Michael Dorn PhD MScLIS MSc
@mike3150.bsky.social
Geographer, ephemerist
ancestral lands of the Osage in Western Missouri
ancestral lands of the Osage in Western Missouri
“If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities ….” #Nashville #SpecialElectionTN #NashvilleTN
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities ….” #Nashville #SpecialElectionTN #NashvilleTN
It’s been ten years sine we left New York www.facebook.com/share/1ABQXq...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It’s been ten years sine we left New York www.facebook.com/share/1ABQXq...
Host to many famous people over the years, the Dimeling has also seen tragedies: i.e., 1915 suicide of assist. cashier Walter L. McJunkin. The Clearfield Nat’l Bank, occupying the ground floor of the Dimeling, finally failed for good in 1933.
go.lunarcow.com/article/THE+...
go.lunarcow.com/article/THE+...
November 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Host to many famous people over the years, the Dimeling has also seen tragedies: i.e., 1915 suicide of assist. cashier Walter L. McJunkin. The Clearfield Nat’l Bank, occupying the ground floor of the Dimeling, finally failed for good in 1933.
go.lunarcow.com/article/THE+...
go.lunarcow.com/article/THE+...
Kansas mayor charged with alleged voter fraud; state leader says ‘hundreds’ more cases expected
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Kansas mayor charged with alleged voter fraud; state leader says ‘hundreds’ more cases expected
Reposted by Michael Dorn PhD MScLIS MSc
AI is failing the test when it comes to factual accuracy; the decline of news and journalism won't help. It serves the financial interest of AI companies—and the mission of the OpenAI nonprofit—to invest in reviving local news, says Rebuild Local News President Steven Waldman.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
AI is failing the test when it comes to factual accuracy; the decline of news and journalism won't help. It serves the financial interest of AI companies—and the mission of the OpenAI nonprofit—to invest in reviving local news, says Rebuild Local News President Steven Waldman.
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Every nutty Twitter 🔥
October 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Every nutty Twitter 🔥
Boon for folks with non-‘scrip-correctable low vision youtube.com/watch?v=C0Ew... like my son Russell Dorn
AI glasses foster independence for visually-impaired people
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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September 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Boon for folks with non-‘scrip-correctable low vision youtube.com/watch?v=C0Ew... like my son Russell Dorn
vimeo.com/1103555091/8... join the movement to save, not denigrate, our public institutions known as libraries & archives
CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience
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July 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
vimeo.com/1103555091/8... join the movement to save, not denigrate, our public institutions known as libraries & archives
Britain has been struggling w/ the explosive growth of alternative health influencers since the pandemic, a downside of the ubiquity & longevity of divisive English-language social media sources.
Postgrad, subject of this story, under malign influence of her mother. mastodon.social/@mem_somervi...
Postgrad, subject of this story, under malign influence of her mother. mastodon.social/@mem_somervi...
mem_somerville (@mem_somerville@mastodon.social)
Medical misinformation and conspiracy theories have real consequences. Deadly consequences.
Sigh.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crenzwyvpn1o
mastodon.social
June 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Britain has been struggling w/ the explosive growth of alternative health influencers since the pandemic, a downside of the ubiquity & longevity of divisive English-language social media sources.
Postgrad, subject of this story, under malign influence of her mother. mastodon.social/@mem_somervi...
Postgrad, subject of this story, under malign influence of her mother. mastodon.social/@mem_somervi...
Space Force indeed www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
www.nytimes.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Space Force indeed www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...
Chef’s kiss
Yes, that is a table with a Ouija board painted on it 😂
May 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Chef’s kiss
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Yes, that is a table with a Ouija board painted on it 😂
May 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Yes, that is a table with a Ouija board painted on it 😂
Dean Todd touching on the need for awareness on and around campus, and activism on all levels on behalf of, humanities research. #NEHASP2025 followed by the paper awards.
April 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Dean Todd touching on the need for awareness on and around campus, and activism on all levels on behalf of, humanities research. #NEHASP2025 followed by the paper awards.
Ely Student Center, old time video game parlor Westfield State—if only my son Russell was to make it 🆙here! #NEHASP2025
April 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Ely Student Center, old time video game parlor Westfield State—if only my son Russell was to make it 🆙here! #NEHASP2025
On landing Lorne. sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...
Lorne Michaels Lands at the Ransom Center
sites.utexas.edu
April 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
On landing Lorne. sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...
ready phasers
I mean, this is the thing: It's an incredibly common error and easy to commit, and I'm reasonably sympathetic about it. (And of course one can lay the blame largely at Star Trek's feet, if Star Trek indeed has feet.) But the Times is supposed to get it right. Because they're the Times.
April 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
ready phasers
#archive30 #day19
1924 Lister ward is demolished. Noone with power in GRI seemed to want to preserve the place where Lister pioneered antisepsis.
Fortunately some items were salvaged by @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social & @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
#archivetravel @arascot.bsky.social
1924 Lister ward is demolished. Noone with power in GRI seemed to want to preserve the place where Lister pioneered antisepsis.
Fortunately some items were salvaged by @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social & @wellcomecollection.bsky.social
#archivetravel @arascot.bsky.social
April 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
nymag.com/intelligence... The Free Press that wants to excoriate liberals but not fold fully into MAGA occupies an “intellectual no-man’s-land & could be eventually doomed to irrelevance.” Like Trump laying waste to fed-bureaucracy, violating court orders, undercutting the First Amendment [?] or not
How Anti-Woke Went Intellectually Bankrupt
Look who’s elite now.
nymag.com
April 20, 2025 at 4:58 PM
nymag.com/intelligence... The Free Press that wants to excoriate liberals but not fold fully into MAGA occupies an “intellectual no-man’s-land & could be eventually doomed to irrelevance.” Like Trump laying waste to fed-bureaucracy, violating court orders, undercutting the First Amendment [?] or not
They’re stalking me!
April 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
They’re stalking me!
“In 2015, I led a team that found that measles can erase the immune system’s protective memory of prior infections.” “In a follow-up study in 2019, we found measles can wipe out up to 70 percent of an individual’s protective immune memory.” C/o Jeff Jarvis’ mastodon toot. archive.ph/2025.04.02-0...
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April 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“In 2015, I led a team that found that measles can erase the immune system’s protective memory of prior infections.” “In a follow-up study in 2019, we found measles can wipe out up to 70 percent of an individual’s protective immune memory.” C/o Jeff Jarvis’ mastodon toot. archive.ph/2025.04.02-0...
@sguerilus.bsky.social Happy Birthday @qsteph
March 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@sguerilus.bsky.social Happy Birthday @qsteph
Maryland find. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore-co...
Archaeologists find 13,000-year-old tool in Reisterstown
The fragments uncovered were clearly produced by human hands using the distinctive techniques of the Clovis people.
www.thebaltimorebanner.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Maryland find. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/baltimore-co...
Monocacy, February 18, 2018.
February 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Monocacy, February 18, 2018.
Two new books and two old postcards @LecomptonKansas Constitution Hall for the Bleeding Kansas years #BleedingKS
February 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Two new books and two old postcards @LecomptonKansas Constitution Hall for the Bleeding Kansas years #BleedingKS
Miami County KS Museum is looking to identify these dapper young men, www.facebook.com/share/19n2uZ... 100 years after the fact
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Miami County KS Museum is looking to identify these dapper young men, www.facebook.com/share/19n2uZ... 100 years after the fact