James Truitt
Digital archivist at Swarthmore College. Testing out bluesky; more active on Mastodon as @linguistory@code4lib.social
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
- Reposted by James TruittIt would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
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- Reposted by James TruittThe defining feature of AI today is infrastructure: the rapacious buildout of data centres; the transnational configuration of labour exploitation; the grafting of AI onto processes of capitalist accumulation.
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- Why do I get the sense that by "archival practice" they don't mean minimal processing?
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- My summary of a great conversation! (Not sure why the preview is my picture and not Greg's, since his appears first on the page)
- Reposted by James Truitt"Firms deliberately operate from small cities & towns, where rents & labor costs are lower & a growing pool of 1st-gen grads are seeking jobs. Improvements in internet connectivity made it possible to plug these locations directly into global AI supply chains, w/o relocating workers to cities."
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- Reposted by James TruittRemembering Fobazi Ettarh by reading her brilliant work. I read about vocational awe in my last year of library school & she provided the vocabulary I needed to describe some of my observations & experiences as a BIPOC worker. She will be missed. www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocatio...
- Reposted by James TruittThere's no easy way to say this: isthmus
- Reposted by James TruittI wrote about some of the unreasonable requests I've gotten as a candidate for library jobs, and how employers might make the interview process less dehumanizing. acrlog.org/2026/02/05/m... 📚
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- The hero we need, not the hero we deserve
- I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
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this job only pays £42k and you'd live in london, but you could supplement that income with internal ransomware attacks- JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
- Reposted by James TruittGreat story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time: "Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."
- ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
- This is extremely beside the main point, but I love that around 07:28 he says "this is the full megillah of what we shot".
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- Reposted by James Truitt"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.
- Reposted by James TruittJust want to take a second and appreciate @sarahjeong.bsky.social, @reckless.bsky.social, and the whole team at @theverge.com for consistently meeting the moment here. Fearless reporting, pulling no punches. Proud to be a subscriber.
- ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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- Me: Hey, LCNAF, got anything for Cathy Siemens? LCNAF: Go fish Me: Okay, how about Janet Bauer? Lisa Clay? LCNAF: Here's one record for each, but neither is the person you're looking for. Me: Hmmm, okay. Gary Wilson? LCNAF: *spits out 25 records*
- Listening to a govt archivist talking about handling FOIA requests, and once again glad I am not a govt archivist. Mad respect for y'all
- Reposted by James TruittWhile the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →
- Reposted by James Truittreposting with alt text for accessibility: Sight in San Francisco (from a friend)
- Reposted by James TruittIf you’re surprised that a couple of longtime CBP employees have names of Hispanic origin, I recommend you keep that surprise to yourself and not turn it into a take. It’s incredibly common and longstanding; it’s been written on insightfully (see press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...). Learn things!
- Reposted by James Truittyiddish does not fuck around when it comes to this kind of thing
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- Reposted by James Truittten years ago today no one clapped
- Reposted by James TruittAnd here is the paper astrolabe that is included into the binding of the so-called "Heidelberger Schicksalsbuch". This paper instrument left the highlighted lasting impression on the nearby blank pages. #bookhistory #histsci 2/2
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- Reposted by James TruittTake me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
- Reposted by James Truittsome good news buried among the horrible behavior listed: “The third woman said federal agents at her hotel are subsisting on microwavable bowls of Campbell’s chicken noodle soup, because it’s become so difficult for them to find restaurants willing to serve them.”
- I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...
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- Reposted by James TruittI will never get over being asked to treat evolutionary psychology as a serious intellectual endeavor
- Reposted by James Truittreposting both for underlying insight and for solid use of "zugzwang"
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- Reposted by James TruittI can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.
- The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by James TruittIvan Illich never misses. Fom 1982 www.inist.org/library/1982...
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- Reposted by James TruittUS measles cases this year already exceed the total for the whole of 2023 and 2024 combined, and it is only January. Yikes.
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- Reposted by James TruittThis is an aside, but like… in 50 years time, good luck convincing any regular person that th etymology of “trumped up charges” doesn’t come back to this era
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