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Marshanah T. (she/her)

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Tech Librarian @ Downs-Jones Library Member @ACM.org | @Harvard.edu CFR '26 Alum ©️ | @Stanford.edu CIP '25 Alum 🌐 | ex-Smithsonian ☀️ | Texas Ex '24 🤘🏾 Interests: #AIBias #AncientBlackness #BlackDH Website 🔗 : linktr.ee/marstay 📍ATX

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A 2021 EPA report said racial and ethnic minority communities are more vulnerable to impacts of #ClimateChange: - Black & AA people are projected to face higher impacts in all 6 areas* compared to all other groups - Hispanic & Latino people have high participation in weather-exposed industries.
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EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 26/09/2026
A very loud reminder that we absolutely need policy guardrails on AI, and Black women are once again EARLY. Word to @rajiinio.bsky.social.
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An inside look at Congress’s first AI regulation forum
Researcher Inioluwa Deborah Raji says tech CEOs focused on big claims of what AI could do, but she was there to offer a reality check.
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Marshanah T. (she/her) @marshanah-t.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you know that David Harold Blackwell is known as the Father of AI? #BlackHistory #AI #BlackExcellence #BlackAcademia
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Popular Science Homepage [Unofficial] @popsci.com.web.brid.gy · 30/08/2026
popsci.com
Can apps really make you fluent in another language?
A green owl can nudge you to practice, but it doesn't replace talking to a person. The post Can apps really make you fluent in another language? appeared first on Popular Science.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 24/08/2026
We spoke with four Black women who lost their jobs in the past year and have since landed new roles. Here’s what they had to say to other Black women about using their networks and building new skills to land their next roles.
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After facing layoffs, Black women knew who to turn to for support: Black women
We talked to four women who lost their jobs in a wave of cuts last year. They have advice for other Black women navigating the bleak market.
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Heptagon Books @heptagonbooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Do you feel like your employer is dystopian? It could be worse... www.heptagonbooks.co.uk/articles/12-... #severance #dystopia #dystopian #bookclub #booksky #bksybookclub #BookRecs #books
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12 Books Like Severance for Your Work-Life Dread — Heptagon Books. Stories with many sides. From workplace rom coms to speculative thrillers.
Looking for books like Severance? These unsettling workplace dystopias, reality-bending thrillers and corporate nightmares keep the innie energy going.
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CNBC @cnbc.com · 07/08/2026
The U.S. economy saw an unexpected decline in jobs during July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday in a snapshot that showed a slowing employment picture. Read more: cnb.cx/4bCo6LY
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
lol hire young people for jobs 2026 challenge
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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 29/07/2026
Blacksky. Available now on iOS and Android.
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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.blacksky.app · 18/06/2026
👇🏾
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 17/06/2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
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Play Shuffalo: Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Can you make a longer word with each new letter?
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 23/05/2026
”No one is encouraging Black women to have more babies” AND I remember a time when there was a concern globally that Black women were having too many babies. The North remembers.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/06/2026
lol if you replace all the entry-level workers with "AI agents," who is going to replace middle management? More AI agents?
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 24/05/2026
I love @tressiemcphd.bsky.social brain. “Doing the job of the state is a threat to the state. […] If the people turn to each other, and self organize, that is seen as a threat.“
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 15/05/2026
Black women Black womening >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
TLDR: Work by Sara Bana and co-authors finds that a handful of AI hiring platforms can define the job market trajectory of thousands of candidates because they don't update resume scores. Let those platforms be biased, and guess who bears the brunt? Black and Asian people.
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Janice Kung @janicekung.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
"Does your college need a Librarian for AI?" --> ...the most common response was an increased demand for AI literacy instruction (83 percent), followed closely by the integration of AI tools in discovery systems (74 percent). t.e2ma.net/click/lvcwwi...
