This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Coming back to this the following day & finding it even cuter than when I first posted it

When I was a grad student I started a paper about premodern forms of forgery bc I came across recipes for making “false azure.” Turns out “false azure” is just Middle English for “light blue,” which I figured out. Using AI for research in languages one has insufficient knowledge of sounds A+.

I am reading "Maintenance and Care" (2018) by @shannonmattern.bsky.social and it is fantastic!! now aspiring to a summer reading-discussion with my lab placesjournal.org/article/main...

I don't know how to help the researchers who the ADA hung out to dry, but I do know how to help diabetics: mutualaiddiabetes.com

Oh my goodness, this same patchwork (1805) also incorporates a vignette of printing! #BookHistory

This summer, DC Public Library is partnering with Vision To Learn to provide no-cost eye exams and, if needed, free glasses for children ages 3–18 (PreK–12th grade). 👓📚 Appointments are available now: https://bit.ly/3RS08Fq

you every think about the muppet show bits that shaped your melancholy youtu.be/27jEcDoYz2s?...

Sonny Rollins, backstage at the Apollo Theater, NYC, 1962 📸 Steve Schapiro Archive

Information nerds, historians, and economists, this is spectacular. Marie Concannon, the Head of Government Information at the University of Missouri Libraries, built this resource to check prices and wages in the U.S. historically, and links to public domain documents at @hathitrust.bsky.social

One of the most morale-crushing parts of my professional life is seeing cultural heritage institutions look at our scholarly work as "content" because some of it goes online now (and hiring content/digital people who are indifferent to the cultural heritage part of the work (aka... the work))

this thread is bop after bop

you can be on the front page of JazzTimes and they still won't call you an academic without a PhD (I entirely jest, it was just a bit directly in front of me)

GenAI is antithetical to librarianship as a profession, ethics, & pedagogy; it is v. depressing to see library workers pushing to insert it into all our systems and services. So I love the new Luddite Lab Resource Hub, partic. the 'AI Implementation Bingo' activity (under Political Education) 👇

Interactive Exhibit Lets Kids Figure Out How To Manage Budget Shortfall That Will Otherwise Shutter Museum — theonion.com/interactive-...

We all know that "back in the good old days" sort of talk is broadly nonsense and "back in my day we didn't have XYZ social concern" is usually incomplete thinking, but sometimes I think that doesn't give enough credit to the ways the past was progressive. This is from a 1959 YMCA teen manners book.

A thing we’re seeing with the encroachment of AI on services like Google search is a highly counterintuitive displacement of the list—an information genre honed over millennia—by discursive prose. In the distinction popularized long ago by Lev Manovich, narrative is triumphing over database.

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There will never be another you www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGcs...

THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE THING TO UNDERSTAND!!!

we’re still 🤩 by the fact that @dorothyjberry.bsky.social and savannah wood were in conversation in person about dorothy’s book the house archives built in baltimore the other week and now we have these beautiful photos by justin timothy temple to share 🌹 www.weherepress.org/baltimore

Four years in the making, my offering for fellow southerners new to Rhode Island: erinrwhite.com/southerners-...

I'm super proud of this project. It's designed to help, especially, humanities scholars building datasets. It's a style guide, with tips and guidance for all the many little decisions one makes when making data. Em Nordling did an amazing job writing it. Funded by the NEH until twas terminated!

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LIbrarians. A moment of silence for our museum colleagues.

Truly enormously excited for next year's cohort of GRI Scholars, particularly those on the theme of provenance www.getty.edu/news/getty-a...

Sold out first three printings 😎

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

Evergreen, but also of the moment: Sometimes ethical stewardship of data means not having it. Including deleting it. Even at personal cost.

This is every corporate meeting about diversity I attended in the 1990s.

happy 250

🚨IMPORTANT NEWS🚨 the nationals got a puppy 😭

Would you like some whimsy? We're sharing introductions to each of the rats in our Rat Trail by artist/maker Fong Scott. Watch now on our YouTube playlist! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Have I been pitched "what if reading rooms are monetized into gig-labor for grad students to snap pictures for global scholars to whom they have no relation?" and been met by dead innovator stares when the response was less than enthusiastic?

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

This is the thing. Our planet was already in crisis. Do golf courses use more water? I’m not sure but if so we should fix that too. But adding a bunch of data centers in the misguided chase for AGI is just dumb.

Happy John Brown’s Birthday to all who celebrate.

brilliant lecture from Lorraine Daston on the development of rules/paradigms — from ancient measures, to medieval rulebooks, to logarithmic tables and Babbage's algorithms youtu.be/pqoSMWnWTwA?... (it's a precursor to her 2022 book which I must read)

Antislavery petition of the "Natives of Africa now forcibly detained in Slavery" in New Hampshire, Nov. 12, 1779: "the God of Nature gave them Life and freedom upon the Terms of the most perfect Equality with other men" #slaveryarchive www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Counterpoint to the president of the right wing think tank that paid for this Op Ed: No it won’t.

"If we agree that learning is for losers and self-optimization through outsourcing life is the primary goal..."

the only shopping haul i care about is what you got at the yale university press 50% off sale

Counting down to publication day on Thursday uolpress.co.uk/book/explori...

Samuel Delaney's review of the original Star Wars:

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

last year, my cohort did a march madness-style bracket to determine the best book we read in our u.s. history graduate survey courses. maybe thirty books in total. this was our winner!

In 2020 @yaelrice.bsky.social and I authored this article to dispute this kind of pseudo-scientific research, which regularly gets press attention, precisely so that others don't have to cope with the tedium of refuting it. Here's the refutation you need! hyperallergic.com/how-scientis...