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Thrilled to be at the B Bar Ranch for a few days on a writer’s retreat.

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Very much looking forward to the writer’s retreat I’ll be at this weekend, on a ranch in Montana. Great opportunity to get some focused work done, meet fellow writers, and get a break from the Nebraska heat.

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Currently reading: Taking America Back: The Conservative Movement and the Far Right by David Austin Walsh 📚

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@scottbot.net Is this a Voight-Kampff test?!

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@jasonheppler.org Anyway it’s a great book!

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@jasonheppler.org This was, maybe, still my first year in grad school. I’d gotten a handle on the heavy reading load. Less so, apparently, on targeted questions.

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It was an embarrassing (and maybe a bit unfair) moment, but I took away from that the importance of close reading.

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@jasonheppler.org Folks, I’d read the book. I was prepared to discuss.

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I had no idea what John was referencing at first and, at the time, didn’t have an answer either.

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@dwalbert Ha! It was a good read, too.

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@lpeds.com It’s been great so far!

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@wcaleb Yeah, that’s pretty wild. I’m not sure if I should be feeling existential about this or not, as someone who builds history web things for humans 🤣

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Bots are seemingly now the majority of internet traffic, outnumbering human traffic for the first time.

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@wcaleb Really good so far!

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@jasonheppler.org The explanatory text is still incoming, but the visualization itself I think is pretty neat and helpful for drilling down into legislative policies.

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@jasonheppler.org Clicking on the chart “pins” to that year and policy, allowing you then to see a regional breakdown of bills by party member, and clicking those cards lets you see specific legislators.

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Finished reading: Where The Sky Began by John Madson 📚

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Finished reading: When Democrats Won the Heartland by Cory Haala 📚

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Currently reading: Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson 📚

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Visited Fort Sumter yesterday.

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First proper southern meal on this vacation, complete with boiled peanuts, sweet tea, blackened sheepshead, and cobbler.

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Reading about the Heartlands while in I’m the Lowcountry.

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@lawrencecphd.bsky.social This could’ve been the title of my Silicon Valley book 🤣

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Hi, Tennessee.

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@laprofmme.bsky.social Striking how often the Midwest is just overlooked when it comes to local and national politics.

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@jasonheppler.org Also go buy @mkn.bsky.social’s book on the West! www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-We…

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@jasonheppler.org Of course @lollardfish.bsky.social’s new book is fantastic: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/…

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@jasonheppler.org And go buy @eladiobobadilla.com’s book: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0…

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@jasonheppler.org My buddy @coryhaala.bsky.social had a great interview yesterday on Illinois Public Radio about his new book: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0…

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@jasonheppler.org Or even my book if you feel so compelled! jasonheppler.org/publications…

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@jasonheppler.org Or the book I edited with @rebeccawingo.bsky.social! jasonheppler.org/publications…

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@aearhart.bsky.social For sure. I miss having a dog around, although we’ve started looking again!

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(Less of an issue since they’re locked in a run and we don’t run a business on it, but we’ve had a fox appear and has gotten pretty bold about eyeing the chicken coop.)

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@jasonheppler.org Not to mention your alma mater’s state has a whole bunch of excellent ag programs: Cal Poly campuses, UC Davis, Cal State, and various UC campuses all offer top-notch agricultural courses including hands-on work.

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@jasonheppler.org For someone who attended Stanford, you’d think you’d know your alma mater was once a major agricultural school. It was a core reason Leland founded the university! Right in the original Grant of Endowment!

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(To be clear, I once worked at Stanford and wrote a book about Silicon Valley. But still.)

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@jasonheppler.org That sounds right to me, yeah!

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@aearhart.bsky.social gah that’s rough, sorry to hear Amy

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@adamrothman.bsky.social

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@alanallport.bsky.social Paying for parking

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wait

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Launching Governing Ground: updates.jasonheppler.org

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Stumbled upon a fox eyeing our coop from a distance this morning. I’m watching you, buddy.

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We just launched a redesign (and new infrastructure) of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media website. I’m super pleased with how it turned out.

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First garden harvest!

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Before / after

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Chicken check-in.

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The upside here is Canvas might just go away permanently.

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A quarter of American farmers do not have fertilizer on hand, and an American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season. And this is after we saw farm bankruptcies increase 46% in 2025.

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Home Screen update.

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The Farmall runs again!

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Fun night at the college rodeo!

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Later this morning I’ll be joining the DHTech meetup to talk about using generative AI to fix legacy projects and resilient digital history.

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Claude is getting real with me, after I asked if emacs would be a better fit than Obsidian.

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I’ve realized I have another book to write, alongside the one I’m already working on. The good news is the archives I’m using completely overlap so there’s no reason to not do it!

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