“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 🙄

Just ordered my coffee from a small roasting co and given the shipping costs it had better last me the entire winter 😣 (given the economy too!)

Developing exhibit of Black history in the southwest and I am in my element with ideas firing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 It’s not often that I get to flex creative storytelling ideas (between academic bureaucracy and grading). I love my students, but this is some type of fun i haven’t had in a while

I need a friend on the East Coast who I can just call whenever I need to do a DST time conversion. The change is coming again in Nov and scheduling meetings in advance is a nightmare 😣 #endDST

My not so hot take of the day: paying for hotel parking. This has crept up in the last few years (it used be some places, now it’s most places) paying for a room should include parking in the lot you built w/the first round of funding for your hotel. Why am I paying for a lot you already paid for?!

“Congress has reaffirmed its bipartisan support for IMLS” decrease in total budget but not eliminated and not reduced to a skeleton 💪🏽 Still a lot of work for us to do! #museums #culturalheritage #libraries #archives #preservation

I am trapped in by a cycling event every year (not the same as OPs) & while I love that for them I sure wish they’d let residents know that they won’t be able to leave their house for the day 😣

I mean, the constitution is posted everywhere already and that hasn’t stopped them from ripping it to shreds I’m sure the commandments will work out though 🙄

No one should be surprised by this coming from the AHA 😒 anyone else remember their 2021 claim that volunteers could jump in and do the work of archivists at NARA while also implying that archivists just weren’t wiling to meet the needs of historians DURING A PANDEMIC 😣 link to letter in comments

From the list provided, the only one that could actually work is sales - everything else requires human thinking 🤦🏽‍♀️ Interpretation cannot be done by that machine-that-will-not-be-named no offense to sales people & I don’t want anyone to lose their jobs to, but we already have models for sales

Whether the results of their action are against immigrants or documented americans, they need to be held accountable for violating the legal and human rights of the people they are detaining.

It rained today! and that’s a win in the desert. Also, my coauthor (not on bluesky) and I submitted our completed chapter draft on Monday 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

NO. Just no. 🙄

Motion to to move recommendation letters to mid-semester or to never? How about never requiring these? I am happy to recommend my students; they are brilliant! I am not happy about requests piling up…

Listen, I know we are all under pressure and have multiple demands on our time. But, please, I beg, open invitations and announcements well before the event or mtg! Too often I get invitations a day or two before an event/meeting and my calendar is too tight to pivot that sharply 😒

There isn’t a modern book that I haven’t either been able to pick up at the local indie or order from my local indie. And any older books I get from a used bookstore, or bookshop.org 🤷🏽‍♀️ my audio books come from the library 📚 also #fundyourlibrary please

Not naming any names, just saying…

Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

This has been an ongoing problem that we just keep running in circles around. Ask your local institutions if they include ethics in any of their STEM or MBA programs.

Okay, but not one person on that stage or in that audience asked her if she could say more about what she meant by A-one. I’d love to know if any of them said A.I. out loud after that point 😅 Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronounces it "A1”

Oh boy, there is a person on fb saying that the Target #boycotts end on Easter Sunday because it was a “lent thing” 😣 Where did this nonsense of an idea start?! I mean props to the catholics if they’re promoting the boycott, but when/how did it become a lent thing 😳

In other news… thinking about the time i pretended to know filemaker pro in an interview. I *really really* needed the job. I didn’t get it but anyway a decade later i ended up in a job where I had to teach myself filemaker pro to get my job done. I’m sure there is a lesson in there somewhere 😄

“the last baby boomer president we will have” I am not anti-boomer, i AM pro-next-gen. Let’s get some folks in there to balance the demographics - more representation of the working class, more reps of GenX Millenial and GenZ. And let them make space too when the time comes #corybooker

It’s incompetence and audacity all the way up and down 😣

What a whiner and a liar. Starlink is sad because they didn’t think about providing services to a broader public before now when they claim they have had the technology and NOW they want the money?! 😒

Working on a little piece about wool sweaters and found this little fact: there are about 5 million sheep in the United States. 🐑

Let’s not let them spin this Signal debacle as no big deal. This is an epic national security failure and a story that needs to be told from the perspective of the major incident that it is.

Just started S1E1 of #TheResidence Uzo Aduba and Giancarlo Esposito and Susan Kelexhi Watson ? Aduba and Isiah Whitlock are keeping me tuned in 😂

I want more for Jesse L. Martin. He has had some good characters, L&O being one of them, but this is not it. Or - maybe he needs a better director. Anyway, no offense Jesse, i think it’s the script or the director(s). Or maybe it’s the fact they’ve had too many directors. #theirrational #crimedrama

incredibly strange how much faith folks have in ai as some sort of answer to everything. And it’s annoying. ai cannot and will not solve your problems, fix your marriage, therapize you effectively, solve having to cook dinner every night, write your papers or >even give you legitimate info<

Clearly #southwest has not been paying attention to what’s been happening to Target

There is something wrong somewhere somehow. I traveled through three domestic airports twice this week and #TSA agents were polite in every location. No yelling, patient with my slow ash, and gentle with bags. What is going on?

No. Every day, way more *information* is created than we could possibly consume. The difference between information and knowledge matters.