Sarah Calise (she/they)

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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developed multiple crushes at today's nashville comic arts festival 😌

I pocket dial people all the time because I don't lock it and I guess it swipes open somehow 🙈

the number one thing institutions and funders can do for community archives is just give them money, whether they have a 501(c)3 or not. give them money to do the work they need to do. #SAA25

signed, a jaded community archivist

Little MTSU Public History reunion at #SAA25 in Anaheim 🤩

hilariously we just opened a Center for Sustainability, Energy and Climate lmao. So, hoping to partner with them on some future initiatives.

there is a small contingent of us at VU libraries that are planning some discussions on AI's environmental impact and ethics, since it very much feels like that is being ignored at our institution.

This is my personal feeling, too. But also told from my higher ups that we *have* to engage with it, which suuucks.

Overall, using AI improved the questions the students asked of historical documents and helped them analyze the documents more critically #SAA25

Students learned that AI needs really specific inquiries and also needs a framework like RICHRAB in which to analyze the historical documents

Once the AI started producing errors, students began correcting the AI tool and some stopped using it #SAA25

Really enjoyed hearing about how the National Archives of the United Kingdom partnered with high school students to enhance their engagement with historical documents by using DRET AI and the RICHRAB analysis model #SAA25 Session 103

ok conference time tomorrow, but here are some fun SoCal things i did since thursday

Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.

I keep seeing more and more queer acquaintances endorse this f*cker

Post a non religious picture you think of as holy.

#RIPEdwardCrawford

Afrosheen is literally the coolest baddie in Nashville, no competition

this is why everyone I know isn’t having kids btw

a woman with a surprised look on her face is holding her hands to her face ALT: a woman with a surprised look on her face is holding her hands to her face

flying to LAX today for:

• queer history research at ONE Archives

• queer exhibits at Getty Center

• shenanigans, like seeing Yungblud on Saturday

• the @saa-official.bsky.social annual meeting

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

WOMEN

i will also be going to the ONE Archives for the first time to look at some archives related to Nashville's LGBTQ history 😄

update: 6 months later and guess what happened folks? LOL

i'll be attending #SAA (Soc. of American Archivists) for the first time ever this week, so i thought i'd hop back on here and try to actually use this account

~forever missing old archives twitter RIP 🪦

either i gotta move home to live with my parents or they gotta move to me because being a single wage earning adult is not possible anymore

I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending...

Thank you!! I should have also told you this is a 19th century letter, making that first letter most likely a B, so your students guesses are so good and very helpful!

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

It's a relative of this guy en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold...

This is probably a relative of Leopold Scholz, so German name?