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This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

A circular infographic chart categorizing cheeses by type of milk and texture. At the center, four sections are labeled cow, sheep, goat, and buffalo, radiating outward into concentric rings for textures: soft, semi-soft, semi-hard, and hard. Each cheese name is placed within its corresponding segment, with illustrated wedges of cheese circling the outer edge. Cow’s milk occupies the largest portion, featuring well-known varieties like Brie, Camembert, Taleggio, Havarti, Gouda, Cheddar, and Parmesan. Sheep’s milk includes cheeses such as Roquefort, Manchego, and Pecorino Romano. Goat’s milk features options like Chèvre, Crottin de Chavignol, and Humboldt Fog. Buffalo is represented by Mozzarella di Bufala Campana and Buffalo Blue. The cheeses are organized visually so that softer varieties appear closer to the center and harder ones toward the edge. Small colored drawings show each cheese’s texture, rind, and tone, from creamy whites and soft rounds to golden blocks, crumbly wedges, and blue-veined interiors. The background is a deep charcoal gray, making the warm oranges, yellows, and creams of the cheeses stand out clearly.

EVERYONE STOP

cheese wheel of cheeses

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections

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Randomly thinking about assumptions we make about other people's jobs. It's so obvious that [job X] is easy, we could do it with no training, the person we see doing it (and maybe having a hard time) must just be stupid or something, we know how it should go!

The thing is.

Honest Academic Job Postings English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

Heads-up folks if you're heading to the Russian River, Lake Mendocino or Navarro River in Mendocino County this weekend.

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project. All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell. The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to... Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.

When people say, “do your own research,” they generally mean, “google it.” They generally do NOT mean, “conduct an independent, ethical, peer reviewed study.” I would love if we spent more time differentiating between “research as knowledge production” and “research as knowledge consumption.”

Incredibly useful source of information relevant to my professional work!

Grave marker at Burial Hill Cemetery Plymouth MA. “Mrs Susanna Atwood with infant in arms” Dated 1785

Most that I was looking at were a later date and so more readable. It was also challenging to figure out which were original markers and which were replacements.

I was wandering Burial Hill Cemetery in Plymouth last week. I didn’t notice anything this fancy. I will have to pay more attention next time.

Pa. State Museum closes Native American exhibit, returns 1000s of artifacts under federal law Tens of thousands of sacred objects, artifacts, funerary objects, and human remains are being processed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to comply with the Native American Graves P...

NAGPRA repatriation and rethinking of exhibits in Pennsylvania

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They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.

I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...

Idaho shooting: two dead after firefighters ambushed by gunman while responding to fire Shelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents after multiple people were shot at while controlling fire

who tf shoots firefighters

Members of the press take cover as police officers clear the area outside of a federal building as protests continue in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. Photo by David McNew, Getty Images Hed: Why the death of reporter Ruben Salazar 55 years ago resonates with journalists covering LA protests today

Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds. cal.news/3SMlTDN

📸 David McNew, Getty

Horse-drawn wagons full of Fountain Grove Winery grapes waiting in line at the crusher during the 1910 harvest in Sonoma county. Sonoma County Museum.

It is absolutely *fascinating* how this article entirely fails to mention the reliance on academic library budgets to pay for these subscriptions.... Libraries aren't mentioned at all.

www.science.org/content/arti...

Americans put sugar in all kinds of dishes that don’t require it. And one of the main reasons for this national aberration is … Prohibition. 🧵

Opinion | The Day Grok Lost Its Mind Just don’t ask it about “white genocide.”

Elon Musk shared a post on X about claims of genocide against white farmers in South Africa. The next day, Grok, X’s A.I. chatbot, focused on the topic obsessively. The answer to why this happened “says a lot about why A.I. is so powerful — and why it’s so disruptive,” @zey.bsky.social writes.

Brutal

Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.

"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Additional layer: the first ethnic studies department was at San Francisco State University. SFSU is facing under funding from the state compounded with the CSU system punishing campuses for successful labor action by not adding to campus budgets.

abc7news.com/post/san-fra...

"The poor and middle class are paying taxes, the rich are paying accountants, and the wealthy are paying politicians." - @mhdksafa.bsky.social

Millionaires for Humanity advocate for a fundamental shift towards a more equitable distribution of tax burdens.

#WealthTax #taxtherich

We need the Humanities. If AI is to be anything other than a tool for reinforcing existing power structures, it will require the very things that the Humanities cultivate: Moral reasoning, historical perspective, understanding of language and meaning, and a nuanced view of consciousness and agency