Month: February 2023

After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More

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After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half a million deleted tweets from candidates and elected officials since 2012, is no longer able to track them. Since Elon Musk … Read more

Sake Is Booming in America

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Sake Is Booming in America Eric Asimov writes about sake in The New York Times, opening with three paragraphs that will sound familiar to anyone conversant with the history of American craft beer: When Shinobu Kato first tried sake as a young man in Tokyo, it tasted harsh and sharp to him. He hated it. … Read more

Web “content”?

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Web “content” generally refers to the information in a web page or web application, including: natural information such as text, images, and sounds code or markup that defines structure, presentation, etc. I came across this surprisingly concise and thorough definition in the Introduction to the WCAG 2 Overview introducing “the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) … Read more

Video: Expected Highs “Lightning in Your Heart”

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Can’t get enough of this, the first track released by Expected Highs.

Available to buy as a digital track and look for more to come next month on the Expected Highs Bandcamp page, expectedhighs.bandcamp.com:

Expected Highs is the first solo outing from Victor Thompson, former lead singer and principal songwriter of The Flavor Channel. The Expected Highs sound builds on a similar foundation of big guitars, big hooks, 60’s organs, and groovy surf beats, adding layers of analog noise and some glam rock swagger to the mix.

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Ron DeSantis and African American studies A.P. curriculum

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“Is it fair to see Governor DeSantis’s attempts to police the contents of the College Board’s A.P. curriculum in African American studies in classrooms in Florida solely as little more than a contemporary version of Mildred Rutherford’s Lost Cause textbook campaign? No. But the governor would do well to consider the company that he is keeping. And let’s just say that he, no expert in African American history, seems to be gleefully embarked on an effort to censor scholarship about the complexities of the Black past with a determination reminiscent of Rutherford’s. While most certainly not embracing her cause, Mr. DeSantis is complicitous in perpetuating her agenda.”

Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Who’s Afraid of Black History?,” The New York Times, February 17, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/17/opinion/desantis-florida-african-american-studies-black-history.html.