Dana
@danarovang.bsky.social
Makes media and history. Sometimes both at once. Producer, writer, nonprofit founder of obscure histories. PhD Hist/Phil Science
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Zero, likely.
Wonder how many AI companies running ads during this football game just had their AI write them.
December 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Zero, likely.
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
It’s the errors. Why use something that produces inferior output? I’m still looking for a way for Ai to do my laundry so I have more time to be creative (and factually correct)
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It’s the errors. Why use something that produces inferior output? I’m still looking for a way for Ai to do my laundry so I have more time to be creative (and factually correct)
This year being heralded with black cat energy seems pretty auspicious to me.
December 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This year being heralded with black cat energy seems pretty auspicious to me.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Yeah. This seems bad. Probably the best use of Ai right now is in revealing integrity and structural issues.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Yeah. This seems bad. Probably the best use of Ai right now is in revealing integrity and structural issues.
2026 vibes
I tell you, the sperm whale will stand no nonsense.
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 AM
2026 vibes
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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"A truly historic accomplishment," says NPR ( @npr.org ) President & CEO Katherine Maher: “1 trillion web pages. That’s 1 trillion artifacts & snapshots of our interconnected world.”
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/v...
#Wayback1T
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blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/v...
#Wayback1T
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
"A truly historic accomplishment," says NPR ( @npr.org ) President & CEO Katherine Maher: “1 trillion web pages. That’s 1 trillion artifacts & snapshots of our interconnected world.”
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/v...
#Wayback1T
More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/v...
#Wayback1T
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
November 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
To manually turn off go to:
Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off
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The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
October 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.
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AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.
August 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.
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My gut feeling right now is that once we get past this AI LLM boom and bust cycle, the skill of knowing how to have an imagination and how to create stories with your own human skill will be even more valuable than before. I would spend this time learning how to do everything you can to nurture that
August 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
My gut feeling right now is that once we get past this AI LLM boom and bust cycle, the skill of knowing how to have an imagination and how to create stories with your own human skill will be even more valuable than before. I would spend this time learning how to do everything you can to nurture that
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But I was told AI will replace historians
AI-update - to avoid the confusion between image and text, I asked Google Genesis to produce the same timeline as in my original prompt (1885-1945), but this time without any words...🤷♂️
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
But I was told AI will replace historians
The process of doing things - like making art or making history - is joyful. It’s messy, complicated, and frustrating, but it’s also creating something from nothing, all on your own. And it is a joy.
Consumer facing "A.i." is about triggering the excretion of a mediocre product. It's a rejection of PROCESS. Life itself is process, not fucking product. Push "A.i." on kids and you rob them of the joyful experience of life itself. I am not exaggerating.
August 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The process of doing things - like making art or making history - is joyful. It’s messy, complicated, and frustrating, but it’s also creating something from nothing, all on your own. And it is a joy.
Boosting for visibility. Once again for the back:
AI is not human and it is not good at telling human stories.
AI is not human and it is not good at telling human stories.
So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.
If true, then fucking yikes.
If true, then fucking yikes.
August 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Boosting for visibility. Once again for the back:
AI is not human and it is not good at telling human stories.
AI is not human and it is not good at telling human stories.
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Mister Rogers never misses
January 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Mister Rogers never misses
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
~Henry David Thoreau,
~Henry David Thoreau,
July 8, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
~Henry David Thoreau,
~Henry David Thoreau,
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This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T
July 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T
We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...
Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T
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Guys, the final deadline for being shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair is next Monday, June 30th, write it down
June 27, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Guys, the final deadline for being shocked that Mamdani’s mom is Mira Nair is next Monday, June 30th, write it down
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How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow