I'm copyediting a book about Bologna, and learning about the anarchist XM24 collective. They created murals on the building they occupied, and painted over them several times in protest of city actions. You can see the progression over multiple years on Street Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/FyL2hb4LbTYn...
Really really wish I could assign this film (and this reading) in my US history in film course, but alas, it's much too R-rated. (I usually have high school dual-enrollment students who are likely under 18.)
A graph depicting oil prices from 1861 to 2015, showing large upward spikes in the 1970s and 2000s. Image from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oil_Prices_Since_1861.svg
Gotta love copyediting a book that discusses the 1970s oil shock while experiencing one again today....
For historical perspective: gas prices increased 19.6 percent in 1973, 20.7 percent in 1974, and 11 percent in 1975.
(Image from commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oi...)
#AmEditing #historians
An historic day as the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, or ITK announced that the main campus of the first Inuit led university, Inuit Nunangat University will be located in Arviat, Nunavut.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
WTH!
Ugh, I'm so sorry. I checked in the other day with an editing client who lives in a Minneapolis suburb. It's been quiet there so far, but they are preparing nevertheless. Targeting schools is just despicable.
I have captioned the images in the text but need to add alt text to the images themselves. Part of the work in progress. Have just changed the theme so it's higher contrast and a larger text size to help for accessibility especially on mobile devices.
It's Holocaust Remembrance Day. Here's a StoryMap I've been working on for a few years now, telling my own family story of WWII, the Holocaust, and after. A work in progress. I hope this will be impactful to my modern world history students later this spring.
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#historians
Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
Yep.
Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice.
Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
I just read the post in an editors' Facebook group with your response to the question. Another person had brought up the issue, earlier in the same group. That person then commented, "Did you acknowledge me as the originator of the question?" I ... don't get the motivation at all.
Seems to be working now, although I'm seeing slow response times there and on the Internet Archive.
Is the universe telling me it's time to donate to keep those servers running?
503 errors on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine 😭😭😭
A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
Headshot of Amber Riaz with Editors Canada logo and The Fold Academy logo, above text "Free webinar series: Decolonizing Editing with Amber Riaz. 12 pm ET, Sat, Nov 15, 2025. Register: the foldcanada.org/academy". A closed captioning symbol and laptop icon appear after the the date.
How can editors recognize colonial language and intervene when it is used to misrepresent information? Learn about #ConsciousLanguage and ethical #editing in a free Nov. 15 webinar with Amber Riaz, held in collaboration with the Festival of Literary Diversity: webinars.editors.ca/upcoming_web...
It's Oreos all the way down.
If I'm working with a PE, then I don't contact the author at all. The PE would do the nudging and let me know the schedule might be extended for me to do the cleanup pass.
I usually "fix" this one because I work in scholarly editing, which tends to be more strict/conventional/formal.
I will! And the @edsguild.bsky.social governing board DEI Committee made sure our members were alerted to this event also!
"How can we offer students a glimpse of what life was like for ancient peoples?... Teachers can expect to learn the ISAC approach to object-based learning, and how artifacts can connect our present to the past."
HECK YES
#AmTeaching #historians #WorldHistory #OER
www.oerproject.com/Account/Even...
For example: @janefriedman.com: approach the use of AI in publishing w/o blaming & shaming. @jamaaldpittman.bsky.social: building relationships is as important as the actual editing, as is authenticity. @literarylaura.bsky.social: be compassionate to yourself about your own needs.
#EdsGuild2025
Currently decompressing after the awesome @edsguild.bsky.social Red Pencil conference. I realized that there was a through line for me from the keynote and all the sessions I attended: editors need to lean in to their humanity and come from a place of compassion and empathy.
#EdsGuild2025
Red *Pencil* conference.
Everybody needs an editor :)
Such a great keynote address on AI and editing by @janefriedman.com at today's @edsguild.bsky.social Red Pencils conference.
One key takeaway: How we approach the issue is as important as the issue itself.
#editors #EdsGuild2025
Photo of a giant cardboard pencil with sunglasses and a colorful shirt in front of a black curtain, with the words Giant Pencil's Photo Booth! in yellow letters above it.
Your conference might be cool, but I bet you don't have a giant pencil mascot photo opp. @edsguild.bsky.social's Red Pencil conference is the best!
#editors #EdsGuild2025