Shane Lin
@shane.logoff.website
Historian and digital humanities developer @ Scholars' Lab, UVA Library. He/him. Dogs, data, history of privacy and cryptography. Great sage equal of heaven.
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This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
How UVA’s presidential search missed what took us an hour to find
Inside Higher Ed frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley's appointment as the University of Virginia's president.
augustafreepress.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...
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one member of the board (douglas wetmore) walked into the meeting, noting the large crowd of protestors. his response: "ego and pride are terrible"
January 9, 2026 at 11:16 PM
one member of the board (douglas wetmore) walked into the meeting, noting the large crowd of protestors. his response: "ego and pride are terrible"
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Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job
My attitude on this is that I'm not calling them because I think I can change their minds.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
I'm calling them because it is unthinkable to let them do this without hearing how evil and awful they are.
My spite powers me. If I can get just 500 people a day to join me, we could fuck up their day.
I call Tommy Tuberville every fucking week, multiple times a week, because he can be evil but I don't have to let him do it without pushback.
So I don't need to hear excuses. I call the dumbest senator in the country. 😂
So I don't need to hear excuses. I call the dumbest senator in the country. 😂
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Ask not what your representative will do for you (nothing), ask how you can make your representative so miserable they quit their job
Do you think this story, whose thesis hinges on three social media posts from random users (including one with “over 700 likes”) is ethical journalism?
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 PM
Do you think this story, whose thesis hinges on three social media posts from random users (including one with “over 700 likes”) is ethical journalism?
There are important differences between saying that a thing is bad and saying that people should feel bad about it. It is *bizarre* to interpret the general statement “humanists should know how to do fractions” as a personal attack.
January 3, 2026 at 2:08 AM
There are important differences between saying that a thing is bad and saying that people should feel bad about it. It is *bizarre* to interpret the general statement “humanists should know how to do fractions” as a personal attack.
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I realize now I may be the only humanities person who is mad at the assumption we have bad math scores.
I'm not saying SAT (or GRE) math is hard, but I don't think their assumptions about the scores of non-STEM faculty would hold up at all.
This article advocates for the “Faculty Merit Act” that would — get this — require all faculty applicants to submit their *SAT* scores. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Holy shirts that’s hilarious.
January 3, 2026 at 12:52 AM
I realize now I may be the only humanities person who is mad at the assumption we have bad math scores.
Don’t normalize that assumption! It’s *bad* to be innumerate, no matter how much Foucault you’ve read.
January 3, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Don’t normalize that assumption! It’s *bad* to be innumerate, no matter how much Foucault you’ve read.
I’ve seen multiple threads today that are just “I’m a respected humanities scholar and I can’t do middle school math” and it sucks!
January 3, 2026 at 1:01 AM
I’ve seen multiple threads today that are just “I’m a respected humanities scholar and I can’t do middle school math” and it sucks!
I’m enjoying this Fuchsia Dunlop book about Chinese food, in part because she’s so openly good-natured and also inexplicably hostile to Daoists. Just like “this dish is indescribably delicious and beloved by all under heaven except those goddamn Daoist monk jackasses.”
December 31, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I’m enjoying this Fuchsia Dunlop book about Chinese food, in part because she’s so openly good-natured and also inexplicably hostile to Daoists. Just like “this dish is indescribably delicious and beloved by all under heaven except those goddamn Daoist monk jackasses.”
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The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
December 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.
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The Bluesky Discover tab: not even once
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The Bluesky Discover tab: not even once
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ex-CIA instinct to depose presidents will take over, we're in the clear
December 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
ex-CIA instinct to depose presidents will take over, we're in the clear
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They need to go full Louis XVI
December 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
They need to go full Louis XVI
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also a quick shout out to some recent @assignedmedia.org reporting about FIRE continuing to make common cause with the right
Can a Group Allied With the Right Defend the 1st Amendment for All? — Assigned
FIRE, a product of the “academic freedom” campaign, wants to protect free speech for everyone. Yet its stances show deference to religious views and a persistent anti-queer strain.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
also a quick shout out to some recent @assignedmedia.org reporting about FIRE continuing to make common cause with the right
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
He doesn’t like humanitarian aid for Jamaica.
December 6, 2025 at 10:14 PM
He doesn’t like humanitarian aid for Jamaica.
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New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts
November 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New free zine by me & @shane.logoff.website: "Absolute Units of Letterpress: Plus Rad Measurement Facts"📚🎉 34-page square meal of Absolute Unit letterpress type, blocks, press eye candy (ft. a Very Good Hog print courtesy of @ryancordell.org) & 6 mini-essays on neat measurement history+current facts
Something that now occasionally comes to mind, as a 40 year old man who grew up and went to school in Texas: which peripheral weirdo from my past will end up in the Trump admin?
So, back in college, incoming freshmen were assigned an upperclass mentor as a contact person in the opening days of school. Mine was an earnest, kind of dweeby guy from Texas who I had no particular reaction to for good or bad and haven't thought about in three and a half decades.
He's this guy.
He's this guy.
New acting director of CDC Jim O'Neill expressed being pro paid organ donation.
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
"There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused."
November 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Something that now occasionally comes to mind, as a 40 year old man who grew up and went to school in Texas: which peripheral weirdo from my past will end up in the Trump admin?
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Strong floor, no ceiling
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Strong floor, no ceiling
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"strong floor no ceiling" describes a pit
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"strong floor no ceiling" describes a pit
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Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.
November 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.