Kat/hleen Burlingame

Pippin from Lord of the Rings asking Aragorn "What about your data? Aragorn replies "My data is in the paper" Pippin then asks "But what about publishing your data so it's more findable and reusable?"

For this week's #MemeMonday, don't be like Aragorn! If you're able to, please consider publishing your data in a reputable repository. We here at DRP deposit our rescued data in #DataLumos from @icpsr.bsky.social

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content Freedom.gov appears to be administered by a branch of the Department of Homeland Security

"The “censorships” that the site purports to counter are not internet shutdowns or broad restrictions on content such as those in place in China and Iran, but European restrictions on hate speech and illegal content such as those in the Digital Services Act, or the UK’s Online Safety Act."

love these shots🫶

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.

Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. As stated in the…

In good news this week! ...hopefully these can be restored by summertime

"​In a time when historical information is actively being deleted, disappeared, or obfuscated, and competing visions of nationhood and citizenship are put forward, how do we critically engage with the archive as a contested site?"

The extractive nature of LLMs can be seen in their exploitation of not only open content, but also in their damage to open infrastructures.

Awful Ai Books is a new blog by a librarian, including helpful tips on how to spot them: "This Awful Ai Book is actually trying to kill you" awfulaibooks.wordpress.com

yes, it's excellent. I saw a pre-screening with an audience of mostly librarians and some of the people featured in it...there were tears and standing ovations

Data for the People! Every day, millions of Americans rely on federal data—often without realizing it. From checking the weather forecast to planning retirement, from tracking disease outbreaks to measuring economic growt...

🙌 "Every day, millions of Americans rely on federal data—often without realizing it...Data for the People! is a new podcast from the Data Foundation that shines a light on this essential but often overlooked infrastructure."

I'm starting to see chatter around the new Wikimedia Enterprise deal that basically amounts to "AI bad=Wikimedia platforms bad now," so this point bears repeating...that this isn't about capitulation but the necessary steps to maintain the integrity of the infrastructure and demand attribution

great point! I like the idea of referring to things like this by their intended function rather than “AI” or their cutesy/anthropomorphized model names…this is “OCR with chatbot UI”

Potentially good use case, but would like to see some more qualitative analysis. Even if there is just a small percentage of error, if those are conceptually or semantically egregious and the whole corpus still needs to be checked and corrected by humans, what really is the efficiency achieved here?

huge loss of a real one here😔 I was just last week re-reading her brilliant piece on "vocational awe"...something I find myself coming back to again and again: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...

Opinion | ICE Is Watching You

On the weaponization of personal data: "If combined with the facial recognition and social media monitoring commonly deployed by the Department of Homeland Security, those reams of data would turbocharge ICE’s terror campaign in the short term and destroy American civil liberties in the long term."

Empire of AI by Karen Hao 🙌

Tracking Gov Info A project that tracks removed, modified, and impacted federal government information & resources

you can also try looking here: sites.google.com/umn.edu/trac...

Hello #DataRescuers! We're excited to start this AMA. We'll be answering questions over the next 2 hours. Please feel free to like, respond, or reskeet as we go.

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

loving the creativity and humor of Philly resistance here🔥

Props to the developers behind ICE Map, cataloguing all known ICE incidents www.icemap.dev

💯 "Movements don’t usually collapse because the enemy is too strong, but because we refuse to confront the internal habits that make us undisciplined, incoherent, and easy to defeat."

As Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections:
www.science.org/cont...

MOUNT VERNON TO PHILADELPHIA: A Path to Freedom-For Some The nine enslaved men and women of the President's House were chosen by Washington to accompany him to Philadelphia. They were separated from their families back in Mount Vernon and rotated out of state regularly to prevent them from gaining freedom under Pennsylvania law. CHARACTERS Christopher Sheels, enslaved attendant to Washington Hercules. enslaved cook Richmond, Hercules' enslaved son Giles, enslaved stable hand Oney Judge, enslaved maid and seamstress to Martha Austin, Ona's enslaved half brother, house servant Paris. enslaved stable hand Moll, enslaved maid to Martha Joe Richardson, enslaved postillion for the presidential coach [Floor plan] SERVANTS' EATING HALL

Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?

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It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots

"internal bleeding"--i.e. a bruise

Looking forward to this...

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...