I am reading Gwenda Bond’s Mr. & Mrs. Witch right now and one of the 🔥 scenes actually made me cry because it was so beautiful and made me so happy. 📚

🔖📓 Read Automated transcription and some risks of machine interpretation.

Dr. Daniel Turner does a great job illuminating how large language models work and how we need to think about indigeneity and colonialism when choosing our transcription method.

Want to read: How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information by Jillian M. Hess 📚

Want to read: It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World by Mikaela Loach 📚

Want to read: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc 📚

Me: I put my hair up and brushed my teeth! I’m ready to face the day! flops onto bed

I’m trying to see myself as others see me. Would you please tell me:

1. When have you seen me happiest?
2. What do you come to me for?
3. Where do I stand out against my peers?

Qs from Christina Wallace’s The Portfolio Life 📚

🔖📚 Read Roman Polanski, David Bowie, and a New Solution to the Problem of Art Made by Monstrous Men by Laura Miller (Slate).

The magnitude of an artist’s personal transgressions sometimes matters less than the nature of the attachment it disrupts.

Went by the Oscar Wilde house yesterday and the plaque saying he lived there said:

OSCAR WILDE
POET, DRAMATIST, WIT

and I liked it so well I’m changing all my bios to read “Mother, learner, wit.”

🔖🎨 Read On growing alongside your artistic practice (The Creative Independent).

Mother-artist Bailey Elder talks about growing as an artist and being a mother. Elder is starting a blog to interview other artistic mothers!