Josue Hurtado
@josuehurtado.bsky.social
Archivist/Academic Librarian. Coordinator of Public Services & Outreach. Special Collections Research Center. Temple University. Stanford & UMSI alum
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
techcrunch.com
"resistance has been most effective—indeed, it may only have been effective—where faculty members have taken independent action." A new @aaup.org report on the Trump administration's "extorted compliance" of higher ed.
Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance
Published July 2026.This report was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom andTenure and the Committee on College and University Governance and was appro...
aaup.org
This administration blusters about patriotism, but its actions consistently show that it does not care about the things that make this country great. dc.citycast.fm/news/lincoln...
Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say · City Cast DC
Beneath the Lincoln Memorial, another potential disaster is brewing for the Park Service.
dc.citycast.fm
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story
‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
theguardian.com
Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
“If King Croesus crosses the Halys River, a great empire will be destroyed.”
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2mo ago
At the end of the day, research requires work, effort, and friction. It probably requires money and travel expenses. In an ideal world, repositories would have enough staff and resources to provide at least nominal virtual access to those who need it. To do that, archives need money not LLMs.
And to the folks upset that yeah, sometimes you gotta travel to see archival material, that will never not be a thing. There isn't enough money, staff time, or digital storage in the world to process everything in all repositories. And not everything can be digitized for a variety of reasons.
Tax the rich and funnel some of that money to community services like libraries, museums, and archives. That will do far more good than throwing cash at tech bros to buy another yacht.
The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.
a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .
ALT: a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .
media.tenor.com
Jeff Passan Bot@jeffpassanbot.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe Boston Red Sox fired manager Alex Cora, hitting coach Peter Fatse, bench coach Rámon Vazquez and game-planning coach Jason Varitek, sources tell ESPN. While the Red Sox won today, they are 10-17 and in last in the American League East. Massive change is coming in Boston.
This is great! The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present. It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more. americanarchive.org
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.
americanarchive.org
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
nature.com
This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...
Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access
Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.
blockclubchicago.org
History is cool and I like archives, which are filled with cool and creative people who do cool things. Archivists are creative people and deserve to be treated better than they are by institutions and administrators. Archives should be treasured jewels of educational and cultural institutions.
NARA filled with a bunch of furious archivists and librarians going scorched earth in the survey.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 5mo agoHere are federal employee responses, sorted by dept/agency, to the question about whether their organization's political leaders "maintain high standards of integrity." Results are abysmal. In no agency do even 20% of respondents say their top leaders have integrity
A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...
Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection
The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.
variety.com
![During the ratification debates, Senator Cowan took aim
at the Roma people too, characterizing them as undeserving
of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
gangs,” “infest[ed] society,” and “impos[ed] upon the simple
and weak everywhere.”49 And again, Senator Conness dismissed Senator Cowan’s prejudices: “The only invasion of
Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
much worse and more disastrous to the State, and more to
be feared and more feared, than that of Gypsies. It was an
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