This is both a reflection on governance, a tutorial, and some limited reflection on how job insecurity shapes behavior. ESRI has said they’re going to shut off Classic Story Maps for some time. DLINQ ended up becoming more involved in managing our ESRI stuff due to reductions in staffing in the Geography department and changes […]
Google SSO protection for a directory
We had a textbook that had been created with Quarto1. The instructor wanted to put it online but restrict access to Middlebury people through SSO. The one option I got centrally (paste the individual files into a Google Site) was not optimal. While our Middlebury accounts are limited in Google, I thought I had enough […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-22
An Entirely Other Day: Lose Myself People will argue that speaking English to LLMs is just another level of abstraction away from the physics of how the machine actually works. And while that’s technically true — the worst kind of true — it also misses the point. Industrialization fundamentally changes things, by quantum degrees. A […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-15
Read “Scientific Advances in Animal Nutrition: Promise for the New Century: Proceedings of a Symposium” at NAP.edu The U.S. Navy has a large collection of marine mammals that are used as military working dogs of the ocean. The Navy also studies the diving physiology, hydrodynamics, and sonar capabilities of marine mammals. Whale and dolphin sonar […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-08
Searching for Birds An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations Source: Searching for Birds To Trust or to Think: Cognitive Forcing Functions Can Reduce Overreliance on AI in AI-assisted Decision-making The results demonstrate that cognitive forcing significantly reduced overreliance compared to the simple explainable AI approaches. […]
Cabaret 2026 at Trinity
I shot most of these with the 70-200 2.8. I used an electronic shutter so I wouldn’t disturb anyone with the constant clicking of the shutter. The shutter speeds were pretty slow (160-ish most of the time). I also played around a bit with some really slow shutter speeds and zooming in and out because […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-02-01
Qwen3-TTS Demo – a Hugging Face Space by Qwen A unified Text-to-Speech demo featuring three powerful modes: Voice Design: Create custom voices using natural language descriptions Voice Clone (Base): Clone any voice from a reference audio Source: Qwen3-TTS Demo – a Hugging Face Space by Qwen Betting blind on AI and the scientific mind | […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-01-25
Phantom Obligation | Terry GodierWhen you dress a new thing in old clothes, people don’t just learn the shape. They inherit the feelings, the assumptions, the emotional weight. You can’t borrow the layout of an inbox without also borrowing some of its psychology. h/t D’Arcy Norman Search Online Archive at Letterform Archive Book Cover Archive […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-01-18
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop – The AtlanticNeurIPS, one of the top AI conferences, has seen them double in five years. ICLR, the leading conference for deep learning, has also experienced an increase, and it appears to include a fair amount of slop: An LLM-detection start-up analyzed submissions for its upcoming meeting in Brazil […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2026-01-11
Photos of China’s Green Energy Transition KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the webThe fastest math typesetting library for the web. Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube | The Verge TranslateGemma: A new family of open translation modelsToday, we’re introducing TranslateGemma, a new collection […]