With her widow Elena's encouragement to share, here are the details of the Celebration of Life for Fobazi Ettarh, which is happening this Saturday, June 27th in Chicago. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebratin...

Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...

We are excited to announce the launch of Murmurations: A Trans and Gender Diverse Library Journal!

C4DISC Community Meeting - June 17 The C4DISC Steering Committee invites all C4DISC members, partners, volunteers, and other community members to our annual Community Meeting on Wednesday, June 17, 11:30-12:30pm EST Info: c4disc.org/2026/06/02/c... Register: sspnet-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Please share your experiences & needs to help shape C4DISC efforts. Please complete our questionnaire. We want to understand how your organizational DEIA efforts are going & find out what your needs are. forms.gle/aukD4ea4ruJV... Please take time to complete the questionnaire and share it widely!

Here's who has come out against the Netflix/Warner Bros. deal: -Writers Guild -Directors Guild -SAG-AFTRA -documentary filmmakers -theater owners So all of Hollywood. They aren't opposing this because they secretly want a Paramount merger, it's because the deal will harm their livelihoods.

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

Cornell agreed to pay $30m, hand over admissions data with demographic breakdowns, produce annual "campus climate" surveys to check on antisemitism and changes "since October of 2023," and—here's the dumbest part they agreed to—that the govt can open new investigations whenever it wants. Appeasers.

When Israel bombs Gaza after pledging itself to a ceasefire, we apparently need to say this is a “Test of ceasefire” to avoid saying what is blatantly obvious, that this is a violation of the ceasefire Again, I’ll keep on repeating this: Israel does not do ceasefires unless forced to.

It's genuinely amazing what they'll admit to when they think they're untouchable

much like journalism & other info professions, there is discussion/deconstruction of “neutrality,” if it can or should even be achieved, etc & we should all be more aligned re: disinfo bc of the infrastructure that is used to get information out there: computers, data centers, social networks

however! we do have a tradition of activism guided by intellectual freedom: i am inspired by the work of Zoia Horn, who refused to testify and subsequently give up information to the FBI about patrons of her library that were protesting the Vietnam war: archive.org/details/zoia...

yes, also: we’ve got a long history of promoting literacy, but it’s important to note that the field wasn’t always interested in access of information for all. librarians upheld segregation & many still view literacy as a mechanism for “civilizing” an “uncivilized” public: doi.org/10.31979/257...

You go into a store to buy a 2-litre bottle of milk at the supermarket and pay $3. But the person in front of you in line paid $3.50. And the person behind you paid $2. Surveillance pricing is the practice of monitoring consumer data to charge you the most they think you will be willing to pay.

the aws outage should be evidence that running half the internet on a single company's servers is a terrible idea but i fear nothing will change

Tens of millions of people are set to lose food stamps in weeks and conservatives are celebrating it right in the open on social media. They’re gleeful about starving children, literally saying “fuck them kids.” Yet another reason that “pro-life” is a misnomer. They’re loudly pro-death

The AWS outage exposes again that “the cloud” isn’t magic, it’s infrastructure. The issue isn’t a cyberattack, it’s architectural over-reliance on a handful of cloud giants. We centralized the internet and then made our entire lives dependent on it.

Israel has killed nearly 100 Palestinians and wounded at least 230 since the 'ceasefire' went into effect on October 10.

So you didn't need the LLM and could validate the output only after months of your careful work. That's evidence it's useless and that your work is valuable.

Between all the plane crashes and now this, I really don't want to fly rn 😰

Evelyn Parts, who goes by Evie, was banned from competing with her college's varsity cross country and track team because she is a transgender woman. Now, she's taking action. On August 14, she filed a federal lawsuit against the NCAA and Swarthmore College. Read the full story:

building scientific experiments on top of LLMs is like building a castle on top of shifting sand

Who Owns Our Knowledge? We asked thought leaders around the world how the #OAweek theme resonates with their work. Thanks to Angela Holzer & Michaela Bilic-Merdes from the German Research Foundation for sharing their insights. Learn more in our profile here: www.openaccessweek.org/theme-profil...

Y'all! This is free event is happening tomorrow! Don't miss it! We're gonna be taking open peer review and all things #library #publishing. Learn more and register: litwinbooks.com/openness-in-... #openPeerReview #librarianship #journals

This is so awful. Never forget that the first law in the United States written explicitly to deny people was targeted at Chinese immigrants and impacted people in this neighborhood. This is historical continuity of the worst sort.

Every rapid response chat I’m on is going berserk — forty ice agents indiscriminately capturing people if you can get down to Canal right now, please go!

“[Contract instructors], much like their counterparts in other precarious sectors, are severely undercompensated, with few or no benefits, limited advancement opportunities, and very little job security.” - Dr. Larissa Atkison Learn more: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #NSpoli

I think TikTok culture has done more than anything else to normalize casual surveillance / leveraging commercial surveillance against your friends/partners/colleagues/random strangers than anything else I've ever seen

This whole interview with @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is amazing, but we need to shout this from the rooftops. There's this message that abusive men like to send that's something like "yeah, I'm an abuser, but I'm a strong man who can get things done." And no, he isn't.

Subramanyam Vedam was just released after spending 44 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit, only to be picked up by ICE put BACK in prison, this time for a decades-old deportation order. What a summary of the nation's horrors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

🚨🚨🚨 And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LET’S GO! #DefendHigherEd @aaup-penn.bsky.social

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I just think AI is so exciting bc it's a machine that you can get wrong answers from, that yields environmental devastation, and is being forced on all of us

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?" lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth 📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”? Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

We are not going to get clean air while ppl are continuing to act as if long covid is something that only happens to others - which is not true! A new study found that children were TWICE as likely to develop long covid on their second infection as first www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Last figure I saw was that 1/3 (32.4%) of people infected with Covid are asymptomatic. Nobody ever factors that into their "just isolate/mask when you're sick" nonsense. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Most ppl haven't had a Covid booster. Those rejecting the need to #KeepMasking in public are saying it's ok for infected ppl to transmit a debilitating virus to others who (for whatever reason, incl inaccessibity) lack vax protection, incl millions of kids. Such cruel uncaring is how fascism wins.

The term doxxing has been co-opted by the fascists in charge when the reality is that ICE agents should be legally required to identify themselves!

Nine universities across the country, including MIT and Dartmouth, were given a test of loyalty from the Trump administration. Now, students are demanding their schools not sign the president’s 10 point compact agreement. Read the full story:

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry: “I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...