Guys, I think we need more decorating holidays so the stores aren't all trying to sell me Halloween decorations during summer break.

An accurate film would spend about 5-10 minutes with the lead character struggling to remember *how* to use the microfilm viewer, finally spools it in and turns it on, but then it's upside down so they have to start over again.

Evan@evansmithhist.bsky.social · last wk.

I can suspend my disbelief while watching film in most respects except for when people use microfilm to look at old newspapers AND QUICKLY LAND ON THE EXACT PAGE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR. Without slowly scrolling through countless pages, without having to nudge the image or adjust the contrast.

An amazing public service! Adding to my syllabus now!

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · last wk.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

HELP! Where do I direct my anger about everything needing its own phone app instead of letting me just do it on my computer? I DON'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD THE APP.

WRITERS LOVE THEIR JOBS. WRITERS DO NOT WANT AI TO DO THEIR JOBS! (preaching to the choir, I know, but can you believe there are people who think THESE are the things AI should do???)

It's almost here!!!!! (all credit to @sinsleyh.bsky.social for knowing I'm not on Instagram and sending me this) www.instagram.com/p/DbObKAFCTw_/

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Hi friends! Do you have experience working with tech AND writing programs? My department is hiring an Academic Technology Specialist. We're great people to work with and it's a cool job for those with a foot in both these worlds careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...

Turns out this was a really good movie! Don't sleep on it ;)

Nissa Ren Cannon@nissaren.bsky.social · 2w ago

We're planning to finally watch Sinners tonight, though, so I guess I'm catching up?

In 1931, Nella Larsen sent Carl van Vechten this postcard of a man with a skirt full of kittens.

Hi friends! Do you have experience working with tech AND writing programs? My department is hiring an Academic Technology Specialist. We're great people to work with and it's a cool job for those with a foot in both these worlds careersearch.stanford.edu/hcmUI/Candid...

I might be incapable of recovering from my smugness about leading a Middlemarch book club at summer camp.

My kid is turning 12 next week and I still find it utterly weird to sign anything "mom."

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · last mo.

It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

New 44-track playlist from Smithsonian Folkways documenting sea shanties, nautical ballads, work songs, and other maritime musical treasures from the English-speaking world:

Folkways Goes... to Sea | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Long before modern instant communication, and even before the days of highways and railroads, ships and waterways connected communities with each other. These waterborne connections spanned distances…

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It can't be a good thing that I'm now embarrassed by how long it's taking me to write this book.

AMAZING!!!

Dr. Megan Faragher@meganfaragher.bsky.social · last mo.

🚨🚨🚨 SCHOLARLY RESOURCE MUTUAL AID ALERT She said she would make the humanities resource mutual aid relay device herself. Hosting it because I've got the hosting capacity for now and it was the easy button. Presenting: The Resource Exchange! www.meganfaragher.com/resourceexch...

Timed my 24 hours in London to perfectly coincide with the heatwave.

Something I'm not sure we talk about enough is how editing and peer review of our fellow scholars makes us better at giving students feedback, and vice versa.

is it possible I just saw a teenage juggalo?

TFW a book says an interview took place in 1924, their citation says 1923, and the primary source is actually from 1925… (always check the sources, kids…)

Fell down a 6am research rabbit hole! HAPPY SUMMER!

Love living in a media landscape so consolidated that "How Healthy Are Peas?" is a NYT headline.

Texting my kid about this in the middle of his school day like a good parent.

British Hedgehog Preservation Society@hedgehogsociety.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Among the books @standardebooks.org has added this month is Claude McKay's novel BANJO, which has been called a "queer black anarchist manifesto" (G.E. Holcomb) & a work of "dissident internationalism" (J. Nickels). Check it out — Standard Ebooks does a nice job. standardebooks.org/ebooks/claud...

Banjo, by Claude McKay - Free ebook download

Free epub ebook download of the Standard Ebooks edition of Banjo: A band of beachcombers join together to live as vagrants in Marseilles.

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Tonight, hours before our election count begins, USC's admin formally ran to the Trump federal NLRB asking them to overturn democracy. This shit is wildly cynical and has huge implications for academic workers nationally and I am begging my journalist followers to get in touch

Yes, Amazon Music, I agree that “my soundtrack “ should consist entirely of bands I’ve never listened to on purpose….

Help?

Nissa Ren Cannon@nissaren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Let's say you were coordinating a fun summer activity around reading Middlemarch, and you wanted to "assign" your friends a certain amount of the book to initially read where they didn't get overwhelmed but did get hooked--would volume I suffice? Or would we need vol. II, also?

Let's say you were coordinating a fun summer activity around reading Middlemarch, and you wanted to "assign" your friends a certain amount of the book to initially read where they didn't get overwhelmed but did get hooked--would volume I suffice? Or would we need vol. II, also?