i accidentally became an information scientist and developed nuanced opinions about the construction of truth at a terrible time

An institution with a spare $30mil for this can feel free to save a bit more by not sending me any more mailers requesting alumni donations.

Something crazy about the US and international copyright enforcement regime is that they consistently criminalize digital archiving when it is done for pro-social reasons, but consistently protect the reuse of archived materials by other parties when it is for commercial reasons

“But what if he can’t do everything he ran on?“ Hi from another city where our mayor’s ambitious agenda on housing and transit has been stalled by a visionless centrist administration in the statehouse. We just reelected her uncontested. People can understand multiple things at once.

In the glow of all tonight’s beauty it seems impossible we still have Erin Murphy on the Boston City Council and yet.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Check out the archive!! sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

I’d like to amplify others’ pleas to *please* acknowledge and build upon the work of librarians and other organizers — @heykellyjensen.bsky.social, @tasslyn.bsky.social, @everylibrary.bsky.social, et al — who’ve been tracking *all of this* and developing expertise for YEARS.

Fair.

i literally don't understand what this money would be for and where it would be going and i also don't understand why that information doesn't appear in these articles. who exactly would be paying what to exactly whom for which precise reason? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

Made this cute little website over the past month in my spare time. So many fish have been drawn!!! No idea where they're all coming from. A real field of dreams moment :)

Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”

Kind of annoyed to have to share Having a Good Mayor, the only thing about Boston that could make New Yorkers wish they were us. But it’s fine.

The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek

this timeline is fucking wild

okokok, what about a game like blue prince but it's an adaptation of piranesi

Felt like screaming at your tracker screams this winter? This year’s season patch will scream into the void for you!

It feels bananas that my nice, normal, boring job is caught directly up in all this. Just why on earth.

Jenny Holzer, The Beginning of the War will be Secret

I just saw David Lynch’s Dune again and I can’t get this image of a towering gilded gate into a spaceship out of my head.

Universities need to band together, go to court, and use their endowments to get through the next four years -- or let Donald Trump and his minions take over everything. Those are the only choices.

and to be honest I found various acts of conformity to be both startlingly foreign and impressively intimidating. A guy setting a trash can on fire is one guy feeling feisty. but a thousand strangers sitting down in neat rows apropos of nothing is a veiled threat.

This feels like it might be a trap…but I really love Cheezits.

Me snuggling in just like Anna Hennessy’s team…wishing I also could get tucked in with cute cozy blankets. (But okay with my indoors situation.)

The man sitting next to me on the Metro is reading a printout of the "Tariff" Wikipedia page

Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries “Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...

"you're now using gemini" what if I kill you

Flying out the gate with a misconceived balls-focused marketing campaign, and then rightfully backpedaling only to re-launch a women’s team we’re inevitably going to call the Legs…Don Draper coded.

Guy behind me at this coffee shop just typed “had a dream my mom died what does it mean” into ChatGPT

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

This one?!

They fucking did it. They mushed to Nome.

Today was a rough day in my MLIS program Digitization Project Management course, watching my classmates give presentations about cool and important digitization projects largely grant funded by agencies that were being dismantled as we flipped through our slide decks.

It’s been a disgusting week but this is already soothing my ragged nerves!

News flash #uglyDogs Pepe is going to start and go as far as she wants! At least one checkpoint according to Q!! ❤️❤️❤️👑👑

lol this is trash! Love to be economically punished for being inherently more ethical and critically thoughtful, and then have that just become compounded by our AI non-adoption over time. “Get more women to use AI” isn’t a good conclusion here!

Any day is a good day to subscribe to @404media.co!

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

Today in “magical thinking about the permanence of things on the Internet”: check and re-register your best friend’s microchip! Private equity will never love your dog! (But I do, keep posting ‘em #uglydogs 🤎)

Good news for fair use’s good name!

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.

I wrote a guide with screenshots and red arrows for how to archive your Instagram and Facebook accounts. So that you can more easily delete yourself from those platforms! phiffer.org/archiving-yo...

I often think about what kind of seismic erasure event it will take to really rattle our collective magical thinking about the permanence of things on the Internet. Anyway, any day is a good day for a donation to the Internet Archive.