D.J. on Bluesky
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Thinking about higher education, theatre, #immersive, books, craft coffee, hot yoga, and art as a mode of critical inquiry.
The country is being torn down, but it’s a beautiful afternoon in our little backyard.
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The country is being torn down, but it’s a beautiful afternoon in our little backyard.
Here’s the most New York City thing you’ll hear all day: “You can’t bring luggage into the museum, sir, but the guy at that hot dog stand across the street will hold it for you.“
September 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Here’s the most New York City thing you’ll hear all day: “You can’t bring luggage into the museum, sir, but the guy at that hot dog stand across the street will hold it for you.“
No confrontation with reality more humbling than pulling your wetsuit on for the first time in a while… #SanDiegoProblems
September 2, 2025 at 11:02 PM
No confrontation with reality more humbling than pulling your wetsuit on for the first time in a while… #SanDiegoProblems
The latest in my ongoing series of abstract photography: “climbing routes I fell off today.“
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The latest in my ongoing series of abstract photography: “climbing routes I fell off today.“
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i dunno how good that new aronofsky movie is but they have been showing the trailer at every movie i have gone to see and every time this shot goes by i feel it pull my body towards the screen
August 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
i dunno how good that new aronofsky movie is but they have been showing the trailer at every movie i have gone to see and every time this shot goes by i feel it pull my body towards the screen
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Preach Brother Wendig!
PREACH!
PREACH!
A thing not often mentioned here is one of the things OpenAI is trying to take away is community. Having experts beyond yourself — and professionals and friends and family and and and — means interacting with them, enforcing community. This attempts (poorly, thankfully) to diminish and destroy that.
OpenAI releases the newest version of the AI model that powers its popular ChatGPT chatbot, with CEO Sam Altman promoting it as like having a “team of Ph.D. level experts in your pocket.”
August 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Preach Brother Wendig!
PREACH!
PREACH!
Worked for months to make this AI / pedagogy workshop happen… Exceeded expectations! SO grateful to the 40+ engaged faculty participants who built an interdisciplinary community in four days. Career highlight, truly.
August 8, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Worked for months to make this AI / pedagogy workshop happen… Exceeded expectations! SO grateful to the 40+ engaged faculty participants who built an interdisciplinary community in four days. Career highlight, truly.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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i literally don't understand what this money would be for and where it would be going and i also don't understand why that information doesn't appear in these articles. who exactly would be paying what to exactly whom for which precise reason? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute
www.nytimes.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
i literally don't understand what this money would be for and where it would be going and i also don't understand why that information doesn't appear in these articles. who exactly would be paying what to exactly whom for which precise reason? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
1/4 I’ve got a couple comments on the following, excerpted from an NYT opinion piece: “Using the still-phenomenal resources of U.S. elite higher education to support satellite campuses in still-liberal countries, and allowing joint degrees or classes abroad with schools in those countries…
July 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
1/4 I’ve got a couple comments on the following, excerpted from an NYT opinion piece: “Using the still-phenomenal resources of U.S. elite higher education to support satellite campuses in still-liberal countries, and allowing joint degrees or classes abroad with schools in those countries…
As the world burns/turns, here’s the view from the floor of some more walls I fell off today. At least I’m doing it at 8000 feet…
July 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
As the world burns/turns, here’s the view from the floor of some more walls I fell off today. At least I’m doing it at 8000 feet…
Day 2 in the can! #Dramaturgs #LMDA2025
June 27, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Day 2 in the can! #Dramaturgs #LMDA2025
LMDA conference #40 launches tonight, right here in San Diego!
June 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
LMDA conference #40 launches tonight, right here in San Diego!
@plach.bsky.social Saw this and thought of your sleep visualization project and other #DHMakes work I’ve seen…
What Do Computer Code and Needlework Have in Common?
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June 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
@plach.bsky.social Saw this and thought of your sleep visualization project and other #DHMakes work I’ve seen…
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i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!
Sometimes we need inspiring art in dark times. Monica & co. are consistently amazing…
Dancing to the Beating Heart of a Library’s Collection
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June 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Sometimes we need inspiring art in dark times. Monica & co. are consistently amazing…
Huge rally in San Diego had Fourth of July vibes: babies in strollers, music, chanting, cleverly worded signs, and lots of flags. This little video is just a small fraction of the crowd.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Huge rally in San Diego had Fourth of July vibes: babies in strollers, music, chanting, cleverly worded signs, and lots of flags. This little video is just a small fraction of the crowd.
In this dark world, it is still possible to have good things… San Diego’s best tortilleria, briefly closed, has reopened in a grocery store five minutes from my house.
June 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In this dark world, it is still possible to have good things… San Diego’s best tortilleria, briefly closed, has reopened in a grocery store five minutes from my house.
“Practice corporeal politics… Make new friends and march with them.” On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder, p. 83.
June 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Practice corporeal politics… Make new friends and march with them.” On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder, p. 83.
“We have to find a way to balance sounding the alarm and conjuring hope.“ M. Gessen
June 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“We have to find a way to balance sounding the alarm and conjuring hope.“ M. Gessen
Corny photo documenting a rewarding first visit to the digital humanities summer institute. DHSI 2025. Already making plans for DHSI 2026…
June 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Corny photo documenting a rewarding first visit to the digital humanities summer institute. DHSI 2025. Already making plans for DHSI 2026…
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Kinda interested to see how this whole “two trust fund baby billionaires with savior complexes and borderline personality disorder trying to destroy each other” thing plays out
June 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Kinda interested to see how this whole “two trust fund baby billionaires with savior complexes and borderline personality disorder trying to destroy each other” thing plays out
Week two of DHSI off to a great start!
June 2, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Week two of DHSI off to a great start!
Some views of the routes I fell off at the climbing gym today.
May 24, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Some views of the routes I fell off at the climbing gym today.