When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.
Sounds like a great future study…
If you want a historical perspective for one group of scholars (mainly, info behavior of academic historians using archives), I have covered the literature in my dissertation and some articles. cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/diss... Happy to chat!
Same. The Tillis support raised my eyebrows early on
Alums, time to organize LOUDLY on behalf of your educators.
And alums with any access to donor cash— all the more so.
Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus by @ashleyblewer.com
Incredible!
For your consideration
several excellent events in store for Durham as Chris Newfield takes up a residency at Duke
literary knowledge as anti-fascism, building the new cultural order Stuart Hall wanted 30 years ago, parallel universities,+defeating the empire of AI.
fhi.duke.edu/event/fhi-sh...
We have lots of fellowship / travel money to give and not a lot of applications yet. Applications are due January 30. Apply! Spread the word!
this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.
On the occasion of Fantastic Futures 2025 #FF2025, we share the progress made by the Working Group on Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage to better support data providers in describing their data. Learn more and check out their Datasheet template - Version 2! bit.ly/3Kgd84n
hey the handbasket is 90 paid subscribers away from a huge goal—think we could get there today??
thehandbasket.co/upgrade
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My go to is echinacea tea, one packet of emergen-c and a big clove of garlic
For true sporting excellence, BREAD is the (1935) diet of champions. For a varied athletic diet, include cheese biscuits and tea.
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
me at the end of class: here's a little speculative exercises; imagine you wake up from cryosleep in 2085. what's the kind of tech-society r/ship you'd like to see around you?
students: no AI
I honestly think students' views are missing from the 'should AI be integrated in classrooms' discussion
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
#iPRES2025
How many formats are there?
@anjacks0n.bsky.social presents a paper on seeing if we can answer the question.
Some detective work gets him to the number 12k (I think)
"Many of the deals OpenAI has struck — with chipmakers, cloud computing companies and others — are strangely circular. OpenAI receives billions from tech companies before sending those billions back to the same companies to pay for computing power and other services." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Trick or treat 🎃
"these arrangements are not 'partnerships' or 'collaborations' but contracts that bring profit and publicity to AI firms, while making universities complicit in the continued empowerment of tech oligarchy and expansion of their 'AI Empire' (Tacheva and Ramasubramanian, 2023; Adams, 2024; Hao, 2025)"
🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Alexandra Chassanoff, Dr. Elliott Kuecker, & Dr. Eliscia Kinder on their recent publication in The American Archivist:
📰 “The Stories We Can Tell: Using Digital Primary Sources in the Archival Studies Classroom.” 🔗 american-archivist.kglmeridian.com/view/journal...
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