‘Self-Driving Cars Can’t See Without Their Eyes’ (Utterly fascinating, confronting short film by Nicolas Gourault about the human labour in Venezuela, Kenya and Philippines, annotating the world for autonomous vehicles elsewhere. Keiichi Matsuda-like visions but real) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/o...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Thank you to Michael Sinatra & Diane Jakacki for their inspiring leadership at ADHO. We are grateful for your guidance and support. A very warm welcome Lauren Tilton as COB President & Kristen Mapes as EB Chair – excited for the future of global #DigitalHumanities! 🎉 #NewLeadership #ADHO

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Thanks! Added it to @resist.bot

BREAKING: Venezuela’s government has accused the US of launching attacks on civilian and military installations across several states, rejecting what it described as a "military aggression," according to an official statement. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p3fqh2

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

WHAT did I just READ?!!!! Next thing you know we’re gonna hear the military posted up in front of Maduro’s house and started blasting Lee Greenwood for psyops. 🫨

Trump claims US has captured Venezuelan dictator and wife

RHoF ceremony tonight - The women know what’s up - all the women artists are thanking the other women for letting them stand on the shoulders of the previous generations. (Oh and thanks RHoF for finally recognizing more women 😉)

Best Rock n’ roll hall of fame induction ceremony ever! Music icons from my 80s-90s youth are finally getting their due (Cyndi Lauper, Salt-n-Peppa, Sound Garden and more)!!

Thank you to my 2025 zine-making collaborators @bibliowingate.bsky.social @caitcoker.bsky.social nicolekeller.bsky.social SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography Team @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @ilya.webrecorder.net @shane.logoff.website & many UVA Library colleagues 💜

For those looking to celebrate the end of 2025, consider nominating something for @dhawards.bsky.social dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

⚠️The realities of data poisoning We worked w/ Anthropic & the AI Security Institute to understand the realities of data poisoning We found that as few as 250 malicious documents can be used to “poison” a language model, even as model size & training data grow Learn more: https://bit.ly/4n0mH4t

Wondering about a little #DHmakes dataset folks could craft/make around. I've started just a list of methods & materials folks have mentioned; other ideas? Emotions, 1st tries at a method, colors, color words? (I think we don't want: IDing specific names/full dates; "productivity" quantification)+

Open Call für DJs und Musiker*innen - Afterparty für Solarpunk: Body, Society and Environment beyond Calamity Egal ob Elektro, Pop oder Metal - zeig uns deinen Solarpunk-Sound! Honorar: 100€ je Gig VB #DJ #kultur #kulturerleben #kulturellebildung #OpenCalls #OpenCalls #heidelberg #afterparty

Yup. I'm telling y'all, these dudes don't know anything.🤡 Frank Sinatra was a vocal anti-racist. He fought racism with his actions, his words, and his money. Actions: Refused to stay at segregated hotels. Made sure Black artists got paid fairly. Words: Literally wrote an article in Ebony Magazine

Join EDGI & data experts across the country calling for the preservation of NSF’s National Center for Atmospheric Research. NCAR provides critical climate & weather data we all rely on. Sign: tinyurl.com/y68m276s Thanks @publicenvirodata.bsky.social, @theimpactproject.bsky.social for drafting.

💻 How far can we push small language models? This summer, our Project t0 team showed that small, open-weight language models can achieve near-frontier reasoning performance when applied to focused, domain-specific tasks. http://bit.ly/4fu00E1

It builds hope & inspires others when folks don't let abusers in power have the final say, including when they bad-faith invoke values as they actively burn them up:

Thank you for sharing this and letting us see the truth. archive.org/details/insi...

I feel once again compelled to emphasis the digitizing in the literal scanning sense is fairly unimportant if it is not accompanied with metadata providing context for discovery. Both humans and AI will make things up when they don't know what they are looking at.

The early web was driven by curiosity & openness, not monetization. Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture & why preserving it matters. Learn more ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/a...

🚨 @jenguiliano.bsky.social and I are happy to share the December issue of Reviews in DH. We bring you projects from our open submissions that focus on women. We hope you enjoy. See you next year! #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/v6-n12

If you'll be at #MLA26, please join us for virtual roundtable #s486 - "Digital Humanities and Contemporary Book Studies." Saturday, 10 January 1:45 PM-3:00 PM (EST). Very excited for this session. More details after the jump. ach.org/news/2025/12...

✨Registration is now OPEN for our Symposium!✨ Join us for a new three-part experience: one day at MSU (USA), one day at UDEM (México), plus two virtual days. Browse our comprehensive program and discover our keynote speakers on our website. Don't miss this opportunity to join a global community!

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

It's my dad's 85th birthday! I showed him my digital project and he was excited. He recalled memories of Nkrumah's son from their London doctor days and then started naming everyone he knew who was involved in the Bandung conference. Maybe I am not the Welsh nationalist milkman's child after all! 🎈

Quick break from the winter break to send out our support for NCAR. Read more and sign on to the open letter. www.datarescueproject.org/support-for-...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

It’s 2026. The US is shipping innocent people to overseas concentration camps. The Empire orders one of the major broadcast networks to kill the story, and it complies. Striking from their hidden base (in Canada), rebel employees of an affiliate station . . . “

Heh. We knew that story would be leaked. It was a question of when and now we know.

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

Metadata is hard especially for Medieval Manuscripts ... check out our latest blog post about the @peripheralmss.bsky.social project: peripheralmss.org/metadata-for.... #midwestmss #medievalmss

Omar Hamad and Ibrahim are gathering donations to create a public library in Gaza after Israel’s genocidal war destroyed nearly all its existing libraries, schools, and universities. lithub.com/you-can-help...

The Mapping Deportations project has an animated timeline of who gets deported in the US. In the 1910s the US starts deporting more Mexicans than any other group & doesn't let up through the present day. You can follow which groups are the targets of immigrant panics pretty clearly.

The ACH conference never fails to be a generative, communal experience. Consider submitting an abstract for June 2026! (PS: No travel!!)

Small models work great for GLAM but there aren't enough examples! With @wjbmattingly.bsky.social I'm launching small-models-for-glam on @hf.co to create/curate models that run on modest hardware and address GLAM use cases. Follow the org to keep up-to-date! huggingface.co/small-models...

Wonderful and informative zines to print and fold and share! #DHmakes

How Your Private ChatGPT And Gemini Chats Are ‘Sold For Profit’

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

State terrorism. bsky.app/profile/robe...

For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

For scholars interested in illustration and writing for children, we’re offering a research fellowship — $4,000 to support research, and a very easy application. Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

“All we can do right now is pray” has been a WINNING strategy since Columbine, obviously. Stunning “leadership.” 🤬

SUCHO has received the 2025 Karl Preusker medal from Bibliothek & Information Deutschland (BID)! The jury selected us as an example of “courage, solidarity, professional excellence, and the central role of libraries, archives, and digital infrastructures in the resilience of democratic societies.”