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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 16h

Yep, that’s what it is in Oz and it works well. Also, voting on a Saturday rather than a Tuesday helps.

suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 20h

“UC Berkeley… has had enormous power in shaping the social and physical environment of its surrounding community. Because this university sits at the nexus of public good, profit, and plunder, our project is history not only *for* the public but also *of* the public.”

Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social · 21h

Berkeley history graduate students reimagine their campus as a public history site. Topics include CA Indigenous history, relationship between CA and Asia/Pacific, campus policing, & campus protest. This is such an amazing project! @historians.org #AHAPerspectives
www.historians.org/perspectives...

New Campus Cartographies – AHA

Infusing historical research into walking tours has helped Andrew Hardy and his fellow graduate students remake their campus into a public history site.

www.historians.org

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 1d

I’m excited to be joining the line-up for this Sunday’s teach in in defense of history and museums. There is much to learn and do, but we’ll do all of it better together.

Hopefully I’ll see you there.

linktr.ee/historyteachin

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 1d

Has there even been a more apt visual metaphor?!

Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 1d

The White House heard the complaints

Dismissed them as “manufactured outrage”

And kept demolishing the East Wing on Tuesday

New photo and update with @jonathanreports.bsky.social

White House continues East Wing demolition amid cries of Trump overreach

More of the structure was torn down Tuesday to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom, despite complaints about the project’s lack of transparency,

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nicole Hemmer @pastpunditry.bsky.social · 2d

DC friends!! Join us on this Sunday on the National Mall for a teach-in in defense of history and museums, ft. an all-star line-up! We’ll be there from sun-up to sun-down. More info here: linktr.ee/historyteachin

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 4d

“Nothing changes the fact that ordinary Americans from across the country helped to make this exhibit happen by standing up for racial justice and declaring that the Confederate cause no longer represents our collective values and understanding of history.”

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 4d

“This administration can erase African American history from websites; order exhibits removed from Smithsonian museums and National Park Service sites; and even order a Confederate monument returned to Arlington National Cemetery…”

Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 4d

The Black artists featured in this exhibit have made a statement that no Executive Order from the president, attempting to “restore sanity and truth” to American history, can white wash. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/confederat...

Confederates Dangle Helplessly in the Air in New Art Exhibit

We finally have a glimpse of some of the new sculptures and reinterpreted Confederate monuments that will go on display as part of a new exhibit at the Brick museum in Los Angeles in just a couple of ...

kevinmlevin.substack.com

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Mike Dickison @adzebill.bsky.social · 5d

Feeling very proud of my Wikipedian-in-Residence colleagues who tackled an armed suicidal man. Andrew Lih, Wikimedia Laureate 2022, prised a loaded gun from his hand. Richard and Andrew are bookish computer guys who work in libraries. That takes some guts.

Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

By Andy Newman

At Civic Hall in Union Square, a man with a gun walked onto the stage at a Wikipedia conference.

Richard Knipel, CUNY's Wikimedian-in-Residence, jumped the gunman and, with others' help, saved the day. Gift link

Wikipedia Volunteers Avert Tragedy by Taking Down Gunman at Conference

www.nytimes.com

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 5d

Woah. How amazing and brave of Andrew! I am so relieved it turned out the way it did.

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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 9d

Chris Van Hollen for Senate Minority Leader.

We need someone at the helm who understands the fight we're in and is willing to fight it. As far as I've seen, no one in the Senate Dem caucus is speaking with more clarity or conviction.

Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 9d

These are the same kind of weasels who would’ve called George Washington & America’s revolutionaries “terrorists.” They spend their days sucking up to King Trump & demonizing peaceful protest just as some in America sought to appease King George III.

Looking forward to No Kings Day.

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

www.politico.com

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 9d

This sounds like an amazing book, but “Due to new U.S. customs regulations, we are unable to accept orders from the United States."

We are kept further from new knowledge again.

transcript Verlag @transcript-verlag.bsky.social · 11d

How to challenge colonial legacies: Namibian and South African artists use archives to develop alternative memory practices.

https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7760-7/

@snf-fns.ch
#MemoryCulture #Colonialism #Namibia #SouthAfrica

Das Buch-Cover von »Troubling Archives« auf lachsfarbenem Hintergrund.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 13d

This sounds excellent.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 14d

“But the data out of Montgomery County, Maryland makes one thing unmistakably clear: this crusade is not a mass movement. It’s the obsession of a vanishingly small minority…”

Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 16d

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To

After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

open.substack.com

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Monika Bargmann @librarymistress.bsky.social · 24d

"Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities" invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their projects to an interactive map and searchable database of 650+ international #Black #DigitalHumanities and #PublicHumanities projects. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities - Call for Projects | H-Net

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities formally invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their projects to our interactive map and searchable database of 650+ i...

networks.h-net.org

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · Sep 19

100%

E.E. Reed @poetryforsupper.bsky.social · Aug 2

We built NPR. We built PBS.

It seems to me we should also build National Public Index.

A public search engine for a public web.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 15

These are so great!

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 15

These are really great. Could people order custom versions of their own row house? Because that could be amazing.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 13

This sounds so good.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 27

People of Connecticut and regions nearby. Come on out on September 16! Free and open to the public.

A poster for a talk I'm giving.

Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut

Free and open to the public.

"Extracting the Past: How the 'AI' Industry Exploits Art History and What We Can Do to Stop It."

Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises, however, are not supported by the reality of what computer vision--the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art--can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms' offers?

This talk responds to this question by providing an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. However, the main focus of this talk is not what computer vision does. Rather, Drimmer considers the culture of the AI industry, its main objectives, and the dangerous vision for the future that it promises--and whether those promises are credible or even in good faith. This vision for the future has relied on extracting history, and art history in particular, and Drimmer argues that it is our responsibility as art historians to be knowledgeable about the forms this extraction takes. Drimmer concludes with suggestions about what we can do to protect the subjects and practitioners of our discipline, as well as education in the humanities more broadly, against this incursion. Drimmer does not intend an intransigent rejection of a given technology; rather this talk articulates a challenge that is grounded in knowledge of the historical origins and corporate practices of the AI industry today.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 13

This sounds so good.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 27

People of Connecticut and regions nearby. Come on out on September 16! Free and open to the public.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 12

I laugh, heartily.

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sharonmleon.bsky.social @sharonmleon.bsky.social · Sep 11

I miss a world where we wrote and engaged with each other about DH in small bites. @dhnow.bsky.social helped create that community and I'm glad it's back.

digitalscholar.org/dhnow-and-co...

Digital Scholar

The Corporation for Digital Scholarship is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of software and services for researchers and cultural heritage institutions.

digitalscholar.org

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 11

Good.

American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · Sep 11

NEWS: A federal court in Rhode Island has ruled that the Institute of Museum and Library Services must remain open pending resolution of the government's appeal in the case Rhode Island v. Trump. ALA is grateful that the courts agree: IMLS must remain open. #ForOurLibraries

New: Federal court denies government's motion in Rhode Island lawsuit. The First Circuit today ruled that the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services must remain open pending resolution of the government's appeal. Show up for our libraries, American Library Association.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 11

This is excellent.

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Sep 11

A powerful essay from Joan Scott as universities become sites of fear.

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 9

Looking forward to following along 😊

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 6

Woke up to discover that the roads were blocked on all sides by the Maryland Cycling Classic, then proceeded to have an absorbing, if unexpected, day watching some great cycling—dashing from the TV to the street when the riders passed by. It was a much needed distraction and a lovely day.

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