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Erika Kirk’s Memorial Glam (Or, A Definitive Guide To MAGA Aesthetics) Interview unlocked.

"“Mar-a-Lago Face” and “Republican makeup” are sort of ahistorical reimaginings of the “classic” 1950s beauty ideal through the lens of 1980s excess, brought to life with 2025’s modern cosmetic technology."

jessicadefino.substack.com/p/erika-kirk...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

"We’re left at a crossroads where we must consider nothing less than what kind of jobs we want people to be able to do, what kind of work and which institutions we think are important as a society, and what we’re willing to do to protect them ..." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...?

The AI jobs crisis is here, now It's not coming, it has already arrived.

"Gen. AI is still best at select tasks that do not require consistent reliability—hence its purveyors taking aim at art & creative industries..."

(h/t @robertjweisberg.bsky.social)

www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...?

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

"It is important to not just hate this stuff, but to ask ourselves why we hate it. I think what we may find is that deep under all that anger, is a love of what is human."

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

"The ability to feel, and feel deeply, is not a bug but a feature of being a human, of being mortal... they see the body as a gross, inefficient object that connects them to people they deem lower than them..." houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

"It’s not a new or novel observation that being rich usually makes you weird, but there is something uniquely weird about our era’s wealthy."

houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/you-dont-n...

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

Bravo! That's fantastic, Gauri.

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

As a daily bus rider in a different but no less slow to respond public transit system, this 🧵 is music, sustenance, and then some for my weary commuting soul.

YouTube video by PJ Harvey - Topic Legs

because i am still 15 y.o. inside i will blast this at full volume to drive away the blah

music.youtube.com/watch?v=n60T...

rainy day, sopping wet bag, grumble grumble commute blah blergh

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I will be at Harvard Boooookstore dreaming DRAG with our favorite Auntie Kareem Khubchandani on *Lessons in Drag* Nov 21

brandeisuniversitypress.com/title/lesson...

www.harvard.com/event/kareem...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

This current administration is the greatest threat to academic freedom & sci. research since the ebb of McCarthyism. And this compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we teach, what we research, what drugs we develop, & how we express ourselves."
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

I think the myth of objectivity is what allows people to believe that GAI can output a meaningful summary.

Prior knowledge doesn't matter, context doesn't matter, relationships don't matter, so a summary written in a particular 'style' is fine.

The Politics of Collecting with Eunsong Kim - Marxist Education Project In her new book, The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property, Eunsong Kim traces how racial capitalism and colonialism situated the rise of US museum collections and conceptu...

Join me this Saturday, 10/11 2pm EST to discuss my research into museum collections, the rise of US philanthropy, and the relationship between aesthetic form and property 📚

marxedproject.org/event/the-po...

Explain your username:

Mimosa is my real name. The "is here" is a pun and plays with the idea of being _on here_ but also, not quite here because what's happening in real-time is not quite interwebs' time.

(this was back when IRL vs. "on the Internet" was a necessary distinction)

NPR could easily fill a desperately needed public service for trustworthy legacy media, and likely easily meet its own small dollar fundraising goals after having its federal funding pulled, by simply describing things as they are. But instead they choose to do whatever this is.

"bucking tradition and legal precedent"

I guess I shouldn't be *surprised* but it is making my head spin that the feds have shot two people, with live rounds, killing one of them, in Chicagoland in recent weeks, and in both cases they were very clearly found to be lying about what happened, and essentially nothing is happening about it.

Work really hard and one day this can be you (followed by graffiti of a headstone that says “RIP worked really hard” on it

happy sunday, remember that you are completely expendable to your employer and that when you die they will forget you ever existed within weeks and easily replace you

This just activated every research librarian everywhere.

Microfiche, microfilm, and microcards ... each needing a different reader. Fun times!

Also reminded of when the young librarian translating my talk into Chinese stopped me and said, "I don't know that word."

Reader, the word was CD-ROM.

And to think that my very first job in libraries was to teach patrons how to load microfiche cartridges into a viewer to see scanned collection materials!

Fiche. Fish. So many multitudes. So much squinting.

Dorothy seated at a restaurant table signing books with plants to her right and a painting behind her.

GET YOUR CALENDAR OUT 🗓️ and write these two dates down…

10/16, 2p ET USA: Dorothy Berry’s (@dorothyjberry.bsky.social) The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities available for purchase. The first 50 copies sold will be signed 🫢 www.weherepress.org

A digital poster with information and a link (bit.ly/warc-2026-signup) about signing up to receive reminders and updates for release of the 2026 web archiving school application.

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Every day I log on and just see endless videos of ICE agents breaking state, federal, and international laws.