Demoralization: coming to a workplace near you

160 - SciOp.net feat. Jonny and Jez (part 1) We’re talking with @jo.nny.rip and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do.

Looks like Auphonic has moved completely to OpenAI for transcripts and so now their speaker detection for transcripts is even worse than it was. I'm going to have to move to a whole new service just for transcripts now.

So many episode ideas to build out but with the upcoming move for Justin we're going to be scheduling episodes out ahead of time and working on new ones once he's settled. Feel free to email us with your episode idea if you'd like to come on! librarypunkpod at gmail.

Send us your zines! - #ZINEPAVILION Your zines will be seen & enjoyed by thousands of library workers at American Library Association’s 150th Annual Conference and will become an important part of the Zine Pavilion. Zines will be raffled off to help build new zine collections &

If you had any integrity it would have been on sight. Do you know what I'd give to be within swinging distance of this guy?

@amlibraryassoc.bsky.social! I am running for Vice President/President-Elect of the New Members Round Table! #NMRT is the foundation of ALA. we need to sustain our membership now more than ever, and I believe I’m one of the leaders for the job! vote.yeselections.com/ALA/bios/383...

Starting to understand why Gibbon misunderstood the fall of the Roman Empire as having to do with a lack of civic virtue.

good morning. I got an early preview of the AI slop founding fathers PragerU is taking on tour across the country

This information is relevant for libraries

I wrote the foreword to Resisting Erasure: Libraries in Palestine/Palestine in Libraries, out now from @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social. academicworks.cuny.edu/qc_pubs/693/

Happy birthday women

Jay and Justin talk about married life on the latest @rftb.bsky.social

Librarians have known academic publishing as a complete rort for decades, that is why we have been trying to build new forms of peer review. We will have to rebuild these information systems from the ground up.

This is the greatest website.

Every IT department onboarding training I've been in: Our cloud storage options give you [x amount] of storage, so that'll be more than you'll ever need. Me: You don't know my game.

As an academic the biggest threat is that AI replacing the long meandering explanation that makes everything more complicated.

dudes rock

lol, love when reporters get snarky

“FBI investigators walked the jury Tuesday through ‘zines’… Owning these items is not illegal, FBI Special Agent Kasey Bennett testified in Fort Worth federal court Tuesday. But…” (there is no credible but)

Massachusetts has the lowest incarceration rate in the U.S. and it STILL incarcerates people at a higher rate than Iran www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024....

I try not to give career advice. I prefer to give career omens.

2nite 10:00-11:30 pm Got the stream going up on an mf weekday come get ur music wheee Now with 100% more track titles visible

Evey day, despite a dominant culture of hyperindividualism and alienation, regular people are engaging in incredible acts of community defense, collective care, and mutual aid. Every day, people are already planting seeds of the new world in the ashes of the old.

The (repeated) failures to engage with things like some of the many community-led approaches to OA, and to instead to continue to frame OA as a thing (as a product, method, etc.) is incredibly frustrating. It also implies that doing things yourselves has never been explored. Which...

Data is dead labour, with the dataification and digitisation of intellectual labour it can now appear as the illusion of dead labourers.

Every episode has been transcribed and searchable, idk for how long it'll be up for free but I submitted our feed to this site. podscripts.co/podcasts/lib...

God the combination of "doing more with less" and "doing more with AI" is going to drive me mad. "How to deal with our cataloging workload as staffing decreased without lowering quality". Idk maybe you should lower quality. Do less with less, you get what you pay for, etc.

this is a great episode with serious, important topic but i cannot get over THAT slip, it's like

Check out some good history talkin!

I don't think stories about people eligible for retirement continuing to work are inspiring, regardless of specifics.

Back in 2023, for the 20th anniversary of the war in Iraq, I did a "where are they now?" article about the pundits who cheered on the U.S. invasion www.readtpa.com/p/where-are-...

Don't you threaten me w a good time

"The unfortunate reality of dealing with book metadata is that there's a lot of it." - Vincent, CEO of @thoth-metadata.bsky.social #CopimConference

New episode of the podcast! On this episode, we talk with caustic riff rockers "Super Kill Me Now" about attempting to subvert nostalgia, a musician's social obligation to community and the legacy of the Languorous Rock of the 2010s. hausofdecline.ca/podcast

This is what I think about when people say we need to give people "AI literacy". How do you AI literacy out of this exactly? This shows how absurd the concept is, this is what the goal of AI is for every worker.

It is as bad as it sounds, and freedom to read folks have been anticipating this now for years. Make your phone calls. Send your emails.

Sharing some relevant reflections on AI as an attempt to "square the call center", as described by Mark Fisher as the closest one can get to encountering the centerless system of capitalism, from 'Why We Fear AI':

Had a blast talking to Justin, Sadie, and Jay from @librarypunk.bsky.social about anything from libraries, AI and the economy of knowledge to organizing and the movie Pride!

Profitability metrics for departments are invented by the people deciding if the department is worth having around. I've seen the same administration use completely incompatible metrics to argue that both STEM and humanities are in the red. If it's convenient to say you're unprofitable, you are.

159 - Why We Fear AI feat. Hagen Blix This week we’re joined by @hagenblix.bsky.social to talk about their new book on AI and labor/power/knowledge/eugenics. We also discuss some library Reddit developments.

fucking genocidal

#NYC Trans Archives is a “new, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.” Expanding their collections, they’re seeking: photos, art, posters, signs, #zines, news articles, magazines, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️ transarchives.org/acquisitions/ #activism #archives #LGBTQIA

So the librarypunk discord consensus so far is this is built on scraping the discovery layer, since otherwise this guy would need an API from the library. www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/...

I was just handed a physical AI written children's book as a donation....

So here’s the thing.

I really like getting review copies, I should do more book-reviewing service stuff.

It’s interesting how people who used Something Awful 25 years ago still talk like they were on Something Awful 25 years ago and people who used Tumblr 15 years ago still talk like they used Tumblr 15 years ago, but somehow people using X for the last three years are supposed to be unscathed by it.