So that's at least two of the top programs for archivists & librarians being subsumed into a new unit for computing and AI, and I'm guessing many more to follow.

Steller's Jay

they should give seattle their basketball team back now

Please consider donating towards the funerary and hospital costs for Fobazi Ettarh; and showing support for her partner Elena.

If you are someone who edits wikipedia and you insist on publishing highly sensitive and personal information before it is publicly announced by those it most severely impacts, I implore you to consider that not everything is meant to be known, and not all information is yours to publish. Cheers.

mr bean

This is very good

‘Crying out for advocacy’: impressions from NZ’s big library meet-up

The kids have sold their PlayStations to Cash Coverters so they can buy food for their families.

“The biggest US-listed companies keep talking about artificial intelligence. But other than the ‘fear of missing out,’ few appear to be able to describe how the technology is changing their businesses for the better.”

I spy @tinamakereti.bsky.social in this lineup from Ms Magazine! <3

THE HOUSE ARCHIVES BUILT AND OTHER THOUGHTS ON BLACK ARCHIVAL POSSIBILITIES BY @dorothyjberry.bsky.social COMING OCTOBER 14 LETS GO ❤️‍🔥 www.weherepress.org

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Kia ora for the review takahē + Melissa Oliver! 😍

We can't wait to share takahē 114 tomorrow! Including book reviews of these incredible titles 🤩

GREAT NEWS! Our wonderful library, Te Matapihi, has reached a huge milestone with construction work now finally finished. On time and on budget. It'll re-open in March 2026. For me, this marks an exciting future for Wellington where we'll start to see parts of our city open back up again. #nzpol

We have a new Poet Laureate for Poetry Day! www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

Out now! Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers from @alaeditionsns.bsky.social Grateful for all the library unionists who spoke to us for the book, and to co-authors @kellymce.bsky.social @mkahn.bsky.social and Angelo Moreno! alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

Thank you for the invite to jot down some whakaaro...

There is so much bad news on micro and macro levels lately, I will share a little personal win. Here is a sneak peek at a very early dummy of the interior layout for my book "The House Archives Built, and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibility," upcoming from @wehere.bsky.social press.

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

‘We need to support New Zealand authors’: Kirsten Le Harivel’s books confessional

One like = One children's book recommendation.

A wee order is coming my way (to the States)! So much for my recently weeded bookshelf 😅

I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen

NZ joins countries planning to recognise Palestinian state

'I wrote this book for diasporatanga (or as I sometimes say, tangata kuaka), and their whānau; and I hope it makes its way to anyone who needs a little validation in their journey.' @poidivision.bsky.social on their new book 'Overseas Experience'. www.ketebooks.co.nz/en/interview...

Carnegie Corp now has an interactive map of all their libraries. carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org In Meridian MS Carnegie funded two separate and unequal libraries. carnegie-libraries.carnegie.org/map/?lib=cul... The primary source materials are a journey dlc.library.columbia.edu/carnegie/cul...

"everything we claim as a discovery is someone’s dear, once beloved" - Nicola Andrews, I Didn’t Come Here to Make F.R.I.E.N.D.S @poidivision.bsky.social

Overseas Experience is also available at Unity Auckland - go get it, Tāmaki Makaurau friends!

Have been following some of this directly from kiwi Fulbrighters doing the program this year. It has been insanity. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

You can preorder Overseas Experience from Unity Books Wellington if you're super eager or live 'Overseas' (wink wink). @poidivision.bsky.social www.unitybooks.co.nz/products/ove...

Did you see this floating around the interwebs today? Gave me a much needed laugh, especially the facials they chose

There’s a great interview with Nick Park about Wallace And Gromit in last month’s Empire, and this bit in particular stood out. It sums up what artists have been trying to say about AI. The mistakes and the learning aren’t things to be bypassed, but a vital part of the process 🤟

Submissions are open until midnight (wherever you live) on April 30th. For details on how to submit, head to badapple.gay/world-tour!

Kia ora e hoas - Āporo Press is publishing my debut full-length poetry collection, "Overseas Experience"! We have support from a CLNZ Grant but Damien is running a Boosted campaign to publish three new books by takatāpui Māori writers this year! Donate if you can: www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

Hi, Āporo Press is publishing three books in the next year. Poetry by Nicola Andrews and Jo Bragg, and a novel by Laura Vincent. If you’d like to support our indie effort to publish more Māori books we have a Boosted campaign. Mauri ora. www.thearts.co.nz/boosted/proj...

APALA's LibLearnX Meet Up will be on Saturday, January 25 at 5:00 PM @ Da Vang Restaurant. 4538 North 19th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85015. Please RSVP by emailing [email protected]. RSVP by January 22. Da Vang closes at 7 PM, so please come early!

"Auckland is not just the place where these things happen to have occurred: this is _a story about Auckland_." We interrupt our summer break to bring you this important piece by Emmy Rakete on Neil Gaiman and the political economy of rape.

New collection of short essays: "Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration," edited by Alison Clemens & Jessica Farrell www.clir.org/pubs/reports...

I love the outpouring of love for David Lynch. I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public. If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home. I don't know what to do with that anger.

Happy New Year, y’all! If you’ve ever found my words helpful to you and your life, please read and share this post. Thank you, and I appreciate y’all in advance! :) fobaziettarh.com/2025/01/07/n...

Has @thespinoff.bsky.social done a series yet about climbing every maunga in Tāmaki? I am generally encouraging people to do so (one a weekend for a year!) because I won't have time before I leave and it would also be a fun article to read from afar!

Made this zine at work. Launches tonight and it’s available from Central City Library from tomorrow! Work responding to our current exhibition Waiwaia Ngā Ngutu from Elise Sadlier, @poidivision.bsky.social, Dan Taipua and Jordan Tricklebank aka Māori Lit Blog. Cover by @dreadconquest.bsky.social 😤

I love Mad Magazine