Ruth Arr
@wrooth.bsky.social
Archives & Language Reclamation Budgets are value statements Settler currently in Lenapehoking, originally from Goudi'ni
The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
There's still time to register for "Feeding the Digital Fire: Community Memory, and Digital Stewardship" this Wednesday!
Ruth Arr@wrooth.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us next Wednesday, in Philly or online, for this lecture by Angelina Jumper. 'Jumper and her team developed the Junaluska Museum’s first substantial digital footprint through large-scale digitization, community-based archiving, and the implementation of a tribal Digital Asset Management system'
There's still time to register for "Feeding the Digital Fire: Community Memory, and Digital Stewardship" this Wednesday!
Ruth Arr@wrooth.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us next Wednesday, in Philly or online, for this lecture by Angelina Jumper. 'Jumper and her team developed the Junaluska Museum’s first substantial digital footprint through large-scale digitization, community-based archiving, and the implementation of a tribal Digital Asset Management system'
Join us next Wednesday, in Philly or online, for this lecture by Angelina Jumper. 'Jumper and her team developed the Junaluska Museum’s first substantial digital footprint through large-scale digitization, community-based archiving, and the implementation of a tribal Digital Asset Management system'
Feeding the Digital Fire: Community Memory, and Digital Stewardship | American Philosophical Society
The APS welcomes the public to a hybrid keynote presentation by Angelina Jumper for the 9th Annual 2026 Digital Knowledge Workshop.
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Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
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Join us next Wednesday, in Philly or online, for this lecture by Angelina Jumper. 'Jumper and her team developed the Junaluska Museum’s first substantial digital footprint through large-scale digitization, community-based archiving, and the implementation of a tribal Digital Asset Management system'
Feeding the Digital Fire: Community Memory, and Digital Stewardship | American Philosophical Society
The APS welcomes the public to a hybrid keynote presentation by Angelina Jumper for the 9th Annual 2026 Digital Knowledge Workshop.
amphilsoc.org
Residents of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, otherwise known as Collins from northern Ontario are still in shock after their community was destroyed by wildfires. They have arrived safely in Thunder Bay as long-term accommodations for the evacuees begin.
Residents still in shock as community was lost to wildfires in northern Ontario | APTN News
Residents of Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, otherwise known as Collins from northern Ontario are still in shock after their community was destroyed by wildfires. They have arrived safely in Thunder…
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These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
These good people are selling balcony solar units at cost--a few hundred bucks to join the solar revolution. thank you @brightsaver.bsky.social !
Bright Saver | Plug-In Solar@brightsaver.bsky.social · 3w agoThere's a lot of different ways to highlight the accessibility of plug-in solar. @billmckibben.bsky.social nailed it in his mention with @canarymedia.com "The solar revolution is the great sunny hope of our time, now everyone can participate." www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
“Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version: The change happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.”
Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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🚨BREAKING: President Trump’s administration installed overnight a new exhibit at the site of George Washington’s Philadelphia home instead of the memorial to the 9 people kept in bondage at the nation’s first White House. National Park Service dismantled the original slavery exhibit in January. 🎁 🔗
Slavery exhibits at the President’s House have been swapped for the Trump administration’s version
The change at the President's House happened overnight, allowing the government to switch out the displays and shutdown the television screens while avoiding public scrutiny during the takedown.
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Park rangers fined Sandra Shachar for vandalism this morning at the President’s House, hours after the Trump admin installed its version of history. The 72 year old has been posting news articles on the site’s walls since the slavery exhibit was removed. If she does it again, she’ll be arrested.
My understanding of what is next is that: (1) GOP Governor Henry McMaster will appoint Graham's replacement. (2) Graham's seat was already up for election this year, & he had secured the GOP nomination. This suggests there may have to be a special primary election: law.justia.com/codes/south-...
When people ask me what the phrase "artificial intelligence" means, my short answer is, it means "venture capitalists, give me some money". But OUP asked me for a longer answer, given here and summarized in the section headings: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Historians will be shocked by America's 250th birthday - and what didn't happen Trump pretended in a killer heat wave that climate change wasn't real. They pardoned polluters, censored protests, and killed windmills. Nobody fought back Denial Day: My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Climate denial is what history will remember about July 4, 2026 | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, Trump finds a way to ruin the World Cup after all.
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Leftists make a huge mistake when they allow science policy to be run entirely by centrists and the right. You’re ceding a place of power over technology development and the direction that scientific research goes in, including how it is taken up by the military-industrial complex.
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
From Senator Tartaglione: “We often say a budget is a reflection of values. If that’s true, then a budget that leaves behind minimum wage workers is a statement that their work does not count at the same level as everyone else’s. I do not accept that." penncapital-star.com/government-p...
'I hope you can live with your consciences': Pa. minimum wage proposal blocked by Senate GOP • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
In the state Senate, the Republican majority voted unanimously to kill a Democratic-led effort to vote on raising it to $15 an hour with an annual cost of living increase.
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Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.
Trump had signed an order to end birthright citizenship for children born in the US to undocumented immigrants.
Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship in momentous immigration ruling
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An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗
Trump administration quietly removed mentions of slavery from Independence Hall, Thomas Jefferson portrait
The Inquirer's discovery of these changes come as Philadelphians are grappling with the Trump administration's attacks on the President's House Site.
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Proposals are due TODAY!
Ruth Arr@wrooth.bsky.social · 3mo agoWant to share your work with the CNAIR community? The Indigenous Learning Forum CFP is open! Se aceptarán propuestas en inglés o español, y se ofrecerá interpretación en español/inglés para todas las presentaciones. Proposals are due June 29! www.amphilsoc.org/indigenous-l...
"People are betting on wildfires." Really feels like banning these betting markets is a minimum necessary condition for civilisation.
High Country News@highcountrynews.org · last mo.Fire survivors say “it’s morally reprehensible,” and experts worry the wagering could lead to arson.