Talya
@talya.bsky.social
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librarian/knitter/complainer/movie watcher/mets fan
every university tries to reassure everyone by being like "don't worry we have Fully Trained our rent-a-cops to demand a judicial warrant when they see DHS so don't worry your little heads about know your rights"....... simply shocked this hasn't worked in practice
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my councilmember's office (district 26) had not heard about this and the person i spoke to is urging more people to call and write in!!
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9 days ago
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woke is back babyyyy
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9 days ago
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closing in on 2.5 years of āongoing interest in the status of the barricadesā (working on āopen dataā in a building that is physically barricaded with large orange gates and multiple ID checkpoints)
14 days ago
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preach
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17 days ago
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the new Laura Bush grants have "particular interest in exploring alternative pathways into the library services field. . . that explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education" also "cutting edge tools in the content and provision of continuing education"
18 days ago
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Iām sorry but I canāt believe that someone named breezy Johnson won a gold medal in the precise historical moment when thereās controversy abt ski suit crotchesā wind resistance
20 days ago
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John Stehlin
22 days ago
it's Mechanical Turk all the way down
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MƩl Hogan / The Data Fix
22 days ago
2 - protein folding is the only example of so-called societal benefit of AI that these folks ever refer to and to me it sounds like ploughing an entire planet to grow one potato
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we hereĀ®ļø
23 days ago
thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. youāll be dearly missed š¤
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genuine question not to be a jerk but what is the utility of know your rights training when ice is operating with 0 regard for the law?
29 days ago
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one of the many things this piece is about is the travesty that is scientific communication in the present-day, which enables high powered scientists at big institutions to claim authorship over 2000+ articles with varying levels of fraudulence that lead to real harms in the world
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29 days ago
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jennie rose halperin
29 days ago
Current ownership dynamics of Big 5 publishing: S&S: private equity KKR (sold by Ellison's Skydance) PRH + Macmillan: formerly Nazi affiliated Bertlesmann + Holzbrinck HarperCollins: Murdoch's NewsCorp Hachette: conglomerate LagardĆØre Group Independent publishing has never been this important. š
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I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA AND WISH FOR AN END TO STATE TERROR THERE
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m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BQ...
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Murderer
YouTube video by Buju Banton - Topic
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BQWq5IjL0
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Artie Vierkant
about 1 month ago
āThey want violenceā no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you donāt give it to them they will fucking murder you
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1 hour left of work for the year soundtrack:
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Welcome To Paradise 89-93 (Vol. 1), by Various
11 track album
https://safetrip.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-paradise-89-93-vol-1
2 months ago
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on top of everything else it's totally crazy-making that the only way archives will be able to get grants/justify their existence is by presenting themselves as untapped treasure troves of data waiting to be mined by AI.
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3 months ago
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reading this article like . . . .. . . what am i doing with my life man
3 months ago
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this rocks and also as an affiliate of an org that had a grant cancelled and now uncancelled, I can tell you it creates massive administrative and financial confusion!!
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3 months ago
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A teeny tiny unedited/unmediated community newsletter and its compilers in are being sued for libel by an area Zionist in Bolinas, CA ⦠if you think this stinks, they have a GFM here:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-bo...
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Donate to Support Bolinas Hearsay News Legal Defense
<div>The <em>Bolinas Hearsay News</em> has been published three times weekly since its founding in 1974. Itās a community bulletin board assembled by volunteers, offering a venue for the voices of Bol...
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-bolinas-hearsay-news-legal-defense/donate?utm_source=Bolinas+Hearsay+News&utm_campaign=6ff308b516-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_01_COPY_486&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8e251d32e9-6ff308b516-162167138&source=btn_donate_update
3 months ago
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:)
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3 months ago
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Louis
3 months ago
Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED
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i'm sorry but it's crazy that the house oversight committee released the Epstein emails on Google Drive (and a "backup" on Dropbox)?!?
