Tita Chico

Tita Chico

@titachico.bsky.social

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Professor of English (18thc) @ U of Maryland. Writing on wonder and writing on devices. Recently, Frau Prof Dr Chico @ U of Tübingen (Germany) and Senior Global Fellow @St Andrews U. On leave 2023-24.

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Myself and five brilliant cofounders have put a lot of “love, sweat and dreams into it,” as one put it, and now we need your support to get it off the ground. If you care about DC, local news, or worker-led ventures, please donate and share! givebutter.com/The51st

Help Launch The 51st: Local Worker-Led Newsroom in D.C.givebutter.com Donate to support a new worker-led nonprofit newsroom launch in D.C.!

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I’ve been up to something really exciting in recent months—launching a worker-run local news outlet in DC!! News cooperatives are a bright spot in a bleak media (and everything?) landscape & we need them more than ever. Read about our crowdfunding launch in The Washington Post t.co/R1s2UOmJfO

Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washingtont.co The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.

#18c @asecsoffice.bsky.social friends, please cast your VOTE for the Bylaws Referendum today! and please vote YES. asecs.org/about/bylaws...

Bylaws Referendum – ASECSasecs.org

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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...

Disposable Heroeswww.bookforum.com Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir captures the hazards of “coming forward” – Moira Donegan

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So DC water is out, which sucks, but on a positive note I got really into the DC water supply in 2022 and this is a great time to bring out fun facts The water's out because they found turbidity at Dalecarlia Reservoir west of the city, where DC has gotten much of its water supply since the 1850s

This thread. Prof @nathankhensley.bsky.social giving us the readings and guides we need right now. 👇👇👇👇

an observation: there are entire traditions of political thought, and theories of action to accompany them, that developed in periods of defeat and under conditions of sometimes total domination. these will be useful guides now.

Congratulations!

Deeply honoured to be awarded the BARS First Book Prize for 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (CUP, 2021)!!! @bars.bsky.social www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5352

BARS First Book Prize 2023 – Awardees Announced – BARS Blogwww.bars.ac.uk

In other news, I just bought the shoes again that I bought in May but lost somewhere in my house.

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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes

Just so disgusted by the (all but 2) Republicans and 62 Democrats (see below) who voted to ban US officials from acknowledging the death toll in Gaza. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024313

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It’s an honour to have my essay on Samuel Johnson, the Cock Lane Ghost, & disability satire published in _The New Rambler_. The Johnson Society are such a friendly & erudite bunch. If you get a chance to support them please do! #18thC #SamuelJohnson #Disability #Ghosts

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In Denver it's Pauline Short Robinson. There are so many Black librarians doing this incredibly important work often in very hostile spaces with limited budgets. True in the first part of the 20th century and true today.

On Dorothy Porter and other Black librarians building collections and services illuminating Black literature www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/a...

How Black Librarians Helped Create Generations of Black Literaturewww.nytimes.com Recent scholarship is uncovering the role of the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance where they built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers.

great article about Black librarians in the NY Times. I also recommend Zita C. Nunes' "Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Catalogued," if you haven't read it.

How Black Librarians Helped Create Generations of Black Literature Recent scholarship is uncovering the role of the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance where they built collections and communities of writers and readers www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/a...

How Black Librarians Helped Create Generations of Black Literaturewww.nytimes.com Recent scholarship is uncovering the role of the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance where they built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers.

Remembering the Howard University Librarian Who Decolonized the Way Books Were Cataloguedwww.smithsonianmag.com Dorothy Porter challenged the racial bias in the Dewey Decimal System, putting black scholars alongside white colleagues

I have reached that part of June when I feel like there is no possible way I can do all that I need to do this summer. #academiclife

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I liked this essay by Janet Vertesi trying to situate the epistemological crisis of the current Internet in the history of its architecture. There’s a few things in here I’ll be thinking about more www.publicbooks.org/the-encyclop...

The Encyclopedia Project, or How to Know in the Age of AIwww.publicbooks.org In an age when AI regurgitates the blather of meaningless content, seeking its audience in the attention marketplace, it's a small wonder that it is hard to tell what is really real anymore.

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AAUP “cannot exist primarily to write reports + statements + conduct research on higher ed... AAUP needs to be transformed into an organizing powerhouse that can bring together the entire sector around a new vision for higher ed.”

Do Much More to Meet This Moment | Rotua Lumbantobing, Gabriel Winant, Todd Wolfsonwww.nplusonemag.com As the ascendant far right attempts to assert its hegemony, it has identified universities and academics as important obstacles to its success. In this, the enemies of academic freedom and scholarly i...

