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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I am wary of comparing digital projects to books, but I realized today that the Douglass Day website is 90,600 words. Huh.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Re-upping for the Friday crowd! Register now for all the updates on our plans to transcribe 100+ Black newspapers & magazines to make them freely available! DouglassDay.org

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes the world is falling apart, but I had meetings in the past few days with collaborators who are finishing PhDs or just finished and...wow. Such stunning and courageous work in K-12 schools, churches, AI, community archives.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Highly recommend this keynote on the Colored Conventions! Given by Dr. Andre Johnson (@aejohnsonphd.bsky.social) at Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia. Several days of events & programs led by CCP's very own Dr. Denise Burgher. A landmark day!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is eugenics. The Alpha School (if we can even call it a school) is designed to quantify intelligence in ways that directly inherit from the history of eugenics. Their rhetoric around AI is just a smokescreen. Who needs Charles Murray when you got a chatbot?

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Have you heard? Douglass Day in 2027 is going to launch "Transcribe the Early Black Press" Join us this Weds for a little preview of this vast new global history -> douglassday.substack.com/p/a-press-of... Help us spread the word for #DouglassDay!

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“A Press of Our Own”: A Short History of the Early Black Press

Community Gathering this Wednesday!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

OK wow, this is wild. My school announced that we are taking steps to ensure that students have "equity in access to AI." Meaning they all get Gemini licenses? Now that's some lumpy austerity. 🫠

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've made a lot of progress on OCR + HTR, but nothing breaks a layout parser like Cattle Text Recognition (CTR)

Screenshot of a newspaper page from 1908 with little pictures of cows and their brands.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Princeton University Library (PUL) seeks an accomplished, visionary, and collaborative leader to serve as the John T. Maltsberger III ’55 Associate University Librarian for Special Collections: apply.interfolio.com/189524 review of applications begins October 15th

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's a funny one - I bought an old receipt printer on eBay and have been using it to print daily poems from the Early Black Press. Got a raspberry pi & button on the way. I'm gonna see if I can make a little poetry machine to take with me around town, events, etc.

A photo of a receipt with the poem "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Francis Ellen Watkins Harper.

Just printing out a bunch more poems by Francis Harper in this photo of my Epson receipt printer

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Announcing our new Douglass Day Community Gatherings! This year, we are hosting monthly virtual gatherings. We wanted to make space to continue growing this incredible community. Also space to share your fun & clever ideas! More info: douglassday.substack.com/p/new-commun...

New Community Gatherings!

Join us on September 30th at 6:00pm EDT!

We are starting monthly community gatherings to prepare for Douglass Day together! Join the first meeting on September 30th at 6:00pm on Zoom.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Happy birthday to the conventions! When I say we have been working at recovering this movement for a while... I got the archive of t-shirts going all the way back in the day

T shirt with an image of the Colored Conventions Project name and scene of a convention

Photo of a t shirt that has "Colored Conventions Project - Digital Humanities Team - 2012-2013 Inaugural Year" and a list of names

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

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Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice | H-Net

1. Academic Accomplishment. We seek a scholar with a strong scholarly record, including excellence in both research and teaching, appropriate for appointment at the level of full professor in a social science, humanities, or arts department at Brown.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Charles W. Chesnutt maybe possibly attended a Colored Convention in 1882? Not entirely sure yet, but who knew?!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I've seen a lot of great nicknames from the 1800s, but Charles "Hardstew" Stewart of the Cleveland Plain Dealer is up there!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh wow, an actual tt job in early American literature! Assistant Professor in American Literature, Early Period to 1900 Santa Clara University www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Proximity searching is such a brilliant tool for research in newspaper databases. I learned it from the CCP's legendary librarian Carol Rudisell. Even useful on sites that don't advertise that capacity. E.g., "weekly anglo-african"~5 support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/art...

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Announcing Douglass Day 2027! Join us Feb 11, 2027 to transcribe early Black newspapers and magazines. Together we can make these papers open to all! We have tons of free resources coming soon to help bring Douglass Day into your class, school, or community! Register & updates: DouglassDay.org

SAVE the DATE
DOUGLASS DAY
Celebrating the 200* anniversary of the Black Press
2.11.2027
DouglassDay.org

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

Postcard graphic with large text saying "Save the Date for Douglass Day" Below that, text reads "Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Black Press" and the date "2.11.2027" followed by the web address DouglassDay.org.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Free lesson plan: I had my students read the Timnit Gebru essay on AI & eugenics, then we did a close reading of the Alpha School website. Mind blowing, really. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence | First Monday

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Can't wait to share all of this Early Black Press Project work we're cooking up -- coming soon!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Interesting to see the Times make the rare but big distinction between "open source" vs. "open weight" models. Open source stays in the discourse, but there's almost nobody left these days being open about their training data. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/b...

