mastodon 4.7.3prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at electricarchaeology.ca #digiarch #archaeology #histodons #archaeodons #dh #publichistory
“The failures are the curriculum. The error messages are the syllabus. Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.” https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/
The large centralized university in its current form cannot hold. I imagine a future with small colleges dispersed across the land. Federated coops of students, staff, and faculty. Block schedules, classes of no more than 12. Student devised majors. The future of learning has to be social, personal, community. It must be the antithesis.
For the novelists amongst us, this looks neat. I'm amazed at what has gone into building this as an #obsidian plug-in.
You think executive orders are bad? The notwithstanding clause makes any excess you care to name perfectly constitutional. Right now they're only dipping their toes into its use but rest assured more and more extreme will come when the challenge fails.
...I arrived at the airport perhaps earlier than I really needed to, but there's something to be said for being able to sit somewhere quiet with a cup of coffee and people watch. So many little dramas playing out .
“ Making money isn’t proof to me that I know something any better than someone else. Wealthy people who believe that they do aren’t as smart as they think. I’m sort of the Forrest Gump of the internet in that way. I was in the right place, at the right time, and I don’t exactly know why.” -https://archive.ph/ZvrCZ
…i know some academics who could similarly reframe their heads, re tenure.
gonna start a new project. yeah. yeah! gonna keep track of everything, in sensibly arranged folders, yeah! kanban for tasks! a knowledgebase! yeah yeah!
<20 minutes later>…
oh no. no. ooooooh nooooo
They let the kids in the band write each other's bios for the program, for tonight's performance.
This was a mistake.
Term is over. The sense of being overwhelmed continues.
spending money on toronto waterfront to encourage people to live there... and then filling in the harbour so you can land jets right in front. Doug! much leader! so wow!
What are folks using these days for research involving Instagram? Once upon a time it was relatively straightforward to collect materials...
there you go. strangle funding, claim the recipients mismanaged the funding (as if it was their fault they had no funds), destroy local oversight and ‘run as a business’ https://theconversation.com/what-ontarians-need-to-know-about-student-achievement-reforms-that-will-run-school-boards-like-businesses-280618
Schipol achieved. But I have to find a bus operated by KLM now. Some bloody signs or staff who know things would be nice #klm!!!
We're... 570th? I guess that's good, if these things mean anything which I rather don't believe.
Zombie sea cucumbers. As if we didn't have enough to worry about.
...a bad sign when the laptop's clock gets out of sync with reality, yes?
hey! The DH Awards 2025 are open for voting!
http://dhawards.org/dhawards2025/voting/
(...and is that Practical Necromancy on the list? Why yes, yes it is!)
We use a couple of these to fill our cans and bottles of #cider. https://duofiller.com/ just sharing with y'all because when I have questions or need help, the folks at duofiller are incredibly quick and generous, so yeah: recommend!
Shocked I tell you. Angela Lansbury in the mirror crack'd (1980), more Jessica Fletcher than Miss Marple, smoking a cigarette with dinner, holding it like a joint...
Top. Schools.
The gentlest of comments. Republicans lose their minds. https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/university-michigan-professor-derek-peterson-commencement-speech-israel-gaza/
Studio DH at Carleton and Amanda Montague on the radio this morning! https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-100-ottawa-morning#episodes
"we are good fiscal managers. There is no money for x. You school boards have behaved badly with your money, we will take over. Also we bought a jet for the premier fuck you".
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-private-jet-9.7167824
‘as a business’. as if businesses were something holy.
"That Conservative leader and House leader questioning our prime minister’s economic education and experience is like a third-line, beer league hockey player questioning Conor McGregor’s hockey skills"
Canadian burn.
But seriously. This is the angle PP is taking? That Carney isn't educated or know anything about economics? I might not disagree with the PM's direction on things, but c'mon. This is extra stupid from the man who lost. https://archive.ph/GDqby
anybody here done anything recent with the Flickr api?
And when the orange turd goes out of his way to humiliate the king, what then? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/31/king-charles-state-visit-to-us-to-go-ahead-buckingham-palace-confirms
The only winning move is not to play...
cool
“ NAC to live-stream Artemis II launch on signature glass tower”
https://ottawasun.com/news/local-news/national-arts-centre-live-stream-artemis-ii
Putting cider into cans and bottles today and everything is going so slow. Can't figure it out.
