Deborah Barber

omg, nailed

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

AI update: replication crisis — Jessica Kant Regardless of who actually prints a story, it is the merger of social media and machine learning which increasingly drives narratives in the immediate wake of a major event. The next time a catastroph...

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

Was having a convo with @bachynski.bsky.social & we decided that it's of upmost importance to start gathering the oral histories of those who lived through the time before polio vaccines, measles vaccines, etc. They can provide important perspectives and they will not be with us for too much longer

CT man connects Black families with long-lost history. ‘The work he does is truly a blessing’ “We give people their history. Then we try to inject those stories and those people into the communities that they’re from,” the Bloomfield man said.

Just about everything I love about #genealogy can be found in this article. The world needs more people like John Mills!
www.courant.com/2026/02/10/c...

David Bowie “It’s Gonna Be Me (With Strings)

Feb 10 (V) – Chronicling America for Historical Research hosted by Library of Congress (Free) For details & registration, see www.loc.gov/item/event-4...
#genealogy #familyhistory

you:
[stressing for days to send the perfect single email]

billionaires:
hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

One of my favorite tributes to Catherine O’Hara. I learned about SCTV from my cooler classmates in high school.

I had no idea they were so small. The sound is a little like a bass flute, and those are huge. Do it!

Even in the depths of colonialism, genocide, enslavement, ethnic cleansing & holocaust, there have been white folks all over who have refused and resisted white supremacy.

We get to choose which ancestors we honor. One of my ancestors was an enslaver who sold my foremother. *I don't claim his ass.*

Black protest marchers proceed down Fifth Avenue in 1917, dressed in white, led by drummers.

A flag reading “Love” flies next to a golden statue of General Sherman

People chanted “Shame” when we got to the Trump abomination on Fifth Ave.

Colorful signs abounded, like this one that says, “We wanted Huddled Masses, not Hooded Assses"

Today’s march took the same Fifth Ave route as the 1917 anti-lynching Silent Parade, one of the first American civil rights protests. Both started at 59th, by General Sherman’s statue, and headed downtown. For more on the Silent Parade: hyperallergic.com/naacp-silent...

Imagine watching Sinatra, son of Dolly & Antonini born in Genoa & Sicily, respectively, and Martin, son of Gaetano & Angela, born in Montesilvano, Italy & Ohio respectively, (Angela to parents born in Monasterolo, Italy), and crusading against the value of children of immigrants to the U.S.

I just discovered them this year!

@illogicalvulcan.bsky.social

Oh, one more thing: if you're reading this, and you have archives and family records dating from enslavement that you know Black Americans (and/or Black America as a whole) would benefit from having, you have a moral and ethical obligation to share them... and deep down, you know it.

Count Von Count as Nosferatu.

why not put count von count into various vampire scenes: thread

Like your local historical or genealogical society!

That's wonderful, but I can't believe that took a whole month!

Feast your eyes on these 10 cookbooks from 2025 Whether you're craving something sweet, savory, spicy — or all of the above in one flavorful meal — we've got you covered. Here are 10 favorite cookbooks from the past year.

www.npr.org/2025/12/11/n...

Bluesky New York actors!

Do you want to participate in a reading on Monday, between Zohran Mamdani's new office and the Brooklyn Bridge, of scripts by some amazing, talented students?

Yeah you do.

It's Monday, 12-15, 5 pm. Contact me here, or jdanziger@pace.edu. Please spread the good word!

YouTube video by The Museum of Modern Art The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History

The Underground Archivist: 50 Years of Saving New York History - www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8Px...

My grandmother always made Waldorf salad at Thanksgiving, so my Aunt likes to make it as one of the sides. #genchat

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

We ain’t buying 💲HIT !!! TikTok video by Jenifer Lewis

Reminder that we aren't shopping today through Dec 5. If you forget, here's a little tune to help you remember.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrMVraRH/

I’ve often called this song—“Just Like Heaven”—the finest single of the 80s and meant it. This cover’s arrangement only confirms it for me 💜🔥

when did they buy MailChimp? Yuck.

this doesn't mean the South is hopeless, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't keep trying to win elections and fight the MAGAs in the South, but maintaining this fantasy nonsense about how the South doesn't REALLY have a uniquely racist culture in a number of respects is just foolishness

(around the Spotify logo) GET ICE OUT OF SPOTIFY ICE DOESN’T NEED A PLAYLIST. IT NEEDS ACCOUNTABILITY. • Cancel your Spotify Premium subscription until Spotify removes all ICE ads • Demand Spotify immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts. • Urge artists and podcasters to speak out.

Spotify is running ads to help ICE recruit more agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities. We’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti...

A handwritten note reads: “I think it’s important that people don’t feel alone.” The words "I think" are crossed out. The quote is signed “- lou reed.” Faint numbers “86 895” are written at the top.