Modern hiring is such a scam.

No offense but finding out someone you knew died on a site with terrible UX seems just like, the most mundane thing ever idk. Random thought from paying closer attention to obituaries after writing one a few years back. Nothing recent! Just thinking in front of my puter.

A bit of wisdom I’ve learned as an archivist: Everything is always falling apart. You can’t ever stop it because that’s what matter does. Your job is to slow the process down as much as you can. It’s true with documents, books, and art. And with life too- falling apart is what we do.

A person from the New York Public Library Comms team tried to get me to remove a link from last week's book censorship news roundup. Through my personal email. Through a private phone call.

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

this is so boulder boulderreportinglab.org/2026/07/07/b...

Get Loud: Public Library and School Internet Access Is Under Threat The FCC wants to change the e-Rate program, which could eliminate discounts libraries and schools get to provide internet to their community. bookriot.com/proposed-fcc...

1/ Important new investigative report from my colleague @jbeowulf.bsky.social about "Maestro," advertised as "the AI University" on TikTok, that turns out to be a chatbot bolted onto a failing for-profit business school in order to illegally harvest Pell grants. www.newamerica.org/insights/the...

Trans rights are human rights

Really not a bad day to revisit this essay, which I’m very proud of

Yes, please!!💥

im so sorry to nina totenberg but i really needed this laugh

So far I'm listening to a lot of music from undergrad this summer and I've concluded it's healing and good.

One thing about me is I love an excuse to drop a "I read foucault in college" line into the conversation. I get how annoying it is, but I still love doing it 💁‍♀️

Between this and the stellar WSJ story about Polymarket's fake bettors, it really feels like we have completely given up on requiring influencers to disclose paid partnerships. It only hurts consumers.

Fabulous talking with @andizeisler.bsky.social about J is for Justice and book bans. www.salon.com/2026/06/20/w...

What a loss for the edtech beat. I was thrilled to have a chance to write for EdSurge in 2025 after years of being a fan of the team's work over there. Proud of my work there. The need for that type of reporting right now could not be more obvious. alexanderrusso.substack.com/p/how-iste-t...

I have a new piece out today with @404media.co . The headline is a question that came to me as I was reading yet another batch of public records where YA books were being relocated to adult sections. Tfg there are experts who could set me straight. Ty @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social for editing me.

But what is so compelling about the ability to see these two paintings together at last in person is the fact that Van Gogh chopped off his ear in between painting them.

On Juneteenth, we celebrate Colorado's historic Black newspapers as digitalized in the Colorado State Library's Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Outlets like Denver Urban Spectrum and African American Voice continue to serve communities of color. ⬇️ www.historycolorado.org/colorado-his...

"These are not states struggling against limited resources; they are states that have made active, sustained choices to abandon their public schools while directing public money toward private alternatives with documented records of fraud, discrimination, and academic failure,” the report states.

General PSA: If you're having a party and a guest wants to bring the current or former ICE agent they're related to or dating, you can absolutely say fuck no!!!

Is there a good word yet for the mental tax that comes with trying to discern if a hallucination is AI or human made that workers forced to use the tool have experienced? I'm sure there is and I've just missed it or forgotten.

This is the sort of thing I wrote about from CES back in January of 2025. A bunch of weird/creepy tech stuff that no one wants, and which they also cannot yet do, escalating endlessly to no obvious end or audience. Just make your toilets, dude. (This is a gift link) defector.com/the-future-i...

The Standards Committee of the ABA's legal education arm has recommended that the section repeal its law school accreditation standards relating to DEI.

Is "yes, and..." an antidote to "it's not x, it's y" writing? Could it be? 🤔

My works of nonfiction are among those banned in schools in the U.S. Why? Sexuality. Social Emotional Learning. Gender. Puberty. Also activism and social movements. I'm not just an advocate for literary access. I am also a banned author, which gets forgotten and overlooked a lot.

Teens, like adults, have First Amendment rights, including the ability to access info & engage in online communities. This is especially vital for queer & trans youth, whose lifelines are narrowing w/ the passing of anti-LGTBQ+ legislation across the country. commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/gove...

Another person has died in ICE custody. 33-year-old Denny Adán González died on Tuesday in Georgia. Authorities claim he died by suicide. González is the 18th person to die in ICE custody this year—this is also the 18th week of 2026.

The interception by Israel of a humanitarian flotilla and the abduction of journalists and other participants, including @zeteo.com’s contributor Alex Colston, is yet another attack on press freedom. The State Dept should secure the release of Colston and other US citizens illegally held by Israel.

The "is Geese a psy-op" discourse is messing with me because I have a Tidal mix that plays Geese every 10th song or so and I hate that all I can really do is wonder if psy-op or algorithm.

Look. Was it staged? I dunno. The bottom line is I don’t really care and it doesn’t really matter.

Realizing that sometimes when I'm starting to tap out on a draft I'm working on I start calling everything a phenomenon, especially when it categorically is not.

After Condé Nast's decision to close SELF, I spoke to chronically ill women about what the women's health site meant to them. "We have to acknowledge chronic illness as a politically, culturally, and socially marginalized category" Latest for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is so, so, so lucky to have @sarahlamdan.bsky.social on its side

guys I built a computer :') with help from @jasonics.bsky.social of course

just checking that we all remain aware that when the beauty aesthetics of women (both real and illustrated) veer towards 1) being dangerously thin and 2) looking unnaturally young, it's usually paired with the rise of fascism, glorifying an image of helplessness okay like I said, just checking

does the pope pay U.S. taxes?

✨ “The ultimate aim of authoritarian propagandists is often to sow so much doubt and confusion that it leaves people passive and ready to give up their agency to a strongman leader...” #Perspectives #Navigatingchaos #Authoritarianism #Hungary #Synthesis #Propaganda

Sometimes I log onto this site for quick updates on the world and go wtaf and put my phone back down for a bit.

Big “we did it” energy from two losers who absolutely did not do it.

Wow, I am thrilled that @zackwhittaker.com included a reference to my article in his below piece. In many situations its not that "humans are the weakest link" in #cybersecurity but rather "humans are our last line of defence" and we need to design our systems to be more secure and resilient

Buckle up for a wild one. April Morganroth was fired from a Colorado newspaper for making up quotes. Then she changed her name, moved states, and got back in the journalism game. Now she's facing decades in prison. www.denverpost.com/2026/04/08/a...

Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

Not enough of you know what being a teenage girl is like and it shows.

Commenter here is right about their take sounding bad. It is a bad take. The image in the article is an example of the type of book review districts are being pressured to take seriously. It's a bad take generally bc it refuses to consider the greater literary purpose for it's inclusion at all.

I respect and appreciate this very well written piece a lot.

New from me over at @404media.co - a look at how the parental rights movement uses digital tools to get more books pulled from shelves using commercial generative AI tools.