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> turns on my computer
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people hate it when i say "black people getting cancer is racist" but im literally fucking right because systemic racism has led to chemical dumping being acceptable in black/brown neighborhoods and black people have higher rates of cancer as a result
reblogging a funny low note count textpost on your dash made by your mutual's mutual kinda feels like walking up to two strangers on the street and laughing loudly at their joke
It’s kinda like this
Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through
Welcome to being an adult! Featuring such injury causing events as
- sneezed wrong
- turned your neck a little too fast
- slept weird
- took the trash out to the curb and stepped at a slightly different angle than usual
- breathed
- failed to breathe properly
- breathed in the wrong stuff. Allergy time
- looked too hard at something too far away
- knees
i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges
HAPPY PRIDE
thought of this immediately and was delighted to discover it’s the same op
[looking at people younger than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at people older than me] you have your whole life ahead of you [looking at myself] its over
i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny
this job market is a fucking nightmare
Vote for progressives. #DSA #ZohranMamdani
Democrats, are you taking notes? This is how you get shit done.
alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.
we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)
please rb for larger sample size!
Question 1/3
What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?
under 18, AI is a net positive
under 18, AI is a net negative
18-29, AI is a net positive
18-29, AI is a net negative
30-45, AI is a net positive
30-45, AI is a net negative
46-60, AI is a net positive
46-60, AI is a net negative
over 60, AI is a net postive
over 60, AI is a net negative
Question 2/3
How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?
Frequently (multiple times per month)
Often (multiple times per year)
Occasionally (a couple times per year)
Rarely (once every couple of years)
Never :(
Question 3/3
If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?
under 18, more inclined
under 18, less inclined
18-29, more inclined
18-29, less inclined
30-45, more inclined
30-45, less inclined
46-60, more inclined
46-60, less inclined
over 60, more inclined
over 60, less inclined
Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!
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I work in museum security and it's convinced me to go back to school to be a museum professional. Hopefully curator with an interest in textiles, but I'll take what I can get 😄.
In going back to school, I'm taking classes, one of which was a history class. I told a classmate I want to work in museums and they said they did too, though AI is likely going to take the jobs.
I said No! AI should have no part in museum work or your job as a historian! It is your job to learn about humanity, study humanity, then teach other humans what YOU learned! Computers shouldn't be teaching people about humanity.
I very genuinely need tumblr to understand that museums are as diverse as historians, egyptologists, archaeologists, and what have you in general. Like from the way people are talking you'd think that only straight white Western men are ever involved in these concepts, because the internet at large just loves to be able to get on their little high horsie about how they are sooo much more morally correcter than the Evil Other
Which is absolutely not a concerning attitude to have, not at all no sir
forgot I'm on the piss on the poor website so I'll spell it out: Western straight white men aren't per definition the Evil Other either
You know where the real danger is? Anti-intellectualism, the concept of moral purity, and opening your damn trap when you don't know shit about fuck
#also our job market is a hellscape and a lot of us aren't wealthy either and neither are our workplaces #many museums especially have SUCH a hard time affording anything rn #the days of museums as institutions and the humanities being a realm of wealth and prestige are well and truly over #this is a field that is being devalued constantly in a world that would love to believe everything important is digital #or about making money #and that's a fucking problem bc the whole thing of museums is that they offer easily accessible education #HOW is the “go to your local library” website so indifferent or even hostile towards museums#academia (via @veilchenjaeger)
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Also the field is growing and changing all the time! I took a friend up to Montezuma Castle National Monument this past December, expecting her to learn about the Sinagua Indians, who might have assimilated into the Hopi. I was last there...oh, three, maybe four years ago? In just that small time the Parks Service had worked with the Hopi Nation to rename the extinct tribe and redo the entire small museum attached to the monument site. The former Sinagua, named by the colonialist Spanish, are now the Hisat'sinom, or "the ones who came before" in Hopi. Instead of "here's some stuff we found at the site," many of the exhibits are now "here's stuff we found at the site, and this thing right next to it is a modern recreation of this thing, made by the Hopi Nation for this museum, demonstrating one way we've determined they did assimilate because we can see unique weaving patterns and weapons from the Hisat'sinom showing up later in Hopi crafts and war kit." A lot of the signage still says Sinagua (changing that stuff takes time, money, and possibly a literal act of Congress if the signage itself is considered historical, because it dates back to the 1950s), but you can see the changes being made. (Also, checking the date on that signage has led me to discover yet another Wikipedia article I need to fix.)
