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Dorothy Berry

@dorothyjberry.bsky.social

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Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20. I am, ashamedly, a curator now too all opinions my own, not my employer's www.dorothy-berry.com

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · Dec 12

I'll just pin an intro post: I'm me! I work in digital interpretation and discovery in GLAM settings! I focus on African American history! I have an MA in Ethnomusicology, I studied Williams & Walker! I have a degree in voice performance, I studied extended technique/new music! I do too much!

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 12h

@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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Judith Barr @jebarr.bsky.social · 2d

What I say: microfilm is a great way of accessing publications that are otherwise dust! wow it’s the whole hearst inventories! ALL OF SOTHEBY’S WITH BUYER ANNOTATIONS!!!

what they hear:

three skeletons are dancing in a cemetery

Alt: three skeletons are dancing in a cemetery

media.tenor.com

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 2d

I even let my picture be taken, willingly! Those who know me know what a commitment to this project is represented here!

Sign up for the book release conversation, me and my pal and colleague Barrye Brown from the Schomburg!
Oct 20 7pm EST
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 2d

I have a UK copy and thought the original post was about another book!

Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 2d

I am enjoying this book and the way it feels, for me, like an [un]comfortable sink back into the warm waters of chewing over complex and interwoven issues in long-form. What struck me here, though, was the difference in UK and US covers!

UK cover of Fara Dabhoiwala's "What is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea," which unlike the minimalist US design has an early 19th (late 18th?) century colorful illustration of people trampling one another, flyers/pamphlets in hand

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 6d

In two weeks!

rifkindcenter.org/rifkind-cent...

A poster for an event at T
HE RIFKIND CENTER
The City College of New York
Title: Stripmining History: How the 'Al' Industry Extracts the Past & What Scholars in the Humanities Can Do to Stop It"
IN-PERSON & VIA ZOOM
OCTOBER 16 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM | NAC 6/316

Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor, UMass Amherst

more details in the link in the post

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 2d

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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Archiving The Black Web @atbw.bsky.social · 2d

Calling journalists and media professionals interested in digital preservation and information integrity! We are excited to announce the ATBW/Onyx Impact @theonyximpact.bsky.social
Information Integrity & Web Archiving Fellowship. Sign up to know when applications open. tinyurl.com/atbw-iiwa

A digital poster with information and a link about the Information Integrity and Web Archiving Fellowship, a 2026 collaborative fellowship offered by Archiving the Black Web and Onyx Impact for journalists and media professionals. tinyurl.com/ATBW-IIWA

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Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 4d

"I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge."

Print it and put it on a T-shirt.

Frames @oxinabox.bsky.social · 4d

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

Sick burn. finance.yahoo.com/news/22-old-...

Critics see something different. Suresh Venkatasubramanian, director of the Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination, and Redesign at Brown University, said that Friend is clearly an example of a frothy AI company, but that it also bore a “pernicious” resemblance to a mostly forgotten early-20th-century fad: “radium necklaces.”  When Marie Curie’s new glowing discovery first hit the market, jewelers embedded radium in pendants and bracelets and sold them as chic wellness accessories—until decades later, people started dying of cancer.  “I look at Friend and I think, ‘Are we making the same mistake?’” Venkatasubramanian told Fortune. “We’re rushing these intimacy machines into people’s lives with no evidence they’re safe, or even helpful.”

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Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com · 6d

Budget cuts come for us all. My contract with Amtrak is not being renewed and it's up tomorrow.

I'll have more time to work on the Map Center but until it's fully off the ground, I'm a GIS analyst with 12 years of experience in ESRI, open source, education and cartography.
#gigeconomy
#opentowork

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 5d

this looks very appppealling to me!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 6d

In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

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Sidra Collaborative @sidracollaborative.bsky.social · 6d

Introducing Sidra Co-Founder Hannah Alpert-Abrams! Hannah has over 15 years of experience in arts, culture, and the humanities as a practitioner and funder. Hannah can help establish new grant programs, manage funding processes, and understand the impact of your work.

sidracollaborative.com/team/

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 8d

this picture from a @shannonmattern.bsky.social class visit captures so much of my professional life as the Great and Nonpowerful Oz

Screenshot of a zoom meeting with a small window of the speaker in the top right. The second view, taking up most of the frame, is from a lecture room camera angled so that the seated professor is facing the camera, as is a large pull down screen with a mirrored image of that in the top right window. The backs of 4 students heads are visible in the seating rows.

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Emily Higgs Kopin S. Pumpkins @ehkopin.bsky.social · 8d

I'm a "do whatever you want with your own books" librarian, not a "anything printed and bound is now a sacred untouchable object" librarian

Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social · 8d

Unpopular opinion from a librarian,, but I love a tatty paperback- shows it’s been loved and read. I read in the bath too. #SorryNotSorry

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 8d

Breaking the spine of a book is psychopath behaviour. It doesn't even take much care to read without doing so, you have to go out of your way to be that clumsy and destructive.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 9d

I rarely do these PSAs, but peoples, if you have graduate students on what remains of the “market,” please make sure they understand they can’t rely on automated notifications from Interfolio and its ilk to get their letters in order. They need to be in actual human contact with their writers.

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aj boston @aj-boston.bsky.social · 9d

it's true that a.i. boosterism is suspect

but there are landfills of AOL free trial disks that speak to the "try hard" promotion of the internet

email, chat, Napster, browsers, forums, and RSS are examples of applications and use cases that made the underlying tech useful to the majority of people

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28d

What, exactly, does this string of words mean? Why does everyone who stands to profit from selling "AI" love to repeat it? And what's the value of slogans that masquerade as history?

sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/...

"The Printing Press Democratized Knowledge": When Slogans Masquerade as History — Sonja Drimmer

The phrase is said so frequently it seems, like the mechanism it celebrates, to mechanically replicate itself.  It's become a favorite catchphrase among tech boosters of any sort (see my post on...

sonjadrimmer.com

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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 10d

JOB ALERT: Assistant Professor of Art at Smith College, focusing on artists’ books and artist publications:

apply.interfolio.com/173234?fbcli...

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apply.interfolio.com

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · Jul 15

by Vivian Maier.

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 10d

a question i have for so many cultural heritage tech colleagues who have started their conversations with "this is not possible for archivists to do but AI..." I bite my tongue and don't say that maybe archivists could do things if they were given the resources these guys are to play around

Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 10d

I see the version of that that follows "a lot of these tools only seem good to people who are trying to improve jobs that they can't define." I've spent a lot of work hours mulling the lack of base understanding that lead to a desire to streamline positions that one can't functionally describe

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 10d

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves.

A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10d

“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”

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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 10d

I am so excited about Simone Leigh’s upcoming exhibition at the Royal Academy. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Simone Leigh’s ‘monumental’ Royal Academy show set for 2027

Exhibition by African American artist to focus on architecture, art under fascism and her own links to the UK

www.theguardian.com

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