Embracing my useless era. I have immeasurable value, but I am content with an end to my utility.

Iowa basic income program generates an outcome not found in other states: high levels of hope www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Please share! Please apply! @culturalanalytics.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

Such an excellent resource from @interruptcrim.bsky.social - Digital Security & Doxxing Prevention Checklist www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

What would it look like to separate the idea of prepared food from the ills of capitalism while preserving opportunities for individuals to develop new eateries and to choose among prepared food venues?

Clarification: this refers to the Shah-era Iranian flag, not every Iranian flag. Per NYT reporting, FIFA barred that version of the Iranian flag. The point of the video is that FIFA claims to be apolitical while deciding which political/national symbols fans may display. That is newsworthy.

FIFA takes away Iranian flags at the US stadiums

He kept coming back, repeatedly (in the way AI often loops) to this idea of AI (specifically Claude) representing "a position without an address", and it became increasingly clear to me that there was some odd mystification happening. Of course LLM products have an address. It's a corporate address.

There's so much to say about this, but what is particularly striking is that the keynote speaker said absolutely nothing about using Claude to write his academic work until I intervened in the Q&A. It appears that he was not going to share this fairly important detail unless asked..

Huh. Don't be fooled by the job title of "Librarian" this role is a senior role at Harvard Divinity School... #LISjobs www.atla.com/job/800/

My boss found this Albanian comic (32 pages) that basically frames the body's immune response as an old world epic battle The illustrations are pretty wild! #GraphicMedicine

It’s not that he didn’t know what a burning cross meant, he just felt it was the way he could show he opposes Trump, and I’m not sure if I can think up a better example of the way people imagine their ostensible opposition to Trump somehow swamps out racism.

I wonder what relationship alt-history (do-overs writ large) has to transmigration tropes (do-overs writ small) in dramas. cup.columbia.edu/book/make-ch...

Israeli defence minister Katz says that Israel will not withdraw from territory it seized in Lebanon and if Iran attacks Israel due to events in Lebanon, Israel will retaliate “with full force” www.timesofisrael.com/israel-vows-...

The death of a woman from Haiti seeking asylum in the U.S. who died from hypothermia days after her release from federal custody was ruled a homicide by a Pennsylvania county medical examiner's office.

👀 Ooooo. Sadly, not a commutable distance for me,....

June: The students depart and other guests come to the library's un-mowed meadows...

The Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library (EMML) has photographs of 9,000+ manuscripts microfilmed in Ethiopia from 1973–1994. Manuscript descriptions from the complete 10-volume EMML print catalog are now represented and expanded upon online in HMML Reading Room. Details: https://bit.ly/3PBBIPM

I'm no idealist,... I realize pensions are uncommon these days and often mismanaged or the target of embezzlement. But if my only employer-supported option for retirement is going to be TIAA-CREF I wish it would be a little easier to exclude investments in weapons manufacture, AI, and Space X.

Screwworm eradication was a parasitology moonshot. It was huge, ambitious, expensive, and required extraordinary international cooperation. It is one of the greatest technological marvels nobody’s heard of outside livestock circles and a select group of weirdos, of which I’m one.

Going to skeet about it in order to make myself do it. Wiki-editing goal: Get good pictures of all the murals in Pittsfield on Wikimedia Commons and add a mural/public art section to the Pittsfield article.

It’s so, very, beautiful.

Interesting way to avoid saying that an Israeli occupation soldier shot a 7 month old baby

Alright its late, going to go scull for the first time in almost 2 decades... here's hoping I stay dry. 💀

I mean. Our entire set of current conundrums right now from top to bottom is largely a result of a violent rejection of the idea that white men should be judged by the content of their characters.

More people are going to starve, get sick or become unhoused because of this cruel, selfish POTUS and his soulless party.

Our panelists for Reimagining Justice Through Lived Experience, include Jason Gorham, Joe Garcia, Rahsaan Thomas and Geneva Phillips. If you can make it, please RSVP.

Decided to pull out an important part of the interview. Generative AI is often justified with comparisons to the cost of Amazon Web Services ($57bn) or Uber's ($32bn) in losses, when its costs and losses are hundreds of billions of dollars worse. And there's no post-bubble redemption story.

We offer a Transformative Justice Help Desk consultation service for our partners working on projects & community-wide interventions to respond to, transform & interrupt harm & violence without the state. More info here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/transformati...

Let's Streisand-effect these people. Here's the editorial that somehow merited calling the cops. Read and share.

Finished To Shape a Dragon's Breath - Nampeshiweisit #1 by Moniquill Blackgoose yesterday... I will be recommending this to my child before/instead of Pern or Joust.

Additional context for anyone catching up: bsky.app/profile/seat...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Bangor area friends! I'll be speaking at ACT UP Bangor's Candlelight Vigil tonight. Please join me tonight to shed light on this crisis, advocate for those in need, and demand action from our representatives.

“DOGE knowingly caused thousands of people to falsely be marked as deceased in SSA’s Death Master File, purposefully & significantly disrupting their lives, w/the goal of causing them to self-deport or be arrested at SSA offices & removed from the country.” Including citizens & legal residents.

I am happy to be raising children that want to celebrate meeting their reading goals and the end of the school year with a AYCE sushi feast. This is the way. (Also $$$$, my poor budget.)

THANK YOU!

Making it look practically the same and pricing it at half the price of the original go straight to hell

Yesterday, I visited the Adelanto ICE Processing Center with @aguilar.house.gov & @gomez.house.gov to meet with some of the 150 detainees participating in a hunger strike against unsafe and inhumane living conditions.

Welcome to June! Every month in 2026 we give you the gift of calendar pages from several of Penn's books of hours - illustrating the variety of books we have in our collection. Enjoy! #medievalsky

I don't think any of my mutuals are Five Colleges Library folk, but if I am mistaken.. please say Hi tomorrow at the Five Colleges Library Gathering at Amherst..!

Always fun to see the works of former conference colleagues come through as I process acquisitions... Yay! Peng Yin's (Boston U) Persisting in the Good is HERE. :)

Having more and more sympathy for destroying the world with flood or fire.... rainbows beginning to make me frown Are you sure, there's got to be a limit to what we can stand?

Who says humanists aren't insterested in math! Knowable things are of course of interest... (whether the size of 1st century wound is knowable...well, they believed it was!)

Okay my #bookhistory nerds,.... At what point do we start calling Amulets made with engravings proto-"artists books" www.kibbeyrarebooks.com/product-page...

Profiting off human misery. Abolish ICE and private prisons and fund our families instead.

NEW, from @zoetakaki.bsky.social & @peoplesfabric.bsky.social: A Forest Park cop won't be charged by North Riverside police over an incident captured on video where, while off duty and wearing a Trump jersey, he yanked a terrified young woman from her car and arrested her—for hitting a curb.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email [email protected] to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

We murdered two more people in a boat today.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...