Thank you, @bcmerchant.bsky.social! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete...

Excited to have a chapter in this, co-written with the ever-amazing @chelseagunn.bsky.social

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Twenty years after I started college @carleton.edu I got to spend part of my 38th birthday enjoying the Arb, ~800 acres adjacent to campus. Even though I ran in the arb almost every day as a student, I still took it for granted! What a remarkable place 🍂

So grateful to the organizers and presenters @civicsoftech.bsky.social for "Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems." Learning so much from Lee Skallerup Bessette and her class coursesites.georgetown.domains/writ-1150-16... (reminding me that I wrote a speech about the pencil as an 8-year-old?)

OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals. Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet? 📚 www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbc4...

Are you a current or former federal employee and/or contractor affected by the rapid changes that have occurred since Jan 2025? Tell your story: www.fecohp.org

Excited to read this! themaintainers.org/study-guide/

Forget innovation. This morning at Digital IDEAS Day 3, Shannon Mattern reminded us that maintenance is radical. We talked about care as a method, refusal as a practice, and the politics of keeping things running. #DigitalIDEAS #FeministInfrastructures

So relieved to see that Mellon will be providing emergency relief funding the US’s state and jurisdictional humanities councils. If I learned one thing during my years at NEH, it was how crucial these organizations are to our public humanities infrastructure. www.mellon.org/news/america...

Yes I embroidered angry eyebrows on a bunch of penguins and armed them with bullions and practiced some bullion lettering in support of NEH. Such are the times. #HandsOff #DHmakes

"This latest action is many times worse. It is multiplying the unilateral attack on workers at a single agency across the entire federal government... My brothers and sisters, this is war. Republicans don’t want unions to exist. And they are coming for us. Right now. Rouse yourselves."

Love to get an email from my professional org @ach.bsky.social within hours of it surfacing that DOGE had come for NEH, with specific steps people can take, a form to collect info on research impacts, and a commitment to further advocacy. Keep it up, ACH. MLA, AHA & friends should take note.

NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

Thank you @brigidmc.bsky.social for introducing me to this amazing resource today! publicdomainreview.org

As someone deeply passionate about online community preservation, not only is this a great essay, it really gets at *why* such preservation matters. Not every interaction needs to be saved, but these communities deserve to be remembered.

Also: this great inter-library loan (one of the world's treasures!) poster from my September visit to Macalester College

I’ve created a starter pack for #scholars of (digital) #activism and social movements. Please check it out to find people you might be interested in connecting with! Let me also know if you’d like to be included in the pack. #protests #research #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/DN73Mqz

I haven't been posting much bc I'm sitting in gratitude. The #ACH2024 keynote with T-Kay Sangwand and K.J. Rawson's keynote is needed, essential. Sangwand: It is time to "build capacities for memory work outside institutions." Rawson: "We need more terminology to get it [representation] right."

I am a terrible photographer so didn't do a great job capturing the moment- but the Midwest crew enjoyed sandwiches while watching the Archival Resistance and Cultural Access panel yesterday at #ACH2024 @juliapoly.bsky.social, Maria Jose Afanador, and Mohammed Rashid were amazing.

Lovely local treats for #ACH2024 from Roots Coffee (St. Paul) and Baker's Wife (Minneapolis).

The Midwest hub of #ACH2024 greatly appreciated T-Kay Sangwand and K.J. Rawson's inspiring keynote today. Grateful for the Harm Reduction Guide docs.google.com/document/d/1... and Metadata Best Practices for Trans and Gender Diverse Resources zenodo.org/records/6686....

Please join us in the Harmon Room at Mac today, where we will learn more about Local and Global Digital Social Justice from the amazing K.J. Rawson and T-Kay Sangwand. More info available here: www.macalester.edu/dla/ach-virt.... No need to register- just show up. There will be snacks 🍿 #ach2024

I’m exhausted after a sleepless night. But I’m picking myself up to prepare for #ACH2024, which starts in a few hours. Grateful to be in community with #DigitalHumanities folks as we come together to imagine new, more just futures. It will be, I hope, a care-full three days.

Excited to be hosting this at Macalester College next week www.macalester.edu/dla/ach-virt... @ach.bsky.social #ach2024