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Do the people in the waiting room understand that I am laughing at a post about datasets and a class action lawsuit @authorsalliance.bsky.social? "with lots of caveats (we’re dealing with crowdsourced metadata from a pirate website here)" 😂 authorsalliance.substack.com/p/bartz-v-an...

I am pro-mayonnaise. There. I’ve said it. Fight me.

Recommended reading in any format! 📚

IYKYK. 📚

Please share widely with any and all networks--we're on the lookout for AI slop that's wormed its way in to digital library collections and we'd love your eagle eyes! 📚

“Ask six Ancient Greek professors, get seven different pronunciations.”

My Substack is now back home on my blog, where you can read, subscribe, unsubscribe, or outright ignore to your heart's content. newrambler.net/2025/08/06/o...

My father died by suicide 44 years ago today. Usually I go by the old house to pour out a libation for him, but today I wanted to go somewhere he was happy, not somewhere he despaired. So I went to the library. 📚 www.icpl.org/westgate

Going home, going home, resting my bones back on my blog. lauracrossett.substack.com/p/its-been-f...

Couldn’t have said it better.

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

“The Road Not Taken” was clearly written by a man who never had to get to the grocery store before picking his kid up from sportsball practice.

One under-considered angle here is the professionalization and cutthroat nature of kids' sports. If parents are ready to go to the clink for throwing a punch at the little league ump coz of a perceived bad call, of course they'll be more conditioned to throw trans kids under the bus.

“Oh Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”

Indeed! But still, don’t write naughty words on walls if you can’t spell.

Protip: if you are already feeling sad, don’t start thinking about your dog dying. (Dog is fine. My brain is evil.)

Grouchy as usual. Public goods deserve public funding, not private beneficence. lauracrossett.substack.com/p/the-laura-...

Thread on some of the oversights in the NYT library ebook pricing story. 📚

I had the pleasure of getting to talk on the radio yesterday about how great it is to repair your stuff. Listen here or in podcast form. www.iowapublicradio.org/podcast/talk...

Cool initiative. Get in early! 📚

Truly a fine way to while away some clicking time. The New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani is getting desperate. mamdanitimes.com

I went to visit ICE today. lauracrossett.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

Digital books and libraries are more important than ever. We need to be up on what is happening with them in terms of access, surveillance, and more. So we highly recommend this new series from our friends at @libraryfutures.bsky.social engelberg-center-live.simplecast.com/episodes/so-...

Touché. apnews.com/article/carl...

Hey baby it’s the 4th of July, the world is going to hell, and I’m in a Hilton Garden Inn outside Milwaukee.

"Escutem!" (Listen!) Beowulf, 2022 Elton Medeiros 🇧🇷

The Fourth of July is a good day to re-read the Declaration of Independence with @lopatto.bsky.social and @sarahjeong.bsky.social and think about overthrowing the government www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

🚨 NEW EPISODE - Iowa strips away civil rights protections. SF 418 just went into effect. 👉 Removes trans protections from 2007 law 👉 Uses weird 1896 language: "separate accommodations are not inherently unequal" 👉 Biggest Capitol protest in history couldn't stop it

Who else misses physical ebooks? Such a great format: collectible, lendable, private, and immune to later tampering. If you're nostalgic, enjoy this brief oral history recalling a fantastic (and fantasized) medium. New post from me: open.substack.com/pub/ajboston...

@shiraovide.bsky.social dives deeper into AI scraper bots disrupting websites, including the striking (to me) number that 13 million AI bot visits in a month translated into a whole 600 human visitors www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

We <3 our copyright friends! 📚

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We've got lots lots more from Ebook Friday and #alaac25! Follow us for all the latest, and find us at the Copyright Booth and on on the town! 📚 libraryfutures.glitch.me

Heads up that there's a renewed bipartisan effort to keep you from knowing what the law *is*

The third and final episode of our podcast is out! Binge them all or listen at your leisure. 📚

There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...

Meet me in person! Plus of course the rest of the @libraryfutures.bsky.social crew. 📚

Dear God. I take some time off from the internet to watch High Fidelity for the 37th time and we bomb Iran. I will try not to let my love of John Cusack do that again.

Episode 2 of A Podcast About Ebooks is out! Get yourself a little flashback to the days of sideloading ebooks, trying to get B&N to donate Nooks so we could learn to use them, and trying to find books in Overdrive. 📚 engelberg-center-live.simplecast.com/episodes/ebo...

Please spread wide--on and off social media! 📚

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

Happy Fathers Day to everyone out there functioning as two parents.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.