iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I saw a presentation today that pointed to problems with the costs of AI (clearly extracting resources is its goal) but reframing around this question is essential: who owns the AI dividend

Such a temptation must be rejected. Higher
ed must, instead, ask the same question Marc Watkins has proposed for secondary education:
Who owns the A.I. dividend? Technology firms see the university as a gigantic data farm; they are not invested in our students or the learning process, only in harvesting the attention of an entire generation of users, who will be addicted to their product for the rest of their adult lives.
Even worse, these students will be subjected to brutal calculations—based on the data stolen from them in college-to determine their worthiness for job interviews, the validity of insurance claims, or eligibility for parole.
Why, after all, has a consensus so quickly emerged that we have a crisis in teaching? Is this not more rightly described as a crisis in learning?
Or, more aptly, as an attack on learning?

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Brian Broadus @cvilletgr.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There is a suit against Trump to prevent him from painting the stone-exterior Eisenhower Executive Office Building white. That structure is not much beloved but at least shows off its expensive quarried wall materials, which are low-maintenance and require only repointing and cleaning.

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

i really do love reading my undergrad public history students’ final self reflective essays on how their understanding of the field and their goals has shifted throughout the semester. it is a true joy and important to remind myself about, especially when so much can drain the joy from teaching

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

just watching ds9 again. someday i’ll get off of the comfort rewatch train and watch some of the great new shows out there, but today is not that day

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

i know we can increase voter percentage over last year! have you voted yet, ncph members?

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Denise D. Meringolo @ddmeringolo.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.

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Denise D. Meringolo @ddmeringolo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

No one in my Bluesky circle needs to hear this, but Black history is American history. The Greensboro lunch counter is a place where brave Americans defended freedom and equality against bigotry. It represents my patriotism; it is patriotic to demand and shape an America that lives up to its ideals.

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Trump orders ‘ideology’ removed from Smithsonian. What about NC sit-ins exhibit?

We fact-check a report that the Trump administration ordered pieces of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from Greensboro to be removed from the Smithsonian Institution.

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National Council on Public History @ncph.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Also on 4/30! "A Conversation with Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Director Mark Adams" at 6pm ET. Join Mark Adams for a conversation about #PublicHistory jobs and museum education. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #Museums #PublicHistoryJobs #MuseumEducataion

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

i’ve been excited for this keynote and two minutes in, Dr. Tara White has me tearing up. talking solidarity at #NCPH2025 “until i close my eyes, i’ll be doing history”

five Black panelists from various NC universities sit at a table, behind microphones and in front of a large screen

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

if you haven't been to the MEM yet, entrance is free with your NCPH badge! They are open late tonight as well #NCPH2025 their website: memmtl.ca/en/

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MEM – Centre des mémoires montréalaises | memmtl.ca/en

Museum and civic space in Montreal

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

join us for our working group this morning in drummond west: Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures #NCPH2025

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

post lunch session on Climate History/Climate Hope #s16 #NCPH2025, starting with temp check about who has experienced climate events, do audiences and colleagues ask/discuss issues?

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

settling in to my first official #NCPH2025 session — #s27 on queer oral history and the archives; lots of questions to discuss, even more than when the session was proposed

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

anyone created an #NCPH2025 feed yet? to be clear i don’t know how to do that lol

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Sarah Marsom @sarahmarsom.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The historic preservation field has adopted a specific advocacy approach, but as Brad White questioned - is it the right approach? Is this the approach we should continue to utilize as threats to cultural heritage work emerge? #HistoricPreservation #PublicHistory www.sarahmarsom.com/news/2025/2/...

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Let's Talk About Preservation Advocacy — Sarah Marsom

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Once again, please immediately stop feeding your cats any raw food— no raw milk, no raw meat. This includes commercial diets, homemade diets, and freeze dried raw treats and meal toppers

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

i’m really going to need every weekday to stop feeling like some horrible combo of both monday and friday vibes at the same time. i can’t take it

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

hi, are you doomscrolling? So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/02/2025

P.S. There are avian flu outbreaks in many countries right now, and yet most (I did not say “all” because I haven’t done a survey of the 100+ countries with outbreaks) do not have the runaway egg prices that we are seeing. This is illegal price fixing. It’s just happening in the US.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/02/2025

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

spending today (and last night) at boone docs, a festival of southern appalachian short documentaries. if you’re looking to deepen ties in your community, i highly recommend attending a similar event near you

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 16/02/2025

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

watching a sport and that guy shows up and they keep featuring him. just a note to stations, i’m switching off every time this happens

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Hey #HistSTM #HistSci colleagues - got someone looking for intro texts on non-western contributions to western science (and their erasure/appropriation) through ancient/early modern period & on decolonising the story of the scientific revolution etc. pls offer reading recommendations! 📇

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

The new Trump administration has illegally removed far more people from their jobs because of speech and beliefs in the last month than the entire list of cancelled or pressured people (many of whom were criticized, not fired) compiled by FIRE and others over years. It’s not remotely close.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I don’t remember mass action from STEM folks when Jeff Sessions attacked the NEH in 2015 and I’m still mad about it. But. That’s not gonna stop me fighting for the NIH and NSF.

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

just makes me want to weep. i can’t stop thinking about all of the federal employees and the important jobs they do

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

it is wild to me that people still genuinely believe that organizations or even individuals can be apolitical. i’m a baby gen x-er who grew up working class, and all of my education has taught me otherwise

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism. It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

genuine question—people are resigning in protest of some federal orders, but would it not be better for some (if they have the privilege and i know that’s a big if) to stay and just not follow orders that are illegal? i’m seeing people calling these resignations a win, and i’m not sure i see it?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 10/02/2025

Same, Bus. Same.

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

while watching, i said, even if people aren’t into the music; they can’t deny this is art—just look at it!

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

no crypto commercials. replaced by ai commercials. no other parallels, huh?

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

genuine question here, because i’ve missed this somehow—when did congress’s right to set tariffs move to the exec branch? i know it has happened over time but now the exec can just say: “tariffs,” and they happen immediately? or is this a blustery longer term plan?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

There are countless oil and gas leases sitting unused on the market because even corporations don’t want to drill. Keep your hands off our public lands. #FactsMatter

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

my students are shocked to learn in an introvert and i’ve worked hard to be comfortable in the classroom

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

i thought if there was a chance any of these noms would be stopped, it was defense, though i knew that was a slim one

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

sunday scaries that last all weekend in spite of the horrors in the world? must be the weekend before classes start

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

fun lil weekend activity for ncph members—vote in this year’s elections! voting closes wednesday & we want you to choose folks that support your vision of the org! members have voting links in their email 🗃️ #skystorians #PublicHistory #ncph

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

if you’re headed to #NCPH2025 in a couple of months, have you voted in this year’s @ncph.bsky.social elections? take a few minutes to dig out that email and vote!

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

ok but the last two eps of lower decks were basically perfect #startrek #lowerdecks

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kristen baldwin deathridge @k10death.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

i’ve finished my most recent #tng rewatch and today was mentally very tough, so obviously i’m now watching the emissary #ds9

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