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Apparently, the majority of the comments currently on the Census changes support these drastic changes! If you disagree, check out handsoffourcens.us

I've noticed that a lot of folks think checking for data removals is as simple as checking for 404 errors but it's A LOT more work than that! Thanks so much for your efforts @dataindex.us

Once upon a time, I pursued a career in the antiquarian book trade. It was so rife with sexism, I quickly changed course to libraries. Definitely feel like I made the right choice reading this. Profits over values it seems.

Libraries protect your privacy...and your wallet 💸 #surveillance "Social media sleuths suggest that using the library is the key to nabbing good deals in our current era of surveillance pricing." But really, this shouldn't be happening at all...

More coverage of the fight for public data in the @nytimes.com yesterday! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/h...

🙌"If we all start using Wikidata unique identifiers to ground our data, we start collaborating at scale without needing to schedule a single meeting or apply for any grants."

Thanks to @samleecole.bsky.social and @404media.co for covering this important issue!

Yet another reason to visit Philly? I was sad when Temple's attempt to save UArts fell through, but fingers crossed that this merger with the Library Company will happen #libraries #specialcollections #rarebooks

Great overview of where we were, are, and the fight ahead! Thanks for the shout-out too! 🛟 @dataindex.us @prbdata.bsky.social @apduorg.bsky.social www.prb.org/news/researc...

Some interesting explorations happening here re: automating dataset changes and risk assessment...

We ❤️ our data librarian community!

🧵 Some publishers & news organizations are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving journalism, stifling access to the public record. 📣 If you rely on the Wayback Machine to preserve news & history, tell them not to block web archiving. ✏️ Sign the open letter👇 www.savethearchive.com/NewsLeaders

I've seen some of these project presentations multiple times now...fine, clear-eyed use cases, but do they actually work??? Have tried the Wikidata MCP with a few LLMs now and it takes multiple tries to successfully complete very basic queries...

Data Rescue Project is teaming up with the Williams Institute, ICPSR and MAP for an LGBTQ+ Data Rescue Hackathon on May 28th. This event will focus on federal datasets that include sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). Open to all and a great way to pre-game Pride Month!

🙌 "This commons gathers what indigenous communities are building, what researchers are documenting, and what history demands we remember — so the next generation of decisions about AI is shaped by those most affected by it."

⚠️Nearly all federal data users (93%) have been impacted by the changes of 2025. 54% say the impact on their work has been major. 📢A new SSRS EMERGE report gives these data users a voice — and the findings are urgent. Read the report: ssrs.com/emerge-initi...

Now's a great time to support LaVonnia Moore, a rural Georgia librarian who was fired because she approved a library display (set up by community members) that included a book featuring a transgender character. Her legal case enters the mediation process this week. 📚 www.gofundme.com/f/help-lavon...

"...what happens when institutions stop valuing the cumulative work of forming vocation and judgment — the kind of work that takes time?"

Thanks to @theguardian.com for highlighting the people involved in the effort to save and demonstrate the importance of federal public data. ❤️🛟 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

These five librarians are running for state political offices across the country. Here's why they're running, and why librarians make good candidates. bookriot.com/librarians-r...

I really appreciate your role in this city @septaphilly.bsky.social, but what in the marketing rage-bait is this?! Please hire local copywriters and fix this jawn! #philly #septa

Beautiful essay..."Humans are incredibly good at adapting. When the environment is untenable, we move. When institutions and infrastructure fail, we come together in mutual aid. And through shared experience, memory, and continuity across geography, we remember that home is what we make of it."

In honor of ant season starting in my house: "What could we make with AI if scale wasn’t an objective? ...AI for Ants: A zine about Small AI” draws inspiration from the degrowth movement, climate justice, and low-tech to re-imagine AI that is locally-rooted and more attuned to our natural world." 🙌

Outline of how to approach the problem of AI extraction of open data/content through shared incentives and reciprocal benefit instead of direct monetization: “reciprocal contributions — improved metadata, processing tools, derived datasets — may align better with mission than licensing revenue.”

