@cwebber made me cry first thing in the morning.

It was beautifully written though and rather relevant

I was feeling listless tonight so I sat down and read this book that's been in my tbr pile for weeks. It has all of my favorite things: historical costuming, lonely misfits teaming up, challenging gender & social norms, positive support structures! I loved it, highly recommend!

Image description: book cover for The Price & the Dressmaker by Jen Want depicting a young woman seamstress measuring a young prince against the silhouette of a mysterious lady

@cwebber @benhamill

Chris: "RNGS!"
Me: "What?"
Chris: "Random number generators ... some games use them for ... mumble mumble mumble ... but they aren't using them for REAL LIFE PEOPLE! ... snore

She normally doesn't look this elegant

Image description: same cat now looking at the camera

Image description: same cat flipped in the other direction

I did a little photo shoot with Missy

Image description: white Cate with black markings rolling on the floor

Almost sixteen years ago I met this goofy guy who creeped me out just a bit. Then we became friends. Almost fifteen years ago I had a migraine and my mom told me to have Chris sleep in my dorm room since I was on new meds ... He never left. Ten years ago we got married. We live a magical life together and I love him more every day! Happy anniversary @cwebber

@cwebber

if too much blood and too much bile are tied, that means that your humors are balanced and you're healthy! congratulations!

...unless you've got a phlegm problem

A project that started as a Digital Humanities project, transfered with the Principal Investigator to various institutions, and has now been copyrighted and monetized under the PI's for profit company. A good example of why understanding Free Culture as a social movement is relevant to Digital Humanities.

https://hyperallergic.com/480239/a-virtual-reality-app-that-reconstructs-ancient-rome-may-have-exploited-its-developers/

@fredmbarros

I think that the best way would be to incorporate discussions of free software as a social movement into papers/panels/meetups at DH conferences. But as a lowly grad student I'm not sure how much clout I've got to do so. I've also seen panelists ripped to shreds in the Q&A by senior scholars who think things like cc licenses are antithetical to academic research.

@fredmbarros

I think one of the main things that Digital Humanities can learn from Free Software is community collaboration.

@fredmbarros

I think the problem is that there isn't necessarily an infrastructure in place, you just need to reach out to people. You probably know the people you would like to contribute, it wouldn't hurt to test the waters, point them to the American Yawp as a successful example, & see if anyone would be willing to collaborate. This kind of project disrupts the status quo of academic publishing, and we're just indoctrinated with an 'it is what it is' viewpoint that we don't break it.

@fredmbarros

A lot of the digital humanities work that really engages with free software is done by librarians or IT people rather than the principal investigators.

I was on a panel at last year's Libre Planet on Free Software in Academia that you might find interesting: I led a panel at LP2018 you may be interested in: https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/free-software-in-academia/