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Alice Goldfarb

@alicegoldfarb.com
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Thinking about messy data. [Unbreaking](https://unbreaking.org/) & [CU Boulder's Info Visions Lab](https://infovisions.github.io/) (extricated from afgoldfarb on 🐦, was once goldfarb.bsky.social 🦋)

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Emily Hilliard @emhilly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grateful to Smithsonian Folkways for the opportunity to write the bio for the late great Michael Hurley as they announce the reissue of his debut album First Songs. Miss the guy and have been thinking of him as cider sipping and tea tasting season rolls around. folkways.si.edu/artists/mich...
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Michael Hurley | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Michael Hurley was a beloved iconoclast who made his 60-year career as a traveling musician and visual artist his own way.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm recruiting 1-2 PhD students to join our lab in Fall 2027, through either Computer Science or Information Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! Looking for people with interests in NLP plus [healthcare | literary studies | narratives | social media | etc.]. Join us! 🏔️☀️
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CLS Lab — Culture, Language, & Systems | University of Colorado Boulder
The Culture, Language, & Systems Lab at CU Boulder studies the language systems that transmit and shape modern culture, from internet platforms to literary archives to language models.
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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Al Shaw @shaw.al · 25/09/2026
For sale Slop generator Never used
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Paul Ford @ftrain.com · 19/09/2026
people constantly confuse being smart with being right and it’s killing us all
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Colleen Mondor @chasingray.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just once, I wish we would fully staff ATC and the technicians who keep it operating. Instead of always saying we need technology to address staff shortages, it would be great to address why we have staff shortages. Also, this use of AI is not smart for safety. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/u...
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F.A.A. to Roll Out New A.I. Tool for Washington Airports
The tool, called SMART, will crunch scheduling and weather data to predict and avoid delays. It will be deployed in the Washington region’s three major airports next week.
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 19/09/2026
This is utterly heartbreaking. I was privileged to be edited by Rose a few times over the years & with even that slender acquaintance this is such a punch to the gut. My deepest condolences to everyone who knew & loved her.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
4 yrs ago I taught a grad studio abt reimagining the academy. This fall I’m tchg a similar class — abt study more generally — for librarians, archivists, ldrs of alt schools, etc. It’s 🤗 to think about these ideas *in practice* redesigningacademy.wordsinspace.net/spring2022/ crc.metro.org/apply/
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Redesigning the Academy 2022 – New School Graduate Workshop with Shannon Mattern
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 16/09/2026
I was wondering if being an Associate EU member allows for associate Eurovision participant, only to learn that Canada is already going to be in Eurovision, starting next year. As in song, so too in governance, apparently.
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
if you've known me for long, you know I'm a huge admirer (& friend) of Dana Chisnell. she knows her sh*t on the subject of voting - & @monteiro.bsky.social knows his zines & provocations. they made this for you to print & share widely (I helped review); so please do print & share widely!!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I *hate* this "digital divide" framing for AI; even libraries marshal it to justify their "AI literacy classes," ensuring all have "access" for self-actualization and economic opportunity. Maybe instead some folks are sufficiently literate, and they're instead choosing *principled refusal*.
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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Higher ed will never satisfy its hunger for Associate Deans.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
ding ding ding I also think it’s relevant that this is in particular a coding tool, and there was likely an effort to give it a masculine name as a result🫠
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 14/08/2026
A St. Louis PBS station stored their 50 TB station archives at an Iron Mountain facility, via a subcontractor, which probably gave them lots of security and redundancy. But the subcontractor went under, and now they have lost access to their archives. It turns out their contract had no redundancy.
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Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
Nine PBS seeks return of more than 50 terabytes of data that represents “70 years of our organization's history.”
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Gender + Sexuality Data Lab is hiring a Research Assistant to join its project, ‘Box Breakers: Improving Organisational Data Practices for Minoritised Communities’. Now open to all applicants | Closing date: 25 Aug | More info: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Quote from Dr Kevin Guyan, Director of the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab, which reads: "The Box Breakers project aims to transform how data professionals understand and represent people whose identities exist beyond conventional categories."
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 10/08/2026
too much
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 31/07/2026
In light of the “good faith questions” discourse I just wanted to re-up @reveleth.com’s fascinating podcast about the complex (and frequently appalling) history and present of policing sexual biology in women’s sports.
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I have been informed that August begins this weekend and that is both fucked up and bullshit
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 25/07/2026
I need you all to know that the Berkeley Public Library has solicited submissions for a new mascot, and you can now vote for the contestants and I'm losing my mind. berkeleypublic-library.github.io/Fiber-Mascot...
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Fiber Mascot Contest — Berkeley Public Library
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
RIT libraries is hiring a digital scholarship and data librarian: rit.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
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Digital Scholarship Data Librarian
Essential Duties & Responsibilities Consults with researchers on digital scholarship projects, including guidance on best practices, workflows, scope, relevant methodologies and technologies Assis...
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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I have held one of these awards and would be happy to share my experience if anyone is looking for advice (it was wonderful).
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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The "sequel"(?) to "You Are Reviewer 2" is now available to download for free. "So You've Been Told to Publish Your Data" is a solo d6-based "game" to "learn" about Research Data Management and Data Publishing. midnitelibrary.itch.io/publish-your... 📚
A bunch of copies of So You've Been Told to Publish Your Data
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sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
do we still do good news on here? i just learned that my 1939 ny world's fair research was awarded runner-up of best 2025 article published in the ieee annals of the history of computing. timely as ever, about corporate dreams of tech utopia + spectacular tech debuted to distract from rising fascism
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 18/07/2026
@lifewinning.com If 🦋 posts are eligible for perfect sentences, I'd like to nominate "This lettuce is literally everywhere and usually it’s in contexts where no one knows/discloses it."
