Shane Lin

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Historian and digital humanities developer @ Scholars' Lab, UVA Library. He/him. Dogs, data, history of privacy and cryptography. Great sage equal of heaven.

Cover of the Chinese language edition of Sarah Milov's The Cigarette: A Political History.
Eastern Wood-Pewee, or some kind of pewee, balanced on the end of a branch.
Letterpress printing block print, black ink on white paper: “EIN FRITZ LANG FILM”
American bittern standing very still in a creek.
A sheet of paper with “This Place is not a Place of Honor” printed on it and a big black ink smear under it.
A red heeler dog on a leash walking through the snow, looking very determined.
A print made with an FDM 3D printed letterpress cut of railroad tracks, where the surface texture of the print looks kinda like wood.
Generic-looking logo for "National Coffee with a Cop Day." Super lazy design work - there's two badges on this thing lol.
A diptych showing a dog and a figure from Correggio's Martyrdom of Four Saints, both in basically the same pose of religious ecstasy.
NYT article: “Uneven Track Record The aborted SEAL mission prompted a series of military reviews during Mr. Trump's first term. They found that the killing of civilians was justified under the rules of engagement, and that the mission was undone by a collision of unfortunate occurrences that could not have been foreseen or avoided. The findings were classified.”
New York Times: ‘1 hour ago John Ismay In the briefing, Hegseth referred to B-2 pilots as "our boys on those bombers," yet both men and women have trained to fly them.’
Italic letterpress type arranged into the text “Good Dog” with an image of a dog, with green 3D-printed end pieces to hold it square against leading.
A frame from The Last Emperor depicting a man bowing to a child in a palace.
A letterpress printed card with an image of a guillotine and the text “The Tyrants Foe The People’s Friend”
Red heeler dog running through snow in a back yard
Text of a presumed news article making the rounds: “Recently, a study was conducted by researchers at the University of Massachusetts to determine how much energy is used to train certain popular large AI models. According to the results, training can produce about 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, or the equivalent of around 300 round-trip flights between New York and San Francisco - nearly 5 times the lifetime emissions of the average car.”
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION "Lora Ebert Wallace, a [WIU] professor of sociology, said she is baffled by the administration's decision to cut the librarians...If there are no librarians around to stay on top of things, she said, it's just a matter of time before those systems start failing... Library advocates argue that librarians provide essential support for that expertise and those programs. But the provost's office viewed librarians through another lens." WIU Interim Associate Provost Christopher Pynes spoke with the Chronicle. ‘“We're trying to Moneyball this thing and try to figure out how to get as much as we can, and as many offerings as we can, with the least amount of money,’ Pynes said, referring to the Michael Lewis book about a baseball team."
A flexible cat tunnel that is the color and geometry of a sandworm from Dune.
An Australian cattle dog biting a plush popcorn bucket dog toy
Space Shuttle Endeavour launching for STS-130 in the second-to-last shuttle night launch.
IEA chart showing that China significantly outpaces the rest of the world in new PV solar install (around 160GW in 2024 vs 50 for the EU and 35 for US)
Shelby, the Shelbyville version of Bart Simpson, looking admiringly at Bart's spray can technique, from The Simpsons episode Lemon of Troy.
The angel skeleton from the Simpsons episode Lisa the Skeptic.
A large orange cat touches her reflection in a glass door
New York Times story: "US Seeks to Join For yes with Europe to Combat Excess Chinese Goods. Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen warned that China's industrial strategy posed a global threat that requires a united response."
Microsoft Office Assistant "Rocky", a cartoon dog
Aurora borealis
Fortune cookie fortune: Education and intelligence aren't the same thing!
United Campus Workers UVA tweet: "[Faculty] Senators seemed worried that just anyone can walk into commencement. One senator said people would not feel unsafe if snipers were on the roof, but UVA should notify people if they will be there, so people present at May 4th don't get 'emotionally triggered'"
A line of Virginia State police in riot gear after suppressing peaceful protest at the University of Virginia
A very large, three-legged orange cat looking out of sliding glass door, through her reflection.
Screen capture from King of the Hill showing the "Are you Chinese or Japanese" scene between Hank and Kahn.
Red heeler trying to lick peanut butter from a toy ball embedded inside of a larger polyhedron toy.
New York Times article embed "More on China", featuring articles "China's Hidden Navalnys" and "Hacker Network"
An Australian cattle dog suffering the indignity of wearing a cattle costume
An Australian cattle dog poking his head out of a fall colored blanket
An australian cattle dog stuffing his head through a pet gate door that should be too small for him to fit through.
An Australian cattle dog looking up at the camera while sitting on grass. He has brown and blue heterochromatic eyes.
Closeup of an Australian cattle dog's face. He has striking eyes that each have patches of brown on blue.
An Australian shepherd dog sits on grass and looks happily up at the camera.
Rocket, a small red heeler dog, lying on a circular dog bed and looking up at the camera mischievously.