Rob Lancefield

The CDC’s Publications on Demand office is closing, but you can order free materials until Friday, August 15.

Informational, fact-based materials are available here:

wwwn.cdc.gov/pubs/

Yes. Sad times. Every day I move further and further beyond the point of no regrets for having sadly dropped the Post and happily subscribed to the Guardian. No billionaire owner, no main HQ under compromised jurisdiction, no cowardly quashing of reporting and editorials based in facts and ethics.

A photograph of downtown Los Angeles and overlayed text that reads: LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund

Announcing the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, led by Getty and a coalition of foundations and arts organizations, to support the impacted arts community.

Impacted artists and art workers can visit cciarts.org to apply for an emergency grant starting January 20.

When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum

aeon.co/essays/when-...

#MuseTech

One can hope.

Dang. Glad I finally unsubscribed yesterday after having hung on for so long in a feeble, seemingly over-optimistic, and evidently futile attempt to keep supporting the true journalists at the LA Times despite the paper’s seemingly craven and ethically unmoored owner. What a sad turn of events.

Yes. Dismaying. After quashed endorsement, etc., I had hung on as a long-time subscriber in hopes of helping to support LAT journalists in some tiny way; but the owner’s statements in that piece were the last straw, and I unsubscribed. Happy to see that you, @hiltzikm.bsky.social, et al. are here.

a group of children are holding hands in a museum . Alt: a group of children are holding hands in a museum - scene from Ferris Bueller’s day off at art institute of chicago

Trying to will 2015 #Museum Twitter into existence w/ some list curation. Who’d I miss?? bsky.app/profile/did:...

Nicely done, I’d say. 🙏

Bör, a day bed for napping with a name which confirms a trait long noted and owned. 😴

Okay #musetech peeps, I created a starter pack for you all. Go ahead and hop in if I didn't get to you! go.bsky.app/V7MsiXr

Screenshot of US Centers for Disease Control web page titled “Ten Great Public Health Achievements -- United States, 1900-1999” with the list below (numbers added here): 1. Vaccination 2. Motor-vehicle safety 3. Safer workplaces 4. Control of infectious diseases 5. Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke 6. Safer and healthier foods 7. Healthier mothers and babies 8. Family planning 9. Fluoridation of drinking water 10. Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard

Hoping these “Ten Great Public Health Achievements — United States, 1900–1999” somehow survive the next four years of federal health leadership, even if this CDC web page may not.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview...

Screenshot included here in case the page disappears. #PublicHealth

Hey, great to see you here!

Bluesky as the Ship of Theseus Maybe, just this once, we *can* have nice things online.

Here's my proper "Bluesky has the juice!" take:

Bluesky is the Ship of Theseus.

Piece by piece, they have acquired and refashioned all the essential parts of old-Twitter.

The pieces still missing are the ones that we were ultimately better off without.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

Another form of flooding the zone.

#MuseTech

Wow I can't believe how old the GOP's presidential candidate is.

Where in the world is… this public domain material? Helping users refer to host institutions. - Creative Commons CC’s new guidelines aim to encourage users to refer to host cultural heritage institutions when using public domain materials. Rooted in the Behavioural Insights Team’s EAST Model, they offer institut...

“Today, Creative Commons is releasing new guidelines for open culture:
Nudging Users to Reference Institutions When Using Public Domain Materials.”

#OpenCulture #PublicDomain #MuseTech

creativecommons.org/2024/02/23/h...

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage Cambridge Core - Archaeology: General Interest - Geopolitics of Digital Heritage

Geopolitics of Digital Heritage
Cambridge UP, free to 2/2

Natalia Grincheva & Elizabeth Stainforth on “political implications of…digital heritage aggregators across different scales of governance”: Singapore Memory Project, Trove, Europeana, Google Arts & Culture.

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Museum Workers Are Plagued by Widespread Precarity, New Report Finds A new report by the group Museums Moving Forward has found U.S. museum staffers face widespread workplace challenges.

And more on this in ArtNews just now.

And:

Solid article in the LA Times today on the “Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in US Art Museums” report released yesterday by Museums Moving Forward. #museums #equity

Gargantuan Straw Creatures Rise from the Fields of Japan's Annual Rice Harvest — Colossal Every year around the rice harvest, art students repurpose leftover straw into mammoth characters for the Wara Art Festival.

Giant straw creatures!

Proud of the #IIIF community work that led to this, the official adoption of IIIF by @archive.org: blog.archive.org/2023/09/18/m...

Six faves from the #MCN2023 program in chrono order, 6/6:
A New View on Cybersecurity at the National Gallery of Art
#MuseTech #InfoSec #Cybersecurity #NationalGalleryOfArt
mcn2023.sched.com/event/1RYQR

Six faves from the #MCN2023 program in chrono order, 5/6:
Navigating Complexity: Insights from the Implementation of MoMA’s Data Warehouse Project
#MuseTech #IA #MuseumData #DataWarehousing #MoMA
mcn2023.sched.com/event/1RYOe

Six faves from the #MCN2023 program in chrono order, 4/6:
The HAM API: 10 Years and Counting
#MuseTech #IA #APIs #HarvardArtMuseums
mcn2023.sched.com/event/1RYQ3

MCN 2023: Artificial Intelligence and Museum Learn... View more about this event at MCN 2023

Six faves from the #MCN2023 program in chrono order, 3/6:
Artificial Intelligence and Museum Learning: Friends or Foes?
#MuseTech #AI #Museums #MetMuseum
mcn2023.sched.com/event/1RYOk