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Torabhaig Distillery – the new kid on the block

When speaking of the many new distilleries to have set up and commenced operations in the last 10 years, we often refer to them as “the new kid on the block”. Which is fair enough if you set up in the Highlands and you’re one of many distilleries already established in the area. But what … Continue reading "Torabhaig Distillery – the new kid on the block" The post Torabhaig Distillery – the new kid on the block appeared first on Whisky and Wisdom .

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Backwoods Distilling – the jewel of Yackandandah

If you follow the Australian whisky industry and tune into its various channels, there’s a strong chance you’ve heard of Backwoods Distilling. There’s even a good chance you’ve possibly tasted Backwoods Distilling’s whiskies. And if you haven’t tasted or sought out Backwoods – then you owe it to yourself to check it out. Backwoods is … Continue reading "Backwoods Distilling – the jewel of Yackandandah" The post Backwoods Distilling – the jewel of Yackandandah appeared first on Whisky and Wisdom .

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A Revised Edition of the Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America, coming Fall 2023!

I’m excited to announce that a revised edition of my 2006 book (Abrams), The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification will be out from the University of Chicago Press this Fall. For the revision I redesigned the the layout and revisited all of my previous choices. I also added material created after the 2006 book went to press and added an afterward that explains the origin of the project. You can pre-order HERE.

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Book Launch on October 12, 2023

Link to Event

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I’m an AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2022 Winner!

I was honored to have my cover design for Cry Perfume by Sadie Dupuis (published by Black Ocean) chosen as a winner of this time-honored competition. check out Sadie’s excellent book via blackocean.org

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An Essay on my Work in Commonweal

There is a thoughtful essay about my Shopping Cart project and recent exhibition in the most recent issue of Commonweal by Jonathan Malesic .

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Exhibition, Workshops & Graphic Design

You can find info about my activities with the Moments Festival in Madrid, Seville and Malaga here .

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Montague Projects & Moments Fest in El Pais

There is a great article about the Moments Festival in El Pais today. They use a couple of images from my exhibition opening and I am quoted as well. Read it here .

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Installation shots of Domestic Materials in Malaga

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Mural at the New Buffalo Bills Stadium

It’s exciting to finally share the mural I made for the Buffalo Bills Public Art Program at Highmark Stadium. I still need to do the final documentation photos. The mural is in an entrance hallway/stairwell on the 100 level. It’s quite difficult to photograph. The piece, entitled “The Elements” is 6 feet high by 36 feet long, acrylic paint on dibond panels. In the slides I note the meaning of the various images. I didn’t grow up being super interested in sports, but as I got older I came to realize the value of having something that people care about across all of the lines that divide a city.

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Where Has Social Media Gone?

tl;dr: Read “Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media” The lovely folks at the Social Media + Society journal asked me to contribute to their anniversary issue by reflecting on the trajectory of social media. Ooof. Snark exuded from my pores as I tried to figure out what I might say. But then I thought about how my students don’t […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

New Paper Alert (plus a fun talk involving youth + AI)

The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein those who fund and develop AI systems both operate through and seek to sustain networks of power and wealth. Janet Vertesi, Alex Taylor, Ben Shestakofsky, and I teamed up to try to disentangle the technical systems we call “AI” from the political-economic project that is sustaining […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

1 month until new book!

In one month, my new book will be in folks’ hands. “Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census” tells the story of what it takes to produce democracy’s data – and how hard it was to do this in 2020 during a pandemic […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

Today’s Census News is a Big Deal

When with Congress and the public recognize how important the census is? tl;dr: “American democracy depends on the census. Trump is undermining it” is my new op-ed at the Guardian. Check it out! For census geeks, this summer has been one eeeek after another. Planks of the Jenga tower keep getting pulled out. First, the […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

Today’s the Day!

Ten years ago, I started asking questions about the census. Little did I know that I entered a Hotel California-esque vortex. Each question led to another question as I started to discover just how infrastructural the census is. Want to understand American democracy? The census is the key. Curious how to ensure data quality? The […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

What’s Up with 4-3-5?

