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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · Jul 20
Spent some time with Corita yesterday—
Typewritten class directives recorded by a student who took a course with artist Corita Kent in the 1960s at Immaculate Heart: "Keep a journal—fill it with everything you come in contact with—be very aware—of shapes, everything, because letters are shapes." "Make a list of 100 signs you read today. Look and jot down the message that it gives you." From the Papers of Corita, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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becca @beccaquon.bsky.social · 14h
one bright spot on this friday: it's payday and my federal worker spouse is still working & getting paid, so I'm going to support a few lovely projects that've come my way this week. first: this family storytelling game from the South Asian American Digital Archive.
Memory Bucket
A game to uncover the stories you've always wished you knew.
www.kickstarter.com
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
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LIS Pedagogy Chat @lispedagogychat.bsky.social · 18h
What support do library workers need to successfully conduct and publish original research? Join next week’s chat, led by Hailley Fargo, Charissa Powell, Chelsea Heinbach, and Nimisha Bhat from LibParlor! Friday, October 17, 2 pm ET. Learn more at www.lispedagogychat.org/schedule-reg...
Schedule & Registration — LIS Pedagogy Chat
www.lispedagogychat.org
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mimosaishere.bsky.social
MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 18h
You might find this paper by my colleague ZM to be useful in understanding the latest attempts we're taking to safeguard against the loss of born-digital materials (happy to share PDF separately):

hstalks.com/article/9123...
A born-digital archiving model grounded in collaboration and automation
hstalks.com
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 19h
"What did those curlicues express, and what did they repress? Such a fine handwriting, so much order! What does this neatness hide of the corruption and public pain?"

In 3 lines, @amitava.bsky.social will make you want to visit the archives, sans AI: amitavakumar.substack.com/p/a-train-is...?
A Train Is Approaching
Announcing a New Book
amitavakumar.substack.com
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Josh Lappen @jlappen1.bsky.social · 1d
if there is one single thing that we should have learned from the last 30 years, and yet haven't, it's that the curation of information is an extremely difficult task - a science! - and that when you transfer it from trained experts to amateurs or automata, the results can be disastrous.
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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 1d
My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...
University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill
The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...
www.unc.edu
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d
"“Mar-a-Lago Face” and “Republican makeup” are sort of ahistorical reimaginings of the “classic” 1950s beauty ideal through the lens of 1980s excess, brought to life with 2025’s modern cosmetic technology."

jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...
Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics)
Interview unlocked.
jessicadefino.substack.com
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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 1d
My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...
University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill
The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...
www.unc.edu
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d
"We’re left at a crossroads where we must consider nothing less than what kind of jobs we want people to be able to do, what kind of work and which institutions we think are important as a society, and what we’re willing to do to protect them ..." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...?
The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d
"Gen. AI is still best at select tasks that do not require consistent reliability—hence its purveyors taking aim at art & creative industries..."

(h/t @robertjweisberg.bsky.social)

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...?
The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d
"It is important to not just hate this stuff, but to ask ourselves why we hate it. I think what we may find is that deep under all that anger, is a love of what is human."

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
houseofmirrors.substack.com
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d
"The ability to feel, and feel deeply, is not a bug but a feature of being a human, of being mortal... they see the body as a gross, inefficient object that connects them to people they deem lower than them..." houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
houseofmirrors.substack.com
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 1d
"It’s not a new or novel observation that being rich usually makes you weird, but there is something uniquely weird about our era’s wealthy."

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...
You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual
The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies
houseofmirrors.substack.com
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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d
Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 2d
Bravo! That's fantastic, Gauri.
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 2d
@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...
Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation
India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 2d
As a daily bus rider in a different but no less slow to respond public transit system, this 🧵 is music, sustenance, and then some for my weary commuting soul.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d
I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.
Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 2d
because i am still 15 y.o. inside i will blast this at full volume to drive away the blah

music.youtube.com/watch?v=n60T...
Legs
YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 2d
rainy day, sopping wet bag, grumble grumble commute blah blergh
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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 3d
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 3d
I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21

brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

www.harvard.com/event/kareem...
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 3d
This current administration is the greatest threat to academic freedom & sci. research since the ebb of McCarthyism. And this compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we teach, what we research, what drugs we develop, & how we express ourselves."
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 3d
I think the myth of objectivity is what allows people to believe that GAI can output a meaningful summary.

Prior knowledge doesn't matter, context doesn't matter, relationships don't matter, so a summary written in a particular 'style' is fine.
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eun song @aestheticspolitics.bsky.social · 4d
Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...
The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project
In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...
marxedproject.org
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mimosaishere.bsky.social
MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 3d
Explain your username:

Mimosa is my real name. The "is here" is a pun and plays with the idea of being _on here_ but also, not quite here because what's happening in real-time is not quite interwebs' time.

(this was back when IRL vs. "on the Internet" was a necessary distinction)
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 3d
Explain your username:

My last name is Noe. My first name is Matthew.

People have made weird jokes about "Noe" (some haha cringe, some rude and bullying) my entire life.

I thought it was an amusing way to reclaim some of that back in 2008. And despite me not loving "Matt" it is pithier 🤷‍♂️
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 3d
Explain your username:

It's a line from Parks & Rec one of my fave shows. In that show, Leslie has an ongoing cold war with librarians. She calls them punk-ass book jockeys as she overturned a book cart and flees. I'm a librarian who is punk in spirit if not attire, so, yeah.
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