Feminist/Archivist/Quaker/Socialist, in chronological order. Resident of the Ohio River watershed. Do no harm but take no shit. Embracing ephemerality through a 3 month retention schedule of posts unless otherwise appraised for enduring research value.
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Last Notes npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey A periodic reminder that saying "Social Security will not exist when I retire" is repeating right-wing talking points, and ceding the terrain of fighting for dignified retirement to a bunch of ghouls who want to dismantle every part of the social safety net npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub13vv…0sze 🤯 npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey Last boost re: a quarter of recent websites going offline: One of the surprisingly effectively ways I've found to communicate about the work of archivists and digital preservation is to ask folks how long they think the average website is online for. I did this recently with a non-archivist who did the whole "oh everything is forever on the internet" line and they were captivated when I shared about the Sisyphean tasks of digital preservation and the work of web archives and archivists. npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey A terrific essay on the parallels between the Lowell Mills labor organizing history and Etsy seller organizing, complicated by the challenges of platform capitalism and the freelancer economy https://open.substack.com/pub/taramcmullin/p/organizing-indie-labor?r=sx43&utm_medium=ios npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I am making my way through the 1970s campus newspapers for a client, and I am increasingly convinced that we are living through a 1970s simulation. The headlines from student journalism are so uncanny - faculty protesting over inflation and athletics, op-eds about student protest activities from the Yom Kippur war, complants about millionaire women lecturing working class women. It's extremely twilight zone. npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub1hn5…mzl8 @npub16u7…uend this is often the work of corporate archivists but tech companies are notorious for treating their archivists badly https://annamancini.substack.com/p/how-the-apple-archive-ended-up-at npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I'm in the market for a standing desk with up/down switches (as opposed to a crank). Willing to spend $500-$1,000. Do you have one that you love? npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub13vv…0sze it would not surprise me, back when I occasionally did RFP reviews in my university records manager/digital archivist days I was always astonished by how many cloud database/storage vendors didn’t allow users to easily export a copy of their data npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey there have been -0- days in the beginning of 2024 without a GLAM infosec meltdown https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/design/museum-cyberattack.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE0.N4ln.55VZawJRqkqb&smid=url-share npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub13vv…0sze just gotta say as the daughter of a 91 year old man using a new cell phone with cognitive issues, I feel very seen by this. Thank you for your service Jessamyn!!!! npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey My 91 year old dad has used cellphones for years but as his cognitive capacity has declined significantly in recent months, the touchscreens of modern cell phones are confounding him, a lot, leading to significant frustration whenever he wants to just place a call to us. Any kind of accessibility settings or mods we try doesn’t help. We’re now looking at Jitterbug type phones - can anyone weigh in with experience? npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub13vv…0sze My elementary school principal would always read The Frost is on the Pumpkin every autumn over the school intercom and I thought it was so corny and now I think it's incredibly earnest npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I'm low key wondering if Woody Guthrie's Columbia River recordings are in the public domain because from what I can tell it was work done for the US government? (please do not mansplain copyright law to me, I am an archivist who knows about copyright investigations and my husband used to work for a law school prof whose work on IP law has literally been cited in SCOTUS opinions) npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub13vv…0sze Question: do they circulate? npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I’ve been saying for years that it would be the insurance industry that forces the government’s hand in developing climate change policy as insurers refuse coverage in vulnerable areas. Looks like that day is finally arriving https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/climate/climate-insurance-disasters-senate.html npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I get asked a lot about where to go since Archivist Twitter doesn't really exist anymore. On Wednesday October 25 from 3:15 PM-4:00 PM Eastern, I’m hosting a free online event for learning how to use Mastodon to connect with all your archivist pals! Joining me will be the glammr.us mods @npub1fnw…f9uz @npub12jn…v22t and @npub1ecp…pr53. This event won’t be recorded, but I will send a handout to all who register. Register here and spread the word! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjqsaq8KP-mHRc5o0s8eKRCKAh6eix5zljZl9U4Je3VveMKQ/viewform npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I asked this a while ago and got no nibbles but let’s try again: I’m a librarian and archivist who will be visiting Iceland and Ireland in mid-October and I would LOVE to meet some library/archives/museum people/get some GLAM recommendations while I’m traveling. Please boost, thank you 💚💚💚💚 npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey I got asked a question recently by someone about where archivist twitter went and I tried to convince them to use Mastodon more. They said they had made an account but never really used it. It made me wonder if for American archives month if it's worth doing a webinar on how we're using Mastodon? Like the hiring discussion going on today is the kind of thing I think a lot of people miss about archivist twitter. Thoughts? npub1kwldmum4hr44ejv2xqs5s57r87e5r7q2ax2dv8xrt8rsthdn3kjqswjr20 Eira Tansey @npub13vv…0sze thanks for sharing that link to your work Jessamyn. It’s so abundantly clear to me how clueless many library leaders are about the legacy of McCarthyism and how this lack of historical literacy is really on display with a lot of the silence from library orgs.
