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Data Librarian and wannabe Historian. Reader. Baseball fan. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year.
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PBS told the filmmakers that they could either buy back their licensing deal or allow PBS to run the censored version.

The Supreme Court has ruled against allowing Oklahoma’s taxpayer-funded religious charter school

Why the heck isn't Massachusetts E-Z Drive payment site on https?

Well, hell. RIP to perhaps the greatest one-liner delivery machine in TV history.

#OTD #CivilWar 🗃️ News - Speech of Gen. Sigel “I was not born in this country, .. (b)ut I assure you that my heart and soul are with this Republic. I am bound to it by every act of my life." www.reporting-history.com/2025/05/20/m...

Just heard from yet another person that LLM's are going to "solve the problem" of my entire job, and I am so, so tired of people talking about gAI as if it were a magic lamp upon which one might wish away all complexity

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Big time fan and supporter of TeamUSA

Everything is just so terrible.

Breaking news: Former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, a spokesman announced Sunday. While the diagnosis “represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive which allows for effective management," the spokesman said.

"Just watched the Brooklyn Bridge get smoked live by a boat with a massive Mexican flag." Tweeted at 8:42 PM tonight. EDT. by Nelson Slinkard @TheWillieNelson

Ironic

Some weeks should be shot into the sun at high speed.

jewishcurrents.org/lessons-from...

📚💬 “When you have chronic illness, life is reduced to a relentless rationing of energy.” Johanna Hedva, How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom

New paper on inequality and social ties by Young, et.al. utilizing data accessed through the Regulated Research Environment at the Cornell Center for Social Sciencs: doi.org/10.15195/v12...

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

Report: “In a Major Win for #Libraries, Federal Judge Orders #IMLS to Be Restored” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/13/r... @wordsandmoney.bsky.social

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Oh ffs

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

The Carla Hayden firing was so unnecessary and spiteful. Her term was up next year anyway and Trump would appoint her successor. What a small, nasty man.

Dr Carla Hayden was a truly great Librarian of Congress. It is an outrage that she has been sacked - a national shame on the United States. I had the pleasure of knowing her and working with her - she’ll continue to do good in the next phase of her career whatever that is.

Carla Hayden was an inspiring librarian of congress, and we were lucky to have her

WHAT

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

How long until you-know-who takes credit for the papal selection?

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Just got a call from someone who asked me to call back between 8 am and 8 pm "Eastern Standard Time" and when I asked why they were giving Eastern Standard Time instead of Daylight time she was all "Well, I went to college and I never heard of Eastern Daylight Time"

All of this.

Spooky

Beyond parody

Oh no

Want