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.
Pinned
Reposted by Shane Lin
My latest for Jewschool: "What is really galling here is not simply that the signatories got the law wrong, but that they know the moral vocabulary and are using it backward."
We Knew Better Once · Jewschool
There are names on the “Reject the Lie” letter who should know better. That is the first thing to say, and the last thing too.
jewschool.com
September 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
My latest for Jewschool: "What is really galling here is not simply that the signatories got the law wrong, but that they know the moral vocabulary and are using it backward."
Reposted by Shane Lin
Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin
It's a public webinar that Zhengli Shi delivered on March 9, 2020, before a global pandemic had been declared.
In this clip from the talk, Shi delineates 4 sarbecovirus lineages. The 8 samples in "Lineage 4" are the ones in the figure most closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
In this clip from the talk, Shi delineates 4 sarbecovirus lineages. The 8 samples in "Lineage 4" are the ones in the figure most closely related to SARS-CoV-2.
July 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin
Pretty cool to randomly come across @allofmilov.bsky.social's a Chinese language edition of The Cigarette: A Political History in a Beijing bookstore.
June 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Pretty cool to randomly come across @allofmilov.bsky.social's a Chinese language edition of The Cigarette: A Political History in a Beijing bookstore.
Photos from the most recent bird walk at scenic Ivy Creek Natural Area.
May 11, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Photos from the most recent bird walk at scenic Ivy Creek Natural Area.
Back in the print shop! Credit card from M (1931), laser cut on bamboo (with help from @literaturegeek.bsky.social) and printed on the Vandercook.
May 2, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Back in the print shop! Credit card from M (1931), laser cut on bamboo (with help from @literaturegeek.bsky.social) and printed on the Vandercook.
Reposted by Shane Lin
My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"
April 24, 2026 at 3:44 PM
My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"
Reposted by Shane Lin
🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲
🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT
Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc
#DigitalHumanities
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲
🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT
Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc
#DigitalHumanities
April 13, 2026 at 10:46 PM
🚨 Join us next week for a conversation with the amazing
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲
🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT
Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc
#DigitalHumanities
@zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Have you been wondering how we can pair big DH datasets, translation and AI? She has a great example of that mix 🍲
🗓️ Wednesday, April 22nd at 12PM EDT
Register at tinyurl.com/dla-leblanc
#DigitalHumanities
Reposted by Shane Lin
22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.
April 14, 2026 at 10:19 AM
22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.
Reposted by Shane Lin
understand why students might think this is a rebuke of the UVA Board shenanigans but absolutely humiliating to see the whitewashing of a man who unashamedly lied about students & called in state troopers to brutalize them as an quixotic demonstration of why harvard should take him back as prez
April 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
understand why students might think this is a rebuke of the UVA Board shenanigans but absolutely humiliating to see the whitewashing of a man who unashamedly lied about students & called in state troopers to brutalize them as an quixotic demonstration of why harvard should take him back as prez
Some bird photos from a recent bird walk at Ivy Creek Natural Area in beautiful Albemarle County.
April 5, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Some bird photos from a recent bird walk at Ivy Creek Natural Area in beautiful Albemarle County.
Reposted by Shane Lin
Go home GI, your edgelord era got indexed by the Wayback Machine and a grad student is writing about you
Your girlfriend started following Hasan Piker, GI
GI, your meme coinS dropped 80% in value because the president’s son rug pulled you GI
Your girlfriend started following Hasan Piker, GI
GI, your meme coinS dropped 80% in value because the president’s son rug pulled you GI
March 30, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Go home GI, your edgelord era got indexed by the Wayback Machine and a grad student is writing about you
Your girlfriend started following Hasan Piker, GI
GI, your meme coinS dropped 80% in value because the president’s son rug pulled you GI
Your girlfriend started following Hasan Piker, GI
GI, your meme coinS dropped 80% in value because the president’s son rug pulled you GI
Amazon: we have lost $100 billion creating Amazon Flame, the Breado knockoff that serves you ads and tells the police about you.
Tech Company: We have lost $100 billion creating Breado the talking toaster that loves you
March 25, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Amazon: we have lost $100 billion creating Amazon Flame, the Breado knockoff that serves you ads and tells the police about you.
Cursed thought: Roottrees but it’s Elon Musk
March 21, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Cursed thought: Roottrees but it’s Elon Musk
lol NYT trots out the “did not comply” boilerplate for Ruben Ray Martinez despite the “secret execution” context of his death.
February 20, 2026 at 11:57 PM
lol NYT trots out the “did not comply” boilerplate for Ruben Ray Martinez despite the “secret execution” context of his death.
Remember how the bipartisan effort to transfer control of TikTok to right wing oligarchs was sold through the idea that Americans’ privacy rights had to be protected from the Chinese?
Can’t find the sign to tap, but it bears repeating that, minus the one you’re on, every big social media site in the US is run by a defense contractor or intelligence partner.
Here I am. Come and get me. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 14, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Remember how the bipartisan effort to transfer control of TikTok to right wing oligarchs was sold through the idea that Americans’ privacy rights had to be protected from the Chinese?
Reposted by Shane Lin
first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed
February 12, 2026 at 1:28 PM
first time in new york since zohran took office and other than having to recite the shahada on arrival at laguardia nothing much has changed
Not accusing anyone upstream of doing this, but I feel like AI-critical digital humanities folks are going to carve out an exception in the criticism for AI-coding, fundamentally because most of them don't think that coding is intellectual labor.
This post from @ryancordell.org got me curious to try out Claude Code, so I am trying it out now. Using it to try to recreate the Virginia Woolf project from my dissertation project. Will share notes and thoughts here as I go.
Claude Code is blowing my mind—the 1st thing I’ve seen amid the AI hype that feels truly transformative
One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works
One example—we’ve been doing genre classification work & I had the thought "it’d be nice to have a web application that lets users tag newspaper texts"—literal minutes later it exists & works
February 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Not accusing anyone upstream of doing this, but I feel like AI-critical digital humanities folks are going to carve out an exception in the criticism for AI-coding, fundamentally because most of them don't think that coding is intellectual labor.
lmao NYT publishes this fluff piece about how cool this image their photog captured is and doesn't comment at all on how the cop looming over the center of the frame has a big tear in his pants crotch. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
An American Street
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:40 AM
lmao NYT publishes this fluff piece about how cool this image their photog captured is and doesn't comment at all on how the cop looming over the center of the frame has a big tear in his pants crotch. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...
Half the countries that just sent troops to Greenland (specifically, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark) were part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, so there’s definitely a limit to how outraged I think they’re entitled to be.
January 21, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Half the countries that just sent troops to Greenland (specifically, UK, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark) were part of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, so there’s definitely a limit to how outraged I think they’re entitled to be.
Reposted by Shane Lin
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...
Reposted by Shane Lin
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"
Reposted by Shane Lin
Reposted by Shane Lin
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