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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.

🧵1/ I’m releasing my documentary “A Visit to a Homeless Shelter for Transgender Ugandans” in 5 parts. In Part 1, we begin in Kampala’s “7 hills” to show how far from industry trans ugandans are living—as they try to avoid eviction. (To support them: gofundme.com/minorityshelters)

This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships: > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including […]

British Library workers withdraw their labour again! Mon 8th to Sun 14th! Improved offers (“we have no money”) are inadequate! Fair demands for fair(er) pay are reiterated! Please support the strike! Cancel / postpone! Visit the picket (in Midland Road)! If you are a Reader please join for a chat!

Today I will try to raise some funds for places and initiatives I support and that need continual support. It was my birthday on Tuesday but I was traveling all day. I’ll add to the list throughout the day.

Thinking of my New School friends whose programs have been closed (~30 of them), whose PhD programs have been indefinitely halted, and who are now receiving invitations to resign + accept severance payments — with the threat of 🪓 if not enough folks take the offer. A ✨-if-imperfect place ruined 😥

great piece about the Lima Elementary School journalists who are ensuring their perspective on the Providence Public Schools is out there www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Statement of Agency’s Reinstatement of Terminated IMLS Grants 📚 www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

and it's not just about the money and benefits (though it would be fine for objections to be ENTIRELY about that)--when I teach intro as an adjunct, I don't get to be confident that these students I am showing off my discipline to will ever see me again for more fun.

The edited vol. _When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day_ is now open access (=free) at OUP. The ancient Athens chapter is followed by one on 19thC American secession. I do love a comparative study even if its is depressingly relevant

1.5 million bags of shredded cheese are under recall, including those you might've bought at HEB, Aldi, Walmart....more.... www.eatingwell.com/walmart-aldi...

Support the Black Zine Fair and its participants gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... Pro-tip: get your institution to co-sponsor. 📚📜

Due to the continued inclement weather, both Du Bois & SEL will close at 7 p.m. this evening, 12/2/2025. We encourage you to plan your visits accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience this early closure may cause and appreciate your understanding as we prioritize the safety of our community.

New review finds no evidence to support delaying universal hepatitis B birth-dose vaccination Analysis of over 400 studies ahead of ACIP mtg reveals no evidence that delaying the universal hepatitis B vaccine birth dose improves safety or effectiveness www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

Greenfield Community College will start a free Early Childhood Education Apprenticeship Program in January 2026. In 19 weeks, participants can earn while they learn and work toward EEC Teacher Level Certification. #WesternMass

Discover the cultural and historical richness of Central Javanese music at the Smith College #Gamelan Fall Concert in Northampton on Wed. (12/3). See how music preserves history and offers a window into Java's identity, values, and community life at this free concert. #WesternMass #SmithCollege

British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won Oscar for ‘Shakespeare in Love,’ dead at 88 www.cnn.com/2025/11/29/s...

object lessons about the disjunction between intellectual life and academic institutions are all around us.

As #WorldAIDSDay comes around again (01 Dec 2025 is the 37th year of commemoration), a reminder of what #PublicHealth is, what is has been capable of, & (maybe?) some inspiration for how we might newly envision its future.

My film on the largest organized resistance to wartime incarceration is now on a streaming platform. "Conscience and the Constitution" premiered 25 years ago on PBS. You can now watch it on the Nichi Bei Foundation's Films of Remembrance On Demand service. More: resisters.com/2025/11/30/f...

University of Iowa Center for the Book fosters annual kozo tree harvest for Japanese-style paper 📜 www.thegazette.com/news/univers...

I'll add a concern here that we are now seeing transcription of public meetings used for the creation of both 'news' and minutes www.axios.com/2025/11/22/a...

Don't turn away from the suffering civilians in Gaza. They are living in hell and we’re their only voice and means of survival. Please give to my friend Tasneem so she so she can feed her children and raise funds to rebuild. And find and give to others, if you can. ❤️ chuffed.org/project/1587...