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pmchoan.bsky.social @pmchoan.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I use a few Fossify apps, rather than the default. Free to download, no data collected or shared. (They provide apps for text messages, phone calls, contacts, a file manager, a gallery and a calender). play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Fossify Messages - Apps on Google Play
Open-source and Ad-free SMS/MMS messaging app
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State of St. Louis @stateofstlouis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
What alternatives do we have to Samsung forcing us to use Google's awful Gemini product for texting aside from giving up texting?
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Samsung is discontinuing its texting app, tells impacted users to switch to Google Messages
Samsung is saying goodbye its namesake texting app. According to an end of service announcement published on the tech giant’s U.S. support website, Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 03/06/2026
Can you sort the items into the correct order? www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
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Play Catalogues: Wednesday, June 3, 2026
Can you sort the items into the correct order?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Google Search as you know it is over "Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times."
techcrunch.com
Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce t...
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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
- Kagi: Paid but better experience than Google - Ecosia: Similar experience while supporting a good cause - Qwant: Increasingly unique results and building a EU-first index - DuckDuckGo: Privacy-focused search, but quality of results may vary purchasewithpurpose.io/category/sea...
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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 13/05/2026
Heavy on the “it depends on Bluesky-the-corporation for none of its operation.” 🗣️🗣️🗣️
To see what this looks like, take Blacksky. Blacksky started in 2021 and launched publicly in
2023, founded by technologist @rude1.blacksky.team as a project to build infrastructure and curation tools for Black users of the AT Protocol, many of them refugees from Black Twitter. It runs its own Personal Data Server, where users can host their accounts and migrate their identity off Bluesky's hosting whenever they want. It runs its own global relay-called atproto.africa- which it built from scratch and which stores its own copy of all activity from every AT Protocol account on the network. It runs its own moderation relay that aggregates labels from every moderation service operating across the network. It runs its own feed generators. The whole stack is written in Rust, in an open-source project called rsky, and it depends on
Bluesky-the-corporation for none of its operation. If Bluesky-the platform and the corporation- vanished tomorrow, Blacksky would continue on unscathed. Its users would still post, still follow each other, still see their feeds, still be moderated according to Blacksky's policies rather than anyone else's. And they would still, because the protocol is open and the data is portable, be able to interact with everyone on the network who chose to remain
reachable to them.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 09/05/2026
This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia828.blacksky.app · 02/05/2026
Black people, we’ve been here before—so make a plan to register, to vote anyway—make them stop us and make it public.
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Amara @bloomandfeast.com · 01/05/2026
They did it! ❤️ #booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Viral campaign by reading community saves an award winning Black bookshop
Afrori Books has secured its immediate future after surpassing its urgent target of 1,000 book sales, following a viral month-long campaign driven by fears over rising costs and the threat of closure.
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Hannah Thomasy @hannahthomasy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Et tu, Sci-Hub?? 🧪
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Countess Sappho is Viking Posting 23/7 @countess-sappho.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I was very fortunate to get it via library loan because it is quite pricey. Some of the individual articles are available for free online, via academia.edu . This book is highly specific to one small region in Ukraine but there are a wealth of articles about the era in general on that site
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Academia.edu - Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers
Academia.edu is the platform to share, find, and explore 50 Million research papers. Join us to accelerate your research needs & academic interests.
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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available Now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
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Lynda M. Kellam #DataRescue @lyndamk.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
There really should be a support group for brutalist academic libraries. All of my libraries would be founding members.
John D Rockefeller Jr libraryJohn D Rockefeller Jr library
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This graph shows how registration rates between Black and White voters varied in Louisiana since Reconstruction. In a single image, it tells the story of political power and discrimination. Black voters had power, briefly, then it was taken from them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...