At a time when governments are willfully failing to preserve all their records, librarians and activists are using archival work to do more than document history. Guerrilla archives—whether digital or analog—are generally nonpartisan acts of preservation to serve the public good.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but app.radiooooo.com is probably one of the best things on the internet...tracks dripping in nostalgia, curated by actual humans, no algorithms. Taste is an interesting thing that...at least for now...still needs us

“Data is not enough” from OEDP’s Fieldnotes on AI Data & Tech Lead Cathy Richards focuses on the opportunity cost of the “lack of time to process information” refrain. ⚙️ 🔗Read/Listen to more here: open.substack.com/pub/openenvi... #Data #OpenData #AI #EnvironmentalData #EnvironmentalJustice

Is anyone really surprised that Claude code is a mess? Hilarious that Anthropic is issuing copyright takedown requests...

Today, the Archive published a Disappearing Data Chronology--a timeline tracking changes in access to federal information under Trump, including major data losses and restorations, legal challenges to information takedowns, and threats to archival collections. nsarchive.gwu.edu/special-exhi...

It’s important to remember that narcissism is in the DSM 5 and can be devastatingly detrimental to those affected…NOT some kind of innocuous productivity hack. Klein’s invocation of McLuhan ("we shape our tools, and then our tools shape us") re: AI sycophancy here is worth thinking about

Interesting thoughts here re: restricting AI/scraper access to archives/libraries conflicting with open knowledge/anti-surveillance ethos: "The remedy for misuse...lies downstream — in law, in professional norms, in community accountability — not in restricting access beforehand just in case."

New post: What's next for HIFLD? This is an exciting development for the data rescue community. Our partners at @publicenvirodata.bsky.social and Fulton Ring have used our rescued data to create HIFLD Next! The creators invite feedback! www.datarescueproject.org/hifld-next/

hrm...I don't think independence for arXiv necessarily=enshittification but I do wonder what the impetus for this is. Will be interesting to see how it plays out...hiring a library-world person for this role would be a good sign, but the size of that salary will definitely attract other types

Appreciating the call here for coordination as "essential to prevent duplication, ensure consistency, and close the widening gap between well–resourced and under–resourced organisations."🙌 zenodo.org/records/1893...

Reading over these rationales it becomes really clear how reckless, arbitrary yet totally hate driven the cancelling of these grants has been. The fact that ChatGPT was employed to do so is especially worrisome alongside OpenAI's recent defense/weaponry contracts

New report from UCLA Williams Institute School of Law: "Removal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity from Federal Data Collections, January 2025 to January 2026" More: https://myumi.ch/jJ8Qg

"How can librarians fulfill their professional and ethical obligation to defend intellectual freedom in the face of threats to their reputations, their jobs, and even their physical safety?"

Friendly reminder that opposing both the oppressiveness of authoritarian regimes and this reckless war is not a contradiction on any front. Peace and safety to friends, family, and all living things in the Middle East🕊️ (video of a happy young goat at sunrise Jebel Shams, Oman from a recent visit)

For this week's #MemeMonday, don't be like Aragorn! If you're able to, please consider publishing your data in a reputable repository. We here at DRP deposit our rescued data in #DataLumos from @icpsr.bsky.social

"The “censorships” that the site purports to counter are not internet shutdowns or broad restrictions on content such as those in place in China and Iran, but European restrictions on hate speech and illegal content such as those in the Digital Services Act, or the UK’s Online Safety Act."

Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is. Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. As stated in the…

In good news this week! ...hopefully these can be restored by summertime

"​In a time when historical information is actively being deleted, disappeared, or obfuscated, and competing visions of nationhood and citizenship are put forward, how do we critically engage with the archive as a contested site?"

The extractive nature of LLMs can be seen in their exploitation of not only open content, but also in their damage to open infrastructures.