A book with a white cover. Most of it its taken by a cursor arrow constructed with, on one side, colorful hand stitches in Japanese stab binding style, and on the other side with pixelated lines in vapor wave palette. It reads: Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literatures from across the Americas.
It’s the one year anniversary of Binding Media!!!
Saturday’s joint US strikes with Israel against Iran cement a 180-degree turn from MAGA orthodoxy
Glad that my research is proving useful 🙃
The @InternetArchive x @GrayAreaOrg Trillionth Webpage Commissions bring new net․art to life from the Archive’s collections.
Rodell Warner’s "Ghosts of the Internet Archive" creates generative “ghosts” from Web 1.0, layering lost materials.
More ⤵️
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#Wayback1T
This is my favorite part. Because the answer is one of the book's core interventions.
The answer? Yes, both.
#studentpressfreedomday is coming up -- and it matters now more than ever: splc.org/2026/02/intr...
From @theathletic.com: The Milan Cortina Olympics were the most-watched Olympics since the 2014 Sochi Games, NBC reported. The average daily viewership was a 96% increase over the last Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022.
This account of a scholar being targeted by a violent extremist group is chilling. Also chilling is the UNC System Office's lack of genuine concern for our safety. Because their real goal is to put academic freedom on ice. 1/ @aaup.org
www.wunc.org/education/20...
William Beebe sitting on a steel sphere in black and white.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but William Beebe was 55 when he made his first legendary descent in the Bathysphere.
Oh, the full coverage of this exchange is even worse:
19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...
Wow
Leaving aside the first amendment issues, I take it that any criminal statute worthy of the name would require evidence that he had reason to know that his license to be present expired at the instant his speaking time did...
"Societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, values we defend.
An attack on the library sector is an attack on public knowledge, and it includes the reading public — you, me, all of us."
— @shannonmattern.bsky.social
March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"
miss my PNW friends and family and mountains so much 🏔️
Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?
