We put a lot of faith in digital resources that are often at the mercy of budgets that are not at all related to researchers needs or interests.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

🧵 “To disarm means discrediting the assumption that technical power a tomatically confers the right to govern. To disarm does not mean rejecting technology, but preventing it from dominating humanity.” “they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow”

rest in peace sonny rollins a loss for us all

The re-meaning of everything continues. If you were alive anytime between then and now you know this is not what DHS was conceived to be. It was always about surveillance and policing. There was no harmony involved, and the only unity was between federal and state policing systems.

How did they manage to write a whole script, imagine a character with a background & history, give him an ambiguous brown ethnicity, name him “Paz” and then have everyone (including the Spanish speaking bilingual Nicaraguan actor playing him) call him Paz like jazz, instead of Pahs like Paz.

“as a hybrid form of government, in which leaders gain power through democratic institutions and then violate some of the criteria necessary for democratic regimes. Levitsky pointed to several factors, what he called ‘weaponizing the state’” So, you mean fascism?

People of the southern borderlands have been telling y’all this for decades. Look up any news cycle from Arizona, California, and Texas and you’ll find these stories.This is how BP / ICE operate. Shoot first then ask questions, incarcerate first then ask questions, and ignore legal and human rights.

“Not for the purpose of selling something but for the purpose of fulfilling our humanity” 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

There is something disturbing about her appearance and I just know somebody will be able to pin down what I can’t seem to grasp. It’s robot like but also stepford? like the folks standing downtown with the little stand and pamphlets and a small amp shouting jesus at you.

I will add to this that ‘first-gen’ might need to be extended to the children of first-gen because first-gen doesn’t necessarily mean you got all the privileges of university or that social class. And more so if your first-gen degrees parent was a single parent or non-traditional student.

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They’ve arrived! Digging into #TheEdgeofSpaceTime @loyaltybooks.bsky.social

The proposed budget destroys the Institute of Museum and Library Services. I don’t think you’ll be surprised but I do think it’s important to share. bit.ly/3WkmIWG via @everylibrary.bsky.social #fundlibraries #saveimls #library #libraries

It’s grading night 😮‍💨

Had a retired and elderly nurse tell me once that when all comes down to it, no one will remember or care that you didn’t do the dishes.

This tracks with the complete disrespect and disregard for libraries, archives, museum and both cultural heritage and knowledge in general (unless of course it’s tied to “the 250th” *strong eyeroll*)

from any perspective we should absolutely be boycotting air travel until this whole nonsense is fixed. And I do mean the whole nonsense from the house to the floor to the markets.

I have an archivist joke but it’s non-circulating.

4 Oscars #Sinners • Best Actor MBJ • Best Cinematography • Best Original Screenplay • Best Original Score So… best film after all, right?

BRB going to “knock one more chunk from society's foundation” w/ an afternoon cappuccino. No sugar, but I do like them dry and I am sure that is just a vanity that will eventually destroy humanity. Sorry folks! p.s. Where does ‘control of appetite and will’ for AI companies fit on this spectrum 🤔

Well, in today’s news, I called a woman i’ve only ever seen in a thumbnail photo by the name of another woman i’ve only ever seen on zoom. TBF they both have straight dark blonde shoulder length hair 😬

Haven’t heard a peep on here.

Re “Illinois Teen Instant Meme” Can we, as a society, please remember that he is still in his youth. Let’s maybe not meme him.

Also feels like people forgot that the BP shot across the USMX border and killed a guy in MX over a decade ago. No one should be surprised that murders like this are happening.

Please buy books that are coming out this year. Doesn’t have to be mine. But there is a stellar release calendar this year especially of Black writers and it would be a shame if one of the fascist victories was people not buying those books (from the indies that are in the fight with us). #BookSky

The quietest of rebellions happens at our desks every day …

I do. I also remember that during several decades before this human rights volunteers on the border told everyone that what started w/ violating the rights of profiled “mexicans” (which really meant anyone brown including indigenous people) and it would be anyone next. Very few listened or helped.

Dionne Warwick is the only thing i miss about twitter

I keep running into similar messages on various gov websites. This one in particular is a site i use for two of my classes with projects that integrate learning how to find and use the data to complete the project. So much of our own data and information is being disappeared.

Okay, I am only one episode in but it’s nice to see Lorraine Ashbourne in a lighter role. She hasn’t blackmailed, murdered or cheated anyone (yet).

“Porque la historia enseña algo brutal: sacar al dictador es fácil; construir justicia después, no”

I don’t believe in much, but I do believe in the power of a dictionary! 😅

Happy holidays to all the librarians around the word that will face requests for nonexistent books in the coming year 🥂😌

I’m not into reading challenges or book counts, but i did commit to my TBR pile for winter break & here’s where I am so far. I select books by their cover/title & shop almost exclusively from thrift and indie shop except for what I buy from rare book dealers or bookshop.org #booksky #readersky

Dedicating the next few weeks to reading some offline fiction. Started two new books last night! Still have some work projects (my own fault) but my TBR pile will be my focus. needing creative words to refuel me.

I might be alone on this, but I have no interest in seeing the photos of creepy crimey rapists. Just list the names and the crimes, then convict and be done with it. I don’t want a documentary or a podcast or any other form of media that gives them air space. #thefiles

Today I learned that patients have to “opt in” to AI being used for transcribing medical appointments, or you can’t see a doctor. So it’s not really ‘opting in’ is it??

Half the fun of buying and borrowing books is talk j h about books. #booksky

Today, just a few days from end of semester, I gathered all my 20+ library books to be returned. I’m ahead of schedule. Now I just need to drag two bags of books up that darn hill 😅

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I called Clippy “early ai” the other day and my students lost it 🤯 I don’t know what they thought it was that was running it, maybe they imagined a muppet?

I am running out of places to acquire supplies for a functional life in this hellscape. Boycotting what I can on one hand and then losing options for supplies to VC on the other 🫠

And often ignores two things: that faculty and staff had to pivot online with virtually no prep time, and that faculty and staff ALSO lived through the effects of the pandemic. It’s not like we were sitting in a safe bunker watching from a safe space - we were there too.

I would like to see this in print

Maybe we don’t need the imaginary monsters today they are walking around kidnapping people off the street, and others are both real and virtual real time monsters of a tool that claims to be intelligent.

What an extractive and appropriative waste. I hope Baldwin’s ghost and all his ghost friends haunt the techbros forever and they never have a peaceful sleep.

The number of times I have just walked out of a store for being treated like a thief just for walking in the door 😒 more often than not I will also walk out if I have to have a personal shopper with a key standing next to me the whole time 🙄