Minor site tweak and write-up, “Does the Internet Make My Type Look Small”
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Thomas Vander Wal
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The Brilliant Orange are providing great enjoyment this WC! 🧡
Alexander HowardReminder to all Americans: www.AirNow.gov can give you air quality where you live.
A fire subdomain shows where wildfires & smoke plumes are: fire.airnow.gov
Silver Lake, Glendale, & Burbank have unhealthy air due to a massive warehouse fire.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
There are city warnings.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dsluo4ff7pw2qw2vvbd4rlk3/post/3moqcxdxvlk25
A fire subdomain shows where wildfires & smoke plumes are: fire.airnow.gov
Silver Lake, Glendale, & Burbank have unhealthy air due to a massive warehouse fire.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
There are city warnings.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dsluo4ff7pw2qw2vvbd4rlk3/post/3moqcxdxvlk25
Added another cool thing to my list, my son and I both got invited to a small salon gathering around tech and what is going on and how to help people navigate through it.
Very cool to be somewhere where we are peers.
First Waymo in months spotted on my coffee walk this morning. I was getting concerned they were not around and working towards going live.
Greg Lloyd“Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal wrote in a X post on Tuesday. “Agents must have limited, controllable, and auditable authorizations. For example, it must be possible to specify whether an agent may only view data, prepare a document, or act within a fixed monetary limit.”
Chris Silverman 🌻
One oddity, in a good way, was automated additions to Pinboard that were made when Pinboard was not available still made it into Pinboard. When I re-ran by day's aggregation from the prior day's activities Pinboard fully populated (rather than just one bookmark) from my DevonThink RSS archive.
Ethan ZuckermanI'm very grateful to DiGRA for showcasing three brilliant young scholars in this keynote session and for giving Ifat time to tell the story of her work, her Uighur collaborators and the ways in which game spaces can be a venue for connection between friends and family members who've been forced apart.
(For my friends in academic spaces - Ifat will finish revisions on her PhD this year and is on the job market. She's absolutely amazing and someone you should look to hire.)
So proud of Dr. Ifat Gazia, my student and dear friend, who received a standing ovation for her keynote this morning at DiGRA 2026 (the Digital Games Research Association annual conference) in Ireland. Ifat's dissertation (defended late last year) is about digital erasure - how vulnerable groups are kept from online spaces and how narratives are constructed about them, not by them. Ifat's work documents the ways in which communities - like Uighurs who have been expelled from or fled East Turkestan (Xinjiang) - can find each other through unexpected communities like the battle royale game PUBG.
Ifat's own struggles not to be erased were on display in her talk. It's difficult for international students in the US to travel right now, and Ifat wasn't able to be in Ireland due to issues with travel documents.
