! Open biblio that anyone can copy/paste and add to (please add anything that fits!) CRITICAL DATA CENTER STUDIES docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comCritical Data Center StudiesCritical Data Center Studies Books Amoore, Louise. 2020. Ethics Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others Duke https://www.dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics Bedir, M; Groen. L; Kuijpers. M; S... 14519
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsKate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This thread is good & also what a great, low overhead, citywide project for a team of artists, planners, local historians/archivists, & people with screw guns 22711
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsGregg Mitman @greggmitman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026And the second in the series. #Biodiversity and carbon offsets—cornerstones of neoliberal conservation—have become critical tools for mining companies, with consequential social and ecological costs in #Liberia and #Guinea. #envhist #convivialconservationafricasacountry.comWhere mining and conservation meetFar from signaling a break from the past, the convergence of mining and conservation in West Africa underscores a recurring pattern that stretches back to colonialism. 1125
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026Add some bushy eyebrows and it’s a full surveillance Groucho Marx look.androidcentral.comI gave my Meta smart glasses a nose and now they last all day longThe BoboVR CG2 charges my Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta glasses at home and on the go. 4405
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/03/2026This is an absolutely astonishing journey 1616226
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsJennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use www.wired.com/story/senato...wired.comSenators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers UseIn a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers. 17522
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsDustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 21/03/2026"If the data centers we rely on are built on the infrastructural remains of colonial and imperial ideologies, we must interrogate how these spaces and histories shape our engagement with the newest manifestation of these ideologies."digitalrhetoriccollaborative.orgThe Rhetorical Power of Data Centers: Case Studies from the Global North and Global SouthThis Yack article explores the rhetorical power of data centers from Global North and Global South perspectives. 1119
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsAnne Pasek @apasek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026We're doing an online book launch for our new book on climate action, equity, and research methods. Register for whichever date works best for you + tune in for some short readings, further musings, and good company :) April 6: trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... April 7: trentu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 1134
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"From a strategic perspective, in efforts to resist data centers, we need to be principled about including the supply chain as part of our political analysis as we raise the profile of this issue," write Hannah Lipstein and @tamigraph.bsky.social. 0208
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsJennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Also mark your calendar for the third reading circle as @nobugsnous.bsky.social, @vymanivannan.bsky.social, & Travis Margoni will facilitate a workshop on applying these conversations to the teaching of writing. Happening on Monday, Jan 12, 4–5 PM ET! my.ncte.org/event-inform... 0129
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsJennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 03/12/2025The next CCCC Reading Circle on Land, Labor, Water & Writing: The Costs of Gen AI in the Writing Classroom is happening in 1 week! Join @hannahhopkins.bsky.social & @donniejsackey.bsky.social for a discussion of @dustinedwards.bsky.social's Enduring Digital Damage on Wed Dec 10, 4–5 PM ET. 3188
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 09/09/2025I look forward to talking about corporate tech sustainability reports with the undergrads every semester, but it's really just this bizarre image from Google's 2024 and 2025 reports that haunts me. Starting today, he haunts a whole new class of tech writing students. 250
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsTech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Current concerns about AI’s adverse climate impacts are largely confined to operational energy and water use by data centers. While these impacts are important, they represent only a fraction of the ways in which AI can influence climate outcomes, write Felippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson.techpolicy.pressThe Overlooked Climate Risks of Artificial Intelligence | TechPolicy.PressFelippa Amanta and Charlie Wilson explore how AI contributes to climate risks beyond data centers. 062
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsDWRL @dwrl.bsky.social · 09/07/2025On Tuesday morning, DWRL ADs @hannahhopkins.bsky.social and @trentwintermeier.bsky.social led a workshop at the Seaholm Power Plant, which explored the scales required to investigate energy's contours and expose its capacities. 102
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 04/07/2025AI, but for predicting the exact date and time you're going to get REALLY into Marconi Union 000
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 31/03/2025AI, but for telling you which jobs are going to require you to switch from Gmail to Outlook 041
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025My first solo-authored article is up now in RSQ! This piece was a dream to work on. I'm so humbled by the generosity of the RSQ reviewers and editors, and even more sure that my crackerjack home team of friends + colleagues is the best in the game. Check it out! bit.ly/hhopkinsrsqtandfonline.comA Sense of Direction: Rhetoric, Energy, and InfrastructureThis article argues for a sense of proprioception as a conceptual frame for how energy materializations tangle with digital infrastructure, suggesting terms through which rhetoricians might advance... 2398
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025AI, but for choosing a first day icebreaker that won’t mortify me or anyone else 030
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 02/01/2025AI, but for predicting how and where I’ll mess up the lyrics when I sing in my car 000
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I line-dried my laundry today. It is December 29.media.tenor.coma cartoon of a staircase with the words something is quite wrongAlt: Ms. Clavel from Madeline, running down the stairs. Saying “Something is not right, something is quite wrong, and so… I sing this song!” 000
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 15/12/2024In the end, maybe the undeletable Microsoft Word section breaks are the friends we made along the way 040
Hannah Hopkins @hannahhopkins.bsky.social · 04/12/2024AI, but for predicting how often I’ll forget about the tea I just brewed (it’s every time, help) 010
Reposted by Hannah HopkinsThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 02/12/2024WHO HOG 13888119