My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today: Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

Beautiful profile on Prelinger Library and its founders by @eddiekimx.bsky.social in GazetteerSF: sf.gazetteer.co/face-time-ri...

Let’s fight back, California. Yes on 50!

I wrote about the lost world of alt-weeklies, papers that loved cities *as* cities, for my splendid local alt-daily, Daybreak. “The first time I saw a stranger’s corpse was one summer night, 1992…” news.daybreak.news/p/enthusiasm...

Sehr cool. www.chronotrains.com/de/explore/2...

Hey Seattle folks, I’ll be giving a talk about the Petrofuture maps this Tuesday. Tickets are almost gone! www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... #seattle #petrofuture

ALL ABOOOOARD! The Crazy Touring Train of #OzzyOsbourne. My cartographic tribute. Tour stops as bright lights amid the darkness. Most played cities glow brighter. Lines are the paths between tour stops. Feel free to download your own copy here: carto.maps.arcgis.com/home/item.ht...

this kind of digital resurrection is exactly what i raise concerns about/warn against in RESURRECTING THE BLACK BODY — a digital afterlife with no agency, a (re)product(ion) with no moral code or compass, a (mis)representation

#MapReferanceQuestion Looking up "Wakash Nation" via the #DavidRumseyMapCollection search "text on maps" feature. www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet... More information on the "Guide to Searching and Annotating Text on Maps" can be found here: machines-reading-maps.github.io/rumsey/ #mapKurator

Seems to me that if there’s a senile guy doing nothing in particular the usual way and a senile guy setting everything on fire, the fire guy is the one who should be the focus of media inquiry

JJ and I did a thing. "Preserving Government Information: Past, Present, and Future" by James A. Jacobs and James R. Jacobs. Info/Download/PoD: freegovinfo.info/pgi #digitalpreservation #govinfo #FDLP

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Marie Tharp the pioneering oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor. For more info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3 #MarieTharp #bathymetry #oceanography #platetectonics #overedge #MapDayMay25 William C. Wonders Map Collection #WCWMC

Thank you— I’ve been trying and failing to articulate exactly this. Many Gen-Xers have retconned themselves into having been cool independent thinkers when in the 80s and 90s they were deeply committed to enforcing conformity.

Good news for today! The @agu.org and @amspolicy.bsky.social are teaming up to support climate science in the US and fill the vacuum left by the cancellation of the support team and dismissal of the authors of the Sixth National Climate Assessment. More from @drshepherd2013.bsky.social here:

Trump’s war on information meets a dedicated adversary: University librarians www.sfchronicle.com/us-world/art...

A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

THERE IS SO MUCH HAPPENING HELP

I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

The AGU @agu.org has set up a space for people impacted by funding cuts/reduction in force/etc. connect.agu.org/communities/...

The George Wright Society archived over 3Tb of data from NPS, BLM, FWS, USFS, USGS and NOAA about climate change, env protection, conservation & monitoring, marginalized groups, & DEI initiatives in anticipation of their deletion. Happy to be a board member at GWS! www.georgewrightsociety.org/tsa

"Institutions with resources must resist thuggish bullying, not just for their own sakes, but to protect others who will find it much harder." @sulliview.bsky.social on Columbia University's short-sighted capitulation to Trump's intimidation. #TrumpTyranny www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

As folks are embarking on all these data rescue / refuge projects, I hope they're heeding the lessons from the 2016/17 teams -- e.g., figshare.com/articles/jou... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... docs.lib.purdue.edu/atg/vol29/is...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests. We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason. ALSO.

Get mad but stay funny

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/n... #gischat #cartography #maps

The Vanishing Culture report arrives today at a critical moment: While Internet Archive recovers from a cyberattack, it’s a reminder of how fragile our access to knowledge can be. Preserving culture & history requires resilience—and collective action. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/v...