graph shows high black voter registration during reconstruction, then it drops to zero, rises slightly in the 1940s and 1950s, and increases until it gets to parity with white voters in the 2000s
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Aarón Cantú @aaroncantu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Chart showing major rise in Black reps after 1965 Civil Rights Act
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Proud Geek LGBTQ+ Bookshop @proud-geek.co.uk · 01/05/2026
New Blog: Queer Books about Robots, Mechs, and Artificial Intelligence. From YA romance to books about dystopian futures and cosy queer sci-fi, here's our list of LGBTQ+ books about robots, mechs, and artificial intelligence. Read the full post at www.proud-geek.co.uk/post/queer-b... #booksky
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Queer Books about Robots, Mechs and Artificial Intelligence
From bad-ass YA romance to books about dystopian futures and cosy queer sci-fi, here's our list of LGBTQ+ books about robots, mechs, and artificial intelligence.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/03/2026
THANK YOU LIBRARIANS!!!!!!!!!!!!! (A librarian just saved me)
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Amara @bloomandfeast.com · 28/04/2026
Award-winning Black bookshop faces "critical moment" to reach 1000 book sales goal. Afrori Books has just four days to reach its goal in order to keep its doors open. #booksky #blacksky #blackbooksky www.thecommunityreporter.co.uk/p/black-book...
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Award-winning Black bookshop faces "critical moment" to reach 1000 book sales goal
Afrori Books has just four days to reach its goal in order to keep its doors open.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 23/04/2026
6️⃣/9️⃣ VANISHING CULTURE also arrives as publishers are moving to restrict archiving. More than 100 journalists have pushed back, underscoring what the book highlights: long term access to knowledge is at risk. www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-04...
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100+ Journalists Applaud the Internet Archive’s Role In Preserving the Public Record
Rachel Maddow declares the Archive a “national treasure” as uncertainty mounts on whether today’s journalism will be preserved for future generations. Photos by Kenyatta Thomas Over 100 journalists…
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Forbes @forbes.com · 05/04/2026
Google Changes Gmail After 22 Years—Why You Need A New Email Address
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Google Changes Gmail After 22 Years—Why You Need A New Email Address
Google's upgrade means 2 billion Gmail users must now decide what to do next.
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Real Follower Count @realfollowers.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Ever wonder how many followers you actually have? This bot counts your followers but excludes follows by accounts that have been blocked, deleted, or banned This currently runs via the bluesky appview, so follows from users banned on bluesky but not other appviews (e.g. blacksky) won't be counted
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Forbes @forbes.com · 05/04/2026
Samsung’s New Deadline—You Have 12 Weeks To ‘Upgrade’ Your Phone
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Samsung’s New Deadline—You Have 12 Weeks To ‘Upgrade’ Your Phone
Samsung sends surprise message to all Galaxy smartphone owners.
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ASP Arts Collective @aspartscollective.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
‘Before BTS: How Howard University Helped Elevate Korean Culture and How Black Culture Influenced K-Pop’ by The Dig (Howard University): thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/... 🎥: amen.hong #HowardUniversity #HBCU #bts #kpop
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✈️📚🍣⚾️ @swtmiserymusings.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Paused my drama watching because #BTS is back!!! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 Someone on thread found the original article on the 7 Koreans at Howard University. Fun to see #BTSArmy be detectives & scholars digging through archives to find it.
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Blacksky Algorithms @blackskyweb.xyz · 24/03/2026
Blacksky is excited to announce Acorn, a platform for growing and managing communities on decentralized infrastructure. blackskyweb.xyz/introducing-...
blackskyweb.xyz
Introducing Acorn: Community Infrastructure That Grows With You
Featured image: Emergence by Paul Lewin
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026
I believe it was bell hooks who said that when white folks meet Black people who come against stereotypes, instead of updating their beliefs, they just create an entire new category for that Black person.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 09/03/2026
lol I know OP knows this, but a reminder that Black women, for at least a century, didn't have the choice to opt out of domestic work.
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Living In, Living Out by Elizabeth Clark-Lewis: 9781588342867 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
This oral history portrays the lives of African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington, DC in the early decades of the twentieth century. In Living...
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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
On Black PhD students:
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Rudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 14/03/2026
We heard you. Now migration works from any device and the form is as simple as we can make it. Any issues, contact support@blacksky.app
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