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 17/07/2026
We need 2-3 more writers with a science-y backgrounds to help us turn news chaos into orderly information on @unbreaking.org's infectious disease control, food safety, and medical research funding pages. The commitment is a few hours every couple of weeks. Is this you? 🌱 unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
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How to help — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 17/07/2026
me: searches 'town name library' google: here are five pages of results that do not include the library page (I gave up after the first 5 result pages & found it linked elsewhere, tho I might not have looked if I didn't know there were a page to find. The town name is unique & not a common word.)
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Once you see the title, you immediately know which economist wrote it 🤦‍♂️
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Also this is a fundamental misunderstanding of history. It wasn't like the only alternative to cars was horses? Instead it could have been better rail transit, or other kinds of vehicles that didn't require paved roads. Likewise, we're not choosing between AI and quill-and-ink. There are options!!!
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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 10/07/2026
Be part of your library's supply chain—request that they purchase Dr. Posner's book!
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 10/07/2026
Everybody: we hate Alexi Lalas Literally everybody: seriously we would rather watch the games in a language most of us don't speak because it means no Alexi Lalas Truly everybody: we cannot stress enough, out loud, all the time, how much we hate Alexi Lalas FOX: why are people watching Telemundo!?
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 30/06/2026
@chanda.blacksky.app Super exciting to see The Edge of Space-Time as book of the week at the fantastic print shop/ bookstore Matter (morematter.com) www.instagram.com/shopatmatter...
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The Shop At MATTER on Instagram: "Vania is bringing us our Employee Book of the Week! 'The Edge of Space-Time' by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is "A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteri...
17 likes, 0 comments - shopatmatter on June 30, 2026: "Vania is bringing us our Employee Book of the Week! 'The Edge of Space-Time' by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is "A fresh, charming, socially consciou...
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sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ICYMI: my new article explores the early history of u.s. electronic death registration systems. it's a story about trying to improve both data quality and ease of data entry. turns out, those goals were in tension
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 24/06/2026
Amazing to see all the places I've seen this work being shared, including in a dissertation proposal I'm watching. I wish it didn't need to be done, but hopefully this analytic approach will help anyone who didn't understand the situation.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...
A hand holding a test print of a bookplate with the word DATA BY DESIGN on the bottom leftA package of bookplates labeled DATA BY DESIGN. The photographer's feet are visible at the bottom of the image. A bookplate for DATA BY DESIGN with several signatures in gold sharpie.
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media archaeology lab @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our residency call for the 26/27 academic year is live! The theme this year is Creative Misuse - interpret as you will. Read the full prompt: https:// drive.google.com/file/d/16zB-7J4UoajGAooans30yEgQKlzys2hD/view Fill out the application: https:// forms.gle/KNfcAGBVCbyURiWJA
a MISTY robotics robot appears via security camera on the screen of an Apple IIc computer. An explainer for the Apple IIc is under the screen.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Dear US friends: if you are tired of seeing screenshots of posts that are mostly inflammatory lies but you know they might impact you and your community, might I refer you instead to @unbreaking.org? Timelines of what’s *actually* happening in US federal policy in key areas, sourced and updated.
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 21/05/2026
me: searches 'running store' google maps: here is a butcher shop me: what
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 01/05/2026
Three things the Trump administration is doing with our data: 1. Slopping it together into a big shoddy surveillance blob 2. Sucking up more and more of it, including voter rolls and reams of "commercial" data 3. Crushing the infosec agency formed to keep it safe unbreaking.org/blog/briefin...
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Briefing: Data Security + more — Unbreaking
This week we have an in-depth briefing from our Data Security team and updates from Archives & History, Infectious Disease Control, and Trans Healthcare.
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 09/04/2026
What are some buildings where the current use is a joyful moving on from a past use, perhaps referencing its history? NYPL's Jefferson Market Library www.nypl.org/about/locati... which was a courthouse & Qtopia Sydney qtopiasydney.com.au/our-story/hi... which was a police station come to mind.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 20/03/2026
C'mon propublica, not you too. I just… don't fucken do this, man… Not the people who literally broke the story about how "AI" systems disproportionately harm the already marginalized, reinscribing prejudice into supposedly objective process w/ life & death results. All that shit's still there, y'all
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 07/03/2026
Finally a Lego set for shipping sickos.
A LEGO set box features a model of the Maersk container ship&10;
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Unbreaking @unbreaking.org · 24/02/2026
We’re always on the lookout for researchers, writers, and editors to pitch in and help us make and maintain these pages. Here’s how to join us: unbreaking.org/how-to-help/
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How to help — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
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Alice Goldfarb @alicegoldfarb.com · 23/02/2026
"Art is radicalizing in the revelations it creates."
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!
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Rewind: The Roots of Public Media
This series features scholars of media history looking back at both familiar and lesser-known chapters in public broadcasting’s evolution. “Rewind” is presented in partnership with the Radio Preservat...
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Reo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 08/01/2026
Getting the @newamerica.org fellowship genuinely changed my life. It made Tested possible, in a moment where I was ready to give up. If you've got a project that needs support (financial and intellectual) consider applying! Happy to answer any Q's people have: www.newamerica.org/fellows/abou...
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Apply to the New America Fellows Program
We are now accepting applications for the Class of 2027 to the New America Fellows Program!
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