Nanna B Thylstrup
@nannathylstrup.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ University of Copenhagen. Author of: "The Politics of Mass Digitization" (MIT Press), editor of "Uncertain Archives: Critical Keywords for Big Data" (MIT Press) and "(W)archives: Archival Imaginaries, War, and Contemporary Art" (Sternberg)
Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !
But this also ties in with the sustainability efforts of shadow libraries, as I was writing about the other day. eve.gd/2026/01/01/t...
The Lineages and Inheritances of Shadow Libraries and their Documentation
Shadow libraries, that is, illegal massive repositories of books of all kinds, are of course prone to takedowns by police and disappearance from the internet...
eve.gd
January 5, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Recommended read by the always excellent @eve.gd !
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this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
January 3, 2026 at 10:56 PM
this kinda stuff is prohibited in the EU thanks to all the "red tape" that's "slowing down innovation" that big tech constantly complains about
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THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
December 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context
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Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
"Memory Safety for Skeptics," published in the ACM Queue.
Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.
Arguing for why memory safety is worth pursuing, even amid competing priorities and limited budgets, and with or without Rust.
Memory Safety for Skeptics - ACM Queue
queue.acm.org
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵
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"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.
Ontological capture: AI, childhood, and the algorithmic governance of becoming - AI & SOCIETY
This article interrogates how algorithmic infrastructures and AI reshape social life through childhood, civic identity, and education. Drawing on Anders’ account of Promethean shame, Baudrillard’s not...
link.springer.com
December 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
"By tracing how schools habituate young people to responsiveness and optimisation, we can see how algorithmic docility is normalised across society at large,” write Alexander Gardner-McTaggart and Carmen Blyth.
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"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked.
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
I am The Post’s ‘federal government whisperer.’ It’s been brutal.
One reporter’s effort to show how Trump was transforming government brought her 1,168 new sources — and nearly broke her.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 3:53 AM
"You’ve become the tip-line for The Washington Post,” another colleague joked.
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
“You look terrible,” my work wife said.
I asked them to send me a picture of their govt ID, then tried to forget it. I kept notes from reporting conversations in an encrypted drive, never writing down anyone’s name."
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
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When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
When an AI tool tries to identify cancer cells in Black patients, it often fumbles because it will only compare test results with those of other Black patients. Medical racism lives on in our algorithms.
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Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
www.space.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...
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Exam time! Technological innovation has destroyed the advances made by technological innovation, so students once again sit their exams using tools from the 18th century ('pencil') and the 2nd century ('paper') #analoglife
December 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Exam time! Technological innovation has destroyed the advances made by technological innovation, so students once again sit their exams using tools from the 18th century ('pencil') and the 2nd century ('paper') #analoglife
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You have got to be kidding me
December 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
You have got to be kidding me
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For a while I understood the EU institutions remaining on X, as a pure public broadcasting channel. But given it has fully become a radicalisation machine, and an owner who calls for destroying the EU, it is high time to leave also for European politicians.
After the little Musk-Sikorski spat this, and Musk's statement to abolish the EU (after the Commission fined X), let's ask ourselves simply:
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
HOW ARE EUROPEAN COMMISSIONERS USING X NOW?
In this 🧵 I'll document it, Commissioner by Commissioner. When did they last post? How often do they post?
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
For a while I understood the EU institutions remaining on X, as a pure public broadcasting channel. But given it has fully become a radicalisation machine, and an owner who calls for destroying the EU, it is high time to leave also for European politicians.
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Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life Fellows - Assistant Professor (Research) G7 - G8
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Better Images of AI
We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...
betterimagesofai.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH.
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
Please please please please stop giving me news articles about blog posts about AI that include images of blue data and robot hands. betterimagesofai.org
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Was just in this part of Ohio visiting family and these were on *every* lawn in the town my grandma lives in. It seems to be a uniting issue across the political spectrum.
December 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Was just in this part of Ohio visiting family and these were on *every* lawn in the town my grandma lives in. It seems to be a uniting issue across the political spectrum.
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
How This Contraption at UCLA Sent the First DM
At UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock reveals proof of when the internet was born.
www.pbssocal.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The first internet message was sent from UCLA fifty-six years ago 🌐
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
Watch PBS SoCal's "Lost L.A." host Nathan Masters visit UCLA Library Special Collections with internet pioneer, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock to see the logbook firsthand: www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-l...
@uclasamueli.bsky.social
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It's here! The National Archives’ #AnnualDigiLecture, in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, is fully booked and takes place tonight at Senate House. We're delighted to welcome Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, speaking on ‘When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age’.
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
It's here! The National Archives’ #AnnualDigiLecture, in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, is fully booked and takes place tonight at Senate House. We're delighted to welcome Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, speaking on ‘When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age’.
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Holy shit one of the things I have been waiting on for months finally happened
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Holy shit one of the things I have been waiting on for months finally happened
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CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
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What the WaPo has become:
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
Opinion | In defense of the White House ballroom
Donald Trump vs. the NIMBYs
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
What the WaPo has become:
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
"The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification."
The MAGAfication of the language.
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just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:
November 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just opening up the new Epstein docs at random: