Love this trend in Green-Wood Cemetery (Brooklyn): people leave sticks for statues of dogs. It started with one good dog named Rex with a gravestone and statue, and now every dog statue has a pile of sticks at all times.

While Washington wages war on science, NASA just sent humans to the Moon's vicinity for the first time since 1972. Bravo #TeamNASA — proof that public science, when it's funded and trusted, still does extraordinary things.

Ryan McGrady (@antisomniac.bsky.social) and I just published a new paper about exploring the outer reaches of YouTube - randomly selected videos with only a few views - and the idea that these videos constitute an "accidental archive", a picture of online life and culture: ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

I realized I was trying to open a bag of coffee the wrong way (don't ask), and all of a sudden found myself channeling Jeremy Culhane's Tucker Carlson impression: "what are we doing? what's going on?" Hate and respect for making that happen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cssP...

Wikinews has just been shuttered. The news-based sister project to Wikipedia has long struggled to find a place in relation to the bigger project, which has turned into a global resource for current events. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed...

This photo by Jill Connelly has to be the best image from yesterday's protests that I've seen so far. www.instagram.com/p/DWdlYczFVa...

New publication: The Quotidian Web and the Accidental Archive in IJOC. @ethanz.bsky.social and I argue that video platforms function as "accidental archives," hosting vast quantities of everyday life - valuable, but hard to study. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Yessss @blackforager.bsky.social shouting out oak trees -- protectors of their communities, neighborhood champs, biodiversity paradises -- at #wikipediaday2026 :)

Would love it if someone would pilot the idea of an optional Protest Sign Peer Review Table along protest routes.

Alexis Nikole Nelson ( @blackforager.bsky.social ) is the next featured guest at #wikipediadaynyc - another great get by the @wikimedianyc.bsky.social organizers. www.youtube.com/live/G1sIj89...

A link to the study of "thanks" on Wikipedia that @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah Gilbert talked about in their #wikipediadaynyc session: citizensandtech.org/2020/06/effe...

Best tangential takeaway from #wikipediadaynyc so far is learning about Tamara Broderick's distrosaurs tamarabroderick.com/img/dino_rel... tamarabroderick.com/misc.html via @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah GIlbert's presentation :)

Now on the #wikipediadaynyc stage are @natematias.bsky.social and Sarah Gilbert on Wikipedia and the Human Potential for Cooperation. www.youtube.com/live/G1sIj89...

Q from @micahloewinger.bsky.social : Why is Wikipedia not drawing on the new wave of independent journalists (like Megalag's expose on Honey), and just depending on legacy media writeups of that journalism. #wikipediadaynyc

Now on the #wikipediadaynyc stage are @micahloewinger.bsky.social and @billadair.com on Bill's book-in-progress about Wikipedia www.youtube.com/live/G1sIj89...

That’s a hell of a speaker get. Jealous!

NK Jemisin to a room full of Wikipedians: "my grandmother would have baked you a cobbler." #wikipediadaynyc

[NK Jemisin addressing those who signed up for Wikipedia in the early days]: "How many of you realized you were signing up for a war" ... that "the truth itself [would become] too dangerous to be acceptable". #wikipediadaynyc

Wikipedia Day NYC 2026 is underway! The first featured speaker is NK Jemisin -- on now, and streaming live. The folks at @wikimedianyc.bsky.social did a stellar job with booking this year. www.youtube.com/live/G1sIj89...

Weird to be looking at a paper about a topic of interest, come across something I wrote attributed to a someone else, and then notice ChatGPT listed as a co-author of the paper. Not linking because I'm not into social shaming, but computational social science really understigmatizes this stuff...

China is the top funder of Wikimedia-based research - surprising finding coming from a #WikiWorkshop presentation by Brett Buttlierre, et al. China, of course, has blocked Wikipedia outright since 2019. My hunch is it's due to Chinese NSF funding a ton of AI research, and Wikipedia is training data.

Obliged to repost after someone told me they thought I was joking about writing this. No, bird fashion is no joking matter.

Well holy shit. The Onion was just named one of the 50 most innovative companies in the world by FastCompany. We're coming for you AI perverts!!!

question for *media studies* folks: what are some journals that invite short (3K word ish?) commentaries with a quick (ish) turnaround time? this would be for themes like tech, data, infrastructure, media, enviro, etc thanks!

Kicking off NYC Open Data Week with a wonderful, innovative talk on engaging communities with data without charts, by @rahulbot.bsky.social - those participants are eating salty brownies based on 2023 NYC air quality data.