4 months ago
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Tim kaine in the membrane
4 months ago
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there was a rodent running around the ambient show at Public Records, mustāve been ratuichi squeakymoto
4 months ago
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child in cardboard box robot costume getting stuck in the door of the pizza place while trying to trick or treat . . . doesn't get better than that
4 months ago
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Brian Floyd
4 months ago
right, so ⦠this is why the layoffs that are being attributed to ai are happening. itās technically true but itās not about replacing people with ai itās about spending out the ass on ai investments and having to cover those expenses to maintain a margin by lopping off salary expenses
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this rocks, shows more spine than ⦠many uh employers out there
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4 months ago
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very insane to watch this video and then rewatch the matrix, a film in which an evil ai keeps their human biofuel calm by convincing them itās the peak of civilization, the end of the 20th century
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5 months ago
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experiencing vicarious embarrassment hearing about "dillon dingler" flying out to "c.j. kayfus" on a pitch from "slade ceccconi"
5 months ago
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Peretsky
5 months ago
continuing on the subject of not being able to find an ethical streaming replacement to spotify. these people are going to force even the normie's hands eventually.
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really excited to post the new Data Curation Network Director position -- DCN has provided me with a wealth of practical advice and moral support ever since i abruptly became a data librarian. it's a great and welcoming org--feel free to message me w qs!
hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...
5 months ago
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when the catās away the mouse will spend untold sums on late season stone fruit at the farmers market
5 months ago
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President of a womenās college ad 2025
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5 months ago
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it's honestly so crazy to think about how many tshirts exist, like not tshirt designs or tshirts to purchase just like the total number of tshirts on this earth
6 months ago
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simply cannot wait to smash the buy button on this
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6 months ago
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Emily Drabinski
6 months ago
They want us dead and we want everybody to be able to read books if they want to but yes, tell me more about how āfracturedā we are.
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crazy how much this man's head looks like a raisin
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6 months ago
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pretttty sure i put my iced coffee this am into a ball jar i last used for pickling :(
6 months ago
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helping to organize a union is the best thing Iāve ever done in my working life and being in a union/the benefits of organized labor should be available to everyone. happy Labor Day ā¤ļø
6 months ago
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i wish more people were talking about this, that the endgame of surveillance capitalism turned out to be using all that data to churn out products that are sort of right some of the time and convincing us all to accept that
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6 months ago
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universities seem to have austerity budgets for everything except $1000 chairs that get placed in spaces w only vaguely defined purposes
7 months ago
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there is so much incredibly good free radio on the internet that i just cannot hang with "but i need good generated playlists so i don't have to think about what to listen to" as an excuse to not stop subscribing to music streaming services i'm sorry
7 months ago
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engaging in my favorite activity which is arguing about who were the most famous baseball players in the early 90s
7 months ago
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my coworkers digitized the Daily Worker negatives archive and are celebrating their achievement with an exhibit that honors the labor of the student workers who contributed to the project :')
nyu.libcal.com/event/14872554
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Exhibition Opening: Bringing the Daily Worker to the World
Exhibition Opening: Bringing the Daily Worker to the World: Images from the Daily Worker and the Daily World Negatives Collection. Register at Eventbrite Join NYU Digital Library...
https://nyu.libcal.com/event/14872554
7 months ago
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deeply baffling that our society produced and accumulated an unbelievable amount of data and its ultimate purpose has turned out to be fueling a ubiquitous machine that is sort of right some of the time
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7 months ago
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not to have vocational awe or whatever but sometimes you make someone's day by helping them use a database and it's very nice!!
7 months ago
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"anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.ā
www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...
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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data
Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1120466/a-major-ai-training-data-set-contains-millions-of-examples-of-personal-data/
7 months ago
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i love to begin each day of my job at the library where i work on "open" data and "open" scholarship and "open" software by passing through multiple sets of barricades and security checkpoints
8 months ago
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