Just sharing this interview I did with @wolfffish.bsky.social. The images of her amazing work are worth a look: www.tcj.com/189979-2/. Mia's portrait of Samuel R. Delany is also on the the cover of the reference guide I did with @emannion2.bsky.social+Lavelle Porter+Kenny Roggenkamp.

'The art elves come up with ideas, and I just follow them': Mia Wolff & her hundreds of paintings - The Comics Journal

Mia Wolff flies through the air with, in conversation with Ann Matsuuchi.

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LOUDER.

Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

“Wikipedia is the @CUNY of the Internet”—In this Episode of CUNY Indoor Voices Podcast, Ann Matsuuchi, instructional technology librarian at CUNY’s @laguardiacc.bsky.social is joined by CUNY University Archivist Wikimedian-in-Residence Richard Knipel: tinyurl.com/43n7uzez

Episode 112: “Wikipedia is the CUNY of the Internet”

Welcome to Season 9! I am a proud citizen of the CUNYverse and I feel especially fortunate to be here right now. CUNY is in the middle of a three-year, Mellon Foundation-funded project called Culti…

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Imagining a "Wikipedia Liberty Index," Ryan McGrady says real or threatened censorship of Wikipedia is a lagging indicator of a state's attitudes towards free press, free speech, academic freedom, and free expression in general, and a real-time indicator of active efforts at suppression.

What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression | TechPolicy.Press

Ryan McGrady writes that you can learn a lot about a state's view on free expression by how it treats Wikipedia.

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Journeyed out to Pratt Institute Brooklyn this afternoon for the @amatsuuchi.bsky.social interview with @wolfffish.bsky.social. What a blast. And Mia’s new book, The Empty Lot, is absolutely gorgeous!

An invite to check out Mia Wolff's @wolfffish.bsky.social fabulous exhibit at Pratt Brooklyn. We're doing an interview on Weds 2/26 at 4. www.eventbrite.com/e/a-conversa...

Weekend's upon us! Go listen to my latest conversation, feat. @wolfffish.bsky.social; meantime, I'll bring you a new episode feat. @fredmkaplan.bsky.social & maybe make a trip to the Drawing Center in NYC to catch that #KAWS Collection before it closes chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...

Episode 621 – Mia Wolff

Virtual Memories Show 621: Mia Wolff “Talent is almost irrelevant. It’s just work and being relentlessly focused. . . . Talent is like rain; does it go in the pot with the plant or does…

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The new book is officially out in the world! Look forward to raising a glass soon with my usual suspects at Joe Allen.

Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center: ❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible ❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link 🔗 www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...

When Online Content Disappears

A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

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Just sharing a link to an ep of Kathleen Collins' great podcast Indoor Voices, where we talked about Caron Knauer's new book on slavery and Hollywood films, and #Wikipedia activism with AfroCROWD's Sherry Antoine t.co/fqTU2SjOUS

I always appreciate the research report part of the Wikipedia Signpost. In this issue, a write-up about the @Nature "Online Images Amplify Gender Bias" paper and a mention of a new Wikipedia-covered "event" corpus I hadn't seen yet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Excited to have this piece in The Atlantic today! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... A few of us at @idpiumass.bsky.social did a lot of work to produce a truly random sample of YouTube videos and wrote a really long paper to paint a portrait of YouTube as a whole [1/3]

Nobody is better than Lane Rasberry at communicating the importance and influence of @wikipedia.bsky.social (at #wikipediaday NYC, Brown Institute) #wikimedianyc #wikipedia #wikipediaday