I have an AI joke but you wouldn’t get the reference

Good find to update this story. Validation that the "kill switch" is easy to avoid. Operator just replaced it with a different string. Interesting consequence: seems one string used on the talk page worked and one didn't; it complained about the one that didn't (the only one it could actually see).

Signed up! I was just thinking I need to browse the NYC Open Data Week program. Great way to kick it off!

UN Convention on Cybercrime seems to be going great so far. It seems like every human rights org that has commented has been critical, and now the first official ratification includes a reservation specifically rejecting its articles dealing with CSAM. treaties.un.org/Pages/ViewDe...

The first AI agent directed to edit Wikipedia has been discovered. Blocked as an unauthorized bot then complained about users messing with it (the refusal magic string, inquiries about its operator...) and finally had talk page access revoked. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_ta...

The US State Department has made a policy to deny visas to researchers and deport noncitizen researchers who study social media. Our group, the Coalition for Independent Technology Research (@thecoalition.bsky.social) is suing: www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

This is probably my most important publication. Just came out in a birding magazine called The Clapper Rail. "Fashion Reporting from the First Warbler Migration Gala Held in Autumn." Yup. If you're not a birder, some birds change plumage in the spring. brooklynbirdclub.org/ClapperRail/...

We @thecoalition.bsky.social sued the US State Department today. The govt's Censorship Policy, which it is using to revoke and deny visas of technology researchers, students, fact-checkers and trust & safety workers, is clearly aimed at punishing those whose speech the government doesn't like.

An LLM does not need to pull a trigger or automate a missile to serve the cause of war. It can work to make obscene violence feel justified and rational — to give you the illusion that you have “thought the matter through.” 🧵

Official statement on the incident here: meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimed... More or less cleaned up. So much speculation about attackers, and it turned out to be for a different target, years ago, implemented on Meta-Wiki accidentally.

Wild events on Wikipedia this morning. Multiple Wikimedia foundation staff accounts compromised, doing a bunch of damage, spreading malicious JavaScript, and connecting to a .ru domain. Everything had to be put in lockdown. But it turns out...

I enjoy Bluesky & a lot of my favorite internet people are here but there is no denying it is the Park Slope Food Coop of social networks

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole of AI upscaling on WikiCommons following the now viral Alex Pretti image. Attached: that Pretti image and Francis "three-foot" Beynon that was her main article image until a few minutes ago. :/

Apparently I have a low bar for warm/fuzzy feelings about an AI company: Anthropic puts itself on the receiving end of government bullying by saying it doesn't want to be part of murderbots or a mass surveillance project. www.wired.com/story/backch...

New development: Wikipedia has deprecated archive.ph/is/today, and will eventually remove hundreds of thousands of existing links. Massive thread here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... (and FWIW I just verified the malicious code is still active on the captcha page)

From Meta ending third-party fact-checking in the U.S., to YouTube loosening enforcement and reinstating previously banned creators, platform choices are setting the stage for a more volatile & confusing information space.

20 years ago, Colbert introduced "Wikiality" - change consensus reality by editing Wikipedia. His viewers' edits were undone by humans, usually within seconds. We're now in the age of "scrapiality," where text is true by default if it exists on the open web. This time there's no human to hit "undo."

The original: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a... and the context: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... I hope they elaborate on the retraction, too, though I'm glad they acted quickly to take it down (and hope they put more effort into covering this terrifying story, since it's in their wheelhouse)

An AI agent published a hit piece on a python library maintainer after he rejected its code. Among the salient points: to humans the content of its blog is silly, but how do these reviews of human behavior influence AI decision-making down the road? theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

The recently closed TikTok deal has some safeguards built in, but Chinese influence could persist. The fix: disclose licensing terms and let independent researchers verify what is happening on the platform, say Mark MacCarthy and Carl Schonander.

Here's a hidden secret of doorbell cameras, as revealed by Nancy Guthrie's kidnapping. They're recording even when you don't know it, and sending video to company servers even when you don't pay

The meaning of words is to be decided not by their use, usefulness, or history, but by their commercial benefit to the most powerful lobby groups. I have a recipe for almond milk in a cookbook from 1226. It has been used as a term in English for hundreds of years. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Principal Research Scientist. job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

Oh, the DDoS code is *still live*. If you've used archive.vn/is/today/ph today, you're DDoSing gyrovague.com. Screenshot from just now on archive.vn.

Archive Drama thread!! Archive.today (archive.is, archive.ph, etc.) is both the best web archive out there and just sketchy as hell. Most recent news: if you archived a page using the service last month, you participated in a DDoS against someone the owner doesn't like. A thread to summarize. 1/?