At my first academic conference in, IDK, years? Feels good. Joint meeting of Georgia librarians and archivists (GLA & SGA), which means jumping in with all my weirdoes at once. Presenting soon on a grant project. Also visiting Athens for the first time. Yay?
I’ve seen many people of various political persuasions say that they’ve seen very little or no coverage of the devastation in Asheville. That may be so, but it’s not really an indictment of the media as much as it’s an indication that your media diet in particular is fucked.
Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved your life when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_So...
Where is the browser setting to make it stop telling me weird sex shit about people I hate
It was a lovely day — kind of exhausting, like high profile public events almost always are, but impactful. www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/09/20/k...
The copy dates back to the 1840s.
An 11-hour teaching day, the way it shook out. But I got to end it with my honors class on weird medical history — in the Wellness Guru Thunderdome with John Harvey Kellogg & John R. Brinkley, followed by a student-led investigation of Gwyneth Patrow / Goop.
The news is like "Harris has the magic touch when it comes to interacting with the public" and it's just a clip of her ordering waffles without bringing up white birth rates
Come to the new library program: "NaNoWriMo Easy Mode" where you will learn to use AI to brainstorm, outline, draft, edit, re-edit, edit some more, omg why did it give me directions to a coffee shop, edit again, tell AI to go fuck itself, tell AI where "fuck itself" is, decide to write a short story