Today I've read about two different Congresspeople disappearing for over a month. What the hell is going on

We keep finding 19th century newspapers in walls and ceilings and closets during restoration projects and I am having trouble getting permission to throw them out. I am going to ride the photocopier down the stairs

sufficiently large polygons are the domain of lovecraftian horror

Relieved to see that in soliciting graphic design submissions SAA is not allowing AI slop.

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.

Item provenance: was left on archivist’s desk while they were on vacation with only context or information being “for archives :)”

May is real The Body Keeps The Score time for me (I have not read the book and from what I understand the concept in the title is the only thing worth understanding from it) and I had to take a sick day. So now I get to do the thing I actually want to be doing, which is writing

Trying so hard not to turn this article about Mercy Brown into a book oh goodness. I'm not even talking about greater cultural impacts on vampire lore, just having a lot of opinions on nineteenth-cnttury recordkeeping in Rhode Island

Reported an Insta user with the name "i [violent verb] [ethnic group]" and Meta did nothing, and encountering abject evil is such a common experience now that I am not even surprised. I hate this

Over the past couple days I have seen so much casual AI use and I realized I am in an anti-AI bubble with like-minded people but outside that bubble people are very unserious about thinking

So much about just participating in the world right now feels unconscionably evil.

I have to meet with some fancy people today and to quell my anxiety I have basically dressed like I am in the Bene Gesserit

All the instructions I'm seeing for disabling Copilot seem to be incorrect which make me think Microsoft keeps moving it around so people can't turn it off

He took a selfie?? How convenient? This whole event feels like a stage production and I don't want to be all wacky but seeing all these unlikely scenarios pile up is making me feel so unsettled

I'm not on the SHRAB anymore so I missed this, but NHPRC had its budget cut by 50%? fffffff

How are we dealing with colleagues talking about AI in their work without telling them they are idiots, because I am barely keeping it together

They are murdering people

Humbled by the Trader Joe's cashier wishing me a happy Mother's Day

Realized this week I won't be able to get to Fringe this year because flights are so expensive. I was in a very privileged position to be able to go for a few years and I hope I can get back to my beloved city soon. (permanently, please, just take me in)

starting training courses for people who want to be sin eaters, a completely ai-proof career

Nothing sets me off quite like people my age who went to Ivies but who can't do anything on a computer. None of this is new.

idk how much longer I can keep this up, guys. I haven't felt this way about work since the last job at the university

the thing I forgot to add, in case you don't know me and couldn't tell from my extreme spinster energy, is that I am not, have never been, and never will be married

the new definition of "fiddly" is the experience of getting negatives into a scanning holder when each frame has been individually cut off the strip

someone just called me "mrs." in a letter and I am surprised at the intensity of my reaction

taking a moment to imagine how much easier heritage jobs would be if not for the absolutely insane politics of dealing with donors

Our ancestors were not executed for witchcraft so that tech companies can turn the concept of familiars into a commodity

the unique feeling of reading someone's edits on your writing that you have to accept because they outrank you, but they are also not as good a writer as you are

Very cool set of visualizations here of station passenger flows in Great Britain. github.com/anisotropi4/...

I am besotted with a collection of letters I found early on in this job between a merchant named George living temporarily in New Orleans & his friend, a woman named Frank, in NY in the 1850s. I really should use SAA travel to get into some archives down there so I can write about these people

hmm I wonder what happened to the gaylord website, which has been down since at least yesterday

Because I have too many enormous things to be mad about, I need to fixate on a small thing: if you are talking about nice paper and envelopes, it's stationEry not stationAry. I have seen this in our museum database countless times and I am losing it

Battlestar Galactica: "Daybreak, Part 3" (2009)

Also, see:

Rolling into work ten minutes late with the largest iced coffee I can buy and blasting the Nine Inch Noize set is both indicative of some problems with my mental health and also kind of a vibe

It remains one of the great bummers of human history that the people who most desire power and occupy its positions tend to be the people who should least be allowed to do so.

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

I'm reading the Polar Horrors volume of the British Library Tales of the Weird series on the train and have already been promised a polar bear named Nancy in an upcoming story

Something I think about more than the average person is KNEECAP using the BBC initerstitial tone as the opening beat on "Get Your Brits Out"

Working on planning my SAA trip this week and if anybody sees me in New Orleans in July just know that I *will* be complaining about the humidity

ANALYSIS: son of a bitch

Grant proposals really leave no room for the messiness of life or archival collections.

Am going to need to have a Conversation with my boss about a coworker overstepping and I want to walk into the sea

I got a warning for going 31 in a 20 (which yes, OK, too fast but it was not during school hours) but every day I see the wildest and most reckless driving and I think the police might need to shift their priorities

what if I just stop responding to email

I told Ellie I saw a lot of birds on my trip yesterday

Losing it at Military Top Secret Ballroom, which sounds like something Venture Bros would rework as sounding too stupid

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Independent Bookstore Day at the Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, VT