Didi in LA
@didiinla.bsky.social
Reposted by Didi in LA
For my Birmingham folks:
December 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
For my Birmingham folks:
Reposted by Didi in LA
NEWS: Artist, developer and Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Vivian Li invites you to explore three American communities with Anywhere Adventures, a new interactive mobile site showcasing local history through items from the Library's digital collections. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
Library Innovator in Residence Launches Mobile Self-Guided Community Adventures
Library Innovator in Residence Launches Mobile Self-Guided Community AdventuresInteractive Local Experiences are Inspired by Library of Congress Collections on New Mobile Website Artist, developer...
newsroom.loc.gov
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
NEWS: Artist, developer and Library of Congress Innovator in Residence Vivian Li invites you to explore three American communities with Anywhere Adventures, a new interactive mobile site showcasing local history through items from the Library's digital collections. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...
Reposted by Didi in LA
always thinking about herbert ponting's terra nova expedition photographs
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
always thinking about herbert ponting's terra nova expedition photographs
Reposted by Didi in LA
Nov 17, 1984: Police arrive to the Hollywood Palladium during The Ramones & Black Flag concert. Photo by Gary Leonard, via @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social. tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll...
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Nov 17, 1984: Police arrive to the Hollywood Palladium during The Ramones & Black Flag concert. Photo by Gary Leonard, via @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social. tessa2.lapl.org/digital/coll...
Reposted by Didi in LA
I resent spending my time rooting around user interfaces to turn off the AI. I should track these as billable hours and invoice Sam Altman. Wasting my time in a way slaveholders could have only dreamed of owning my labor.
November 16, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I resent spending my time rooting around user interfaces to turn off the AI. I should track these as billable hours and invoice Sam Altman. Wasting my time in a way slaveholders could have only dreamed of owning my labor.
Reposted by Didi in LA
Stunning. Archives are everything.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
www.csmonitor.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Stunning. Archives are everything.
Reposted by Didi in LA
LAWSUIT WIN: Trump’s rule preventing DACA recipients, asylum seekers, asylees, refugees, and other immigrants from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses is now HALTED while our lawsuit proceeds.
This decision gives 200,000 immigrants a chance to keep working.
This decision gives 200,000 immigrants a chance to keep working.
November 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
LAWSUIT WIN: Trump’s rule preventing DACA recipients, asylum seekers, asylees, refugees, and other immigrants from obtaining commercial driver’s licenses is now HALTED while our lawsuit proceeds.
This decision gives 200,000 immigrants a chance to keep working.
This decision gives 200,000 immigrants a chance to keep working.
Reposted by Didi in LA
For the first time, the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County has a full-time, paid executive director. Lawrielle West is excited to help usher in a new chapter for the museum at its new permanent location in a renovated 180 yo farmhouse. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... ❤️🔥
First full-time director of Black history museum near Ann Arbor wants to uplift local stories
Lawrielle West took the helm at AACHM excited to help usher in a new chapter for the museum at its new permanent location in Pittsfield Township.
www.mlive.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
For the first time, the African American Cultural and Historical Museum of Washtenaw County has a full-time, paid executive director. Lawrielle West is excited to help usher in a new chapter for the museum at its new permanent location in a renovated 180 yo farmhouse. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb... ❤️🔥
Reposted by Didi in LA
MacKenzie Scott has made a $27 million gift to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles, one of the nation’s four historically Black medical schools
mynewsla.com/education/20...
mynewsla.com/education/20...
Novelist Makes Second Gift to Charles R. Drew University - MyNewsLA.com
Philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott has made a $27 million gift to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles, it was announced Friday. The award marks the second ...
mynewsla.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
MacKenzie Scott has made a $27 million gift to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in South Los Angeles, one of the nation’s four historically Black medical schools
mynewsla.com/education/20...
mynewsla.com/education/20...
Reposted by Didi in LA
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Senator Schumer Votes to Let the Big Wooden Horse into Troy
“In the wake of votes by a handful of key Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, to pass a GOP-led continuing resolution funding f...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"My brethren, soldiers may leap out of that statue tonight and kill me, but what’s leaping out at me right now is our total disregard for norms. What you see as an enemy threat, I see as a one-of-a-kind statue of a mare."