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It's a sweep. Every UFCG candidate won. Labor now leads the AAUP and we're gonna fight for our schools like never before. Congratulations to Prez Wolfson, VP Lumbantobing, Sec. Aubert, and At-Large Council Member Kumanyika.

The United Faculty for the Common Good (UFCG) is a reform slate of rank-and-file academic workers running for leadership of the AAUP, dedicated to the industrial organization of higher education. We know that we're already at war. And we're going to win. Read more from Gabe Winant:

Do Much More to Meet This Moment | Rotua Lumbantobing, Gabriel Winant, Todd Wolfsonwww.nplusonemag.com As the ascendant far right attempts to assert its hegemony, it has identified universities and academics as important obstacles to its success. In this, the enemies of academic freedom and scholarly i...

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The University of Maryland Medical Residents and Fellows (unit size ~950), supported by AFT and EWOC, won their union last night, 628–19! Three years of organizing to get to this point, and they beat back the anti-union firm Littler Mendelson! ❤️

Residents, fellow physicians at University of Maryland Medical Center vote to unionizewww.baltimoresun.com Residents and fellow physicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center have voted to unionize, according to election results shared by the Maryland chapter of the American Federation of Teach…

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Today the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, being led by the nose by President Eli Capilouto, finalized the dissolution of the University Senate, putting the final nail in the coffin of shared governance.

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1,000 days of Afghan girls barred from going to school, and it continues to feel like a constant scream inside everyone’s head. Each year, no new woman nurse, doctor, midwife, teacher graduates, a ticking bomb for women’s health and education #letherlearn #letafghangirlslearn Photo: Nangarhar 2024

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I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

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BREAKING: Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Probe Finds Thomas flew to Montana & elsewhere on the billionaire’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed the flights to the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose investigation was sparked by ProPublica reporting

Harlan Crow Provided Clarence Thomas at Least 3 Previously Undisclosed Private Jet Trips, Senate Probe Findswww.propublica.org The Supreme Court justice flew to Montana and other destinations on the billionaire GOP donor’s dime. Crow’s lawyer revealed these flights to the Senate Judiciary Committee, whose ongoing investigatio...

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Cases for the CUNY 22 are being dismissed or adjourned. Dismissals mean the charges are gone, adjournment means they have to come back on the 18th. The gears of justice and all that.

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Google's AI Overviews must create entirely new information in response to a search query. That costs an estimated *30 times* more energy than simply extracting information from a source through a traditional search. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... by @parshallison.bsky.social

What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?www.scientificamerican.com Google is bringing AI answers to a billion people this year, but generative AI requires much more energy than traditional keyword searches

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This is a New York Times op-ed about Netanyahu, suggesting that the U.S. government's patience with him should come to an end. It was published twenty-six years ago.

very cool project!

"Team led by WKU Philosophy Professor builds searchable and first-ever digital map of Principia Mathematica through multi-institutional. NEH-awarded grant project.' "First-ever digital map and data table for all 3 volumes and 1,992 pages of Principia Mathematica." Go, WKU and University of Iowa!

Team led by WKU Philosophy Professor builds searchable and first-ever digital map of Principia Mathematica through multi-institutional. NEH-awarded grant projectwww.wku.edu The University of Iowa and Western Kentucky University collaborated to build the first-ever digital map and data table for Principia Mathematica—a monumental work in the philosophies of mathematics an...

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It's been said a bunch of times but I want to say it, too: what's been so bracing about these Lauren Windsor/Rolling Stone stories is not that they reveal Alitos as grand villains but as absolute off-the-rack nightmare suburban shitheads. 0 wins above replacement between the two of them.

mamma mia! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethicswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a new recording suggests partisan funding is to blame for coverage of justices’ undisclosed luxury gifts.

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Things I'd rather have than a bunch of bullshit LLMs claiming to be artificial intelligence include but are not limited to: free transit, UBI, universal healthcare free at the point of use, a guaranteed right to housing, clean energy, public libraries, music education in schools, high speed rail...

I’d rather have free universal healthcare than a bunch of bullshit LLMs pitching themselves as artificial intelligence.

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Doesn’t say so here b/c NYT centers the right-wing anti diversity talking points but many anti-racist faculty of color have felt all along that these statements are window dressing to let institutions out of actually addressing racist histories and create annoying extra labor for faculty of color

Oh ffs. These are already banned at a lot of public universities. Of course, those schools don’t exist to the Times. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/u...

Is This the End for Mandatory D.E.I. Statements?www.nytimes.com Harvard and M.I.T. no longer require applicants for teaching jobs to explain how they would serve underrepresented groups. Other schools may follow.

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I did not know that. Unbelievable. From the article: "The center conducts applied research in technologies that 'improve human performance,' such as advanced and emerging technologies, and languages, communication and culture, according to a university spokesperson."