Beau 🐻🍀
@arshistorica.bsky.social
archives gremlin, grotesque enjoyer, digital storyteller | 26 | he/him | digital humanities, art history, classics | accessibility researcher | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://linktr.ee/archivistink
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What does it take to convince a big five publisher to buy your tabletope game? @oneshotrpg.bsky.social explains how -- and why -- he worked with Simon & Schuster to publish his Desceneded from the Queen game, Oh Captain, My Captain!
Oh Captain, My Captain! breaks down the door to traditional publishing
James D’Amato wants tabletop designers to have the rates and reach of the Big 5
www.rascal.news
May 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
What does it take to convince a big five publisher to buy your tabletope game? @oneshotrpg.bsky.social explains how -- and why -- he worked with Simon & Schuster to publish his Desceneded from the Queen game, Oh Captain, My Captain!
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The scanners may be off for the long weekend, but the livestream rolls on.
Enjoy a chill loop of lofi music, public domain films, and stunning images from the Internet Archive's collections.
Perfect background vibes until scanning resumes Tuesday morning. ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
Enjoy a chill loop of lofi music, public domain films, and stunning images from the Internet Archive's collections.
Perfect background vibes until scanning resumes Tuesday morning. ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
YouTube video by Internet Archive
www.youtube.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The scanners may be off for the long weekend, but the livestream rolls on.
Enjoy a chill loop of lofi music, public domain films, and stunning images from the Internet Archive's collections.
Perfect background vibes until scanning resumes Tuesday morning. ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
Enjoy a chill loop of lofi music, public domain films, and stunning images from the Internet Archive's collections.
Perfect background vibes until scanning resumes Tuesday morning. ➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
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These chatbots are designed to glaze you too, so even using it for feedback is harmful, it can't be honest and objective because it's not fuckin real. It's just pattern recognition.
So that now makes Lena McDonald, KC Crowne and Rania Faris leaving ChatGPT prompts in their ‘books’.
I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.
Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
I’m so fucking tired, guys. If you don’t write, you’re not a writer. It’s that simple. Stop doing this to your readers, who PAY.
Readers and authors deserve better than this. 📚💙
May 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
These chatbots are designed to glaze you too, so even using it for feedback is harmful, it can't be honest and objective because it's not fuckin real. It's just pattern recognition.
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Hey artists! 👋 That art share you’re hosting belongs in a museum! 💙
We’re building a little game that lets you link a Bluesky feed or post and it will display your images in an art gallery. Just like Bluesky, it hides posts for logged-out viewers if you have visibility off. 🙂
#screenshotsaturday
We’re building a little game that lets you link a Bluesky feed or post and it will display your images in an art gallery. Just like Bluesky, it hides posts for logged-out viewers if you have visibility off. 🙂
#screenshotsaturday
May 17, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Hey artists! 👋 That art share you’re hosting belongs in a museum! 💙
We’re building a little game that lets you link a Bluesky feed or post and it will display your images in an art gallery. Just like Bluesky, it hides posts for logged-out viewers if you have visibility off. 🙂
#screenshotsaturday
We’re building a little game that lets you link a Bluesky feed or post and it will display your images in an art gallery. Just like Bluesky, it hides posts for logged-out viewers if you have visibility off. 🙂
#screenshotsaturday
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Cancer screening is one of the most complicated topics in epidemiology and it feels like a good time to write a piece about all of that.
One of the most hotly-debated things in the field is when/if we should screen for various cancers!
One of the most hotly-debated things in the field is when/if we should screen for various cancers!
Hello, in case you were wondering about this: because false positives are so common and prostate cancers tend to grow very slowly, doctors do not usually recommend prostate cancer screening for men over 70.
May 19, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Cancer screening is one of the most complicated topics in epidemiology and it feels like a good time to write a piece about all of that.
One of the most hotly-debated things in the field is when/if we should screen for various cancers!
One of the most hotly-debated things in the field is when/if we should screen for various cancers!
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If you use a tool that you don’t understand, eventually the only output the tool will produce is a replica of your non understanding.
May 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
If you use a tool that you don’t understand, eventually the only output the tool will produce is a replica of your non understanding.
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Today on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. Hans Bork, a professor of Classics at Stanford, discusses his formative experiences with Indo-European linguistics before Classics, the siloed nature of language study, and humor in ancient Rome, particularly the works of Plautus and Cicero.
April 30, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Today on Ancient Office Hours, Dr. Hans Bork, a professor of Classics at Stanford, discusses his formative experiences with Indo-European linguistics before Classics, the siloed nature of language study, and humor in ancient Rome, particularly the works of Plautus and Cicero.
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So... I'm gonna be a bit more blunt today in regards to AI usage in the TTRPG space.
