Chris D'Arpa
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Kim Schroeder makes great things happen at the School of Info at Wayne State University-Detroit sis.wayne.edu
For more about her research and teaching (the quote is pulled from this video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mep7...
More about the award: provost.wayne.edu/college-to-c...
For more about her research and teaching (the quote is pulled from this video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mep7...
More about the award: provost.wayne.edu/college-to-c...
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Kim Schroeder makes great things happen at the School of Info at Wayne State University-Detroit sis.wayne.edu
For more about her research and teaching (the quote is pulled from this video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mep7...
More about the award: provost.wayne.edu/college-to-c...
For more about her research and teaching (the quote is pulled from this video): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mep7...
More about the award: provost.wayne.edu/college-to-c...
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Big shout out to the librarians who are creating guides to alternate locations for data and data rescue efforts on their library websites! I just noticed these were added to our doc! @americanuniversity.bsky.social
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
Subject Guides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
Links to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
subjectguides.library.american.edu
February 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Big shout out to the librarians who are creating guides to alternate locations for data and data rescue efforts on their library websites! I just noticed these were added to our doc! @americanuniversity.bsky.social
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
American Univ: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
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Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities
February 8, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Mistake to see this solely as a higher ed issue. The design of scientific infrastructure after WWII was govt funding a broad network of research via universities. That worked out pretty well for the US, helped make American higher ed a very successful industry w a positive economic externalities
An important announcement from the Governor of Illinois.
February 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it
February 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
What’s happening in the US is starting to feel more like a hacking than an election, with Trump basically cast as the idiot who clicked on the phishing email that let the ransomware guys in. Struck by how crucial tech not politics reporters are to us understanding it
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A new piece by Salon describing what's happening with the purge of federal websites and data. @eotarchive.org and @envirodgi.bsky.social are doing their bit to assure preservation and access. www.salon.com/2025/02/04/a...
As the Trump admin deletes online data, scientists and digital librarians rush to save it
The race is on to save public information about health and science before Trump makes it disappear
www.salon.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A new piece by Salon describing what's happening with the purge of federal websites and data. @eotarchive.org and @envirodgi.bsky.social are doing their bit to assure preservation and access. www.salon.com/2025/02/04/a...
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Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, has been the most clear-eyed leader in higher education. Read @shannonmattern.bsky.social's thread.
February 2, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, has been the most clear-eyed leader in higher education. Read @shannonmattern.bsky.social's thread.
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Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
January 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Folded & assembled proof sheets for @skeuomorphpress.org’s forthcoming letterpress edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology"—an LIS practicum student created the woodcut illustrations of tech mentioned in the text, which we carved on the laser—I set type for the book & fold-out poster
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Next time you are on EEBO or ECCO and see a thumbprint in the corner, remember it is likely the hands of women digitizing books in London basements during the blitz. They didnt know if the books would survive.
January 27, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Next time you are on EEBO or ECCO and see a thumbprint in the corner, remember it is likely the hands of women digitizing books in London basements during the blitz. They didnt know if the books would survive.
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"And these recordings, done in a Paris studio in 1939-40 also contain one of the most indelible moments in classical music recordings. Midway through the airy D major Sonata, K. 490, at 2:01, you can hear the German bombs falling on the city that began the occupation."
I treasure the Wanda Landowska recordings of Scarlatti that were made while the Germans bombed Paris
allegrovinyl.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/w...
allegrovinyl.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/w...
Wanda Landowska vs. the Bombs
Wanda Landowska was the harpsichord connoisseur’s harpsichord connoisseur. Born in Poland in 1879, she was a trailblazer of the instrument. She was the first to record the Goldberg Variations…
allegrovinyl.wordpress.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"And these recordings, done in a Paris studio in 1939-40 also contain one of the most indelible moments in classical music recordings. Midway through the airy D major Sonata, K. 490, at 2:01, you can hear the German bombs falling on the city that began the occupation."
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Decentralized social media Is the only alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
🔗 www.404media.co/decentralize...
🔗 www.404media.co/decentralize...
January 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Decentralized social media Is the only alternative to the Tech Oligarchy
🔗 www.404media.co/decentralize...
🔗 www.404media.co/decentralize...
