Odin Halvorson

“Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We’re here because we love America.” #NoKings

I frequently say you don't need to protest. You don't! There are a thousand other ways to push back on fascism if protesting doesn't feel comfortable or safe for you!

But if you CAN go, this 10/18 #NoKings thing is really a key protest to participate in. Be part of it, friends.

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

NEW: Judge Immergut issues her written second TRO, blocking the Trump admin from deploying ANY federalized National Guard troops from ANY state in Oregon. (Full hearing thread below) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This feature literally saved my butt during a recent switch from CalyxOS! Love seeing important updates like this.

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Ah, yes, budding brownshirts can argue with a professor and then get that professor to administrators and the president of an entire university fired.

But our democracy is completely fine.

I had a wonderful time last night presenting at the Virtual International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts. My presentation on jediism, hauntology, and postmodernism was very fun, And there were so many great insightful questions, plus my co-panelists presentations were an absolute treat.

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation. Join me as I unpack being a first-generation master’s student, the challenges of specialization vs generalism, and how this degree reshaped Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.

www.youtube.com/watc...

#MLIS #LibraryScience #FirstGenStudent #Library #LIS

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation. Join me as I unpack being a first-generation master’s student, the challenges of specialization vs generalism, and how this degree reshaped Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.

www.youtube.com/watc...

#MLIS #LibraryScience #FirstGenStudent #Library #LIS

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation. Join me as I unpack being a first-generation master’s student, the challenges of specialization vs generalism, and how this degree reshaped Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.

www.youtube.com/watc...

#MLIS #LibraryScience #FirstGenStudent #Library #LIS

Funny how they scream angrily about "Socialism" until their Orange Messiah, YamTits McJulius, is having the government take control of private businesses. 🐸🍵 ~AdminMatt

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Let us by all means determine that software should be covered by the Working Time Directive. Let’s tell OpenAI they can no longer change or deactivate their models because that amounts to forced surgery or murder. If we must have this conversation, let it go all the way.

AI “investors have been expecting record returns for their expenditures…”

But NINETY-FIVE PERCENT (95%) of companies are getting ZERO return on artificial intelligence — “despite investing billions”

www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

@johncassidysays.bsky.social @newyorker.com

wtf

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation. Join me as I unpack being a first-generation master’s student, the challenges of specialization vs generalism, and how this degree reshaped Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

Should You Get an MLIS? A First‑Gen Perspective

In this honest reflection, I share what I gained from my MLIS in library and information science—from personal knowledge management to identity transformation.

www.youtube.com/watc...

#MLIS #LibraryScience #FirstGenStudent #Library #LIS

the language of “collaboration”
with gen-ai tools is always pronounced in my brain in the voice of Kira Nerys

It’s not a competition.

Both Gaza and Ukraine are besieged by fascist colonial invaders on illegal land grabs who want to eliminate the local population.

Both invaders need to eradicated.

And Israel’s war on Gaza did not begin on 7 October. It began in 1947.

DOGE Targeted Him on Social Media. Then the Taliban Took His Family. Afghan scholar Mohammad Halimi, who fled the Taliban in 2021, had worked to help U.S. diplomats understand his homeland. Then DOGE put his family’s lives at risk by exposing his sensitive work for a U...

After DOGE outed Halimi, Taliban intelligence agents blindfolded and took three of his family members to a remote prison.

They were repeatedly beaten and questioned about Halimi and his recently publicized work for the United States.

Judge Halts Operations at Everglades Detention Center With Preliminary Injunction

AMAZING NEWS! A judge has ruled that the Everglades Interment Camp must halt operations. They cannot receive new immigrants (thank GOD), and must tear down fencing and other aspects within 60 days. Essentially making it inoperable.

www.everglades.org/judge-halts-...

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

Your car is not your castle — it’s a constitutional gray zone.

It doesn’t have the same Fourth Amendment protections as homes. You can refuse to open the door of your home if officers don’t have a warrant; you can’t refuse to step out of your car.

Opposition absolutely works. It's not 100% of the time but we have to attack from as many fronts as possible.

Newsom: We got here because the President is struggling. We got here because the President is one of the most unpopular presidents in U.S. history. We got here because he recognizes that he will lose the election.

Check this shit!

Earlier today, ICE tried to break into private property in Lynwood, California — no judicial warrant, no authority. Acting like thugs, not federal agents.

Spoiler alert: Lynwood does not play. This trio of goons got sent packing.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the GOP's emergency petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan, ruling that GOP lawmakers had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief” under the state Constitution.

Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.

Oh wow. Looks like we're getting down to addressing the ethical issues around LLM technology.

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans.

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In Andor and in real life, the people rise. We refuse to bend the knee to an authoritarian power grab. #IHaveFriendsEverywhere