The harder it is made for folks using AI to find acceptance and gain traction, the less of it we will see.
This means blocking them on Social Media, and reporting them on sites where they sell their trash.
The harder it is made for folks using AI to find acceptance and gain traction, the less of it we will see.
This means blocking them on Social Media, and reporting them on sites where they sell their trash.
May 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
So... I'm gonna be a bit more blunt today in regards to AI usage in the TTRPG space.
The harder it is made for folks using AI to find acceptance and gain traction, the less of it we will see.
This means blocking them on Social Media, and reporting them on sites where they sell their trash.
The harder it is made for folks using AI to find acceptance and gain traction, the less of it we will see.
This means blocking them on Social Media, and reporting them on sites where they sell their trash.
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A closer look at the pattern!
May 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
A closer look at the pattern!
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I made several little web tools here that are useful for #letterpress folks working w/limited (small or incomplete) sets of type: amandavisconti.github.io/limitedlette... (bonus: 90s neon logo-generator art!!)
May 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I made several little web tools here that are useful for #letterpress folks working w/limited (small or incomplete) sets of type: amandavisconti.github.io/limitedlette... (bonus: 90s neon logo-generator art!!)
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"But I asked it to cite sources"
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
www.cjr.org
May 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
"But I asked it to cite sources"
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
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The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is doing one final round of teaching fellowships this summer! Please share our call and application with colleagues teaching at regional comprehensive or community colleges! Apps due May 31st. tinyurl.com/DEFConTF2025
2025 DEFCon Teaching Fellowship Application
The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for Teaching Fellowships for Summer 2025. Applications are due May 31, 2025 and decisions will ...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) is doing one final round of teaching fellowships this summer! Please share our call and application with colleagues teaching at regional comprehensive or community colleges! Apps due May 31st. tinyurl.com/DEFConTF2025
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Salt Lake City!
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
Salt Lake City and Boise adopt official pride flags to skirt Republican bans
New emblems approved by city councils in defiance of bans on ‘unofficial flags’ on government property
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Salt Lake City!
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
They made the city flags pride flags so you can't get in trouble for hanging them in your classroom
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Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-
May 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-
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Great news everybody! I have opened commissions for user icons again!
👉 1 character per icon
👉 €35,- per icon
👉 No portraits
👉 Just silly lil guys!
You can order your custom momo style avatar here:
ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/c...
Thank you for your support!
👉 1 character per icon
👉 €35,- per icon
👉 No portraits
👉 Just silly lil guys!
You can order your custom momo style avatar here:
ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/c...
Thank you for your support!
May 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Great news everybody! I have opened commissions for user icons again!
👉 1 character per icon
👉 €35,- per icon
👉 No portraits
👉 Just silly lil guys!
You can order your custom momo style avatar here:
ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/c...
Thank you for your support!
👉 1 character per icon
👉 €35,- per icon
👉 No portraits
👉 Just silly lil guys!
You can order your custom momo style avatar here:
ko-fi.com/heyheymomo/c...
Thank you for your support!
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My library-folks Bluesky talk 📚 will be on Metro NY's webinar archive soon! Check that page too for an amazing, large set of GLAM videos on topics like affirming neurodiversity for library workers+visitors, data viz, metadata justice, trauma-informed librarianship, library digital rights, & more:
May 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My library-folks Bluesky talk 📚 will be on Metro NY's webinar archive soon! Check that page too for an amazing, large set of GLAM videos on topics like affirming neurodiversity for library workers+visitors, data viz, metadata justice, trauma-informed librarianship, library digital rights, & more:
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a piece from my calligraphy professor Carl Kurtz.
September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"
September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"
February 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
a piece from my calligraphy professor Carl Kurtz.
September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"
September 1, 1939 "We Must Love One Another or Die"
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Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
May 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Did you know the “weekend” and working only 8 hours per day used to be considered a radical, liberal idea?
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
139 years ago today, in Bay View, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 7 workers (including a 13 yo) lost their lives to advance this revolutionary idea.
A 🧵
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ANNOUNCING: the 2nd annual unofficial 5/5 @itch.io rating day!
today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io!
star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay
today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io!
star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay
May 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
ANNOUNCING: the 2nd annual unofficial 5/5 @itch.io rating day!
today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io!
star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay
today on 5/5, take 5 minutes to login & give 5 ⭐ to your fav indie TTRPGs & other games on itch.io!
star ratings give a HUGE algorithm boost! you can skip entering text, only creators see it! support your fav creators! #itchioRatingDay
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as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere
May 2, 2025 at 3:57 PM
as a text-based creature in an increasingly video-first world I'd like to be cherished as a sort of charismatic but doomed animal, to be fed treats in my enclosure until I meet my inevitable demise, after which my taxidermied corpse might greet visitors in a lobby somewhere