Here's another for you, from the Minneapolis Institute of Art from when I visited a few years ago. First, I walked into this room and went "oh NO" because the very first thing I saw was this:
But off to the left was an entire wall of Native textiles where the MiA had repatriated historical artifacts and commissioned modern Native artists to make replicas of traditional clothing and weaving patterns, and it seemed really weird that they'd do that and then have a war bonnet gained by sketchy means chilling in the middle of the room, so I read the plaque for more detail:
TRANSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT:
The item is named as "Tsistsistas (Cheyenne) or Lakħóta artist, North America, Great Plains region." Right away we're on good ground with self-identified tribal names. It lists the item as "headdress, late 19th-early 20th century" and made of "eagle and other feathers, wool, buffalo hide, cowhide, horsehair, beads, pigments." So we're also continuing on with the certainty that they've really researched this item. It's not being dismissed as some "American Indian curiosity," it's being treated like the work of art and craftsmanship it is.
But here's why I posted this here:
"Gift of Jack Garcia, Lakħóta."
This wasn't looted. This was freely given. And the plaque goes on to make the provenance extremely clear:
"A Tsistsisas or Lakħóta artist created this headdress, which symbolizes power, leadership, and generosity. Jack L. Garcia, who donated the headdress to Mia in that same spirit of Lakħóta generosity, was a great grandson of two Oglála Lakħóta leaders: Śungmànitu Haņksa (Long Wolf) and Čhetáņ Lúta (Red Hawk). In 1874, the United States government discovered gold in the Black Hills, and broke its treaty with the Lakħóta, initiating hostilities. Both of Garcia's forebears fought against and defeated General George Custer and his army in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876."
That's a damn nice description. Correct names, a factual account with no moralizing or racist narrative: they fought, they won, period. The only inaccuracy here--on a technicality--is that the Native tribes involved in that battle called it the Battle of the Greasy Grass, and personally in a Native exhibit I'd use the Native terminology. I can see why they didn't (plaque space is finite and they would have had to explain the name), but the quibble is worth bringing up.
But here. The very last line. The point of all of this in the first place:
"At the installation of this headdress, a Lakħóta medicine man blessed the object with Garcia's family in attendance."
Not only is it freely given instead of looted. Not only is it given the respect it deserves as not just as a mark of honor but as an artistic object (seriously I couldn't get my camera to focus on the stitching but it is STUNNING how even and delicate it looks when you consider someone would have been dancing and attending ceremonies in this). But it was put in the museum with the very literal blessing of tribal elders. They made sure the Lakħóta community was involved and that the headdress was treated in a culturally appropriate manner. And off to the right is a small family tree showing Garcia's direct ties to the leaders they named, providing proof of provenance. That's an extremely far cry from "we're some old white bastards who took this because we wanted it, take a look."
Museums are trying. Some are doing better than others, but they are trying.
Try going to one sometime, and see for yourself.
watched maleficient last night. has anyone explored the economic and material ramifications of getting rid of all your spinning wheels in one blow. you’re back to drop spinning now, and it takes roughly 6-10 hours of spinning for the yarn to allow a single hour weaving. everyone ought to be spinning, kids included. the housekeepers should be spinning. people waiting for their wares to sell should be spinning. guards on duty should be spinning. i must believe the only reason we don’t see all this spinning on screen is bc the camera loves watching the king’s descent into madness, which i agree with. that man is spinning something, but it ain’t fiber.