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@danarovang

Makes media and history. Sometimes both at once. Producer, writer, nonprofit founder of obscure histories. PhD Hist/Phil Science

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I feel like there’s a Venn diagram in here with considerable overlap…

10.02.2026 16:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

07.02.2026 05:01 👍 33621 🔁 6993 💬 221 📌 182
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

06.02.2026 15:37 👍 22319 🔁 6777 💬 623 📌 1083
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About https://theonion.com/democrats-sick-of-being-blamed-for-cowardice-on-issues-1847675639/

30.01.2026 02:15 👍 7905 🔁 2081 💬 65 📌 67
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This is tomorrow’s front page for The Minnesota Star Tribune. In a moment in which much of legacy media are enabling and condoning the worst actions of the Trump admin, the reporters and editors of the Star Tribune are not holding back one bit.

23.01.2026 04:32 👍 3248 🔁 861 💬 18 📌 34
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The stunning art trove hidden in a D.C. building marked by Trump for disposal Packed with frescoes, paintings and reliefs, the federal government’s Cohen Building has been called “the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.” Advocates fear these works could be at risk.

Trump is planning to demolish an invaluable piece of Social Security history.

22.01.2026 14:28 👍 80 🔁 55 💬 2 📌 3

how excited were these scientists? Full-circle Newton moment.

20.01.2026 18:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Zero, likely.

29.12.2025 04:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Again,

29.12.2025 03:34 👍 5180 🔁 1306 💬 80 📌 30
Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.

Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:

💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!

🧵👇

26.12.2025 14:01 👍 1777 🔁 740 💬 25 📌 80

It’s the errors. Why use something that produces inferior output? I’m still looking for a way for Ai to do my laundry so I have more time to be creative (and factually correct)

22.12.2025 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This year being heralded with black cat energy seems pretty auspicious to me.

22.12.2025 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

22.12.2025 01:40 👍 9040 🔁 2887 💬 115 📌 187

Yeah. This seems bad. Probably the best use of Ai right now is in revealing integrity and structural issues.

20.12.2025 16:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2026 vibes

17.12.2025 04:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Time person of the year cover for 2025

Time person of the year cover for 2025

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

12.12.2025 04:00 👍 24050 🔁 4386 💬 877 📌 668
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"A truly historic accomplishment," says NPR ( @npr.org ) President & CEO Katherine Maher: “1 trillion web pages. That’s 1 trillion artifacts & snapshots of our interconnected world.”

More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/14/v...

#Wayback1T

14.11.2025 18:04 👍 137 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 2

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

10.11.2025 02:28 👍 5470 🔁 1375 💬 28 📌 56
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Next week LinkedIn will use your personal data for AI training by automatically enabling permissions.

To manually turn off go to:

Settings ➡️ Data Privacy ➡️ under
“How LinkedIn uses your data” click “Data for Generative AI improvement” ➡️ toggle off

02.11.2025 05:07 👍 563 🔁 462 💬 25 📌 23

The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

29.10.2025 19:09 👍 1095 🔁 367 💬 38 📌 37

AI art does not exist. It is an oxymoron.

29.08.2025 15:36 👍 2893 🔁 473 💬 67 📌 18

you know him

21.08.2025 02:52 👍 425 🔁 80 💬 5 📌 2

My gut feeling right now is that once we get past this AI LLM boom and bust cycle, the skill of knowing how to have an imagination and how to create stories with your own human skill will be even more valuable than before. I would spend this time learning how to do everything you can to nurture that

13.08.2025 23:00 👍 532 🔁 155 💬 2 📌 0

But I was told AI will replace historians

08.08.2025 11:00 👍 163 🔁 20 💬 11 📌 2

Right? Are we saving time, or losing authenticity? I mean, the answer is “both,” but where do we place the value?

08.08.2025 00:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The process of doing things - like making art or making history - is joyful. It’s messy, complicated, and frustrating, but it’s also creating something from nothing, all on your own. And it is a joy.

07.08.2025 17:58 👍 42 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Boosting for visibility. Once again for the back:

AI is not human and it is not good at telling human stories.

05.08.2025 16:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful 

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You know, your own imagination is far more wonderful Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why?

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Than any computer could ever be. You know why? Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

You’re a living human being. And a computer is just a machine. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines.

Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Human beings are far more wonderful than machines. Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

Mister Rogers never misses

02.01.2025 20:38 👍 24979 🔁 8278 💬 197 📌 366

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

~Henry David Thoreau,

08.07.2025 23:41 👍 2113 🔁 344 💬 31 📌 13
Illustration of a towering monolith with "1T" engraved on it, symbolizing the Internet Archive's milestone of archiving 1 trillion web pages. The monolith stands against a cosmic backdrop with a glowing light behind it, evoking a sense of scale and wonder. The Internet Archive logo appears in the lower left corner.

Illustration of a towering monolith with "1T" engraved on it, symbolizing the Internet Archive's milestone of archiving 1 trillion web pages. The monolith stands against a cosmic backdrop with a glowing light behind it, evoking a sense of scale and wonder. The Internet Archive logo appears in the lower left corner.

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w...

Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

01.07.2025 14:02 👍 794 🔁 214 💬 6 📌 10