If you are upset about the federal budget and the funding cuts to cultural heritage, please send a letter (no postage required) or email your MP, Minister of Canadian Heritage Marc Miller, and Prime Minister Carney. Find addresses here: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...

🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.

✨ We’re excited to share the first articles from AI & ARCHIVES — a special issue of the new journal Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society (Cambridge University Press). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Thrilled to see @ktmac.bsky.social and my paper on robots.txt and infrastructural consent published here!!

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

Belatedly posting, so great to present my paper "What is a Data Document?" at #ASIST25 #ASIST2025 this afternoon looking at data documentation frameworks like datasheets, data cards, data nutrition labels and data statements, paper available here: asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Let's go Blue Jays!!!

Internet Histories Volume 9, issue 1-2 is now online. Please notice: This special double issue: Gender in Internet and Web History, has free access until the end of July. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rint20/9... #webarchiving #digitalhumanities #internethistories #internethistory #webhistory

The Journal Internet Histories, www.tandfonline.com/journals/rin... ...has joined Bluesky, and will post news on articles and publications concerning internet research, web archives, comtemporary history, etc.. Kind regards, Asger Harlung, Editorial assistent, Internet histories

We ask: 📍Where is our archive? 📍Whose heritage are we preserving? 📍Who cares for it? Our guiding statements—Take it down, Take it slow, Take it back—connect critical archival studies with ecological justice to imagine an archival ecosystem beyond Big Tech. 📄 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.

My #iconf25 paper with @drtlwagner.bsky.social is now online OA 🔓 in Information Research! 🎉 To hear us talk more about r/DataHoarder 📀📦 and digital curation practice, join our virtual session Wed Mar 12 or in person Thu Mar 20 (Cultural Heritage, Archives & Museums II) doi.org/10.47989/ir3...

Great review from a great scholar - and if you're inspired to check out Averting the Digital Dark Age, a reminder that you can snag it open access at muse.jhu.edu/book/123276.

My review of @ianmilligan1.bsky.social's Averting the Digital Dark Age is out in Internet Histories! 📖✨ It shows how the imaginary of the "digital dark age" saw a bizarre array of actors mobilise to create what are now known as web archives that are shaped by their anxieties & hopes for the future.

lil psa for those who use chrome on their computer and have been driven crazy by the constant "sign in with google" prompts that pop up at various sites and didn't realize they could disable them and have been suffering in silence until now like i've been: here's how to get rid of them

david duchovny looks exactly like a dog’s folded ear

the design & message of this is the best thing i'll see in 2024 or at least this month