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Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
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Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

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Read books. Say no.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Backyard beans! This is our first year growing them.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Also grateful to the state park employee who saw me leap out our car to see why we smelled burning and heard a noise, and, unbidden, came over to say it’s normal since we were riding the breaks down the mountain, not to worry.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The attendee roster at the Bezos wedding says everything one needs to know abt class solidarity. Rich NY celebrities railing against Mamdani aren’t half as worried abt having to pay taxes as they are committed to preserving an underclass. They don’t wanna pay taxes, sure; but they abhor poors more.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

So grateful for state parks and for the lovely days out they offer.

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I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

submitted 1 day ago • 481 comments

Read books. Say no.

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This is a guy who always made it to base when he played baseball as a kid—dems take note

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

And destroying education. We’re also doing that too!

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the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

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Hey, it is our semi-regular feature of "Today is the second best day to learn/re-learn/be reminded about how to take care of your body that can get pregnant so you can thrive in dark times!" Do you have plan b in your house? Having a few pills on hand for "in case" is so easy! (Don't hoard)

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If your position is secure enough to permit it, be the person in the room who says no. Be the person in the room prepared to articulate why your organization has no business adopting AI into its operations, why doing so is harmful.

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A couple of years ago, in jest, I suggested we hire a poet to write a poem about our dog. My husband went ahead and wrote it himself, an epic inspired by Gilgamesh. Please enjoy one of my favorite parts, which I return to read at least once a week, as I am doing now.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below. They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models." The web is being murdered. So aggravating. digital.hagley.org

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

“Budgets are moral documents, and these cuts to libraries show that lawmakers do not believe we should invest in strong communities. Every Ohioan deserves the opportunity to better themselves and engage fully in public life. Libraries are the infrastructure that makes all of these things possible.”

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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops

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Trying something new with library committees. Before agreeing to join, I am asking truly toxic questions like: What is the purpose of this group? What are our intended outcomes? Who do we report to? Without fail, there is never a response and I get to continue doing things like... my job.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We made vegan suya sandwiches for dinner and I cannot recommend them highly enough. Damn.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Very proud to announce our new volume on The Dutch Americas: Art histories of the Atlantic World - 11 essays that are ALL open access by a truly fantastic group of emerging and established scholars : brill.com/view/journal...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Something really important about organizations’ decisions to adopt AI tools which people need to understand is this: it often comes down to a room of a handful of people who are simply uninformed and think it’s just a new norm they’ll be left behind on if they don’t find a use for it in their work.

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“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

There's a whole subsection about information literacy and the work of libraries as a method of resistance to AI hype in The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna. Let's make sure that the authors' trust in us is warranted, okay? 📚

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