in the end, the future of cinema is Hundreds of Beavers

Hugo-finalist filmmaker Boots Riley has a new science fiction movie coming out in May of 2026, and I for one cannot wait. Sorry To Bother You is one of my all-time favourite Hugo finalists. That movie is a goddamned delight. www.complex.com/pop-culture/...

Pizza King Winamac, IN

[Exit King.]

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The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

Roller derby librarians feels like the most Milwaukee thing ever. Incredible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkWcQ3t/

I got back to my hotel and saw the foreground involved FALL FOLIAGE! In California! I had to stay up to finish the edit. Glad to live in this universe with you all ❤️

😖 “…despite Internet Archive arguing that there were comparably low downloads and streams on the Great 78 recordings—as well as a music publishing industry vet suggesting that damages were likely no more than $41,000—the labels intensified their attacks” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Even if you missed the Kickstarter you can still pre-order @matratype.bsky.social 's INDIA STREET LETTERING! At a discount, for a limited time! www.blaft.com/products/ind... Check out her Blag article for a sneak preview! bl.ag/indian-sign-...

Good News for the TL! The Milwaukee Public Library opened a new branch and it’s all very wholesome!

Visiting a National Park this summer? Consider photographing the educational signs you read and upload the images to the Data Rescue Project (www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...)

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“People who leave parties without saying goodbye save up to two days per year.”

From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

The microfiche digitization livestream from the Internet Archive also includes silent films, home movies, and other random things with lofi archive radio playing in the background for your listening pleasure. On a day like today, how cool is that? www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... via @archive.org

The sunlit backside of the Chicago Theater, laced with the shadows of fire escapes and a ghost sign, make for high drama, watched by cooing pigeons below. The quiet dioramas of city alleys are sometimes breathtaking, especially when spied from a noisy busy streetside.

Gritty's a librarian now thx. #ALAAC25

Reading Aldo Leopold in summer sun on a warm summer morning is a lovely way to start the day.

Few pleasures are a delectable as inhaling the dense earthy aroma of freshly cut herbs. Sublime garden moment.

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏 @ccp-org.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @jimccasey1.bsky.social

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

First fireflies of the season. Just magical, every year.

we may not find out how much damage gen AI will do to higher education because it may simply be dismantled first

Downtown Milwaukee off in the distance 6/23 #wiwx

Spent the past week sampling various playlists of Iranian pop, mostly from the pre-revolutionary era. This collection may be the best gateway, from the percussive Bandari jams of Zia to the quasi-Latin jazz sound of Googoosh. #dailyalbum open.spotify.com/playlist/4jF...

After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won’t pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. -Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak) #everynightapoem #war

Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

This is really lovely, and somewhat uncategorizable, as well as unsummarizable. It is not just about books. (Nor is it just about trees.) I urge you to read it. By @annasplat.bsky.social neonliterary.substack.com/p/the-arks-w...

Amidst all the chaos, it's always Tatonka Tuesday.

"The bill directs what is likely the largest single sale of national public lands in modern history to help cut taxes for the richest people in the country....all without hearings, debate or public input." wilderness.org/articles/med...

Fill this out and contribute information! It’s especially important for the smaller protests happening outside big metros.

Buoyed by the camaraderie of this afternoon’s #Milwaukee #NoKings rally and demonstration. A gorgeous day and thousands of friendly city folk raising their voices (and signs) together. Discarded Cheetos under foot was maybe the wittiest political message of the day.

I’m teaching an online continuing ed class for librarians right now, and the participants who are from tiny rural public libraries—under-resourced, under-staffed public servants who bring communities together and open minds. Just so inspiring. Doing the good work, they are.

Important info for this weekend. Let’s do this.

Six years ago a rapper named Mr. Cardamom released a rap video with Madhur Jaffrey and I did not realize until the Pitchfork interview with him today that Mr. Cardamom was Zohran Mamdani.

Love this beautiful mix of the experimental, practical and utopian possibilities of public learning. NYC leading the way in troubled times.

For those unfamiliar the National Digital Newspaper Program funds states to digitize newspapers—which are then collected in the archive Chronicling America—NDNP & ChronAm are related but not the same—the funding program has been shut down—the archive is still online—though I worry for its future

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

The concurrent escalating damage to the value of advanced learning from ChatGPT’s hyper-marketing to college students and the acute escalation of fed and state attacks on higher ed…how do we make it through all this?

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

Strong rapid response protest for Judge Dugan! Voces De La Frontera and @wiworkingfam.bsky.social calling for all to join us THIS AFTERNOON, 3:00 PM in front of the Milwaukee Federal Building

I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...

at this point 2025 feels like being awake during surgery

For National Library Week, we can't recommend enough @shannonmattern.bsky.social's 2014 essay "Library as Infrastructure." A decade on, it remains a potent argument for libraries as social, technological & intellectual infrastructure — part of a critical network of institutions buoying public life.