Chicago Ald. Jessie Fuentes was handcuffed and briefly detained by federal agents inside a hospital on Friday while asking about a patient's ICE arrest warrant. Fuentes said “We have constitutional rights,” as the agent repeatedly states “No.” https://to.wttw.com/3Kvoilz

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

And the Supreme Court said it’s fine for them to target people based on how they look. Truly a despicable, deplorable, devastating, dictatorial time in US history.

I personally didn't enter librarianship because I wanted to direct people to use surveillance tech owned by private equity firms but sometimes I wonder about my peers

It’s been almost two months since museum senior officials walked into the Abakanowicz Research Center, the hub of the city’s archival holdings, and announced that every staff member would be reduced to part-time hours, leaving them without health insurance and a significant portion of their incomes.

A decade ago, the Heritage Foundation went full meltdown about how Obama was an imperial president when he had issued about the same number of executive orders -- though he had reached it after six years, not six months.

When they’re sending the military in to your city, banning vaccines, and so much more, but your out of office is on and you’re recharging for action a thousand miles away with the most beautiful train ride thanks to @amtrak.com.

Chicago has not asked for federal troops. We do not need federal troops. We need the funds we’ve paid in federal taxes to be distributed back to the state as congressionally budgeted. No one, mayor, governor or citizen has asked for this deployment and the people of Chicago will be harmed by it.

She heard me tell the dog sitter she’s older now and needs slower walks and puppy potty pads for accidents. Apparently that was shit we were supposed to keep within the family.

Mayor Brandon Johnson: "We believe you don't solve crime by sending in the military." "We are being targeted because of who we are as a city."

Pritzker exhorts the news media to "tell it like it is:" "Donald Trump wants to use the U.S. Military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points." "Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here."

Surprising no one, the list of “unAmerican” content is that which highlights/discusses white privilege, Latino culture, Black culture, and COVID history and LGBTQ+ history. Absolute bullshit. White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a...

The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”

My 35lb freeloader threw a temper tantrum when I wouldn’t give her more French fries (yes I’m weak so she got some), so I painted her portrait to show how her adorably silly she is.

Me: on our first vacation in years worried how the dogs doing without us. The dog: absolutely throwing her charms at the dog sitter, her people completely forgotten

one day, everyone will have been against this

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“The rapid, chaotic, and cruel approach to arresting and locking people up is literally deadly and causing a human rights crisis that will plague this state and the entire country for years to come.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

And yes...that includes me. No one is safe until everyone is safe.

Apparently I didn’t capture her good side. Everybody’s a critic.

In honor of today's Supreme Court decision

I taught college classes of my own for seven years. There wasn't a single class I taught that was majority history majors, and most of them had NO history majors. But they were always full and they were always valuable to those students.

It really is amazing the far reaching friendships one can have just by intentionally liking following and supporting museum unions.

The heatwaves next week are literally going to kill people even if the grids don’t go down; meanwhile, tech billionaires are trying to convince us that using the fake answer machines will solve all our problems.

May every single human being on this planet be safe. May every single person be protected from harm. May we bring into being a time in which we are all free from those who do evil— together, speedily and in our days.

There isn't enough data to make a pattern, so it defaults to either making shit up or redirecting to phrases and names that are more common. If you use an LLM to research Black history in CA, you'll miss the people doing that work. Even a Google search will get you better results.

Chicago! ICE is kidnapping people out of their immigration hearings daily-- start your day by showing up for our communities! ICE watch starts daily at 8am outside 55 E Monroe and 50 E Adams

The most American I’ve ever felt. @ryancordell.org thanks for the perfect sign to join faculty union members in protest.

LEARN BASIC RESEARCH SKILLS EVERYBODY

A friend just texted to congratulate me on a forthcoming project, about which she learned from ChatGPT. Never mind that I am ... not currently writing a book on the divine feminine... ? Again, again, again: AI is bad and wrong and won't give you accurate info, friends. It's not a search engine.

Powerful point at #ACH2025 that cutting NEH is just one more part of the complete erosion of a public good and institutions. And when we do this, the powerful and already rich and prestigious take full control and consolidate all the resources. And the broader public… and democracy loses.

Closeup #jojodoodles DH + Libraries SIG @ach.bsky.social featuring @claudiaeberger.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @gworthey.bsky.social @micahbateman.bsky.social @jbrodefrank.bsky.social and Pam’s amazing highway flood dumpster fire image. #dhmakes

Thanks to everyone who showed up at the #ACH2025 #DHandLibs SIG meeting. We had a wonderful conversation and welcomed our new co-chairs, @jbrodefrank.bsky.social and @micahbateman.bsky.social. Missed the session? Reach out to me or @claudiaeberger.bsky.social and we'll get you plugged in!

Maybe anxiously doomscrolling isn’t the best thing to do the night before #ACH2025 starts. But at least I know I’ll be in good company for the rest of the week, as our #DigitalHumanities community comes together to create a space of care & solidarity. Looking forward to seeing y’all in a few hours 🫶

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

A beloved member of my organizing community was taken by ICE today during an immigration check-in. Please sign this petition demanding her release.

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

As I keep saying, LLMs are designed to give you *a* answer, not *the* answer.

"At Barnes and Noble they want you to buy a book, at the library they NEED you to read a book." Source: www.facebook.com/share/r/16Fo...

We now have the details of the federal 2026 budget proposal, and it spells the end of IMLS. The request is $6,000,000 to "conduct an orderly closeout of IMLS." Whatever happens in the 2 court cases would be moot if this passes. bookriot.com/the-2026-fed...

This looks lovely but it isn't radical, its just well funded. Many have advocated for visible storage and a democratic approach to making reserve holdings accessible to an inclusive range of users for years. We've just been doing it on a shoestring budget. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...

I will do and have done a lot of stupid things in my life but there is one thing I will absolutely never fuck with and that is driving under the influence. I am not interested in any justifications or excuses, I’m just not. Cannot fathom justifying it. headlines today can get tae fuck

no but this is so annoying because I had to do so much research to try and figure out which services for “AI” transcription and captioning were the kind that are killing the Amazon via plagiarism and which were just the extremely normal stuff we had before which they renamed “AI” for the clicks

today was six months from my last Covid vaccine, and I was able to schedule a booster appointment for Thursday…that I had to cancel because I tested positive for Covid today. Third time and it’s got no charm.

Part of my discomfort w this is the implication that this is a path we'll all have to follow sooner or later. It echoes university admin who've bought the snake oil about AI. Yes AI has a lot of potential but we don't have to accept Silicon Valley's crappy vision/version of it

🚨 New from me, Prof. @strubell.bsky.social, & CMU Heinz School Dean Ramayya Krishnan: how we handle AI and energy use foreshadows how we will deal with the broader electrification of the economy. If we get this wrong, a safe climate future will slip away. 🔌💡 www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Massively good news: The provision that would have let the trump administration strip the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization they wanted simply by declaring them to be a "terrorist supporting organization" has been removed from the budget bill. Pushing back against these people works.

Obviously the implications of news outlets using AI without quality control or fact checking is upsetting, but we should also use this as an example of how often these “hallucinations” occur. Most users of gen AI have no idea inaccuracy rates are averaging 40-70%. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...