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

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!!

woke is back babyyyy

closing in on 2.5 years of “ongoing interest in the status of the barricades” (working on “open data” in a building that is physically barricaded with large orange gates and multiple ID checkpoints)

preach

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"

I’m sorry but I can’t believe that someone named breezy Johnson won a gold medal in the precise historical moment when there’s controversy abt ski suit crotches’ wind resistance

it's Mechanical Turk all the way down

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

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. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍

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?

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

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 Lagardère Group Independent publishing has never been this important. 📚

I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA AND WISH FOR AN END TO STATE TERROR THERE

“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

1 hour left of work for the year soundtrack: safetrip.bandcamp.com/album/welcom...

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.

reading this article like . . . .. . . what am i doing with my life man

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!!

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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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

i'm sorry but it's crazy that the house oversight committee released the Epstein emails on Google Drive (and a "backup" on Dropbox)?!?

Tim kaine in the membrane

there was a rodent running around the ambient show at Public Records, must‘ve been ratuichi squeakymoto

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

right, so … this is why the layoffs that are being attributed to ai are happening. it’s technically true but it’s not about replacing people with ai it’s about spending out the ass on ai investments and having to cover those expenses to maintain a margin by lopping off salary expenses

this rocks, shows more spine than … many uh employers out there

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 it’s the peak of civilization, the end of the 20th century

experiencing vicarious embarrassment hearing about "dillon dingler" flying out to "c.j. kayfus" on a pitch from "slade ceccconi"

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.

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...

when the cat’s away the mouse will spend untold sums on late season stone fruit at the farmers market

President of a women’s college ad 2025

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

simply cannot wait to smash the buy button on this

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 “fractured” we are.

crazy how much this man's head looks like a raisin

pretttty sure i put my iced coffee this am into a ball jar i last used for pickling :(

helping to organize a union is the best thing I’ve ever done in my working life and being in a union/the benefits of organized labor should be available to everyone. happy Labor Day ❤️

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

universities seem to have austerity budgets for everything except $1000 chairs that get placed in spaces w only vaguely defined purposes

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

engaging in my favorite activity which is arguing about who were the most famous baseball players in the early 90s

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

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

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!!

"anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

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