I think this is simplifying the matter. Many chronically ill people were relieved that there were fun virtual events that they were left out of before, rather than liking not leaving the house that much.
ALA and AFSCME "have reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice that protects the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and ensures the agency will continue carrying out its congressionally mandated work."
www.ala.org/news/2026/04...
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
Anti-Orban concert in Hungary with the audience chanting “Russians, go home”
@historians.org @saa-official.bsky.social
Are you interested in having an archivist in the Office of the Historian talk to your class or grad student group about #altAc careers and/or #FRUS? Email history@state.gov and ask to be connected with Amanda Ross! We'll discuss your needs and I'll wrangle my other colleagues as appropriate :)
"Those who commit the murders write the reports...”
― Ida B. Wells-Barnett, "Lynch Law In All Its Phases," 1893
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...
This feels doubly egregious because of how much time Trouillot spends talking about language, talking about what it means to call something a "history of" something. If you cannot audit a model for the logic behind its "suppositions," then the work you're doing isn't reparative or compensatory.
But more seriously, and I think egregiously, is the use of a phrase for signaling power. One doesn't get the sense that those who invoke "archival silences" in the context of GenAI have heard of Touillot, much less read him. Instead, the phrase has been emptied of meaning and is just sloganeering.
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.
Text: Her full nature ... spent itself in channels which had no great name on the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
The AHA’s Guidelines on Broadening the Definition of Historical Scholarship lay the foundation for expanding what constitutes historical scholarship and can be adapted to any institution in which historians work and where historical scholarship is expected. Check them out at the link.
“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion”
futurism.com/artificial-i...
If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem
“In a historic resolution, the MFA has restored ownership of two monumental stoneware vessels by the enslaved potter and poet David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) to his known descendants.” 👏
XRONOS is an open data infrastructure for the backbone of the archaeological record – chronology.
As described in our paper out today in the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.19... XRONOS is the most comprehensive […]
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
Three keys in form of a paddle.
Close-up of the keys.
A bit of archival beauty for the evening. Three keys for ciphering & deciphering coded documents from the 18th century, kept in their original cases.
It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Clifford Lynch, a visionary leader in the field of networked information & libraries, and the esteemed executive director of CNI since 1997. Read more about Cliff and the indelible mark he left on the IT, higher ed, and library communities.
Please understand that “probationary employee” in Fedland is a *tenure* designation, not a performance designation. Folks are usually new to federal service, switched job series, became a supervisor, or onboarded under a special hiring authority.They are highly qualified and key to
mission success.
Feds: Apropos of… everything… did you know you can search this list for your agency’s local union?
(Still online as of 2/16/2025)
www.opm.gov/flis/#/profi...
I have been hanging out for this for quite some time - going to be v fun to read this through in all its glory. One of the most authoritative and deeply researched quantifications of data centre power consumption in the US -->>>
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/defaul...
An early Christmas present for all data center load growth nerds: The new LBNL report to congress is out today! Fully documents significant load growth in data centers to 2023, starting from the 2018 base of about 1% of US electricity use. More details soon! eta-publications.lbl.gov/publications...
Sen. Ed Markey, Sen. Mazie Hirono, and Rep. Alma Adams have introduced the Public Archives Resiliency Act!
Among the cultural heritage professionals who contributed to the legislation, #ALI alumna Jess Ferrell helped advocate! #IKnewHerWhen
www.markey.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Listening to a wonderful #HAC presentation by John Powers on #FRUS role in U.S. national security. Don’t sleep on the Foreign Relations series: history.state.gov/historicaldo...
BREAKING: the House sub-committee on intelligence says "now convinced that foreign adversary behind AHI (Havana syndrome) incidents", "Intelligence community has hindered the subcommittee's efforts" to get to the truth.
Body Map (2016) An outline of a naked woman is embroidered on linen in the same bone white colour as the linen. She stands legs together, her right hand covering her groin, her left hand, palm up, extended slightly to her side. She looks to the right. Her entire body except for her belly is covered in intricate markings representing different neurological sensations. Her face is a mask of green lines, feathery grey lines cover her shoulders and chest. There is a thick band of intricate burgundy stitching around her waist. Her forearms and hands are covered in thick blue undulant lines. Her right leg has bands of burgundy along the muscles, with small dots around them. Her inner left leg has a thick line of blue running up it, with thin branches spreading towards her outer leg.
Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar & #InternationalDisabilitiesDay • I'm a disabled #embroidery artist whose work combines #anatomy and #symptomatology into #SciArt. Here is body map (2016), in which I stitched my neurological #MECFS symptoms freehand as I felt them.