A few weeks ago, I launched my new book – Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census. To my sheer delight, many friends have stepped up to host events and join me on stage and I’m now touring the country to spread the […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

Dear Civil Servants and the Ventriloquists behind the proposed residence rules

The “Census Bureau” is currently seeking comments to a proposed new set of residence rules for the 2030 census. Comments are due on November 2, 2026. In reality, the actual proposal is a tirade written by the current administration pretending to be in compliance with the rules governing agencies like the Census Bureau. Over 100,000 […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.

According to recently released discovery materials, Meta directly targeted Jonathan Haidt by trying to stir up academics to oppose him. The odd thing is that many of us scholars who disagree with him knew nothing about this and weren’t involved in it. And so now scholars like the amazing Candice Odgers are being doubted about […]

danah boyd | apophenia · EN

Project: Canastra on the go

Hi! I’ve spent a considerable amount of time this year rewriting my Canastra project in Go. While I wanted to write a specific post about this conversion, it has been over 6 months, so it’s unlikely it will still happen. For the purposes of this post though, all it matters is that the project is now built in Go, but the frontend and database architectures are still the same as described in the project page , with Go now handling all the HTTP and Websocket communication. So a few weeks ago I got a newsletter from my local Raspberry Pi reseller stating the Pi Zero 2 was back in stock

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Launching: canastra.online

Hi! Today I’m launching canastra.online ! It’s a website I’ve built where you can play Canastra for free, without ads, both single-player and multi-player. Canastra is a card game, quite popular in Southern Brazil. There are several variations of the game, but for now canastra.online only supports one set. Read the rules on our website. Building I’ve built the game in 2018 to play with my significant other, as we couldn’t find anything that was both multiplatform and that supported the subset of rules we wanted to play. Since then, our families and us play it on a

Rafael Kassner · EN

Auto-deployments with systemd

Hi! I like Kubernetes, and having written my own operators in the past, you quickly grow fond of the high level of automation that it allows you to achieve. However, now that I’m spending the days building my own projects , my requirements (and budget) can’t fit k8s anymore. A couple of production VPSs and my GitHub Actions free quota is all I’m allowing myself to afford on vanity projects, so let’s work with what we have. GitHub Actions already builds the Canastra binary, so I’m just missing is a way to auto-deploy it to the production VPS. This is composed of tw

Rafael Kassner · EN

Internet via IPv6

Hi! I know I’m late to the party, but with the IPv4 exhaustion now being expressed in monetary costs by VPS/Cloud providers, it is time to seek IPv6. My main use-case is to be able to reach servers exclusively over IPv6, so I don’t need to pay for IPv4 assignments if those servers will not serve direct public traffic (i.e.: database, storage and job servers). My home provider did have IPv6 support, but they pulled the plug in 2020, and now 3 years later, I still don’t have IPv6 access. Let’s fix that today. I had a brief experience experience with SixXS back in 2013, an

Rafael Kassner · EN

Home A-CI-stant

Hi! For years I lurked in the Home Assistant channel of a community Discord, but never had much interest in it. Earlier this month I had some discount coupons in hand and decided that it was time to give it a go. I got Home Assistant, the ZBT-1 and one IKEA Inspelning and managed to make it control my balcony lights. In my opinion, the sun “device” in Home Assistant might be the most underrated out-of-the-box integration! In any case, I live in an apartment, so after that I was mostly done. I don’t have much else to automate, and I do really value physical buttons, so it all

Rafael Kassner · EN

Resizing a LUKS-backed BTRFS RAID1 filesystem

Hi. After a series of hardware upgrades, I finally have 2x 2TB SDD for data on my NAS ! However, they are still configured with ~900GiB data partitions, and today it is time to expand it! Initial state The current disk layout is: # fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 1.82 TiB, 2000398934016 bytes, 3907029168 sectors Disk model: PNY CS900 2TB SS Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 499711 497664 243M 83 Linux /dev/sda2 499712 43468799 42969088 20.5G 83 Linux /dev/sda3 43468800 1918322687 1874853888 894G 83 Linux # fdisk -

Rafael Kassner · EN