Jeanine Finn

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Wow, this is beautifully done. Encourage library & archive folks to take 20 minutes to explore this story and learn more about Indigenous cultural heritage—there's a lot here that's new to me! 📚

IGNORE THEM

When I try to explain to non-nerds how much our internet civilization depends on a few random smart people who maintain code libraries I wind up standing on chairs and yelling.

Funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter in my pants.

Just read this crucial, thoughtful new article by @mishiebhat.bsky.social. "Why Do Academic Librarians of Color Stay in the Profession?" is a great question to ask; the survey provides some surprising results. Extremely worth a read! 📚 muse.jhu.edu/article/1002...

Yay! This is going to be amazing!

Can confirm. I also think I have some sand in my ears after a walk this morning.

SHOHEI IS BACK, BABY!

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

all infrastructure erodes consent, sometimes it bypasses it completely this is uncomfortable (& often problematic), but it should not be controversial to point out this fact

Fredddiiiieeeee!

Kiké!!!! #MrOctober

We're one month out from Election Day. Listen to Willie. Vote for change this year.

I am the daughter of a elevator repairman. His work messed up his knees and back and following a stroke, he stopped working at 47.

I love this as an example for how to end something that's sprawling, complex, and beloved. Thoughtful stewardship of the digital materials, and celebrating what this organization did with a sense of pride and accomplishment, without any shame of the "if it's not forever it's a failure" trap. 💖

Make stuff. Do your hobbies. Geek out with your weird friends. Practice arts and crafts. Every society that ever burned to the ground left behind only the handicrafts, and every society saved from the brink was saved only by arts. Do not give up the joy of creating.

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

Librarians are also very good at helping you obtain articles for free. Just ask them!

If that two-minute clip is a representative sample, two hours of that Elizabeth Holmes doc is going to be a LOT in one sitting. Maybe theater owners can plan on intermissions with therapy dogs?

Three library folks always worth listening to.

All of this. As the granddaughter of a 5th grade dropout and factory worker who managed to earn a PhD without mortgaging my future…I don’t know if my type of journey is even possible anymore.

Ain’t that the truth.

I one hundred percent thought he was dead.

🤘🏻Hook ‘em

Dr. Cottom is correct. I’m in my 50s and at no point was Wikipedia considered “slop” in higher ed. Admittedly I was at a place (U of Illinois) with a strong cs program and good library school. But Wikipedia was considered in context of the human community around it.

Occasional reminder that Muslims were among the 1st responders, among those killed, & among those sent to fight our forever wars. That there could be any kind of ~criticism~ of NYC's Muslim mayor attending Fri's ceremony is grossest bigotry & dehumanization. It's a disgrace that reflects on us all.

New solo-authored paper from me - first in a while. "Digitization, Conflict, and Crisis: Institutional Urgency and Digital Cultural Heritage". Jan 26 I sat and wrote about the relationship between heritage digitisation and climate crisis. Then watched the world burn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I spent a week with my mom earlier this month right after the elections. She is a dedicated MSNBC viewer and I can count on one hand the pundit rants that were *not* about Hasan Piker that entire week.

The librarians know exactly who this is on every campus.

Downgrade a movie The cook, the thief, his wife, and a good friend

Reporting from the greater Montclair area…it’s been 100 degrees with dusty winds every day this week and it might be best to just let the lager larceny slide.

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

Parton ("9 to 5," 1980) provides a more trenchant critique of capital than does Marx ("Das Kapital," 1867) because as a researcher, Parton correctly frames the problem of capital as exacerbating but not supplanting other pre-existing human dynamics such as gender roles. In this essay, I will

ONCE AGAIN THE WRONG 80-YEAR-OLD!

Grab these giant data files.

Fortuitous sequence on the timeline this morning. #wrinklydog

Give me a single image from a film that makes you immediately hear a song from the soundtrack in your head.

I wonder if the NYT editors know that the SUNY system enrolls 380,000 students every year. Harvard has less than one-tenth of that.

NEW: For the second day, the Census Bureau's homepage, census.gov, features an unauthored report with analysis that @npr.org found was conducted not by career civil servants, but a team that included individuals affiliated with a President Trump-aligned think tank, the America First Policy Institute

I spend a decent amount of my time reading Census Bureau documentation 🤓 and this does not read like Census Bureau work.

Wondering how the end of project support at OSF will affect researchers….

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