At a time when governments are willfully failing to preserve all their records, librarians and activists are using archival work to do more than document history. Guerrilla archives—whether digital or analog—are generally nonpartisan acts of preservation to serve the public good.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but app.radiooooo.com is probably one of the best things on the internet...tracks dripping in nostalgia, curated by actual humans, no algorithms. Taste is an interesting thing that...at least for now...still needs us

Had a great time in SF recently speaking @archive.org, meeting many folks that @datarescueproject.org has been working with. One outcome is this pledge committing to preserve and expand access to US government data and research. Please read, sign, share, and take action! publicinformationtrust.org

“Data is not enough” from OEDP’s Fieldnotes on AI Data & Tech Lead Cathy Richards focuses on the opportunity cost of the “lack of time to process information” refrain. ⚙️ 🔗Read/Listen to more here: open.substack.com/pub/openenvi... #Data #OpenData #AI #EnvironmentalData #EnvironmentalJustice

Is anyone really surprised that Claude code is a mess? Hilarious that Anthropic is issuing copyright takedown requests...

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

It’s important to remember that narcissism is in the DSM 5 and can be devastatingly detrimental to those affected…NOT some kind of innocuous productivity hack. Klein’s invocation of McLuhan ("we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us") re: AI sycophancy here is worth thinking about

Interesting thoughts here re: restricting AI/scraper access to archives/libraries conflicting with open knowledge/anti-surveillance ethos: "The remedy for misuse...lies downstream — in law, in professional norms, in community accountability — not in restricting access beforehand just in case."

New post: What's next for HIFLD? This is an exciting development for the data rescue community. Our partners at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social and Fulton Ring have used our rescued data to create HIFLD Next! The creators invite feedback! www.datarescueproject.org/hifld-next/

hrm...I don't think independence for arXiv necessarily=enshittification but I do wonder what the impetus for this is. Will be interesting to see how it plays out...hiring a library-world person for this role would be a good sign, but the size of that salary will definitely attract other types

Appreciating the call here for coordination as "essential to prevent duplication, ensure consistency, and close the widening gap between well–resourced and under–resourced organisations."🙌 zenodo.org/records/1893...

Reading over these rationales it becomes really clear how reckless, arbitrary yet totally hate driven the cancelling of these grants has been. The fact that ChatGPT was employed to do so is especially worrisome alongside OpenAI's recent defense/weaponry contracts

New report from UCLA Williams Institute School of Law: "Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections, January 2025 to January 2026" More: https://myumi.ch/jJ8Qg

"How can librarians fulfill their professional and ethical obligation to defend intellectual freedom in the face of threats to their reputations, their jobs, and even their physical safety?"

Great resource for anyone engaged or interested in US AI policy and governance from @geomblog.bsky.social and his team www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

Friendly reminder that opposing both the oppressiveness of authoritarian regimes and this reckless war is not a contradiction on any front. Peace and safety to friends, family, and all living things in the Middle East🕊️ (video of a happy young goat at sunrise Jebel Shams, Oman from a recent visit)

For this week's #MemeMonday, don't be like Aragorn! If you're able to, please consider publishing your data in a reputable repository. We here at DRP deposit our rescued data in #DataLumos from @icpsr.bsky.social

"The “censorships” that the site purports to counter are not internet shutdowns or broad restrictions on content such as those in place in China and Iran, but European restrictions on hate speech and illegal content such as those in the Digital Services Act, or the UK’s Online Safety Act."

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. As stated in the…

In good news this week! ...hopefully these can be restored by summertime

"​In a time when historical information is actively being deleted, disappeared, or obfuscated, and competing visions of nationhood and citizenship are put forward, how do we critically engage with the archive as a contested site?"

The extractive nature of LLMs can be seen in their exploitation of not only open content, but also in their damage to open infrastructures.

Awful Ai Books is a new blog by a librarian, including helpful tips on how to spot them: "This Awful Ai Book is actually trying to kill you" awfulaibooks.wordpress.com

🙌 "Every day, millions of Americans rely on federal data—often without realizing it...Data for the People! is a new podcast from the Data Foundation that shines a light on this essential but often overlooked infrastructure."

I'm starting to see chatter around the new Wikimedia Enterprise deal that basically amounts to "AI bad=Wikimedia platforms bad now," so this point bears repeating...that this isn't about capitulation but the necessary steps to maintain the integrity of the infrastructure and demand attribution

Potentially good use case, but would like to see some more qualitative analysis. Even if there is just a small percentage of error, if those are conceptually or semantically egregious and the whole corpus still needs to be checked and corrected by humans, what really is the efficiency achieved here?

huge loss of a real one here😔 I was just last week re-reading her brilliant piece on "vocational awe"...something I find myself coming back to again and again: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...

On the weaponization of personal data: "If combined with the facial recognition and social media monitoring commonly deployed by the Department of Homeland Security, those reams of data would turbocharge ICE’s terror campaign in the short term and destroy American civil liberties in the long term."

Hello #DataRescuers! We're excited to start this AMA. We'll be answering questions over the next 2 hours. Please feel free to like, respond, or reskeet as we go.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

loving the creativity and humor of Philly resistance here🔥

Props to the developers behind ICE Map, cataloguing all known ICE incidents www.icemap.dev

💯 "Movements don’t usually collapse because the enemy is too strong, but because we refuse to confront the internal habits that make us undisciplined, incoherent, and easy to defeat."

As Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections: www.science.org/cont...

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots

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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

We are honored to be included in this incredible group in @thenation.com Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much! 🫶🛟

How frustrating...really hoping they are able to find an alternative location/host (or just simply move it all online). Changing the terms of the scholarship really should not be under discussion imho...but it seems to be unfortunately

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

You: cleaning all the AI "metddata" as a human-in-the-loop ghost😭

And (importantly) the library won't conduct surveillance/retain data on your browsing and reading activities...

Thanks to Jill Lepore and @newyorker.com for the mention of #SaveOurSigns but we are more than a hashtag. We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org #A250

Home maintenance hell this week…heat and running water are luxuries not to be take for granted. Now, my obsession is trying to understand why there is so little gender diversity in the trades. Not that it would be a panacea, but if an outlier here showed up at my door, I would be elated...

The bill to reopen the gov will enable the crucial work of the Library of Congress to continue, but we still need to secure funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as the National Archives. www.everylibrary.org/2026_minibus via @everylibrary.bsky.social

laughing and crying at the same time🫠

Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres

ooooh, cozy home library pron😍...suddenly feeling better about all the random stacks of books I have scattered throughout my house #libraries