Stephen I Moore

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PhD in History from UCRiverside. Focus on 20th Century US Culture and politics. Dissertation on the Folk Boom 1958-65. Pop Music and Cold War culture.

www.folkboom.com

Websitehttps://linktr.ee/simstephen

My team is in the early planning stages to update the way the Swedish National Archives present our APIs, open datasets, (data-driven) research collaboration opportunities, overview of our openly licensed softwares, AI-models, invitation to contribute refined versions of our data, etc.

Do you know of any good examples from the GLAM-world, and adjacent, that we could learn from and emulate? Send me a link in your reply.

Boosts welcome!

#OpenData #APIs #Dataportal

You did it! 🥳

European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

@histoftech Prefer? Paper for everything

Tolerate? digital novels, and digital academic articles

Will not tolerate digital monographs.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tzimmer_history/116284308929790803

I wrote about why I left academia last summer, why I left America – and why I left Substack.

I still believe we should do what we can to decrease our dependence on U.S. tech feudalists. But six months later, it’s also clear that leaving Substack has made this journey more difficult. There are trade-offs.

This footnote could've been an article.

Not one more dime for war until we have universal health care and high-speed rail from Boston to Miami, from Seattle to San Diego,from New York to Chicago
to Los Angeles, and everywhere in between.

Starve the military-industrial complex of
corporate welfare and build up American society instead.

Define #crocodileTears

An aggressor's sadness, fake or cluelessly entitled, because their aggression backfired

Example:

#Afroman's "Lemon Pound Cake" mocked a #police raid on his home (resulting in no charges)

They sued

Because "waah, my feelings"

One of the officers "cried" on the stand

Afroman won

And congratulations Afroman for reigniting your career

"I got the right to kick a can in my backyard, use my #freedomOfSpeech, turn my bad times into a good time"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/19/entertainment/afroman-lawsuit-lemon-pound-cake-cec

@shapr I had dinner with my father in law this week and he showed me images that had been animated by AI - they were of my own kids.
I was physically ill.

Stars do not shrink
At the gaze
Of lesser men,
And neither will
I.

#poetry

@rndeon @pluralistic Author here, thanks so much for reading! I was just as blown away when I first dug into this and had the same reaction.

What is wild is that the logical fix for this, something called Server-to-Server (S2S) auctions like prebid server already exists. It offloads the compute and saves massive amounts of bandwidth. But because of certain data-matching limitations between servers, ad-tech prefers to hijack our browsers to keep revenue high.

To your point about messing with the bids, it is a brilliant thought! But currently, the client just collects the bids...the final clearing price is validated server-side by the primary ad server AFAIK. Spoofing the bid might just break the iframe or serve you a cheap fallback ad if they've built contingency measures(which I'm sure they have).

Dropping the requests entirely with an ad blocker is an incredibly effective and sane response! But I'm always open to hearing from smart people. Thank you for sharing 🙏✨