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

It took me about three months to get here but... Here's a 🪶 for (nearly) every species of bird, with colors extracted from wikipedia descriptions. 10,151 species. #dataviz #birds #data

great ideas here: "a digital sanctuary city against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), protecting workers, ensuring fair prices and access, and building public technology infrastructure...a model for how a local government can orient technology toward collective care, dignity, and justice"

Libraries matter. Access matters. After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember. @arstechnica.com tells the story: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

As LLMs manufacture a form of scholarship, presentation doesn’t mean what it used to. D&S's Ranjit Singh looks at how this threatens the open-access research repository arXiv, how its founder is fighting to sustain its credibility, & what researchers can do to help. datasociety.net/points/on-ar...

Trump is now attempting to fire the head of the U.S. Copyright Office in retaliation for a report that suggested some copyrighted works used to train generative AI models would likely require licensing. action.everylibrary.org/locpetition via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Lest we forget: "This human-created knowledge is what AI companies rely on to generate content; even Grokipedia needs Wikipedia to exist."

And hey, go follow @datarescueproject.org while you're at it!!

Woah...not surprising that Wikimedians were able to neutralize the gunman with such efficiency and grace: “I ducked down, but I still kept moving” said Mr. Lih, a digital strategist who works with museums and libraries…”I pried his fingers away from it, removed it from his hands and put it down.”

We are honored to receive an NDSA Digital Preservation Excellence award. In accepting the award, @lyndamk.bsky.social expressed how this work is only possible due to our volunteers who "have spent countless hours working to ensure that public data remains a public good that is publicly accessible."

U-M Workshop Explores Generative AI in Social Science Research, Calls for Clearer Guidelines: myumi.ch/2rgeJ #ResearchDataEcosystem #GenerativeAI #SocialScience

I had the opportunity to see a pre-screening of this a couple months ago and it is excellent, if heartbreaking. It’s showing soon for a couple weeks at Film Forum in NYC and other places across the nation…great way to honor #BannedBooksWeek @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

I wonder how much if this is a consequence of paywalling science… pulling papers from z library or whatever means sacrificing metadata.

Harvard's new AI over semantic search tool is now available to use in beta: library.harvard.edu/about/news/2.... I'm curious as to what the advantage here is beyond being able to respond to natural language queries, especially considering it "may make mistakes"

It's time for #ClimateWeekNYC! On Thursday Sept 25 @ 3:30 pm, we’re co-hosting an in-person panel with @nrginstitute.bsky.social exploring how AI technologies may reinforce legacies of unjust natural resource exploitation. Space is limited; reserve your spot! resourcegovernance.org/events/ai-an...

Spent some time today playing tourist in my hometown to fill in some remaining gaps for #saveoursigns. Independence Park in Philly is receiving particular scrutiny for whitewashing history in preparation for the 250 year USA birthday celebrations next year

If you're on #LinkedIn, this is the link for declining their use of your data for training their AI models: www.linkedin.com/mypreference...