omg, nailed

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

Was having a convo with @bachynski.bsky.social & we decided that it's of upmost importance to start gathering the oral histories of those who lived through the time before polio vaccines, measles vaccines, etc. They can provide important perspectives and they will not be with us for too much longer

Just about everything I love about #genealogy can be found in this article. The world needs more people like John Mills! www.courant.com/2026/02/10/c...

David Bowie “It’s Gonna Be Me (With Strings)

Feb 10 (V) – Chronicling America for Historical Research hosted by Library of Congress (Free) For details & registration, see www.loc.gov/item/event-4... #genealogy #familyhistory

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

One of my favorite tributes to Catherine O’Hara. I learned about SCTV from my cooler classmates in high school.

Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy. We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

Oh, one more thing: if you're reading this, and you have archives and family records dating from enslavement that you know Black Americans (and/or Black America as a whole) would benefit from having, you have a moral and ethical obligation to share them... and deep down, you know it.

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

Like your local historical or genealogical society!

Bluesky New York actors! Do you want to participate in a reading on Monday, between Zohran Mamdani's new office and the Brooklyn Bridge, of scripts by some amazing, talented students? Yeah you do. It's Monday, 12-15, 5 pm. Contact me here, or [email protected]. Please spread the good word!

The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History - www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Px...

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

Reminder that we aren't shopping today through Dec 5. If you forget, here's a little tune to help you remember. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/

I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥

this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness

Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...

Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go: president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Check out this amazing bird we made (I work on it's silicone feet a lot and was on a lot of the car/road shots): youtu.be/3HQ-HrwIgOc?...

#Genealogy #FamilyHistory The clock is ticking! Thanks to @reclaimtherecords.org for posting sample letters to use in appealing the unwarranted denials by US Vet Affairs sent in response to FOIA requests for US military veterans' records. My take: climbingmyfamilytree.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

✊ Always Appeal! ✊ Did the VA refuse to send you a full copy of a C-File (claims file) that you requested under #FOIA for a deceased veteran? Well, we now have some attorney-approved sample texts you can use to fight back! Check out BIRLS.org/appeals for the latest!

An ongoing phishing campaign is targeting LastPass and Bitwarden users with fake emails claiming that the companies were hacked, urging them to download a supposedly more secure desktop version of the password manager.

Applications for NNI's Fulbright Grant for Dutch PhD students are due on November 1: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/res.... Please share widely. We welcome applications from a variety of disciplines as long as they relate to the Dutch in New Netherland and Colonial New York.

Final day to catch this recording for free #Genealogy #Webinar

It me. I am that relative.

Tech bros say "AI is here to stay" but that doesn't mean anything! Bronze spears are here to stay! Asbestos is here to stay! Ethan makes a great distinction: AI as a technology *has already failed*. AI lives on as a social purity test that will fade away as soon as those enforcing it blink.

Earlier this year, we received a mysterious package with no return address. Its contents were a brick and this note: "My husband took this from the crypt. We have had a string of bad luck and we want to return the brick." Read the full story! www.boston.com/travel/trave...

The most pervasively destructive and enraging aspect of our modern political media is that it clearly considers informing its audience to be a much lower priority than telling its audience what they're supposed to think

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

RIP graphical user interfaces, 1968–2022. Gone but not forgotten 🙏❤️✝️

Sometimes I consider getting a YouTube subscription and then I see something like this. Guess AI is saving me money after all?

Good job! americabydesign.fail

PUT 👏🏻 JEWISH 👏🏻 HOLIDAYS 👏🏻 IN 👏🏻 YOUR 👏🏻 CALENDARS The head of my org is Jewish. I have the Jewish holidays calendar on my work calendar so I don't schedule meetings during important holidays! I don't want him to have to do that calculus!

In December, RTR launched BIRLS.org along with a very easy way to make FOIA requests for deceased veterans' claim files. As of late July, the VA will no longer release these great files, only short summaries. See www.birls.org/updates - RTR is working on learning more & fighting these changes.

My favorite evergreen Molly Ivins quote: "I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves up in the flag."

In recognition of James Dobson's all too delayed death, we republished an account of his legacy -- a three part series about evangelical child abuse, a culture Dobson disseminated and propagandized. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

As a New Yorker, I think he may be confusing "war" with "apartment."

immensely grateful to @jasonkirk.fyi for throwing this piece together on what Dobson's death means for many of us strong-willed children. sojo.net/articles/opi...

Brings back childhood memories. My Houston grandparents survived before AC by sleeping on screened in porches.

A new, HUGE reason nobody who does genealogy should be putting ANYTHING CLOSE to sensitive information into LLMs. Holy liability, Batman. #genealogy