New Absolute Units is live! Listen to part 2 of our conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social. We discuss the history of land access and capitalism, the ramifications of enclosure on Britain's former colonies, and the necessary work of de-enclosure today. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

Reposting with key context: Experimental mRNA flu vaccine shows superior efficacy against symptomatic illness The vaccine was fully protective in a small human challenge model, showing superior efficacy to the conventional 4-strain flu vaccine www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

Coming this week(?), a 20-page zine w/Rad Measurement Fact/history mini-essays by @shane.logoff.website + Absolute Unit letterpress eye candy collected by me.

Local journalism was already nearly dead Apparently the owners want to dig the grave themselves www.telegram.com/story/news/n...

To be clear (since NPR isn't), the "joke" is premised on the fact that Trump is kidnapping people w/o due process and shipping them to offshore concentration slave camps in defiance of court orders, human rights accordances, the U.S. constitution, all tenets of common decency, and international law.

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Join the Libraries for a special lecture by visiting scholar Heitor Guimarães, "Dark Labor in the Amazon: a Du Boisian Analysis of Modern Slavery Under Volkswagen in Brazil (1974-1986)," Thursday, December 4, noon-1 p.m., in the Du Bois Library, Du Bois Center. RSVP: bit.ly/guimaraes25

I can only hope that the reason "librarian" is not on this list is b/c they are afraid of us. As they should be. Solidarity with everyone who does the professional work on this list. An injury to one is an injury to all and we will fight for you ✊ (repost from before where I left off the word NOT)

Very Extra broadsides are my favorite letterpress genre to make. You can tell this one isn't done yet from there still being significant white space. (Uses my recent acrylic PC & wood skeleton lasercut blocks, which both came out well, as well as my wood Luddite lasercut block) #DHmakes

Passing on the message from Instagram as approved by Alice Wong’s family and posted by Sandy Ho. About Alice’s Celebration of Life:

Today is the annual Trans Day of Remembrance, keeping alive the memory of folks hate killed. @thetransfemininereview.com's guide to preserve our work+history has ways all can fight literal erasure (esp. this section on practical steps you can take, eg request yr library buy books by trans authors)

A radio interview with WAMU about my introduction to the new reissue of Toni Morrison’s BELOVED. (I was very nervous.) www.wamc.org/podcast/the-...

Every year I get submissions for the @contingent-mag.bsky.social book and journal article lists that don’t really fit. But now, you can send your amazing 2025 public scholarship here!

For those who missed it, I'm crowdfunding for the revised edition of this handbook of mine. We've reached the funding goal but there are still rewards and add-ons to be had... #bookarts

Today is #TransDayOfRemembrance. Trans people and their human rights are under attack around the globe. The Vagina Museum stands defiant against these attacks. We are a proudly trans inclusive space, even as discourse grows ever more toxic.

The publication date for my book on the history of policing American slavery has been moved up a month! Now available May 12, 2026! Thanks so much to those who have preordered! The Press is offering 30% off with the code, 01UNCP30 uncpress.org/978146969484...

Everyone working on this is morally bankrupt

Thank you, student journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social

If you have a copy near you, please send us information about it! We want to proliferate copy-specific data and you can tell us more about provenance, marginalia, bindings, and other copy-level data! Please share that and photos here: blog.wheatleycensus.org/2025/11/08/h...

I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...

Well, it's official. Second printing of "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is sold out. Next printing in Jan! Will post will sales or live, or sign up here: www.wehere.space/we-here-pres...

do AI adopters in libraries understand that refusing/protesting a system is diff. than blaming individuals affected by a system? when they claim refusal of AI is “not helpful,” what i hear is that they aren’t making a connection between their labor as information workers to data workers in Kenya

The Trump Administration is abandoning plans for the biggest-ever cut to Social Security Disability Insurance, which would have hit older workers hardest. The rule would have devastated up to 1.5 million workers' financial stability, retirement security & access to health care. wapo.st/4o48J24

I’ll be there!

Here’s a thread close reading the interview with Amazon Ring’s CEO from this week.