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Meredith Martin

@mmvty.bsky.social
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poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: press.princeton.edu/books/paperback… editor here: c19datacollective.com & here: culturalanalytics.org @culturalanalytics.bsky

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James Neal @james3neal.bsky.social · 5h
"Mapping the Landscape of Community-Based Archives" via #Mellon Foundation www.mellon.org/report/mappi... #MellonFoundation
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Mapping the Landscape of Community-Based Archives
By defining and mapping the landscape of community-based archives, the study provides funders, institutions, and practitioners with insights about the value of these unique organizations.
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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 10h
A great team of editors on this, looks like it will be a fantastic volume
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Josh Hadro @hadro.bsky.social · 22h
How do you show a whole digitized book in one thumbnail? Modern books have illustrated covers, but in research collections the cover is often a plain library binding. So I made Flipbook: hover over a book from any #IIIF source and flip through its pages. hadro.github.io/flipbook/ #GLAMsky 📚📜
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Joe Murphy @joemurph.com · 29/09/2026
JOBS: CNBC is hiring: 1. A data viz journalist jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744... 2. A senior editor for data viz jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Versant3/744...
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Carol Chiodo, Ph.D. @digitaldante.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Highly recommend this piece from @mollyhardy.bsky.social which she presented at #FF26: lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2026/09... 📚🖥️💡
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Public Data, AI, and the Future of the Catalog | Library Innovation Lab
The Library Innovation Lab is growing knowledge and community by bringing library principles to technological frontiers.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Most swing state GOP Senate candidates took $$ from Jack Abramoff's now pardoned partner.
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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is very cool (and important!)
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Data by Design @dataxdesign.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our New York book launch event at P&T Knitwear Bookstore from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-kle...
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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Senior Research Software Engineer wanted to join the amazing team at King's Digital Lab 👇
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
America.gov launched today--a DOGE initiative to use AI to deliver public services. Child lying facedown on a frozen lake as the image accompanying the question: "How can I invest in my child's future" is just incredible. Way to go AI
Image of a child lying facedown on a froze lake.  above is the portal where you ask AI questions about government services.  the question matching this image is:  "How can I invest in my child's future?"
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
german.duke.edu/news/structu... this looks incredible
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Structure, Sign, and Play in the Age of AI
In October of 1966---60 years ago---Johns Hopkins held a conference that is now widely seen as the hinge point when structuralism gave way to poststructuralism. Jacques Derrida delivered his paper "St...
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/09/2026
Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.
Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Was asked to do a 15 min “reading for data” intro in the junior seminar today & 6 of them were former data & culture students. Made me so happy!
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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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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please don't give the DA reopening the Cornell case any cookies. District Attorney Matthew Van Houten all but called Jane Doe a liar today. He said that in Doe's initial statement, she described "her participation in drug use and sexual conduct as voluntary, conscious, and consensual.” CONSENSUAL
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 28/09/2026
All it took was getting kicked out of the White House press room and suddenly CNN remembers that "lie" is a word.
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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026
Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
How clear is it that Trump's taxpayer funded ads are illegal? I explain why it is 10/10 clear. Senate in passing the law: Ban is designed to stop public funds used for "glorification" of an individual official. GAO: funds can not be used for "self-aggrandizement" nor partisan political purposes.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I say we desperately need a Democratic doctor in the US Senate I mean it.
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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We analyze 550 recipients of four globally prestigious STEM awards… We find that nearly half of U.S. awardees are foreign-born—and that most first arrived as students, postdoctoral researchers…" "These pathways [are] critical to U.S. scientific leadership." Damn right!
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How Global Talent Pathways Shape U.S. STEM Award Achievement | Center for Security and Emerging Technology
Immigrants make up nearly half of U.S. recipients of the world's most prestigious STEM awards, yet little is known about how this talent first arrives in the country. This data brief analyzes 550 reci...
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/09/2026
Effective altruism is closely linked to the Epstein-backed Edge network of big-name scholars/thinkers, many of whom believe their brilliance makes them better than everyone and uniquely capable of saving the world. So it's not surprising to me that these men see women as less than full human beings.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh. My. God.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive"
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I share a version of this with my grad classes each year, but my attribution is Kant via Spivak. 1985. academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026
Abbas Araghchi, the Iranian foreign minister: "In 2015, we had a deal, we remained committed to that deal, it was the US that withdrew with zero justification"
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You’ve likely seen the news: The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. Almost as troubling: Plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision’s importance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This week at Democracy Docket: The Supreme Court boosted Trump’s voter suppression. Legacy media shrugged
The U.S. Supreme Court Friday greenlit a flawed Trump administration database for purging voters from the rolls. And plenty of major news outlets were eager to downplay the decision's importance.
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They sent my client a cease-and-desist letter for this ad in PA's hotly contested 6th Senate District. As I wrote back, "We will neither cease nor desist from engaging in this truthful, accurate speech." Here's the "Data Senator" ad which Republicans don't want Lower Bucks residents to see.
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Data Senator
YouTube video by Eileen Albillar
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Student journalists still believe that it’s more important to hold powerful people to account than it is to hold on to access to those powerful people. They haven’t become Savvy Insiders yet
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump administration considers building baseball park in Grand Teton National Park
Major League Baseball contacted the administration about hosting a game in a national park, with an agency official scouting Grand Teton as a possible location.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“They squeezed the hospital group the same way they squeeze retail companies like the Container Store or Sports Authority,” Martin said, referring to Leonard Green. “So instead of not being able to buy . . knives and forks or a basketball, you have my dead daughter.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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She went to the hospital for a broken ankle. Why did she end up dead?
Dale Alice Martin, 21, was given too many drugs after being admitted to a struggling Connecticut hospital.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“All watched over by machines of loving grace” by Richard Brautigan, written in 1967.
All WATCHED OVER BY MACHWES OF LoViNg GRACE
by Richard Brautigan
I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computors live together in mutually programmatic harmony 
I like to think (right now, please!)
of a cybernetic
forest
filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computors
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms

