FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.
Taylor Rehmet's win in a Texas state senate shocked pundits.
But, as I found in interviews with people close to the ground, it's not so surprising.
A lot of it is about the books bans. People hate the book bans. Even some Republicans! An analysis.
www.salon.com/2026/02/06/s...
A few years ago bridge construction gave Edmonton a new beach, which we called the Accidental Beach. That winter I posted a pic of the frozen river and argued it needed penguins, and nailed it with the observation "If we can have an accidental beach, we can have intentional penguins." I was ignored.
Carnegie Mellon has cancelled hosting the Code4Lib conference this year because Code4Lib has scholarships supporting diverse attendees. Some lame fuckery indeed.
A meme made from two screenshots from an episode of The Simpsons. The top image is a view of a bus driver from behind and the driver is saying "Don't make me tap the sign".The bottom image shows the driver's finger pointing at a sign that says "Watson, B. M. 2021. “Please Stop Calling Things Archives: An Archivist’s Plea.”".
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Happy Alphabetical Order in the European Middle Ages Day! A day to celebrate the development of the use of alphabetical order in manuscript information systems in the later middle ages. pbinkley.github.io/alphabetical... #DH #medieval #alphabetical
#skystorians
![u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal:
"She's an icon
She's a legend
And she is the moment
[sparkly picture of coal]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wlamchyb2ae65fgx75sfaqsq/bafkreieysdke6vg2abjjd3jwo3tsepp4smqeliw6no3vdxsnmyhvupthi4)
u.s. department of energy post on x praising coal: "She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment [sparkly picture of coal]
If a scholar of petro-masculinity said that men lust for coal, it would be seen as an exaggeration. But here we are...
Me, I just read their Library of Congress call numbers
o yes - haven't copied them into Zotero yet, but only because it's too hot here
So, thanks for the links! Here's a couple of citations I saved for when I get back to this, in case they're useful:
newprairiepress.org/aerc/2010/pa...
archive.org/details/grou...
www.proquest.com/docview/3031...
I hope you'll post more about the WPA forums!
These are wonderful! I stumbled onto some pre-WPA forums in Des Moines through some connections of my grandfather with the adult education movement through his college friends Lucy and William Adams, who were based at UCLA but spent several months in Des Moines in 1934 running forums.
Red white blue poster featuring stacked cards advertising a City Wide Forum on Democracy as a Personal Experience and Education for Democracy / Des Moines Public Forums
White poster with blue, grey + red text advertising Public forum - Eric Grimwade, journalist and commentator, will discuss focal points of the world crisis, 1940
Poster - white with a blue oval in the center - text in blue, orange, white - Lyman Bryson, famous forum leader, will discuss "Are we done with democracy?" at Roosevelt High 8th year of Des Moines Public Forum /
Yellow poster with black woodcut-type figures - teenage girl and teenage boy -- sitting on the ground, facing each other; blue text box in center; blue headline at top -- text reads: Youth forums Leader E.W. Balduf of Des Moines Public Forums at the Y.W.C.A. Ninth & High Street.
Encountering these WPA posters (URLs below) for Des Moines's public forums (1936-41) at the Library of Congress has made me want to learn more about the Federal Forum Project [1/3]
Let's have a conclave! Here's a fantastic grisaille illustration of the apostles dressed as cardinals enthroning St Peter as pope, from a mid 14th-century Franciscan Missal produced in France and now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 313, f. 262v 🎨
Do you suppose we might look back on these early years of GenAI as the beginning of a reinvigoration of human prose style, as the writers of even routine texts try to distinguish their work from AI slop?
Historians are going to have better records from the 19th century than the 21st, is my most medievalist futurist prediction.
Their decision to be older or younger is always kinda baffling
📣The @UofT Centre for Ethics has a call for applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in on the topic of Algorithm Bias.
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Otto Ege's living room, 1942 www.newspapers.com/article/the-... #fragmentology
Hildegard von Bingen's Scivias in Weimar Germany: Media Theory by Hand Sonja Drimmer Abstract Between 1929 and 1930 a feud over the legitimacy of reproductions of works of art erupted in the pages of the culture periodical Der Kreis. Later dubbed the Hamburg Facsimile Debate, the dispute involved many of the day's most eminent curators and academics in art and art history and became a focal point for emerging ideas about authenticity and the educative impact of the replica in the Weimar Republic. Even as the intelligentsia were publicly quarreling over the epistemological stakes of the facsimile, four nuns at Eibingen Abbey were meticulously hand-copying the most renowned illuminated twelfth-century manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen's visionary summa, Scivias. This essay pits the Facsimile Debate against the facsimile craft of the Eibingen nuns, situating both within the context of new reproductive technologies devised specifically for representing medieval artifacts. It argues for a historicizing approach to the notion of authenticity, which bears on how we think about mediation and the surrogate in our research and teaching today.
Between 1927 & 1933 four nuns at Eibingen Abbey replicated by hand the renowned manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen’s magnum opus, Scivias. When the original 12C manuscript disappeared after WWII, the replica became a facsimile-original. I tell the story of that facsimile here tinyurl.com/3mcb6vt7
Photo: overhead view of empty Cafe tables
Reading Week #ualberta
This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.
The wholesale erasure of history in real time.
"...graphic art was both the inspiration and the ultimate destiny of Mexican modernism: it was printmakers and illustrators who enduringly blurred the boundary between art and the world of the working poor."
Here's something I've been working on for over 2 years, and I wanted to have something to show before Public Domain Day tomorrow: a fully accessible ebook, completely in the Public Domain. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
Luigi Mangione in orange jumpsuit in the center of the frame, flanked by law enforcement officers, his hands are clasped and bound in front of him he looks off to the side pensively, seriously does this guy just not photograph poorly at all?
"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."
An aged book with blue hardcover and beige spine.
This week's #thrifting find: a tale of #censorship, #bookhistory, and Christmas past (a short 🧵) 1/n
Forget O'Reilly's, the fun is at the Turkish nightclub on Allen. No rules posted on the walls there. www.loc.gov/item/2017841...
