Anna Kijas

In my U.S. Civil Rights Movements class, we spend a lot of time thinking about historical memory. When movements get reduced to a few iconic leaders, the collective labor that made change possible disappears from view. It also obscures an important lesson: collective action is effective & difficult.

Data in Action Symposium, March 11, 2026, 8:30-5:00pm, Hayward Room, Hanover Inn.

In or around Dartmouth? Join me and a lineup of much cooler people for the Data in Action Symposium this Wednesday!

Let's chat indigenous data sovereignty, humanities data, data orientation, and data and democracy.

sites.dartmouth.edu/dhse-symposi...

(With thanks to @roopikarisam.bsky.social.)

ICE Detention of Nashville Journalist is an "Alarming Threat" to Press Freedom PEN America expressed alarm today at the ICE detention of Nashville Noticias journalist Estefany Rodríguez in Tennessee. Rodríguez, who has a work permit and an active asylum case, came to the United ...

PEN America: “The detention of journalist Estefany Rodríguez by ICE is an alarming threat to press freedom that follows a well-worn path by this administration. Journalists must be able to report freely without fear that their work will expose them to government retaliation." pen.org/press-releas...

Patrimoine mondial à Tyr : le site archéologique frôlé par une frappe israélienne Une frappe israélienne a atteint vendredi aux alentours de 16 heures les abords immédiats du site archéologique de Tyr, joyau phénicien classé au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco.Si les vestiges...

One of the Israeli strikes in Tyre, Lebanon, nearly hit an ancient archeological site www.lorientlejour.com/article/1497...

Tyre is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

Remembering this line today: "The scandal is not one of ignorance but indifference... As long as enrollment numbers hold and tuition checks clear, they turn a blind eye to the learning crisis while faculty are left to manage the educational carnage in their classrooms"

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says Imported chips and hardware mean the AI investemtns are translating into US GDP growth.

AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

02.03.2026 : Music and Digital Humanities | mdw events Socially Responsible Digital Humanities during Precarious Times with Anna E. Kijas (Lilly Music Library, Tufts University)

Excited to be heading to Vienna at the end of the week to give a lecture on “Socially Responsible Digital Humanities during Precarious Times” as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series Music and Digital Humanities at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. shorturl.at/Y5VRa

The Trump Administration Is Intentionally Erasing the Black History Told by Public Lands and Waters Public lands tell America’s full and true story, yet new Trump administration policies threaten to erase Black history, undermine access, and distort the national memory.

Public lands can be used to tell the U.S. full and true story. But, the TFG Is Intentionally Erasing the Black History Told by Public Lands and Waters www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...

European strategic autonomy must come through reinventing the welfare state Some thoughts from my WIRED Italy talk in Friuli-Venezia Giulia; I used this region to exemplify the key point that Europe doesn’t need a Silicon Valley—it needs a 21st-century welfare state

"This is precisely what an entrepreneurial state looks like at the regional and city level: not a state that merely funds innovation, but a state whose public services are the innovation system" rainerkattel.substack.com/p/european-s...

Congress failed to pass the SAVE Act last year for good reason: it’s an anti-voter bill. But now lawmakers have revived it despite overwhelming public opposition. Tell Congress to reject the SAVE Act: bit.ly/4tmVIor

We did archive the artmuseum.ks.ua domain.

Again and again, guardrails are a scam

Amazing! Thanks for letting me know :)

I completed 95 name classifications today during today’s #DouglassDay! Thank you to @douglassday.bsky.social and @ccp-org.bsky.social for hosting another great event!

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.

In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.

This is how he did it (published 2021):

There is a genre of "AI" labor that is as horrofying to read as Upton Sinclairs The Jungle—and just as important data-workers.org/michael/

During a zine making session this week, I made one as a tribute to the people of Minneapolis with Springsteen’s lyrics to “Streets of Minneapolis” - feel free to print out and share: bit.ly/49SrD8x.
If you need help with folding a zine, go to plix.mit.edu/facilitator-.... 🎶 is youtu.be/GDaPdpwA4Iw

With news today about a surge in gas-fired power generation for data centers and AI, here's an occasional reminder that I maintain Against AI and Its Environmental Harms, an open library with journalism, peer-reviewed research, and other media for teaching: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI...

Impeach Kristi Noem

National Nurses United (@nationalnurses.bsky.social) The largest RN union in U.S. history, with more than 225,000 nurses nationwide.

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

It's time to abolish Trump’s ICE.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.

this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke

There are now a half dozen occasions in the last year in which NATO intelligence services have discovered that high classified intelligence reporting furnished to the Trump White House were furnished to the Kremlin within hours (I posted the story about this in Handelsblad).

Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.

I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...