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Monika Bargmann @librarymistress.bsky.social · 9d

"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...

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Adi Robertson @thedextriarchy.bsky.social · 19d

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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 · 23d

These are so great!

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 24d

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 · 24d

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 · 25d

I laugh, heartily.

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sharonmleon.bsky.social @sharonmleon.bsky.social · 26d

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 · 27d

Good.

American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 27d

This is excellent.

Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 27d

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 · 29d

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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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yep, I spent a decade in higher education admin before becoming an academic and I’m so grateful that I have a more complete sense of how each contributes to the work.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 5

All right, putting it out into the world… if anyone back in Australia has hot tips on a job for a museum studies professor who loves teaching and public programs and has leadership and strategic thinking skills, I’d love to hear them. Holding on here, but longing to be back in Oz.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 5

I feel you. When I used to come to conferences in the US, the 30 or so hours travelling home held a kind of blissful aloneness.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 4

I’ve just shared with our jobs list.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 4

Part Simpsons, part Bluey… combine them and you’re pretty much there.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 4

I got mine, too. There was a line!

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Sep 3

I saw three of these on my walk to work…

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why are federal agents wearing masks to hide their face? Public servants should face the public — take off your masks!

We just launched ads at over a hundred bus shelters around Washington, D.C. — check them out!

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Watching how Mayor Jacobs and Gov. Pritzker are having to explain why they oppose Trump’s military occupation is infuriating. Those of us who live in Baltimore, Chicago, and other cities cited by Trump are not a backdrop for a strongman’s show of power.

open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

*neighborhood in southeast Baltimore

open.substack.com

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Aug 26

I mean, these are all great ideas.

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Aug 25

Oh no!!

David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · Aug 25

australia joins the countries that have stopped mailing parcels to the US due to new tariffs
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Breaking: Australia Post halts most parcel postage to US immediately

Australia Post is taking the extraordinary step of immediately suspending many forms of shipping to the United States, as a Trump administration tariff deadline approaches on Friday.

www.abc.net.au

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Aug 25

Meanwhile, our pediatrician told us they could no longer order the COVID vaccine at all and if we found somewhere with a supply that our kids could get, we should do it.

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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · Aug 22

"None of us can imagine what it is like to be subjected to the unremitting physical, psychological, and social violence of chattel slavery. But museums such as the NMAAHC bring us closer ... by sharing 1st person accounts of those who lived through that terrible violence."

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suse anderson @shineslike.bsky.social · Aug 21

It feels kinda weird to share a piece that I’m also quoted in, but this from Beth English is great: “What we’re really seeing in those exhibits is a museum system growing in honesty and complexity, as historians explore new sources and approaches that expand and enrich our understanding of history”

Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Scholars see sanitizing.

President Donald Trump threatened to unleash his attorneys on the Smithsonian, saying the institution was fixated on “how bad slavery was.”

www.washingtonpost.com

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