Alan Wolf

@Lupus
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#technology for #research & #learning at Harvard University via UW-Madison, UMich; #science esp. #herpetology and #naturalhistory; #highered; supporting #digitalhumanties and #digitalscholarship #museums and #collection-based research; #wine & #whiskey; a long term resident of the #GreatLakes, now on the east coast; My photos http://flickr.com/photos/alumroot and https://pixelfed.social/alanwolf
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All this handwringing about “fractured” social media, it was never optimal to coalesce. The original internet design is dispersed. It’s the natural order.

Get Federated!

https://cogdogblog.com/2024/03/get-federated-got-gasta/

Get Federated Got Gasta-Ed

The Gasta is now passed-ah.. Oi that does not exactly work, but here I am on the return trip from the OER24 conference, out my window pink light over Greenland, trying to write a blog post, offline…

CogDogBlog

News -- Mighty Squirrel Brewing Co. to open biergarten at Gore Place in Waltham. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/05/mighty-squirrel-brewing-co-to-open.html

#beer #brewery #waltham

Mighty Squirrel Brewing Co. to Open Biergarten at Gore Place in Waltham

A local brewery is going to be setting up an outdoor beer-drinking space at an historic site in the western suburbs of Boston. According to ...

One of the first people at the #mightysquirrel #biergarten at #goreplace #waltham #ma #beer
Simulating how 300 years of light fading will affect Munch’s The Scream. (It’s more obvious in the slider version on the page.) cc @scream
https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/03/how-edvard-munchs-painting-the-scream-might-look-in-300-years-time/ via @researchbuzz

Bruce Springsteen Won’t Back Down: Performs “Streets of Minneapolis” Live in Minneapolis

https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/bruce-springsteen-wont-back-down-performs-streets-of-minneapolis-live-in-minneapolis.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tusk81/115987360334667615

$170 billion could have paid for meals for schoolkids for a full decade.

$170 billion could have helped end homelessness by providing housing for every unhoused American 17 times over.

$170 billion could have restored funding for clean drinking water programs for 60+ years.

Instead, we’re terrorizing our communities.

Once again, I'm reminded that my longstanding "don't go to private billionaire underage sex islands" policy has been pretty well vindicated.
I was happily unaware that there is a white house ai AND crypto czar. If there was ever a meme czar that would be the one.
I got my settlement for whatever evil thing Facebook did a few years ago, so I donated it to @internetarchive. A wrong can make a right. I promise to donate all future settlements for the meta evil deeds going forward.