Some libraries are open and we get pushback for ‘not supporting veterans.’ Reminder that 20% of homeless males are veterans, 32% are in suburbs. Idaho is 50th in US for broadband. Closing a building that provides services doesn’t honor veterans, it harms them. Being open is honoring this day.

On the one hand, there's a Big Meeting about stuff possibly adjacent to / impacting my team's work that I'm having to advocate for being able to attend from the other side of the state. On the other hand, there's a very interesting libraryland panel with people I very much respect. Which will win?

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Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.

if "ah, well, nevertheless" were a political party

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

tired: nerfing your own precious wonkiness (eg asking surveillance capitalists to provide what the answer to a prompt would look like, if written by someone fecklessly in love with regressing to the mean) wired: nerfing Time Itself (teaching espanso to include today's date when you add to-do items)

"Liberation Management Systems" …is that phrase a thing? Feels like it could be A Thing.

I'm so psyched about @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy's work on making the open social internet good for real communities by putting in the culture work right from the very beginning. I'm a scavenger and a pragmatist *and also* I think the way we do things matters. www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/

Critical Enthusiastically Propping Up Academic Paywalls Studies

No, let's pause there. You don't understand. My question isn't "how do I use this library provider's interface". My questions include, but are not limited to, "for what conceivable reason would people possibly prefer this interface?", "who hurt them?", and "how do we send them help?".

A reminder that the (free to download!) zine Two-Fisted Library Studies contains my article "An Analysis of Funko Pop Ownership Among Library Workers." twofistedstories.itch.io/two-fisted-l... 📚

Sometimes I wish people in educational spaces were required to understand & spot basic tactics of how vendors / tech outfits operate, like "embrace, extend, extinguish". So many people with what's analogous to "map literacy" (at advanced literacy levels!), yet so few with analogous "street smarts".

Stuart Hall took up cultural studies cuz “I didn’t think life was purely economically determined... I lived my life as an argument with Marxism.” But in its challenge to economic reductionism, cultural studies “sort of forgot that there was an economy at all.” We need to understand these together!

Deprecated: - "noise rock drumming" New in this version: - "Blast First beats"

"It’s isolating to be the one still trying. Some days, resisting doesn’t feel noble; it just feels lonely." Learning shouldn't feel lonely. macleans.ca/education/ai...

A leader would not have lost eight colleagues tonight. This happened because you let it happen or because you’ve totally lost control of the caucus in one of the most important moments since you’ve been Democratic leader. Either way, it’s on you. You need to step down. We need someone who can lead.

Putting a large "Kick Me" sign on one's back is not the same as fighting. Looking forward to a time when people spit whenever this man's name is mentioned.

Why can't we have nice things for even one week

Schumer bravely reaffirms his commitment to saving his own Always Cave Act.

if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing

I co-sign everything about this article so hard

Yes! The thing abt public libraries that is so beautiful & crucial is the idea that *anybody* could do this — you need no credential, there’s no gatekeeping, literally any person can be an intellectual. You can come from absolutely nothing & yet, by means of curiosity + work, create real knowledge

In addition to being an excellent guide for anyone in a role that might be called to talk to the ideologically captured legacy press, it's also an important object lesson for the rest of us in a crucial bit of media literacy. Definitely worth taking a few minutes to read this.

It was liberation theology priests in Latin America that let me let go of my anger at Christianity after my apostasy - that let me see that there were people who followed the example of the Christ I still respected, even if I did not call him God. I'm always glad to see the tradition maintained.

Real question bc there’s clearly a media culture thing here that I am not getting: Why are we not seeing citations to Sarah Kendzior, who has been on this exact beat for years? What is it about her and/or her work that has made it acceptable to ignore her?

"Oh, I've got a consistent moral compass, how fucking bizarre." But, truly, my inability to just quietly accept injustice - even in the short term, just to get through the day - is absolutely maladaptive. It's not great for my mental health, in a world with so little fairness.

^^ where this gets even messier is the fact that so many laid-off pro journalists are turning to individually-run Substack blogs, attracted by the artificially generous bait the company puts inside the gate of its metal fox trap. Trapped there, with no editors, legal support, freedom to report etc

You're right and you should say it.

As of today I have been a Wikipedia editor for 20 years 🧵of my favorite things I've seen and done in my two decades on the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit

About to finally read Asimov for the first time. (It'll be _Foundation_, as part of my exam / dissertation prep.) Surprisingly unsure what to even anticipate with it—and enjoying that "beginner's mind" feeling!

Yo dawg we heard you like website pop-ups So we put website pop-ups in your website pop-ups—and below those we put toast notifications that will also pop up.

Tired: Primary the incumbents Wired: Pillory the incumbents

We wrote this paper a while ago and since then OpenAI has claimed plans to be "core infrastructure" of education, Google has rammed Gemini into schools via its education platforms, and AWS showed it underpins most edtech platforms... 1/

Wasn't "Death Ball" the name of that short-lived EBM/goth night at the Bunker, a literally underground space a couple blocks from the Glass House?

Really enjoyed @anarchistmom.bsky.social 's "Cyborgs, Centaurs, and Resistors" keynote at the ISU "Great Ideas in Teaching" workshop. Lots of mentions of open pedagogy, open licenses, humanities, etc. (+ shout-outs to @donnalanclos.com & @dougbelshaw.com & @annamillsoer.bsky.social among others.)

THE HOBBITS SAVE EVERYONE including 'the hard men of Gondor' my god this illiterate buffoon was created in a lab specifically to annoy me

I’d like to take the moderate path, because I’m a history major and I know what the alternatives are.

me: Whoa, I just crossed the 2,000 notes threshold in Obsidian. spouse, without missing a beat: 2,000? Do you get a platinum medal for that or something?

For real, if you can knit, whip up a Portland Frog hat or similar. I wore this it out this morning and the looks of joy on the way, especially from one of the construction workers. It's a small thing to say someone's paying attention to what's going on. #DHmakes swatch.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

<del>Skateboarding</del> Sandwich is Not a Crime

This is one of those images that in a normal timeline, or even just the timeline of a prestige television show, would cause a massive change in public opinion and political momentum. It would be the final scene; then a fade to black because viewers safely assume the dictator was about to be deposed.

Get in, Allan Sekula* & other losers! A new paper suggests repressive Surveillance Tech is still trying to make physiognomy & phrenology happen! *You can read his "The Body and the Archive" article for free via JSTOR. You might need to make a free account if you don't have school/library access.

For all the many, many well-deserved criticisms that the cultural phenomenon of "the hipster" has warranted, it did at least provide people a readymade set of shared cultural touchpoints & behaviors that weren't just gun adulation or various types of betting.

No scabbing, please. Support your striking library workers.