Screenshot of New York Times article about Z.ai, a Chinese AI company. The image shows a highlight for the phrase "open source or open-weight software."

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Someone really should write an Abbott Elementary for academic libraries. Pilot episode: "The Reorg"

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Friends, please keep all your WordPress sites militantly updated, even ,say, on the weeks when you're on a rare vacation or else you get to spend a long day a month later chasing malware. Eek/sigh. All is going to be OK but, well, ugh.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Back home after 6 days on the road, 2 workshops with 24 people plus meals, rides, flights, etc. Only missing a single receipt and already got my finance forms all submitted a day after I get home.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We are just wrapping up the first day of our summer planning meetings. Lots of new team members, ideas, and fun things to share. Douglass Day 2027 is on the way!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today we are starting the Early Black Press Project's summer institute. Tons of new work on teaching, archives, and this year's upcoming Douglass Day. I've/We've been working towards this week for literal years and years. Excited doesn't begin to describe it.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My hot take is that Apple Maps is one million times better for navigating college campuses than Google Maps

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Swinging into high gear for another year of Douglass Day! Wild that it'll be our 11th year! 🎂

Screenshot of a Google Shared Drive with folders for each year of Douglass Day from 2017 to 2027.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

All pets in my overpriced apartment complex now have to be DNA tested and registered with a corporation called PooPrints?? Someone can now DNA swab dog poop left on a sidewalk and run it in the database. We live in such a shabby version of the future.

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Ooof the list of new NEH grants are sobering

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just finished a co-PI call for our "Communities in the Loop" Schmidt HAVI project with @snblickhan.bsky.social, @profdancy.bsky.social, @bcgl.bsky.social & Tiffanie Smith. Just AMAZING. Things that wouldn't have been possible even a few years ago. Can't wait to share what we've been cooking up!

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

"Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000" – also just such an excellent phrase

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Favorite: JPEG 2000 Least Favorite: JPEG 2000 Cuz it's wild that a 30 year-old very obscure file format plays such a central role for so many things. Also the history of cultural heritage file formats is always a brain melter

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Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Submitted my comments in opposition to the new OMB rules. You can too! There is still time today: www.regulations.gov/document/OMB... If you want some talking points, AHA www.historians.org/news/aha-sub... & AAM offer good ones: www.aam-us.org/2026/06/08/a...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 12/07/2026

🚨 HEADS UP: If you haven't submitted a comment on the OMB proposal yet, there's still time - but it's running out! There are only 1 days left to push back against Russell Vought's attempt to give political appointees unprecedented control over federal research funding. Take Action: zurl.co/eoQwY

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Thanks for hanging with us this weekend for 180 posts on the Declaration of Independence! The Colored Conventions deeply believed in the power of saying these words aloud. We need to hear & heed them. Watch this space for grand NEW things coming this *week*!

A card that says "Thanks" and has a photoshopped graphic of a dozen black and white portraits of people who attended the Colored Conventions, all combined together.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“We should determine and insist upon it that a "republican form of government" is one deriving its powers from the consent of the governed—one in which taxation is the correlative of the right to be represented” +

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

“We have our thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments to the constitution, but that does not cover all the ground necessary to secure civil rights.”—Frederick Douglass” — 1872 National Convention of Colored People, New Orleans, LA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/544

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“Resolved, That in the name of our humanity, in the name of our nativity, in the name of our love of our country, in the name of the old Revolutionary doctrine, that taxation and Representation ought not to be separated”—John Mercer Langston” +

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“The Government which should protect them, prostituting its powers to aid the villains who hunt them."—Peter H. Clark” — 1858 Ohio State Convention of Colored Men, Cincinnati, OH omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/254

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Day 3! One final and full day of ideas about the Declaration of Independence from the Colored Conventions. Many of the quotes today are from Reconstruction Southern Conventions.

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“Our right to live here is as good as the white man's, and is incorporated in the Declaration of Independence"—William Wells Brown” — 1859 New England Regional Convention of Colored Citizens, Boston, MA omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/show/269

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

We're on day 2 of 3 posting quotes about the Declaration of Independence from the Colored Conventions movement. Going well!

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“In a country professing to realize in its government, the grand principles of the Declaration of 1776, millions of our brethren are publicly sold, like beasts in their shambles, that they are robbed of their earnings”—Peter H. Clark” +

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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

“In that declaration of fundamental principles, set forth by the fathers of '76, we fail to discover anything like a system of exclusion. No! there is not an expression, nor an implied sentiment to be found making a distinction in the rights and privileges of any class of American citizens.” +

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