what project 2029 should be I don't know, but it should start with multiple defenestrations

sometimes you can do the right thing and still receive nothing but scorn. like following traffic laws in Cambridge Massachusetts

My least favorite member of velvet underground is Lou Reed

Wikipedia is a load-bearing support for so much of library infrastructure these days. The idea of it becoming a slopopedia is really scary

I woke up with that first ringing chord of Hard Day's Night in my head how the fuck did they do that

rip Walter they broke the mold when they made you

another thing we lose when libraries become all digital, is the traces of other readers. their dogears, notecards, fingerprints, doodles, and the less savory things that they've left behind in the same book we are reading. they make us aware reading is a conversation across space & time

Anytime any library closes, it was the five word phrase, "door count is way down" that inspired it

MIT is not a sacred cow and if people want to be mad at it for closing its libraries that's fine. but please understand that it's not about "AI" or anyone at the Institute hating libraries, or harboring a secret desire to get rid of books

since this is making the rounds let me just say that it's very sad whenever a library closes. but if you're trying to find an easily identifiable bad person to blame, you won't fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

something to read whilst cleaning and filing your pitchfork www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...

Out of touch coastal elitists have neatly manicured lawns. Trump demonstrates how in touch with every day rural Americans he is by leaving machinery and other random shit all over the White House's

Honestly don't know what the solution to this is but at least someone admits it's a problem for higher ed fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Talarico needs to release a video of himself eating a hamburger

The same way August found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble, Trump found DC a city of marble and left it as city of holy fuck that's ugly

is Trump going to fight Master Blaster to see who gets to control Bartertown?

like many catalogers there is nothing more exciting to me than cataloging a document in a language I've never seen before. today it was Tamazight, a Berber language with its own script

what's really weird about LLMs is they're completely right about everything except for things that I already know about myself where they seem to make all sorts of mistakes

I doubt they are any meaningfully better for you than chips because they have enough sodium to drop a horse, but trader Joe's teriyaki flavored seaweed snacks are super yummy

butter and cream cheese are like the matter and antimatter of spreads

I'm serious when I say they should do a cinematic version of the epic of Gilgamesh. I think it would rock

I don't remember the exact date because I was 5 years old but I think it was definitely July or August when I saw it. which means that Star wars fever was raising for several months before my parents caught word of it

my kid: teacher says we can't use Wikipedia me, dead serious: don't never let a teacher tell you what you can or cannot read

I'm so very tired of McDonalds

when the world seems too out of control try sitting down and eating a bowl of pistachios

“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

imagine boning to pyramid song

I regret to inform you that the Star Trek meme maker has broken containment

early reviews suggest Mando film is a whole bunch of silly fun and how dare Star Wars be that

the ancient Assyrians were not wrong in believing that every city has its own patron god, and that it's not at all a bad practice for one city to godnap it's neighbor's god, condemn it before a kangaroo court, and then keep it in captivity until you're ready to give it back

when Ella Fitzgerald sings Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, what she means is, I'm really fucking horny

libraries never close they just "redefine their service models"

maybe he'll send muffin tins and an 8 ball of coke for the newlyweds

dude hates his son so much he'd rather stay in DC than attend the wedding

Time will tell I suppose, but I think the billionaire class has massively overestimated the ability of media channels to influence people who aren't already under their influence

Pondering the similarities between Senate today and the Entmoot after Saruman starting cutting down the trees at Isengard

It's a good question, when do you get to call yourself a librarian. It's not a matter of degree or lack thereof--many of the best librarians in history had none. I think it's when you reach that point in life that you realize your career will be spent in service of the Library

I've met people who've opened a library every day at 8 am for decades & would still only say "I work at a library" but 22 year old tech bro says "we've worked as librarians"

I mean what the fuck. At least TRY to convince us that you're librarians www.librarlabs.com/en/about

Z39.50 4 EVA

imagine traveling back in time to the '90s and telling people, "in 30 years AOL CDs won't exist, weed will be legal in most places, and there will be so many Star Wars movies that people will be sick of them; and still most people will consider themselves unhappy"

The sauerkraut layer should be twice as thick as the corned beef layer

Sure Baby Yoda Grogu is cute now but just wait 200 years till he is in his awkward teen century

A smart White House (I know) would give Republicans a thing or two to bat down so they could run on being a "check" on the POTUS.

they should really come out with a remastered version

It's a commonplace nowadays that a man who cannot love a dog won't make a good president; but a man who cannot love his own offspring is a completely different category of unfitness

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

I left a rake out in the driveway, then it started to rain and I hurried out to put it away. what happened next was I suppose predictable