Nanna B Thylstrup
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
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It's here! The National Archives’ #AnnualDigiLecture, in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, is fully booked and takes place tonight at Senate House. We're delighted to welcome Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, speaking on ‘When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age’.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's here! The National Archives’ #AnnualDigiLecture, in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, is fully booked and takes place tonight at Senate House. We're delighted to welcome Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, speaking on ‘When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age’.
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Holy shit one of the things I have been waiting on for months finally happened
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Holy shit one of the things I have been waiting on for months finally happened
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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What the WaPo has become:
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What the WaPo has become:
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
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POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
Duke University, English Department
Job #AJO31122, Postdoctoral Associate, English Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
academicjobsonline.org
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
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My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
November 9, 2025 at 1:31 PM
My new book will be out in early December 2025 via
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
@mitpress.bsky.social
Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348...
#HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️
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We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end.
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
Most of the Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt Campus is planned to be demolished by March 2026, if not sooner.
www.space.com/space-explor...
www.space.com/space-explor...
November 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
We’re now watching the murder of space sciences in America. Unless someone can stop this, this is the beginning of the end.
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
The brain drain will accelerate until there’s nothing left to stay for. 🧪🔭
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"Finance and computer science BAs have higher unemployment rates than do Art History graduates; coding is a path to Chipotle."
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Finance and computer science BAs have higher unemployment rates than do Art History graduates; coding is a path to Chipotle."
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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This is why we can’t have nice things
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
@brewster.kahle.org and @murchstudio.com from @internetarchive.eu visited DATA LOSS (@erc.europa.eu) and The Danish Royal Library in September. Now a great interview has come out of it w @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social! Listen here [the interview is in UK]: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...
Prompt | Browser, Claude-skældud og netakiv | Lyt som podcast | DR LYD
Lyt som podcast her på DR LYD. OpenAI har lanceret sin egen browser - og med den kommer løftet om, at ChatGPT kan blive centrum for hele vores online-liv. Men den kan også blive et mareridt for dit pr...
www.dr.dk
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
@brewster.kahle.org and @murchstudio.com from @internetarchive.eu visited DATA LOSS (@erc.europa.eu) and The Danish Royal Library in September. Now a great interview has come out of it w @marcelfard.bsky.social and @moltke.bsky.social! Listen here [the interview is in UK]: www.dr.dk/lyd/special-...
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I really do want to see the lawsuits from people who were assured by Google that its AI platform is all you need to learn how to do major renovations on your house, explicitly including the plumbing and electrics.
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I really do want to see the lawsuits from people who were assured by Google that its AI platform is all you need to learn how to do major renovations on your house, explicitly including the plumbing and electrics.
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One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
October 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
One of the q's on the new citizenship test is incorrect. 1920 is not when "all women" got the right to vote. The 19th A prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement, but didn't guarantee voting. Many women, esp. women of color, remained disenfranchised. #WeTheMen
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...
First delve, now emdashes and parallelisms 🤌🏻
listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them
October 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
First delve, now emdashes and parallelisms 🤌🏻
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We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
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In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
We're seeing lots of headlines about the catastrophic impact of massive data center expansion. But what else could data centers look like?
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
In my perpetual quest to seek out alternative technofutures, I want to highlight the really cool work of Keolu Fox.
🧵
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Good thing the government hasn’t come to rely on AWS for tons of cloud and computing needs!!
Another day when the assimilation of the internet into a tiny number of hands becomes obvious. AWS (Amazon web services) goes down and takes half the internet with it!
October 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Good thing the government hasn’t come to rely on AWS for tons of cloud and computing needs!!
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we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
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See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
October 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
See @vanessathorpe.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social — a devastating story:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
October 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails
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the thing with Wikipedia is that its human editors are way faster at and more diligent in reporting celebrity deaths than even Google's A.I.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM
the thing with Wikipedia is that its human editors are way faster at and more diligent in reporting celebrity deaths than even Google's A.I.