Oh… oh shit. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858t...

Today marks the 154th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire. Nine square kilometers of Chicago burned to ground. As the city rebuilt, they decided to create a public library and, on January 1, 1873, the Chicago Public Library opened up in a water tank that survived the inferno.

I seem to have a bunch of new followers so I figured I'd say hello! I'm Dan. I'm a Polaris ILS administrator, systems librarian, database admin, data analyst, podcaster, cyberpunk, and professional weirdo. Sometimes I swear. I hope y'all are okay with that.

Well... fuck. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

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Official news now www.shawlocal.com/daily-journa...

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

Reading Rainbow is returning! And it'll be hosted by Mychal Threets! www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/...

This is a song called Megalodon with Laser Eyes. Within the lyrics, they address the human condition, and what it means to live, and to love that which you cannot have. No, not really. The contents are exactly as the title suggests.

Back again yes, it's the vulgarian The Cyberpunk... Librarian It's time for something different and this time around, Dan brings you a presentation from IUG 2025! We’re going to dive into AI, copyright, and data ownership and how the times are changing… and what that might mean for libraries. 📚

Hell yeah! A new tune from Le Vent du Nord dropped today! I assume that this will be one of the tracks on their upcoming album, Voisinages. But in the meantime, I'm gonna be adding this catchy little tune to my daily rotation!

Yes! This cool idea I have for a library project is working out! The code is coming together, only a few small errors, so no big issues! Holy crap! Look at that! It even takes a CSV import! Hell yeah! Now all I need to do is make it... print... properly. ..... ..... fuck

It is the year of our goddess 2025, and almost every SQL Server IDE app out there can save the results of a query as an Excel spreadsheet. Every app except Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.

There's this library server where access to SQL Server has fallen off the VPN. Which means I have to login to the server. And use SSMS. When I use SSMS for basic SQL and data work, I feel like I'm hammering nails with a circular saw. It works, but it certainly isn't the right tool for the job. 📚

In this society, and in this America.... Whenever you encounter a problem that just won't go away, a problem that no other country seems to have, and it's a problem that politicians just can't solve. Then your problem is capitalism. Follow the money, Bob.

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I need you to understand something. The thing I need you to understand is that librarians like these are heroes. They've been slandered. They've been libeled. They've been threatened. They've been put in harm's way. And they keep fighting. 📚

And ya know, ya know what I was thinking? Just yesterday I was thinking to myself "Dan, you know what you need more of in your cross-platform open source web browser? You need more Microsoft and more AI. That's truly what's missing from Firefox."

My dear, lovely, wonderful library people: I need y'all to do about ten minutes of research on Melville Dewey and then please... stop naming library related things after him. To say that he was an odious person is merely a starting point in a proper description of his character.

"Having a creative job is basically a never ending loop of getting incrementally better while also shitting on yourself. So I really hope you're into that." Jim Caddick aka Caddicarus. From "The Exhausting World of Making a Caddicarus Video" youtu.be/Lz13cxZNTCo?...

Shit sucks: the soundtrack.

As usual, the average person is asked to give up something so the corporations can do whatever the fuck they want. www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

Okay, this video was excellent. Captain KRB runs down the story of Entombed, a game for the Atari 2600 that kinda... shouldn't work? It procedurally generates a maze. Okay, but... how? And keep in mind it's doing this... on an Atari 2600. For decades no one really knew how it worked.

Ya know how so many AI companies have logos that look like assholes? Yeah, I think this article from AlternativeTo leaned really hard into that. It's the kinda thing that really goatse your attention. alternativeto.net/news/2025/8/...

Yeah. Yeah, it's been a while. But when I said I was back? I meant it. Welcome back to Cyberpunk Librarian. Episode 67 leads right into episode 68 as Dan takes on the theory and practice of underground librarianship, anarchivism, and shadow librarianship. cyberpunklibrarian.com/podcast/cybe...

So yesterday I learned that one of my favourite bands, The Ting Tings, have a new song out! It's intensely autobiographical and has a sort of late 70s yacht rock vibe to it that I am absolutely here for. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdq_...

Before Weird Al. Before Allan Sherman. There was this guy. And he was glorious, beloved. apnews.com/article/tom-...

Okay, hopefully I'm not jinxing this but: Things have calmed down (somewhat) in my life. I'm on some new meds that have not only re-established a focus, but they've helped me create a flow for, well... creation.

While all the big media work on kissing ass and bowing down, Teen Vogue is putting in the work. www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-wa...

Small celebration, just a little one for all the systems librarians out there. 🥳 I just pushed my 100th commit to the Useful Polaris SQL repo! 📚 gitlab.com/cyberpunklib...

Look, I don't need an Alpha Trion... I don't even know that I wanted him... Until I saw that the fucker comes with a notebook and a Cybertronic quill. I mean, damn... this is, like, half the wheels in my wheelhouse.

Okay, I got tired of waiting for a decent macOS desktop app for Bluesky. Then I remembered that Vivaldi can do that Chromium thing where it can turn websites into standalone apps. Honestly, that's probably good enough.

Yes. And...? www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

Well this is some highly dangerous bullshit. www.upi.com/Top_News/US/...

Ambient isn't apolitical. www.theverge.com/news/671864/...

Well that took far longer than I thought it would. One day, Mozilla may do something right. Today isn't that day. I have little hope for tomorrow. www.theverge.com/news/672924/...

Welp. I just dropped off my youngest for her college orientation. I cannot explain just how weird this feels.

Sure sure. Because why the fuck not? He’s as qualified as all the other morons. 📚 apnews.com/article/trum...

First the Librarian of Congress, and now the Register of Copyrights. This does not mean copyright is dead. This means that the wealthy and the powerful will do whatever it takes to protect their copyrights. Your copyrights? Probably not so much. 📚 www.theverge.com/news/664768/...

Honestly, I'm surprised it took this long. A strong, competent, and intelligent Black woman? Certainly can't have someone like that running the LC. 📚 www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

Advertising is a cancer. futurism.com/facebook-bea...

#NationalLibraryWeek #LiteracyMatters

Well, I was going to buy a used or refurbished Mac Mini to replace my iMac server. But, I have this 2015 MacBook Pro that I bought new almost ten years ago. It's rocking a quad-core i7 at 2.2GHz, 16GB of RAM, and a 250GB internal SSD. Congratulations, laptop. You've just been promoted to server.

I've used this database for over a decade now and you'd think I wouldn't have to look up how the schema is set up when I'm building a development database on another computer. And yet, here we are. 📚