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sen...
Reposted by Didi in LA
$47M renovation of DTLA's Coca-Cola Building underway
https://la.urbanize.city/post/47m-renovation-dtlas-coca-cola-building-underway
https://la.urbanize.city/post/47m-renovation-dtlas-coca-cola-building-underway
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
$47M renovation of DTLA's Coca-Cola Building underway
https://la.urbanize.city/post/47m-renovation-dtlas-coca-cola-building-underway
https://la.urbanize.city/post/47m-renovation-dtlas-coca-cola-building-underway
Reposted by Didi in LA
Sat: "Octavia Fest 2025: A Celebration of Imagination, Discovery, and Justice" kicks off at 9am with "Octavia's #Pasadena Bike Ride." www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/deb... #OctaviaEButler
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sat: "Octavia Fest 2025: A Celebration of Imagination, Discovery, and Justice" kicks off at 9am with "Octavia's #Pasadena Bike Ride." www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/deb... #OctaviaEButler
Reposted by Didi in LA
The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.
Reposted by Didi in LA
Reposted by Didi in LA
"What stories start to surface when artists, historians, and community members engage a place like this anew? The [Rowland Mansion] holds the story of California’s land grants & settler expansion, but it also carries quieter histories of labor, migration, & care.” www.sgvtribune.com/2025/11/01/a...
Artists turn the Rowland Mansion into a multi-medium canvas, and ‘redrawing’ narratives
The Rowland Mansion was home to one of the Valley’s first families. Here’s how their descendants are caring for it.
www.sgvtribune.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"What stories start to surface when artists, historians, and community members engage a place like this anew? The [Rowland Mansion] holds the story of California’s land grants & settler expansion, but it also carries quieter histories of labor, migration, & care.” www.sgvtribune.com/2025/11/01/a...
Reposted by Didi in LA
Conservators from the Getty Museum, Getty Villa, and Getty Research Institute are answering your questions for Ask a Conservator Day! 🧵
Shoutout to all the art conservators—at Getty and elsewhere. 💙
#AskAConservator
Shoutout to all the art conservators—at Getty and elsewhere. 💙
#AskAConservator
November 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Conservators from the Getty Museum, Getty Villa, and Getty Research Institute are answering your questions for Ask a Conservator Day! 🧵
Shoutout to all the art conservators—at Getty and elsewhere. 💙
#AskAConservator
Shoutout to all the art conservators—at Getty and elsewhere. 💙
#AskAConservator
Reposted by Didi in LA
Can L.A. follow Paris' example of a bicycle-friendly Olympics/Paralympics? usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/29/a...
An Olympian Task: Replicating Paris's Bike Boom in Los Angeles — Streetsblog USA
The Olympics can help transform the streets of Los Angeles — if they look to the example of Paris.
usa.streetsblog.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Can L.A. follow Paris' example of a bicycle-friendly Olympics/Paralympics? usa.streetsblog.org/2025/10/29/a...
Reposted by Didi in LA
Common Crawl is how all of Big AI laundered the lack of consent in scraping up content across the web.
NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.
The Nonprofit Feeding the Entire Internet to AI Companies
Common Crawl claims to provide a public benefit, but it lies to publishers about its activities.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Common Crawl is how all of Big AI laundered the lack of consent in scraping up content across the web.
Reposted by Didi in LA
Lincoln University announces plans for campus museum www.newstribune.com/news/2025/no...
Lincoln University announces plans for campus museum | Jefferson City News-Tribune
An African American museum is coming to the Lincoln University campus.
www.newstribune.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lincoln University announces plans for campus museum www.newstribune.com/news/2025/no...
Reposted by Didi in LA
Remembering Fernando Valenzuela, who was born on this day in 1960. 💙⚾️🧢
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Remembering Fernando Valenzuela, who was born on this day in 1960. 💙⚾️🧢
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
A calavera in LA’s Grand Park in memory of #FernandoValenzuela. #DíadelosMuertos #baseball
Reposted by Didi in LA
The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.
October 31, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at voices@mississippifreepress.org.
Reposted by Didi in LA
October 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reposted by Didi in LA
Reposted by Didi in LA
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies