Kat/hleen Burlingame
@katscade.bsky.social
Librarian @ datasociety.net | Organizer @ datarescueproject.org | Cataractophile @ everywhere. Opinions here are my own
Potentially good use case, but would like to see some more qualitative analysis. Even if there is just a small percentage of error, if those are conceptually or semantically egregious and the whole corpus still needs to be checked and corrected by humans, what really is the efficiency achieved here?
Lehigh University Libraries developed a digital repository service that leverages #GenAI models with handwritten text recognition and developed an #OpenSource app that empowers libraries to use genAI for automated transcription and indexing of digitized manuscripts. 📝 Watch the CNI briefing.
Automated Handwritten Text Recognition of Manuscript Document Collections
Digitized handwritten manuscripts often remain hidden because they lack searchable text, and manual transcription is prohibitively time-consuming and unsustainable at scale. Generative artificial…
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February 5, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Potentially good use case, but would like to see some more qualitative analysis. Even if there is just a small percentage of error, if those are conceptually or semantically egregious and the whole corpus still needs to be checked and corrected by humans, what really is the efficiency achieved here?
huge loss of a real one here😔 I was just last week re-reading her brilliant piece on "vocational awe"...something I find myself coming back to again and again: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
February 5, 2026 at 2:52 PM
huge loss of a real one here😔 I was just last week re-reading her brilliant piece on "vocational awe"...something I find myself coming back to again and again: www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
On the weaponization of personal data: "If combined with the facial recognition and social media monitoring commonly deployed by the Department of Homeland Security, those reams of data would turbocharge ICE’s terror campaign in the short term and destroy American civil liberties in the long term."
Opinion | ICE Is Watching You
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
On the weaponization of personal data: "If combined with the facial recognition and social media monitoring commonly deployed by the Department of Homeland Security, those reams of data would turbocharge ICE’s terror campaign in the short term and destroy American civil liberties in the long term."
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Hello #DataRescuers! We're excited to start this AMA. We'll be answering questions over the next 2 hours. Please feel free to like, respond, or reskeet as we go.
January 30, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Hello #DataRescuers! We're excited to start this AMA. We'll be answering questions over the next 2 hours. Please feel free to like, respond, or reskeet as we go.
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New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 PM
New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
loving the creativity and humor of Philly resistance here🔥
An artist who goes by “Make it Weird” has installed signs mimicking common traffic signage across Philadelphia to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism.
Artist’s Street Signs in Philadelphia Warn of Fascism Ahead
The guerrilla imitations of common road signage use a distinctive brand of Philly humor to alert residents of ICE threats and looming authoritarianism.
hyperallergic.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:46 PM
loving the creativity and humor of Philly resistance here🔥
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Props to the developers behind ICE Map, cataloguing all known ICE incidents www.icemap.dev
ICE Map
ICE Map - Visualizing ICE activity
www.icemap.dev
January 28, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Props to the developers behind ICE Map, cataloguing all known ICE incidents www.icemap.dev
💯 "Movements don’t usually collapse because the enemy is too strong, but because we refuse to confront the internal habits that make us undisciplined, incoherent, and easy to defeat."
Twenty Enemy Forces Re-Visited: Why James Forman Still Matters
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Twenty Enemy Forces Re-Visited: Why James Forman Still Matters
A series on discipline, self-criticism, and why movements collapse from the inside.
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:35 PM
💯 "Movements don’t usually collapse because the enemy is too strong, but because we refuse to confront the internal habits that make us undisciplined, incoherent, and easy to defeat."
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As Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections:
www.science.org/cont...
www.science.org/cont...
January 26, 2026 at 3:14 PM
As Science reports, arXiv added an endorsement requirement for first-time posters to curb AI submissions. COS Exec Director Brian Nosek says it's "a reasonable approach," but for smaller servers, this could exclude real researchers who lack strong connections:
www.science.org/cont...
www.science.org/cont...
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Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?
![MOUNT VERNON TO PHILADELPHIA:
A Path to Freedom-For Some
The nine enslaved men and women of the President's House were chosen by Washington to accompany him to Philadelphia. They were separated from their families back in Mount Vernon and rotated out of state regularly to prevent them from gaining freedom under Pennsylvania law.
CHARACTERS
Christopher Sheels, enslaved attendant to Washington
Hercules. enslaved cook
Richmond, Hercules' enslaved son
Giles, enslaved stable hand
Oney Judge, enslaved maid and seamstress to Martha
Austin, Ona's enslaved half brother, house servant
Paris. enslaved stable hand
Moll, enslaved maid to Martha
Joe Richardson, enslaved postillion for the presidential coach
[Floor plan]
SERVANTS' EATING HALL](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreibrargcgl4dng3rc2jltpsj32eaxyu7tgj3b6w36scpezni3ltm6m@jpeg)
January 23, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Here's one of the panels that Trump just removed from the President's House site in Philadelphia. (I took this picture of it last March. A couple of weeks later I led a walking tour that included the site.) Does this information "disparage" the United States?
