Alex Gil
faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
- I have never read a letter of resignation that gave me goosebumps... that is until today. And we have the honor to break bread with her tomorrow. I... I'm gonna get the feels. Just warning everybody ahead of time. time.com/7285045/resi...
- I swear if anyone is still bamboozled by the whole DEI discourse from the white power crew at this late stage of the game... the benefit of the doubt shouldn't have left the train station in the first place.
- Already welcoming people for WOBD2: The Past in Danger in New Haven. As people start trickling in for an intense 2 days of conversations, private and public, we learn of more archives in danger by the hour. But we're not here to bemoan our fate. We're here to mobilize—hearts, minds and hands.
- Need to be prosecuted ASAP for endangering those kids. I ain't playing. Fire with fire.
- A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
- Beautiful thank you note to Carla Hayden from the Data Rescue Project team. "She is an inspiration and will remain the Librarian of the People." Word. www.datarescueproject.org/thank-you-ca...
- This part. I was wondering about the prestige of the Pulitzer in the next few years. Not because the team that selects the prizes is not top-notch, but because of everything Columbia/Barnard is doing to taint everything they touch.
- More of these!
- Rapid Response Grants for scholars who have had funding cancelled by the NSF, particularly early career scholars: www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
- Important data point to keep in mind when the chickens come home to roost.
- Ha! Just had a final paper on recent flavors of BERT and other ML goodies that would make you happy @tedunderwood.me. The whole argument revolved around trying to nail down good benchmarks for evaluating the rig's ability to read poetry from the Harlem Rennaissance.
- 4 days to gather in New Haven to ask a second time, Who Owns Black Data? This year's theme is "The Past in Danger." Carla Hayden, the most qualified person to ever hold the position of chief librarian was just fired yesterday. We don't think we exaggerate when we say the past is in danger. #wobd2025
