💯 public libraries can play a role in popular resistance to the reduction of culture to bitstreams, but it’s important to remember that public libraries have a mandate to develop their collections, and that means regular weeding. this is why resource sharing (i.e. ILL) is essential. 📚

here are Ranganathan’s 5 Laws of Library Science. 1. Books are for use. 2. Every reader their book. 3. Every book its reader. 4. Save the time of the reader. 5. A library is a growing organism. they can be read as a directive for technical efficiency. i read them as an ethical commitment. 📚

The people who pressured Victoria Public Library to remove (ie ban) 47 books are pushing Victoria City Council to go further.

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

We have fascism. We have long covid and cognitive damage. And we have also destroyed structural motivation to do anything but deliver product and receive results. It began with standardized testing, and "AI" is just the nail in the coffin. WE MUST FIGHT THIS. Study must be meaningful.

Truth coming out of her cup o’noodles to shame mankind

Hey, props to writers who got literally anything done this year.

I contain multitudes Oh Oh shit My multitudes containment system is failing, everyone retreat to a safe distance

It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!

Use, and I cannot state this enough, libraries. UK/RoI authors get paid for library borrows. More than you'd think!

the vast majority of authors are not rich y’all, we often work multiple jobs or rely on other people’s incomes because this industry pays us shit. i have three different contracts with three different big five publishers and i don’t make anything NEAR a living wage. but i do work seven days a week!🫠

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

This is the actual existential risk AI poses. That we outsource all thinking to a gibberish machine until such a time as the ability to keep said gibberish machine’s lights on ceases to exist.

waymo ceo: we plan for fatal crashes and society will learn to accept them roblox ceo: kids must be preyed upon and victimized as a necessary consequence of scale WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HEADS ON PIKES

The internet was never meant to evolve beyond this

@radiodeadair.com and @taradeenihan.bsky.social , I feel like you two would get a kick out of the punny snowplow names they use in Scotland www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

Elon Musk is very explicitly altering the X algorithm to show people content that aligns with his far-right worldview. If you're still posting there and think you can win hearts and minds or something, this is what you're up against. You're never going to win a rigged game.

My depression is really bad right now. Just trying to function, tbh.

When I evacuated from the hurricane in 2005, the Red Cross offered us cash to help with expenses. The Salvation Army offered us "a hot meal" which was just a smoked sausage soaked in cheap barbecue sauce with a stale slice of white bread we had to say how thankful we were while getting preached at.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Nobody who should fuck off actually fucks off anymore. We're stuck with all these fucking people.

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

THIS!!! yes.

all the Prometheus, Icarus, Palantir, Erebor, etc. shows that none of these guys - none, and it is almost all guys - have actually done the reading

Nor is it okay to bring misogyny and the name of a woman who has been through more than enough into it. These people are disgusting for many, many reasons. Homophobia and misogyny have no place here. Their hypocrisy and depravity are well enough.

a “Space Force”, if you will

in retrospect the metoo movement did not go too far and in fact should have been given spanish inquisition levels of power and authority

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

feels relevant today

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires

Rereading The Running Man, and what a wild fantasy of a dystopian future where nobody has access to healthcare or food and the rich watch the poor die for entertainment.

Remember: It's normal for full art pieces to take more than a day or two to complete. Some pieces will take longer to complete than others and that's normal. Social media has warped our perception on how long things actually take to create. You're doing fine. 🤍

After millions of people took to the streets, and a resounding nationwide electoral sweep, Democrats clearly had no other option in the Senate but to utterly capitulate to the Republicans.

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

This is worth a read even if you aren’t directly affected. Libraries are in a precarious position as a third space dedicated to learning—something that not only doesn’t generate profit, but which seems downright suspicious to certain elements.

❌ i have no horse in this race ✅ i have no cat in these pajamas

I’ve seen several Godzilla flicks in the theater over the past few years and you can feel, viscerally, that we are all praying for Godzilla to rise from the sea and give us what we deserve

I would be friends with this kid. Does he need another mom?

carpe jugulum, Joyce

"AI is a direct attack on the way we verify information: AI both creates fake sources and obscures its actual sources. That is the opposite of what librarians do, and teachers do, and scientists do, and experts do." 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

Already having normal depression is a good way or so I’ve been told

History: "There are two things you must never fuck with; infrastructure and food." Trump admin: "Something about fuck with their infrastructure and food. Got it."

Aside from my "was this really written in 2025, not two years ago" snarky response, I couldn't help thinking throughout this entire blog post that a huge part of why so many libraries are STUCK on dealing with AI is because we literally don't have the staff time or funding to deal with it.

INVENTOR OF THE LIBRARY: hey check this out

Going thru my phone, I found this reminder of the importance of sending books to people in prison. This was from a man who had been in solitary confinement for several years & received PRISON BY ANY OTHER NAME, my book with @mayaschenwar.bsky.social

From the Depths — William Balfour-Ker, 1906