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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · 1d

Please read my interview with Métis archaeologist Dr Kisha Supernant @archaeomapper.bsky.social! We discuss the role of media technologies in documenting histories of colonial genocide at residential institutions in Canada.
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The End of Archaeology as We Know It - World Records

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · 22d

"Just Evidence," the World Records volume that I edited with @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social and LaCharles Ward @blurrdblue.bsky.social, launches today! It asks: What does accountability look (and sound and feel) like? Read the intro here:
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Just Evidence - World Records

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · 22d

Thanks for reading & sharing!

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Denise Balkissoon @balkissoon.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wrote a column thenarwhal.ca/seasonal-dep... and talked to CBC's Allie Jaynes www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb... about how wildfires, smoke, extreme heat and other effects of climate change are making summer a bummer, and why I'm trying to push past my sadness about it to tap into my anger, and love.

I have seasonal depression in the summer now | The Narwhal

Extreme heat, wildfires and pests — fuelled by climate change — threaten to make summer the worst season in Canada. It’s time to talk about it

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Aug 16

Cognitive estrangement

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Aug 16

All the early time lapse stuff too

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Aug 16

This seems pretty sci fi to me! m.youtube.com/watch?v=lfdK...

Démolition d'un mur [Demolition of a Wall] (Lumière, 1896)

YouTube video by Cinema History

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Tor Krever @torkrever.bsky.social · Jun 24

Our new issue of the London Review of International Law is out with articles by Tanja Aalberts, @ingovenzke.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, Wouter Werner, Sasha Crawford-Holland, @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social, Andrew Williams, and the Medellín Group.

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Volume 13 Issue 1 | London Review of International Law | Oxford Academic

Publishes high-quality scholarship on international law from around the world. While no area of international legal interest is excluded, the journal prioritises non-doctrinal scholarship, including t...

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · May 23

Excited to be presenting some work at UCSB next week! Hope to see you there

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · May 5

Over the course of the summer, pieces from the forthcoming issue of World Records, titled "Just Evidence," co-edited by LaCharles Ward, Sasha Crawford-Holland, and myself, will be released. The full issue with introduction will be available late summer! worldrecordsjournal.org/category/vol...

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Patrick Brian Smith @patrickbriansmith.bsky.social · May 8

A new co-authored piece that critically examines open-source investigation’s increasing reliance on—and deference to—the law. Written with Sasha Crawford-Holland and Andrew Williams. doi.org/10.1093/lril...

Law’s capture of human rights focused open-source investigation

Abstract. With new protocols emerging to regulate the field of open-source investigation, this article critiques their widespread deference to the requirem

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Open City Documentary Festival @opencitydocs.bsky.social · Apr 20

Forensic techniques have become a dominant form of artist-activist media practice. Running across the festival, Just Evidence, organised with World Records Journal, features screenings & events asking how these forensic practices can be reconciled to radical ends.

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Just Evidence - Open City Documentary Festival

What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic.  From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Apr 17

We'll also be at Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social for a roundtable:

Just Evidence @ Goldsmiths

Join us for a discussion of the forthcoming 'Just Evidence' special issue of World Records at Goldsmiths, University of London.

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Apr 17

London pals-- hope to see you at these exciting events with @opencitydocs.bsky.social, where we ask: What does accountability look like?

Just Evidence - Open City Documentary Festival

What does accountability look like? In recent years, the answer has been overwhelmingly forensic.  From the news to true crime podcasts, and from art exhibitions to film festivals, forensic modes of ...

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Mar 18

Looking forward to learning from these brilliant people !

Brian Jacobson @bleudeciel.bsky.social · Mar 18

June 5-6 at Caltech w/

James Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social
Katerina Korola @katerinakorola.bsky.social
Debashree Mukherjee @debashree.bsky.social
Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social
Jennifer Fay
Thomas Patrick Pringle
Carolina Sá Carvalho
Mehak Sawhney
Anna Stielau
Tinghao Zhou

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · Mar 13

The tech world is pushing AI into everything and telling us it's both the way of the future and inevitable. Meanwhile, in the tech world:

Parents in Tech Want Their Kids to Go Into the Arts Instead

Hands-on jobs that demand creativity are seen as less vulnerable to artificial intelligence.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Mar 11

This is exactly what they're trying to achieve by destroying government services that benefit the public. A VC-backed startup intervenes to gather data that the National Weather Service was previously collecting, and before we know it, we will be paying them for what was once funded by our taxes.

As Staffing Cuts at NWS Lead to Suspended Weather Balloon Launches in Western Alaska, WindBorne Systems Steps Up to Fill Atmospheric Data Gaps

Following the announcement from the National Weather Service (NWS) that it is suspending its weather balloon launches in Kotzebue, Alaska indefinitely

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · Mar 4

My latest: The mass firings at NOAA can feel abstract. Here's what was lost at one research center -- the birthplace of climate modeling.

Fired staff became U.S. citizens to pursue these dream jobs, only to have their dreams upended.

NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting

Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Mar 4

even if you don't like the idea of the state on principle you will really not like what's left of it after the right hacks at it

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Feb 26

trees are woke

Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · Feb 26

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s termination of federal funding for a program seeking to restore urban tree canopies in low-income areas will leave one Nashville-based nonprofit and the tree farmers that supply them high and dry, the nonprofit says. From @cstephenson.bsky.social.

USDA cuts $1M grant for Nashville urban canopy program; Nonprofit says move will hurt tree farms • Tennessee Lookout

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s stoppage of funds for a program that restores tree canopies in low-income areas leaves a Nashville group short.

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · Feb 6

This cover is a great example of why we need the 'A' in #STEAM.
The A is for Arts, signifying the importance of incorporating creative thinking & design skills alongside #STEM allowing for a more holistic approach to problem-solving, innovation, and critically, communication, in education.

Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · Feb 6

I think this is my favourite report cover of all time. Any others?

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Race Forward @raceforward.org · Feb 18

@urbaninstitute.bsky.social and @rwjf.bsky.social are collaborating on the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program to fund 30 nonprofits $50,000 each to use data to improve local conditions that help residents live their healthiest lives.

Learn more! localdataforequitablecommunities.org

Equitable Communities

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Roger Senserrich @4freedoms.es · Feb 16

As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network.

All 2469 miles of it.

Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

Nathie @nathievr.bsky.social · Feb 16

This is Meta’s brand new ad for Horizon Worlds. Not sure how I’m supposed to feel about it.

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Sasha Crawford-Holland @sashach.bsky.social · Feb 9

This week, looking forward to teaching Fred Turner's defense of bureaucratic institutions against Silicon Valley's ethos of moving fast and breaking things. Somehow seems relevant? 🤷 🙃
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Machine Politics, by Fred Turner

The rise of the internet and a new age of authoritarianism

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Feb 5

In 2018, Google introduced policies that excluded applying AI to weapons, surveillance, and technologies that “cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” Now that promise is gone. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance

Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.

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