Did I not spend two classes going over where to find, how to read, and how to integrate secondary sources? Did I simply hallucinate spending two classes going over where to find, how to read, and how to integrate secondary sources?
Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats
Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers
Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.
I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess.
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I don’t have the energy rn to express how horrific this is. Please submit a public comment.
Friends! We did it!! Transcribe 2026 saw more than 8,000 people transform 37,790 pages. We are 100% done!
"There is a power in numbers and in union; because the many are more than the few." - Frederick Douglass, 1883
The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum!
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And we continue to celebrate #DouglassDay with our global transcribe-a-thon to make Black history open for all!
Transcribe the Colored Conventions
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@douglassday.bsky.social One more! #DouglassDayBakeoff
@douglassday.bsky.social Another one from Randolph-Macon! #GreatDouglassBakeoff
@douglassday.bsky.social from Randolph-Macon College #GreatDouglassBakeoff
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Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today.
- Preview event on Feb 6
- New teaching resources
- Swag (trading cards are back!)
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And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!
✨ On 2/13, join us as we host Douglass Day 2026! This annual celebration honors the legacy of Frederick Douglass and brings together volunteers to transcribe Black history. Find guides to help you bring Douglass Day into your college and K12 classrooms and register via the newsletter linked below.
When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it.
I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America”
Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.
Postdoctoral positions available at Yale's Digital Ethics Center.
They are renewable for up to 4 years, and provide plenty of benefits. Highly successful postdocs can be promoted to a faculty position after 2 years. Please apply and share with interested candidates 🤓
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Also this 👇🏾
Deadline in 5 days! We would love to have you come present with us!
Writing is hard. It can feel lonely too, the process itself and then releasing it to the world. That’s why as much as I can, I love giving writers their flowers
Accessibility without verifiability isn’t clarity—it’s risk transfer. AI summaries don’t simplify truth; they abstract accountability. If readers can’t validate claims, the output degrades from aid to liability.
Really seriously please take the 30 seconds and actually fill out the form.
a screenshot of the video
a screenshot of the video
Coke admitted they had to generate 70,000 video clips for their latest Christmas slopvertising
BY MY CALCS:
- 4x the CO2 impact of a normal ad project
- 1 day of 2-5 medium hospitals
- 1 month of 250 households
- 44 years of continuous Netflix viewing
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We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship.
We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.
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Douglass Day 2026
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Fri, February 13
Sign up today!
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Feat. the Colored Conventions Project! @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social
You could purchase my monograph Pitfalls of Prestige: Black Women and Literary Recognition via Bookshop for Small Business Saturday! bookshop.org/p/books/pitf...
ALA 2026 CFP: Come Present with AALCS in Chicago!
Please share and submit an abstract!
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We must never forget the lives lost to anti-transgender violence & discrimination. 🏳️⚧️ Share to support the #TransgenderDayofRemembrance! #NOH8 #TDOR
We must never forget the lives lost to anti-transgender violence & discrimination. 🏳️⚧️ Share to support the #TransgenderDayofRemembrance! #NOH8 #TDOR
CFP: “Those who have must turn around and give:” Celebrating Forty Years of Preserving Black History and Education
Great opportunity to present work on archives, education, community memory, etc!
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today's unprecedented foreign terror designation of Antifa has resulted in exactly zero (0) cable news segments 👍
in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority
Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge