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archivist/archives professor studying memory, ethical documentation, archives & justice. she/her.

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Makes Her Mark @makeshermark.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
glad the lens was able to be there to report because wooo these people are not happy being pissed on & telling them it's rain thelensnola.org/2026/10/08/f...
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From ‘pinky promises’ to reality: SpaceX admits 30 launches a day will block local access | The Lens
In tense meeting, SpaceX reps told locals the planned spaceport will have no negative impacts - until locals pressed them for specifics
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Many of the most annoying takes in the world would go away if people could accept that: • Math is liberal arts • Computer science is math Neither of these should be controversial and yet!
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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mags. @artbymags.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Hey y'all, I can't believe I didn't post here about this already. but El Pueblo Nola (elpueblonola.org) - the community org/nonprofit that works with immigrant families in New Orleans East - is doing a school supply drive. We're down to the wire, just a few more days through Thursday. 1/5
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El Pueblo NOLA - NOLA Village
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CCL @christianlamb.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Visiting New Orleans for #saa26? Since I moved here I’ve found A LOT of favorites to recommend, so I rounded those up here: caitlinchristianlamb.com/saa-in-new-o...
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SAA in New Orleans: Summer Weather & Where to Eat and Drink – CCL
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Oliver Laughland @oliverlaughland.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“It was mindless, gutter politics. It felt to Duncan that after three decades of fighting to clear his name in the courts, he was now being forced to do it again in public.” My profile of the extraordinary Calvin Duncan, his historic run for office & the Maga effort to eradicate his victory
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He won office in Louisiana after a murder exoneration. Maga wouldn’t let the election stand
Calvin Duncan studied law in prison to free himself and won his court clerk race in a landslide. Three hours in, the role was abolished in an act of ‘white supremacy’
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026
I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1
A screenshot of the advertisement with an AI image of Lindsey and a brain, with text that says: YOUR BODY HAS A HISTORY. ASK ABOUT IT."
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...
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Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives
Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Just use footnotes. No one likes checking references at a later page.
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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We should put the FERPA people in a room with the cybersecurity people and have them fight it out while the faculty go back to using those tilde webpages
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
try and imagine a bigger W as an academic
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Ryan Randall @www.ryanpatrickrandall.com · 26/03/2026
And then, sometimes, you learn that one of your all-time favorite drummers is now a curator of Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland. Rad story about how John Davis, formerly of Q and Not U, started & grew UMCP's robust punk / indie zine archive!
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DIY: D.C. Punk and Indie Fanzine Collection at the University of Maryland College Park | Archives Deep Dive
The mission at the D.C. punk and indie fanzine collection (DCPIFC) at the University of Maryland–College Park’s (UMCP) Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library is to collect, preserve and share self-pub...
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Fascist Dem Tracker @fascistdemtracker.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy St. Patrick's Day from the Irish Reunification Landline
A landline, wall mounted telephone. It is in the shape of Ireland and is entirely green, with the exception of a dozen cities labeled in white.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
this is a very bold thing to say -- women can't do this -- about a technology that requires the ability to issue detailed natural language instructions to an immensely powerful but childlike simpleton
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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
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Samantha Michaels @samanthamichaels.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A blind Rohingya man survived a genocide in Burma, escaped to the United States, and then died because immigration officers treated him with such callousness. This story is a tragedy www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold
"They just left him."
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Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I can't believe a guy who doesn't believe in school would use a metaphor that doesn't make any sense
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Mark @tolecover.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 13/02/2026
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/02/2026
for those of you who don’t know, the French team is made up of an emotional abuser and a woman who actively defends her rapist boyfriend they are dreadful and nobody should celebrate this medal
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France’s extremely talented and extremely controversial ice dancers, explained
The duo is favored to win Olympic gold on Wednesday, amid increasingly dark allegations.
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...
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Trump Using A ‘Softer Touch’ With ICE In Minnesota? Residents Say Don’t Be Fooled.
Two weeks after Alex Pretti’s killing, federal agents have shown no signs of backing down. The resistance definitely hasn't.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 09/02/2026
So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 08/02/2026
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if a generation of tech, science, and business reporters hadn't decided that the press release was the news
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Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Happy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You don’t need to care about celebrity news. But what you should know is that right-wing content creators have built a viral online pipeline that directs pop culture consumers—especially women—from celeb gossip to conservative news and commentary. spitfirenews.com/p/brooklyn-b...
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The ugly side of the Brooklyn Peltz Beckham backlash
The celebrity gossip to patriarchy pipeline.
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Ken Childs @thekenchilds.com · 02/01/2026
Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.
Alessandra Fumagalli housing some pasta during her headshotMattia Gaspari sipping on an espresso
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KJ Shepherd @kjshepherd.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..."

There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel

Duane Puryear died in 1991.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/12/2025
The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.
In January 2024, the state's then-Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, appointed Raichik, who has no connection to the state and does not live there, to the Oklahoma Department of Education's Library Media Advisory Committee - giving the person behind Libs of TikTok an official role in deciding what books Oklahoma students can read.
A month later a 16-year-old nonbinary. student named Nex Benedict died. Just one day after being beaten in a school bathroom at Owasso High School - the same district where, in 2022, a teacher "greatly admired" by Nex had resigned after being targeted by a Libs of TikTok post. According to Nex's mother, the bullying had started after Stitt signed the bathroom bill.
Nex's death was ultimately ruled a suicide.
The climate in which Nex lived - a climate shaped by the very people now celebrating Samantha Fulnecky as a "warrior of Christ"
- is not incidental to this story.
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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all
Screenshot from a Hallmark movie wherein a website called "The Search Engine" is displayed with a textbox reading "attractive missing woman New England"
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 24/08/2024
Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress
Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 10/10/2025
*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What
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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
cackling
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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
remember how much it sucked when a covid vaccine was like 9 to 36 months away and then felt like a fucking miracle when it arrived
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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
huge day for the himbo community
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses. www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
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The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy
GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"healthy life" what about the emotional toll of never getting to eat a hot dog
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
being alive right now is completely incompatible with sanity on every level and every day i feel more and more crazy
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