I like to think! (it'has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labor and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and sisters, 
and all watched over by machines of loving grace.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026
This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/09/2026
amazing -- Karl Rove lists Paxton's scandals: "The corrupt business guy gives him a fake Uber account and the records of that are now in his impeachment proceedings, so we know how often he went to have sex with Laura Olsen. I mean, can you make this shit up?"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Some great help for the grad app season
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So much money to be made by monetizing a calculated break from the Apocalypse Agent company that, much to your surprise, has suddenly shown itself to be less than upstanding 😲
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wild. This should create a Streisand effect, which Dem ranking members can enhance by sending the companies document preservation demands. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I get this instinct, but in the world of AI, philosophy has been privileged for a long time. These aren’t questions with final answers, and we’ve had rigorous conversations about them for thousands of years. I find going to other parts of the humanities and social sciences more practical.
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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
PolicyViz was one of the first podcasts where @kanarinka.bsky.social and I were able to share our work on DATA FEMINISM, so it felt very full-circle to talk with Jon again as I prepare to release DATA BY DESIGN 🎧 Listen here: zencastr.com/z/RUuQCK0I 📺 Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?si=PdI...
Flyer announcing a new episode of the PolicyViz podcast with Lauren Klein and Jon Schwabish, featuring their headshots
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 26/09/2026
12-year-old: Why did humans invent money? Me: It makes trade easier--a hat-maker can get milk even if the milk-maker doesn't need hats 12: Why not give everyone the same amount of money? Me: The idea is to make people work harder 12: But once someone has more, they can just cheat to stay ahead
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reup: A lot of reporting on Sheri Mecklenburg's resignation letter presented a she-said DOJ-said conflict about what she recommended. But BY RESPONDING and making a claim abt what she did say, DOJ waived privilege on the stuff they've been trying to keep secret. emptywheel.net/2026/09/25/a...
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Andrew Boutros' Hot-and-Cold Privilege Claims - emptywheel
In a bid to debunk Sheri Mecklenburg's claims about charging deliberations in the Broadview 6 case, the Chicago US Attorney's Office just waived the privilege that was a core part of their defense.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026
Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.
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Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network @aiainetwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our Associate Director @dezmiller.bsky.social will be speaking! Register today!
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Micah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026
the paramount/warner antitrust suit could have done serious damage to this man’s empire and I will not stop being furious at everyone in california politics who caved on it
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