Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Data silos + rigid authority control = invisible stories. We document one practical response by using @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social at the Smithsonian #JOHD #GLAM #DigitalHumanities 🔗 doi.org/10.5334/johd...

It’s me! See the presentation here docs.google.com/presentation...

It’s called therapeutic lying to in dementia care circles

Don’t like the idea of poor people eating? Just think of SNAP as handouts to big ag and supermarket conglomerates! That’ll make your cold dead heart warm a little, right?

Hope everyone is doing ok! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

"Authoritarian leaders topple democracy faster than you can imagine. If you wait to speak out against them, you have already lost."

“The use cases for artificial intelligence across every domain of work and life have started to get silly really fast,” our columnist @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes. “Most of us aren’t using A.I. to save lives faster and better. We are using A.I. to make mediocre improvements.”

Today, we're releasing our folio and retrospective on Wilhelm Reich, featured in Issue 05: Economies. The folio's brilliant intro—"Too Communist, Too Freudian—was written by @hzeavin.bsky.social www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/too...

Has anyone checked if members of Congress have invested in iron lungs?

Has anyone checked if members of Congress have invested in Xanax recently?

they are stealing data from the american people and depriving us of the transparency that we are entitled to by law. none of this is legal and not a single federal employee has any reason to comply.

The crash in DC highlights the dangers of a push for efficiency-by-austerity, because it shows that much of what gets misperceived as government "inefficiency" is just the result of chronic underinvestment and neglect.

Apropros of nothing, I’m reupping my @theemancipator.org article arguing that the so-called “anti-DEI movement” is a segregationist movement, and journalists should state this clearly. There is no need to help evil by adopting their language. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

In the coming media hellstorm of disinfo and bad takes, at least I will find succor in this

My mother told me to only speak good of the dead. She’s dead. Good. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-n...

You can read more about it on a blogpost on the PDR site: publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/01... Or just dive straight into the PDIA: pdimagearchive.org And follow on BlueSky here: @pdimagearchive.bsky.social

What is the impact factor for? (fm "Replication Crisis", John Whitfield @londonreview.bsky.social 2021) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I wish this were not so obvious and there were some way to counter it. getpocket.com/explore/item...

Just gave $30 even though I already donate monthly ;)

Another wild one. Mass resignation after Elsevier implemented AI that introduced errors after acceptance, stripped out capitalization of cities, removed italics of genera, etc. H/t @jo.nny.rip retractionwatch.com/2024/12/27/e...

If you're thinking of spending $40K on an MFA, just read "What We Talk About When We Talk About Tariffs" instead (via @mcsweeneys.net). Should provide all you need. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wha...

"The Quilt Index is an open access, digital repository of thousands of images, stories and information about quilts and their makers drawn from hundreds of public and private collections around the world." (via The Syllabus Project) quiltindex.org

If you have’t seen it yet, I’m working with @rfrank.bsky.social as co-editor of “Digital Preservation: A Critical Vocabulary” for @mitpress.bsky.social. You can read and comment on all the draft chapters on PubPub -> digital-preservation-a-critical-vocabulary.pubpub.org

'I must say that in libraries the paid databases are viewed more and more critically. The question is now: what are the essential use cases for which you really need Scopus or Web of Science?' Jeroen Bosman on the benefits of OpenAlex. www.uu.nl/en/backgroun...

My sympathies in advance to my colleagues who work in land grants & larger Federal Depository Libraries, as #LibraryLand sees yet another purge of formerly free & accessible data, & the agencies responsible for collecting & disseminating that data are rendered minimally functional. 📚

EXCLUSIVE: NBC News has the first interview with Vivian Jenna Wilson, the trans daughter of Elon Musk. She says he was an absent father who berated her as a child for being queer. But she says she won’t let his latest comments go unchallenged. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

When you realize both your glasses and your Excel report metadata template are #brat