David Staniunas

(Maybe that's in the works, I'll have to ask)

Now I'm just a humble toiler in the mines of Pbyn history, but if I was going to pull down my stained glass depiction of Stonewall Jackson, I would also pull down my Sheldon Jackson stained glass window

East Liberty Presbyterian Church - Wikipedia

Oh the Mellons are in the news, that always reminds me of the Mellons' Fire Escape, East Liberty Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Li...

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

This is why we put metadata in "containers". You ever put mint in the Ground? Now you know. Containers my friend

Gotta be careful about "metadata". You have to tell it No sometimes. It is not a love letter to the future. It is all-consuming, if you let it. Like kudzu, or bittersweet

Like I think this is fine. ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-3...

There are those among us who would insist on having three topical access points for any photograph, so would add "Men--California--20th century" and "Cucumbers--Cultivation and harvesting",,, but not me

Our big challenges are about access and comprehensibility. Can you get to the PDF? Can you learn anything from it, and from its cousins? Do you know how that one PDF came to be in your hands? (Rarely do we hear wbout making robust provenance notes; we mostly talk about improving subject headings)

The archives as a field needs more curatorial and records management hours, more processing hours, and more digitization hours. Minimal records from those activities -- which create and change the shape and form of collections -- will leave enough traces for stuff to be found

(Most of what we do when we're doing "metadata" isn't that anyway. It's either bibliographic or archival or museum or archeological description)

The metadata is fine

ICE shot Pastor Jorge Bautista in the face with a flashbang grenade at the Coast Guard base in Oakland, CA. If you look at the second photo, it looks like the pipsqueak either peed himself or ejaculated after the shooting. I am trying to find out of the pastor is okay. This is bad.

I don't think we need to make the metadata better

If we put half as much resources into metadata and cataloging as we do into dumb AI stuff, we’d way better off in terms of the info/data ecosystem

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For my friends in Western MA -- St. John's is raising funds so that they can serve as an emergency winter shelter. They need about 12K to get up to code. These are amazing people who do God's work and every dollar will serve our siblings. www.stjohnsnorthampton.org/product/give...

Rev Bautista is UCC and works for the Presbytery of San Francisco. I was on the phone with him yesterday! What the fuck!

Holy shit! Jorge! What the fuck

At right, Shira-kun, a library worker who is good at refusing "donations", from Zeikin de Katta Hon, https://bato.si/title/111674/2077801-vol_2-ch_8 "The only thing I'm good at is violence and carrying books..."

This is me, I'm Shira-kun

Your bhoy made the News Service: pcusa.org/news-storyte...

Re-installed Windows Movie Maker 2012, because I am way too dumb to use professional video editing software

>Can I pay you to scan all of them?

You can, subject to appraisal upon accessioning. Like if you send in a box of receipts and chewing gum wrappers we will not scan them even if you paid us

>What if I paid you to scan half, and then you sent the non-scanned half back?

I- wh-

Different guy> I want my family's legacy to be preserved and I don't want to pay to ship records anywhere

You know what's wild? That's actually fine, I can very often work with that

>I don't want to send you these records unless you scan all of them

We're not going to do that. They're cool, so we can do a portion as a courtesy

>Well, which portion

Sir, I don't know, you have them sir

black and white image of students in a classroom, breeze block on one wall for light, student writing in Arabic on chalkboard beside teacher

UNRWA school at Nabatieh camp, Lebanon, probably late 1950s, from records of Church World Service digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/48...

Anyhoo! Good morning and welcome back to the ongoing struggle between the reality of the public records tradition and the imaginaries of the manuscripts tradition! 📦 🗃

In this house, we add 500 cubic feet and about 1/3 TB of new collections every year. Some things get "stamped" in a sense -- a one-page Word document has a checksum recorded for it, e.g. But the other 1.5M pages, no, they do not get marked

A fair question, I've seen this practice elsewhere! Definitely the kind of thing an archives can do if it has access to prisoners' labor or the spiritual equivalent (laboring in a mental prison)

I've been asked if we mark individual pages of archival records when we receive them. I can assure you, No, absolutely not, not in a million years

STOP DOING COMPUTER SCIENCE • Computers are made of silicon, which is made of sand. SAND CAN'T THINK • Computers DON'T calculate anything, it's a box full of demons You want to make something? Use your • brain, NOT THIS: (picture of programming code) THIS is what hides behind modern computing lies, what truly controls our computers Nonsense Diagrams "Circuit boards" All jobs to do with computers you may see are fake, they're fooling us Real people believe THIS CAN THINK ---> (picture of a desktop pc) The ones from beyond with ten thousand eyes THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS

anti-AI action

The presbyteries of Los Ranchos, San Gabriel, and San Fernando mapped as a whole bunch of enclaves and exclaves

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