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Behind the scenes with what its like to build language models and pursue (hopefully) cutting edge AI research
Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
What we have learned and are going to do next.
YouTube: https://buff.ly/40IlSFF
Podcast / notes:
Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
What we have learned and are going to do next.
YouTube: https://buff.ly/40IlSFF
Podcast / notes:
Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
What we have learned and are going to do next.
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Behind the scenes with what its like to build language models and pursue (hopefully) cutting edge AI research
Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
What we have learned and are going to do next.
YouTube: https://buff.ly/40IlSFF
Podcast / notes:
Interviewing OLMo 2 leads: Open secrets of training language models
What we have learned and are going to do next.
YouTube: https://buff.ly/40IlSFF
Podcast / notes:
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Just sent this to my university's communications department, with a gentle suggestion that they also consider repositioning in the social space / creating Bluesky accounts.
German institutions depart X, a day after Musk's Weidel talk – DW – 01/10/2025
More than 60 German and Austrian academic organizations say they will leave the messaging platform X owned by Elon Musk. The German government has also voiced fears that the platform is warping politi...
www.dw.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Just sent this to my university's communications department, with a gentle suggestion that they also consider repositioning in the social space / creating Bluesky accounts.
Tony Kozlowski .... a 72-year-old retiree, had taken a job as a baker at the Pacific Palisades Vons grocery store to supplement his social security.
“You start at 3 a.m. and no one’s around, it smells good and you play your music in the store,” he said.
“You start at 3 a.m. and no one’s around, it smells good and you play your music in the store,” he said.
In One of L.A.’s Richest ZIP codes, Food Service Workers Also Lost Their Homes (Gift Article)
In addition to pricey mansions, the homes of working-class people were also lost, including a mobile home park on Pacific Coast Highway.
www.nytimes.com
January 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Tony Kozlowski .... a 72-year-old retiree, had taken a job as a baker at the Pacific Palisades Vons grocery store to supplement his social security.
“You start at 3 a.m. and no one’s around, it smells good and you play your music in the store,” he said.
“You start at 3 a.m. and no one’s around, it smells good and you play your music in the store,” he said.
"[The] Roving Archivist ... has encountered everything from delicate nitrate negatives ... to oral histories documenting vanishing memories of Wyoming life. ... she provides recommendations tailored to the institution’s specific needs and resources."
Wyoming’s Roving Archivist Program Works to Preserve History Across the State 📜 k2radio.com/wyomings-rov...
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Wyoming's Roving Archivist Program Works to Preserve History Across the State
Since hitting the road, Roving Archivist Linda Sampson has encountered everything from delicate nitrate negatives needing specialized storage to oral histories documenting vanishing memories of Wyomin...
k2radio.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"[The] Roving Archivist ... has encountered everything from delicate nitrate negatives ... to oral histories documenting vanishing memories of Wyoming life. ... she provides recommendations tailored to the institution’s specific needs and resources."
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I zoomed into a Wayne State University Humanities Center brown bag today with History faculty, Mia Michael, "Building on Their Foremothers 'Fights for Rights': Domestic Workers and the New Labor Activism, 1960-2015" - such an important topic. clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/hq8228
Mia Michael
Mia Michael, Assistant Professor , History, Wayne State University
clasprofiles.wayne.edu
January 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I zoomed into a Wayne State University Humanities Center brown bag today with History faculty, Mia Michael, "Building on Their Foremothers 'Fights for Rights': Domestic Workers and the New Labor Activism, 1960-2015" - such an important topic. clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/hq8228
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When members of the press and political leaders in either party treat Trump’s imperialist talk as “bonkers” “crazy” or “just talk” you deny that real people live in these places Trump is threatening. Panama has been invaded by the U.S. before. None of this is a joke.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...
Panama Unsettled by Trump Threat to Seize Canal
Few took the president-elect’s combative comments at face value, but they still sent a shudder through a country that has been invaded by the United States before.
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
When members of the press and political leaders in either party treat Trump’s imperialist talk as “bonkers” “crazy” or “just talk” you deny that real people live in these places Trump is threatening. Panama has been invaded by the U.S. before. None of this is a joke.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/w...
CFP for GO support for community-based archives
@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...
Mellon Foundation
The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.
www.mellon.org
January 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
CFP for GO support for community-based archives
