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chat is it good for a dictionary to be mad at you

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Mood: 📚

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tidbit: one of my favorite church terms is "Holy Unmercenary," meaning someone who refuses money for doing good deals. It's good to be unmercenary.

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📡 at very long last, today is the big day! my beloved book, OTHER NETWORKS: A RADICAL TECHNOLOGY SOURCEBOOK, is officially available for pre-order! 1/5 #othernetworks shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

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Four episodes of Eternity's Pillar, Alice Coltrane's mid-80s late night LA broadcast, is up on Criterion! Previously only available on YouTube rips and not in full, at least to my knowledge. (I could be wrong about that!) www.criterionchannel.com/eternity-s-p...

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Our inaugural bsky post!! Our first talk of the spring semester: Monica Miller and Sarah Lewis revisit Black dandyism March 10 | 6:30pm ET | Zoom | Link in bio

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Here @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social we are running a project called 'The Algorithimic Archive', funded by the Mellon Foundation on the challenges & needs for archiving social media data. We need your help- if you use such data can you help us with this survey? forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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I remain in awe of nuns

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Incisive 🏺thread - bone stored in a museum for decades shows greater DNA degradation and abundance of potentially deleterious bacteria than bone that had been left in the ground from the same site, suggesting museum storage had a detrimental effect on biomolecular preservation.

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[any 18th-centry novelist tries to tell a joke] THE ALEHOUSE; or the SURPRIZING HISTORY of A TAVERN containing the CHARACTER of A Rabbi, A Prieſt, & A Miniſter WITH An Account of how, having left their Lantern at a Table found themſelves loſt in a Wood & were at laſt Deliver’d by a HIGHWAYMAN.

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@visithmml.bsky.social is such an extraordinary place. For decades, they've been doing The Work of manuscript imaging & preservation, first on microfilm, now digitally. Manuscripts remain in their home institution where they are curated and cared for among their community of origin, as it should be.

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A Life magazine feature and map on the student sit-in movement, September 19, 1960.

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I gave a career talk to about 50 students at mount holyoke on tues. student wrote a long email to the organizer arguing that she should be taken off the wait list- she'd read my work in class and she wanted to hear from me. the org was moved and checked, only to find about 30 other kids waitlisted.

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🕳️ #VanishingCulture ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/02/05/vanishing-culture-what-early-internet-era-gifs-show-us-about-preserving-digital-culture/

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The pressure is on, but I will rise to it! 😄

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I found in the LoC's Eames papers (Box 56, Folder 7) a 1980 proposal for an IBM Heritage & History Exhibition in Endicott, NY (the co's birthplace), featuring all these great little furniture + technology assemblages. Turns out the collection was removed last Jan 😥 www.wicz.com/story/503113...

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Good opportunity for editors to get a good check on a short project wehere.notion.site/Contract-Opp...

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JSTOR has compiled a list of 2025 funding opportunities to help libraries digitize, describe, and preserve their collections. These programs support a range of initiatives, including audiovisual preservation and community archives. Explore the details here: bit.ly/4hlhQcf

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And, she helped William Still publish The Underground Railroad.

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Ctr for Bklyn History, 3/12: Jannah + Kiyanna Handy share items from their private collection; Natiba Guy-Clement shares items from CBH's clxn + Dominique Jean-Louis moderates a discussion on "the intersections btw institutional + private collecting [and] how we all curate our own spaces..."

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Applications are now open for Archives as Data. A FREE @NEHgov workshop @Columbia June 2-13, 2025. It's a crash course for historians and archivists in analyzing digital & digitized texts with an intro to AI for advanced beginners: lab.history.columbia.edu/content/work... #twitterstorians

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Little pop up display on printing William Still’s “Underground Rail Road” made me appreciate all the public school teachers and their bulletin board skills.

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Historians of manuscript digitisation will note that these manuscripts were originally digitised in 2015 through a commercial agreement with Brill. Presumably after 10 years the exclusive rights have now expired.

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I have read through my share of issues, and I have to say, transcribing The Brownies' Book is not only a service, but a real pleasure!

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Libraries as they try and embrace gen AI

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This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

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Applications still open for @atbw.bsky.social’s web archiving school. Join us as a fellow, instructor, or teaching assistant. Deadline to apply is January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

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Just wanted to share this fantastic project @dorothyjberry.bsky.social created for Harvard three years ago curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abol...

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You know what? Time for a giggle. youtu.be/Q4HEV5r65yM?...

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I often think about the college professors who saw through my extreme disfunction and coddled my creativity and human weirdness- where/would I be without them

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I have this history book called "Victorian Marionette Theatre." There is an anecdote: "When Holden's company visited Istanbul in 1882, an Armenian photographer fell in love with their Cinderella and stole her." Some real repeating/rhyming stuff

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JOB: Elizabeth A.R. Brown Archivist, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Penn Attention medievalists! Listed salary suggests this is a good fit if you have family money wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

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Max has the best righteous anger at people who want to design technology solely to erase the individual experience of creating and the collective experience of improving

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Some kindred who can use some LA fires support. A share is support, please spread the word. www.gofundme.com/f/aid-my-bro...

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Oooh, just discovered Smithsonian Open Access -- unrestricted CC images that are clearly labeled by Family, genus & species! Also cute art www.si.edu/openaccess

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Digital History Klaxon: Looking for collaborators to submit a session to @historians.org on digital history projects for broad audiences. My team is looking to present on Searchablemuseum.com and are looking for other projects, theme/region/period agnostic!

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