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  1. Apr 2020
    1. superimpose that face over yours, tweeting you back the result and a link to the original article

      There's something very artful about this gesture. Almost a research performance piece

    2. he translator was one of those eureka moments. Although I had been developing web applications for a long time, I had not really thought of the web as a source to be mined, manipulated, and transformed. I could take what was delivered in my browser and change it.

      How powerful that must feel too! the reclaiming of "our internet"

    3. But for all its benefits, open data is not really open. It only exists because decisions have been made about what is valuable to record and to keep: structures have been defined, categories have been closed. Just like files in the National Archives, data has achieved its “openness” through processes of description and control.

      It's a bit like an iceberg. What we can see gives us a hint of the loads of stuff we can't

    4. Most of the records closed on these grounds are more than fifty years old, with a peak in 1956.

      It's not even waiting to make sure everyone involved in a first hand way is dead at this point. Secrets are like dead things

    5. In 1952, in another notable act of “imperial unity,” Britain exploded an atomic bomb off the coast of Western Australia.

      Really close to where Aboriginal people were living. I know the Midnight Oil song just like everyone else

    6. Remembering the forgotten is not only a matter of recall or rediscovery but also a battle over the boundaries of what matters.

      What matters very often has to do with who gets the reins on the narration

    7. One of the responses to these inquiries has been to discover, marshal, and deploy existing archival resources.

      It's all already there for people to see. It's a matter of what we're paying attention to

    8. they remained imprisoned for the remainder of the war.[5]

      Did anything of substance come out of that, or were they cleared. And if they were cleared, were they issued an apology?

    9. ne senior Australian scientist heralded its arrival as “a great event in the history of Imperial unity” (Masson, 5).

      Good to remember what a completely different world we lived in just a century ago

    1. We hold Google Hangout strategy sessions to design game plans for figuring out difficult work situations. We send each other handwritten notes, celebrate each other’s success, and take trips together.

      This by necessity transforms the colleague relationship into something very different. I wonder how best to maintain this intimacy with work personalities that don't particularly gel together well. Do we need to love the people we work with in scholarly and activist circles?

    2. Having an in-person support network is necessary when we need child care, emotional support, or someone to bring soup and tissues.

      I imagine this looks different for different people especially now that we are so many of us isolated out of principal,, some of us isolated from people we love

    3. This means that in addition to our online presence, which has facilitated a feminist support network and helped usher in the Black feminist voices and representations of women of color that we now enjoy on the interwebs, we value our off-line relationships.

      They acknowledge themselves as digital humanists and then call for adequate balance

    4. To accommodate and negotiate our external caregiving practices, we concentrate on self-care as a preface to our activism.

      So this is a manifesto of how as much as the why. We want to look outward so first we must be nourished inward