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#h5n1 in another mammal species, this time rats: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/avian/avian-influenza/hpai-detections/mammals Somehow the USDA is still able to communicate with the public, and I salute the dedicate public servants who are trying to do their best under […]

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I wrote to my airlline about my concerns over air safety under our new regime. I told them I'm considering not flying anymore. A little gesture to get corporations to push back against the chaos.

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[USpol] Sure I'm pissed off by Trump and Musk. But I'm also pissed off by the people that voted for them or didn't bother voting at all. I know we need to walk these people back into the world of sanity, but my righteous anger leaves me with very little patience.

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After a lot of work behind the scenes, the mission-statement of @SafeguardingResearch is finally public: https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch/114025352519979173 #IDCC25 #DigitalHumanities #DigitalPreservation #SafeguardingResearch

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Who knew that nuclear safety and tracking emerging diseases were all Woke?

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[Uspol] Welp, at least this time around, I'm more practiced at this. Great turnout, enthusiastic supportive honks from passing drivers. Warm, friendly, peaceful crowd organized by #indivisible. 1500 people or so, #Oakland CA. #protest #democracy #fiftyfiftyone

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All over the US government right now we hear rumors like this one, of the NSA forced to delete every doc in its internal systems that mentions privilege escalation attacks because the Grand Stupids In Charge won't allow the word "privilege" on any government server […]

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OK. Sever stats over the weekend showed a 10x spike in use for Open Context. But all the user agents are Chrome with Ubuntu OS all to hit random pages with very little navigation that makes any sense. So, another case of bots pretending to be a human user agent. At least the requests are rate […]

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Paulina Przystupa wrote up a quick guide to finding images resources you can reuse for instruction in #archaeology and #culturalheritage. Go take a look! https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/02/06/where-to-find-reusable-images/ #dataLiteracy #OpenData

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While Trump is mainly just corrupt and cruel, Elon and his ilk seem to have more ideologically inspired madness: Accelerationism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerationism

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Lots of key #opensource projects have codes of conduct that try to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. For example, here's Django's: https://www.djangoproject.com/conduct/ Reject pull requests to undermine these goals. The current regime and corporations going along with the party line […]

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"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims […]

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The new #Trump administration and #science, whether it be #openscience or not. An immensely valuable live thread by @petersuber. Thanks Peter ! https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/113874200243958520

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A major #library and #informationScience program silenced by the #freespeech4all absolutists I see: https://indigenousdatalab.org/

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[USpol] You're only powerless if you're dead. Until then, lots of little acts of persuasion and protest, as much as you can do given your personal circumstances.

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These the words now forbidden in the Free Speech United States of Academic Freedom..... Thread 1/n

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One more #uspol: If you're in the US, calling your reps is a fantastic way to waste your enemies' time, nudge semi-allies into action, and thank your fighters. Staffers swear it matters. 5 Calls has issue backgrounders, rep-finders, and (scroll down on an issue page) call scripts for calling […]

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Lawsuit filed today against Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to enjoin him from continuing to give Musk and his minions personal and financial information about millions of Americans. Complaint at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69607077/1/alliance-for-retired-americans-v-bessent/ […]

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You can't spell "Felon" without "elon".

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Wrote my senators and congress rep about all of this. It's a little thing, but not meaningless. Silence is complicity, and expressing outrage helps remind our representatives that we fucking care what happens.

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Trump is threatening to annex Canada and is using measures just short of war in these threats. And Musk personally controls the entire US Treasury. This is obviously all dangerously insane, and surreal. I really wonder if #Musk uses an #ai #chatbot to advise him on "how to #coup".

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With Musk in control of the Treasury, Trump is the puppet, Musk the puppeteer.

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Outstanding -- Harvard Library Innovation Lab taking the initiative! The Innovation Lab has "created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across […]

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I'm looking to volunteer to do some #DataRescue . I have some #Python proficiencies and experience with this during Trump 1.0, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine (#SUCHO). But are there any #digitalrepositories organizing anything right now? This needs to be a collective effort.

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77 million owe the rest of us a big apology.

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Trump fired everyone in charge of airplane safety, and a week later we had a tragic accident. Go figure. I can't wait to see what happens to our water supply, electric grid, roads, bridges, nuclear plants, nuclear arsenal, infectious disease response, banking sector, etc .... As an […]

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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#Trump pauses all federal #grants, sparking confusion The WH budget office is ordering a pause to all grants & #loans disbursed by the #federal govt, acc/to an internal memo sent to agencies Mon, creating significant confusion across Washington. In a 2-pg doc, Matthew J. Vaeth, the acting […]

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Interested in teaching #archaeology and some #dataLiteracy ? Need something short and too the point? Check out these recent updates from Paulina Przystupa! https://alexandriaarchive.org/2025/01/24/introducing-data-story-shorts/

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Does anyone know why people from around the world were suddenly interested in the #archaeology of staircases yesterday? Open Context usage doubled, and most of the new traffic had to do with searches on stairs, stairways, erosion of stairs, etc. Lots of the incoming links where from various […]

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We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer on the @securedrop team at @freedomofpress. SecureDrop is open source whistleblowing software. The project is at a critical inflection point as we get ready to build the next-gen version based on a modern cryptographic protocol. 100% remote, full-time […]

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US #public_health folks. Don't accept defeat. The CDC, HHS, etc. are under a gag order, but you all still have power to monitor and inform the public about emerging threats like #H5N1. Start organizing university, state, and local government networks.

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The new regime's gag order on federal public health agencies comes at exactly the wrong time. #H5N1 can adapt to efficient human-to-human transmission at any time, and now we'll get no warning except via fringe rumors from doubtful sources. I hope states like California, with lots of […]

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Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde!

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I guess we're in the expected "shock and awe" stage of this thing. I'm neither shocked nor awed. Dumbshit, dipshit, and dangerous dysfunction is exactly what we expected.

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I'm not excited about a certain old/new demand on my attention. But, I've been doing more to strengthen my local community ties and friendships. That's in my power and it can't hurt.

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Open Context will soon have it's first record of a hedgehog specimen. 🦔 Too cute! I can't wait!

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My daughter is learning #latex. Last time I played with that I accidentally generated a non-Euclidean sigil that summoned Great Cthulhu from His dead/dreaming slumber in the vasty depths. He then consumed all of our souls. Sorry about all that.

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Sigh.

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Huh. According to the Wikipedia, Tolkien probably based the language of Mordor on Hurrian (an ancient language of northern Mesopotamia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Speech Tolkien's world building hobbies have now evolved into a major commercial industry. It's an interesting example of […]

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Driving in San Francisco means lots of faith the Waymo cars won't go HAL9000

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