The issue's even worse when it comes to AI attempts to create streamlined alt-text for digital collections. Race matters to the study of history. While it may be a construct, the construction needs to be described accurately. Description's for discovery, and trustworthy discovery is a responsibility

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I've done a lot of work on describing race in historical photographs in archives, and how the work of ascribing race sans context can be an accuracy issue. People have brought up naming whiteness in photos (i.e. unlabeled White man) and I've always been wary because race is hard to read across time

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One of the reasons I personally insist upon addiction as a medical condition is that through that lens, the disparity in treatments available across socioeconomic classes is obviously and horrifically unconscionable

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*sits back in an armchair, lights a cigar* “kid, let me tell you about the days of more than one months’ rent as a security deposit and weird application fees”

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I hate library Halloween, what do you mean you’re the result of a lack of integrated pest management

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