On the urgency of making archives accessible to communities beyond the institution: "the difference between archiving and hoarding is who sees your boxes."

From this interview with the founders of Invisible Histories on preserving the history of queer life in the South:
https://slate.com/podcasts/outward/2024/11/uncovering-the-rich-and-complex-history-of-lgbtq-life-in-the-american-south-and-what-it-teaches-us-about-surviving-hard-times

⏰ Set your alarm! I'm giving a Humlab Talk at Umeå University.

🛜🌄🔧☎️👍
**Another internet is still possible:**
**The amateur roots of social media**
📅 Tuesday, October 29
13:15 - 15:00 CEST (Swedish Time)

📹 This is a hybrid event. Zoom registration here:
https://www.umu.se/en/events/humlab-talk-kevin-driscoll_11975388/

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me

#ai #genai #chatgpt #midjourney #mediastudies #internetstudies #artificialintelligence

💥New CfP! We're excited to announce a themed issue on <AI & Archives> in the Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society—a new #OpenAccess initiative from CambridgeUP, guest eds Katie MacKinnon, Louis Ravn, Eun Seo Jo, Caroline Bassett and Nanna Bonde Thylstrup! ℹ️ https://shorturl.at/hAI1l

#CFP #AI #archives #data #machinelearning #AoIR #webarchiving

🌻🌞 Excited that the full #ournetworks program is out in the world: https://ournetworks.ca/program/

🌻🌞 We have an absolutely stellar line up including:
- @loriemerson, University of Colorado Boulder and @mediaarchaeologylab
- Joni Schinkel, Small File Media Festival
- @expede, Indie Researcher
- Michelle Kaczmarek, Share Reuse Repair Initiative
- Esther Han Beol Jang, Local Connectivity Lab / Seattle Community Network
📡🛰️

🌻🌞 We hope you can join us, register here: https://ournetworks.ca/#register

We're doing another #ournetworks 🌻

Meet us IRL in Vancouver on July 27 for...

Our Networks 2024: Does not (cloud) compute.

Think: #localfirst x #permacomputing x #solarservers x hanging out on a LAN together to collectively explore what collaboration and online presence looks like when a network is optional-- https://ournetworks.ca/