Christopher Silsby
@silsby.bsky.social
he/him
Theatre Ph.D.
Manager of a large WordPress multisite network
Research in Race, Musical Theatre, and Post-Revolutionary and Stalinist Russia
Teach theatre history and theory
Midwest born and bred. Mid-Atlantic by trade
Theatre Ph.D.
Manager of a large WordPress multisite network
Research in Race, Musical Theatre, and Post-Revolutionary and Stalinist Russia
Teach theatre history and theory
Midwest born and bred. Mid-Atlantic by trade
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
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So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
I am once again telling everyone to get the fuck off Substack leavesubstack.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
So many people who are otherwise so committed to good things are on Substack, which is very nice to bad people, ideas, and lies. My own newsletter was launched on Ghost because the bad news about Substack isn't new.
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I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
October 1, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape
"When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?"
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?"
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
November 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be all alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?"
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?"
Thank you, Tom Stoppard.
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Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
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The auto-captioning for these videos has an "accuracy" metric.
They should just rename it what it really is measuring: how middle-class white the speech is.
Technology: trading one form of #accessibility for another. #a11y
They should just rename it what it really is measuring: how middle-class white the speech is.
Technology: trading one form of #accessibility for another. #a11y
November 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The auto-captioning for these videos has an "accuracy" metric.
They should just rename it what it really is measuring: how middle-class white the speech is.
Technology: trading one form of #accessibility for another. #a11y
They should just rename it what it really is measuring: how middle-class white the speech is.
Technology: trading one form of #accessibility for another. #a11y
Today when trying to figure out how to write some alt-text for a professor's image of a math equation, I found out about MathML. It is so cool! A standardized, markup language that makes math equations appear correctly (and accessibly) natively in most browsers without needing LaTeX plugins.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Today when trying to figure out how to write some alt-text for a professor's image of a math equation, I found out about MathML. It is so cool! A standardized, markup language that makes math equations appear correctly (and accessibly) natively in most browsers without needing LaTeX plugins.
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Today’s curtain with @silsby.bsky.social and @chris.ashworth.io mouthing along.
November 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Today’s curtain with @silsby.bsky.social and @chris.ashworth.io mouthing along.
Poets, a danger to authoritarian structures since Plato, may save us from "AI", too!
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Poets, a danger to authoritarian structures since Plato, may save us from "AI", too!
Interesting development out of NJ: newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/20/n...
Senators propose new limits on lawsuits under NJ data privacy law • New Jersey Monitor
A data privacy law covering some New Jersey public officials spurred a wave of lawsuits. A new bill aims to stem that tide.
newjerseymonitor.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Interesting development out of NJ: newjerseymonitor.com/2025/11/20/n...
So, Microsoft, you are telling me there is no way to disable the useless, wasteful, inefficient, and annoying "Summary" block at the top of my Word documents if I am being made to use the web version of Office?! Ugh, this AI bubble can't burst fast enough.
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
So, Microsoft, you are telling me there is no way to disable the useless, wasteful, inefficient, and annoying "Summary" block at the top of my Word documents if I am being made to use the web version of Office?! Ugh, this AI bubble can't burst fast enough.
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Doctoral students may apply for admission to the Wertheim Study in the Schwartzman building for periods from 3 to 9 months.
Visit website for details:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/MaRLI/nypl
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Visit website for details:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/MaRLI/nypl
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Doctoral students may apply for admission to the Wertheim Study in the Schwartzman building for periods from 3 to 9 months.
Visit website for details:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/MaRLI/nypl
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Visit website for details:
libguides.gc.cuny.edu/MaRLI/nypl
#academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary
Turns out you can attach #WordPress comments to a user's account after the fact. Using WP-CLI on our multisite, I was able to match up users who forgot to log in so their comments would appear as part of their user records:
November 17, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Turns out you can attach #WordPress comments to a user's account after the fact. Using WP-CLI on our multisite, I was able to match up users who forgot to log in so their comments would appear as part of their user records:
I'm gonna need OSHA to triple check the chandeliers in that White House ballroom.
Trump blares Phantom of the Opera at the White House with an empty Friday schedule
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I'm gonna need OSHA to triple check the chandeliers in that White House ballroom.
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combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
November 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
combining the humanities, social sciences, and climate science into our new School of AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I mean if you can't trust the hollowed out shells of regulators that are the EPA and Department of Energy...
NEW: Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.
And despite expert concerns about potential disaster, the US government is on board.
Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I mean if you can't trust the hollowed out shells of regulators that are the EPA and Department of Energy...
Every once in a while I remember those couple of months the internet went crazy for a song and everyone (kids, adults, celebrities, companies, schools) filmed themselves dancing to the "Harlem Shake"...
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Every once in a while I remember those couple of months the internet went crazy for a song and everyone (kids, adults, celebrities, companies, schools) filmed themselves dancing to the "Harlem Shake"...
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It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action."
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [2/2]
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [2/2]
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
It becomes an empty word, one which cannot denounce the world, for denunciation is impossible without a commitment to transform, and there is no transformation without action."
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [2/2]
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed [2/2]
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"When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating "blah." ... [1/2]
November 14, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"When a word is deprived of its dimension of action, reflection automatically suffers as well; and the word is changed into idle chatter, into verbalism, into an alienated and alienating "blah." ... [1/2]
Anyone know of plugins for Wordpress that are like Nightshade? Looking to help protect my users from unscrupulous "ai" scrapers.
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
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nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
November 13, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Anyone know of plugins for Wordpress that are like Nightshade? Looking to help protect my users from unscrupulous "ai" scrapers.
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu
Put that in the Louvre and smoke it!
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Put that in the Louvre and smoke it!
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If you're criticizing Chuck Schumer today, you're a missing the forest for the trees type.
US House makes it official that it will be out next week.
By counts I’ve seen, that will mean 19 days of work over a stretch of 20 days.
The House is scheduled to be in session the following week though, before Thanksgiving break.
By counts I’ve seen, that will mean 19 days of work over a stretch of 20 days.
The House is scheduled to be in session the following week though, before Thanksgiving break.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
If you're criticizing Chuck Schumer today, you're a missing the forest for the trees type.
Doing a little unsanctioned prep reading for today's mandated college "AI" training on "how to use a chatbot": www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Doing a little unsanctioned prep reading for today's mandated college "AI" training on "how to use a chatbot": www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...