Alice Corble

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

“we need to talk to young people about reading to outrun and outfight injustice… Reading human work to insist that we are human. Reading for liberation and emancipation; reading for intellectual freedom, and to have the strength to fight in the arenas of the mind” www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

I hope the librarians at the University of Ghent find themselves unable to find a single document that racist asshole requests from here on in. Sorry, mate, not sure where it vanished off to, maybe try another one, oh dear, that one’s gone missing, too.

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

New CILIP website is a mess of AI slop images. Check out the images of senior professionals and try and imagine the prompt that generated them. All backed by walls of fake books that look like the ones sold by the yard to furnish pubs www.cilip.org.uk/learn-develo...

I had a wonderful chat with @bmitra.bsky.social about the promising potential of atproto for creating emancipatory information access systems - check out @jedi-workshop.bsky.social and arxiv.org/abs/2601.09600 So much valuable know-how that would be amazing to apply for search/IR on atproto ✨ >

An interview with @dlocaribbean.bsky.social was just published in @archivoz.bsky.social. "The Caribbean in the Open: Inside the Digital Library of the Caribbean," is in English (www.archivozmagazine.org/en/) & Spanish (www.archivozmagazine.org).

Hot off the press! Check out our newest dLOC handbook, co-authored by @chancyms.bsky.social & @katielcoldiron.bsky.social! dloc.com/AA00115422/0...

dLOC endorses the Freedom School Spring 2026 Webinar Series from our friends at Archiving the Black Web. For more information, including registration links, please visit www.archivingtheblackweb.org/events/

1/3 There is and End of Days feel about Western Hegemony right now. A half millennia in which the West hoarded much of the world’s wealth, plundering, colonising and burning through fossil fuels, is ending in a paroxysmal, Trumpian blunder. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

“The real enemy of my people is here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality.” —Muhammad Ali on refusing to fight in Vietnam No to War, No to Empire: An Anti-Imperialist Reading List

“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

Latest additions to the Studies in Imperialism series: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...

The BBC removed part of Akinola Davies Jr.’s winning speech at last night’s #BAFTAs: “Archive your loved ones. Archive your stories yesterday, today, and forever. For Nigeria, for London, the Congo, Sudan, free Palestine.” (deadline.com/2026/02/bbc-...)

Extremely interesting case relating to responsibilities for providing access to colonial archives that have a significant commercial relevance ... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

I get so angry with people (the usual suspects) having a go at organisations like the RNLI or National Trust. One claimed that the lifeboats were for the use of English people only. Sorry nothing could be further from the truth. The original resolutions of the Royal National Lifeboat 1/3

This is a fab explainer of many of the issues HE is facing. Solidarity to our @unisonmmu.bsky.social colleagues who are fighting for us all. Brilliant to see the student support and solidarity too. youtu.be/uIqntto9TdY?...

Beautiful timeline cleanse 💜

Recommended reading for all those of us working at the technofeudalist coalface of Higher Education...

“Written w/ the precision of an archival historian & the moral urgency of a political intervention, the book dismantles one of the key myths of British national identity: that the monarchy stood above, apart from, or uneasily adjacent to the transatlantic slave trade.” slguardian.org/empire-by-om...

A friend reached out to me to ask if I could help bring attention to the plight of queer and trans refugees in South Sudan and her gofundme for her and her friends whose need for #mutualaid is incredibly urgent. Please share this post and donate to the campaign. Sophie & her friends need your help.

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition. We’ve also added a list of additional recommended reading:

Signatories to the letter, requesting that the article be removed or amended are mostly older prominent scholars of the Caribbean who are not necessarily on this platform, which is why I agreed to share it. The concern was that without a social media effort, @theguardian.com would ignore the request

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Perfect timing for an upcoming guest lecture on epistemic injustice (and algorithms and AI). This whole issue of Kula looks excellent: kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku... Great to be reading Sam Popowich again!

The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

"If...knowledge (...know-how) and thought have parted company for good, then we would indeed become the helpless slaves, not so much of our machines as of our know-how, thoughtless creatures at the mercy of every gadget which is technically possible, no matter how murderous it is." H. Arendt, 1958

Well this is resonant AF