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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 21/09/2026

That was Andrew! Turned out great.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 12/09/2026

My latest for Jewschool: "What is really galling here is not simply that the signatories got the law wrong, but that they know the moral vocabulary and are using it backward."

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There are names on the “Reject the Lie” letter who should know better. That is the first thing to say, and the last thing too.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 19/08/2026

I also like that the game subtly disincentivizes doing piracy all the time by not allowing your crew to sing during combat. You don’t always have to be on the grindset, you can just enjoy sailing around the Caribbean! (Randy Dandy O also extremely strong)

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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026

Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 23/07/2026

Oh, it’s not that simple anymore. Thanks to the NYT’s vast resources, you have to make a GET call now: www.nytimes.com/svc/wordle/v... Which might be a good way to teach APIs…

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 23/07/2026

To clarify: it was to find all the answers for every past and future wordle, which were embedded in the javascript code. It was educational cheating!

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 15/06/2026

Pretty cool to randomly come across @allofmilov.bsky.social's a Chinese language edition of The Cigarette: A Political History in a Beijing bookstore.

Cover of the Chinese language edition of Sarah Milov's The Cigarette: A Political History.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 11/05/2026

Photos from the most recent bird walk at scenic Ivy Creek Natural Area.

Eastern Wood-Pewee, or some kind of pewee, balanced on the end of a branch.

White-breasted Nuthatch approaching a feeder.

Eastern Bluebird hanging out among some branches.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 02/05/2026

Come by the Lab to say hi to everyone sometime and I’ll have one here for you, Andrew. Or else I can mail you one too.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 02/05/2026

I printed a few of them! DM me your address and I’ll drop one off in the mail for you.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 02/05/2026

Back in the print shop! Credit card from M (1931), laser cut on bamboo (with help from @literaturegeek.bsky.social) and printed on the Vandercook.

Letterpress printing block print, black ink on white paper: “EIN FRITZ LANG FILM”

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

A photo of a cat biting a dog's neck with magnificent lighting worthy of Caravaggio

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 23/04/2026

I love and hate that case so much.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 23/04/2026

The curve for the flywheel C&P is 3 fingers though.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 23/04/2026

You’re making it look like only three fellows passed

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Dr. Jennifer Isasi @jenniferisasi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing @zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲 🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc #DigitalHumanities

Poster for an invited talk at the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative at Penn State: “HOW DID THEY DO IT? EXPLORING MULTILINGUAL METADATA AND THE LIMITS OF AI-AUGMENTED TRANSLATION IN DH” by Zoe LeBlanc taking place on April 22nd, 2026 at 12PM EDT.

People can join on zoom.

The poster is mainly blue, with highlights on yellow, and it has a picture of Zoe.

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

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Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

understand why students might think this is a rebuke of the UVA Board shenanigans but absolutely humiliating to see the whitewashing of a man who unashamedly lied about students & called in state troopers to brutalize them as an quixotic demonstration of why harvard should take him back as prez

Cover of the daily progress with headline “Ryan returns” about the selection of former President Jim Ryan to speak at graduation

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 05/04/2026

Some bird photos from a recent bird walk at Ivy Creek Natural Area in beautiful Albemarle County.

American bittern standing very still in a creek.

Great blue heron perched on a branch up in the trees.

Yellow-bellied sapsucker standing on a branch, beak slightly open after eating something.

Field sparrow standing on some branches in the foreground while a squirrel runs past in the background.

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Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Go home GI, your edgelord era got indexed by the Wayback Machine and a grad student is writing about you Your girlfriend started following Hasan Piker, GI GI, your meme coinS dropped 80% in value because the president’s son rug pulled you GI

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 27/03/2026

Mostly the latter. And also in kind of a meta sense: if you didn’t know enough to know e.g. that historical geolocation can be fraught, how can you know that the output matches your intent?

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 27/03/2026

I think that for something like this, you can reasonably say “this is a straightforward transformation, there’s not really a lot of scholarly choices being made here.” But if a person not only didn’t do the work but potentially doesn’t know how to do the work, how does that person know?

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 27/03/2026

Here’s a question: if you never read any of the code, how do you know that it’s right? Both in the senses that the basic logic is correct and also that the subjective choices made in the code match what you want to convey as a humanist?

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 25/03/2026

Amazon: we have lost $100 billion creating Amazon Flame, the Breado knockoff that serves you ads and tells the police about you.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 21/03/2026

Cursed thought: Roottrees but it’s Elon Musk

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 09/03/2026

Quick search backs this up: Ogles’s district has about 1/10 the population of NYC.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 20/02/2026

lol NYT trots out the “did not comply” boilerplate for Ruben Ray Martinez despite the “secret execution” context of his death.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 14/02/2026

Remember how the bipartisan effort to transfer control of TikTok to right wing oligarchs was sold through the idea that Americans’ privacy rights had to be protected from the Chinese?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/02/2026

first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 03/02/2026

Basically agree, with the caveat that teaching with this kind of tool has to be managed very carefully.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 03/02/2026

If there are scholarly ethics concerns with asking an LLM to write a journal article, those same concerns should apply to asking an LLM to write the code that the article is about.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 03/02/2026

Not accusing anyone upstream of doing this, but I feel like AI-critical digital humanities folks are going to carve out an exception in the criticism for AI-coding, fundamentally because most of them don't think that coding is intellectual labor.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 28/01/2026

lmao NYT publishes this fluff piece about how cool this image their photog captured is and doesn't comment at all on how the cop looming over the center of the frame has a big tear in his pants crotch. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

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An American Street

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 21/01/2026

Half the countries that just sent troops to Greenland (specifically, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark) were part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, so there’s definitely a limit to how outraged I think they’re entitled to be.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/01/2026

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

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How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find

Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.

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ev nichols @evln7.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

one member of the board (douglas wetmore) walked into the meeting, noting the large crowd of protestors. his response: "ego and pride are terrible"

texts from douglas wetmore to nicole sheridan

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Ego and pride are terrible

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Read a Shakespeare play sometime!

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r @fourfiveandseven.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

and as a video

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Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 04/01/2026

Do you think this story, whose thesis hinges on three social media posts from random users (including one with “over 700 likes”) is ethical journalism?

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 03/01/2026

There are important differences between saying that a thing is bad and saying that people should feel bad about it. It is *bizarre* to interpret the general statement “humanists should know how to do fractions” as a personal attack.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I realize now I may be the only humanities person who is mad at the assumption we have bad math scores.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 03/01/2026

Don’t normalize that assumption! It’s *bad* to be innumerate, no matter how much Foucault you’ve read.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 03/01/2026

I’ve seen multiple threads today that are just “I’m a respected humanities scholar and I can’t do middle school math” and it sucks!

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 31/12/2025

I’m enjoying this Fuchsia Dunlop book about Chinese food, in part because she’s so openly good-natured and also inexplicably hostile to Daoists. Just like “this dish is indescribably delicious and beloved by all under heaven except those goddamn Daoist monk jackasses.”

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

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