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It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 3:21 PM
It’s funny how Wikipedia used to seem relatively unreliable, because it was written by regular people instead of encyclopedia experts, and now it seems relatively reliable, because it’s written by regular people instead of glib CliffsNotes robots
Looking forward to this...
Jan 22 @ 2pm ET: For our first event of 2026, we’re taking a close look at Trump administration AI policy. Join us online as @alondra.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com & @telliotter.bsky.social talk to D&S's Brian J. Chen about the admin’s actions & their consequences. datasociety.net/events/one-y...
January 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Looking forward to this...
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Alright #DataRescuers -- as we approach our first anniversary, we have some questions for YOU!
First: what has been most helpful for you from the DRP?
(and don't forget that we're hosting an #AMA on January 30, 6-8pm Eastern! Please submit your questions through our form.)
First: what has been most helpful for you from the DRP?
(and don't forget that we're hosting an #AMA on January 30, 6-8pm Eastern! Please submit your questions through our form.)
DRP AMA 2026 Questions
This form is to collect questions for the Data Rescue Project's first "Ask Me Anything!" to be held on Bluesky January 30, 6-8pm Eastern. If you can't attend or on Bluesky, don't worry-- you can…
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January 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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We are honored to be included in this incredible group in @thenation.com
Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
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Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
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Here are the people and institutions that gave me hope in 2025. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Public Health Heroes of 2025
The Trump administration wants to destroy our health infrastructure. These warriors aren't letting that happen without a fight.
www.thenation.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
We are honored to be included in this incredible group in @thenation.com
Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
🫶🛟
Working with this community has been the silver lining on a really hard year. We appreciate everyone so much!
🫶🛟
How frustrating...really hoping they are able to find an alternative location/host (or just simply move it all online). Changing the terms of the scholarship really should not be under discussion imho...but it seems to be unfortunately
Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 PM
How frustrating...really hoping they are able to find an alternative location/host (or just simply move it all online). Changing the terms of the scholarship really should not be under discussion imho...but it seems to be unfortunately
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NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
You: cleaning all the AI "metddata" as a human-in-the-loop ghost😭
Oh joy, another helpful AI infographic via LinkedIn. Off I go to my job as a liberaian, maybe to run some critical evaligane workshops and of course use New! Boulean! Logic!
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
You: cleaning all the AI "metddata" as a human-in-the-loop ghost😭
And (importantly) the library won't conduct surveillance/retain data on your browsing and reading activities...
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
And (importantly) the library won't conduct surveillance/retain data on your browsing and reading activities...
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Thanks to Jill Lepore and @newyorker.com for the mention of #SaveOurSigns but we are more than a hashtag.
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
Ken Burn’s new documentary, “The American Revolution,” honors the dignity and meaning of the founding’s revolutionary ideals while taking an unsparing look at the war’s cruelties and costs, Jill Lepore writes.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/what-was-the-american-revolution-for
What Was the American Revolution For?
Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Thanks to Jill Lepore and @newyorker.com for the mention of #SaveOurSigns but we are more than a hashtag.
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
We are a coalition of librarians & researchers concerned about access to information. In this case, access to our NPS signs. Check out the archive of signs: saveoursigns.org
#A250
Home maintenance hell this week…heat and running water are luxuries not to be take for granted. Now, my obsession is trying to understand why there is so little gender diversity in the trades. Not that it would be a panacea, but if an outlier here showed up at my door, I would be elated...
Occupations with the smallest share of women workers
www.dol.gov
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Home maintenance hell this week…heat and running water are luxuries not to be take for granted. Now, my obsession is trying to understand why there is so little gender diversity in the trades. Not that it would be a panacea, but if an outlier here showed up at my door, I would be elated...
The bill to reopen the gov will enable the crucial work of the Library of Congress to continue, but we still need to secure funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as the National Archives.
www.everylibrary.org/2026_minibus via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/2026_minibus via @everylibrary.bsky.social
Statement on FY2026 "Minibus" Funding for the Library of Congress
www.everylibrary.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:47 PM
The bill to reopen the gov will enable the crucial work of the Library of Congress to continue, but we still need to secure funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services as well as the National Archives.
www.everylibrary.org/2026_minibus via @everylibrary.bsky.social
www.everylibrary.org/2026_minibus via @everylibrary.bsky.social
laughing and crying at the same time🫠
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
laughing and crying at the same time🫠
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Currently doing some marking. A reminder to everyone involved in archives and collections: digitisation is not preservation. If I digitise a box of records and put the files on a USB stick I haven't preserved a thing. It's all about what you do with the files post-digitisation. #archives #digipres
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 AM
ooooh, cozy home library pron😍...suddenly feeling better about all the random stacks of books I have scattered throughout my house #libraries
A Home That Proves You Can Never Have Too Many Books
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
ooooh, cozy home library pron😍...suddenly feeling better about all the random stacks of books I have scattered throughout my house #libraries