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SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Historian of tech @histoftech.bsky.social on how AI hype is a way of gaming the system by "reengineering society around the technology." The goal is to "create an environment—a labor environment, a regulatory environment, a user environment—that will bring that unlikely thing closer to reality."

My Consumer Autobiography: Reflections on a Year of Digital Reading Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

Library Futures here and we're coming in hot with our very first ebook from library internet favorite @aj-boston.bsky.social.

My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.

www.libraryfutures.net/post/my-cons...

When W. E. B. Du Bois Was "Un-American" - Boston Review At the very height of the McCarthy era, he tried to keep alive a free and open debate about American military, economic, and foreign policy.

"This is the same ugly cluster of ideas that landed Du Bois in court on trumped-up charges 60 years ago: the idea that demanding basic civil rights is tantamount to treason; that protesting national policy means forfeiting one’s citizenship; that darker skin or leftist views make one less American"

We need our countries to get serious about abandoning US tech and putting serious resources behind developing more public-oriented alternatives their citizens can use instead.

Always great to get @ceciliarikap.bsky.social’s insights on these topics. Don’t miss our chat!

Oooh! Ty for the intel!

I ADORED this exhibition!!!

could ChatGPT have made a book like this? didn't think so

We Here Press

@wehere.bsky.social are starting to publish paper books!

We Here Press begins with @dorothyjberry.bsky.social’s “The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities” (October 2025).

I can’t wait. 📜📚

www.weherepress.org

The Roman Catholic Church has a new Pope, and one of his first statements was on AI’s impact on workers.

This week @pbenanti.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Pope Leo XIV might approach AI and how to think about the ethics of technology.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/289_...

DC man accused of throwing sandwich at federal officer released from custody Sean Dunn, accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal officer, is released on his own recognizance as the judge finds the felony charge excessive.

Subway sandwich guy has been released on his own recognizance.

His attorney argued the felony charge was excessive, and the judge agreed.

Oh, and he’s a USAF veteran.

www.wusa9.com/article/news...

"Most of the promotion of A.I. in schools boils down to: Well, it’s happening, and so students need to know.

But there’s nothing attaching it to learning outcomes. There’s nothing assessing its risk to privacy, to data, to the mental and emotional and cognitive development of students."

How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule The nation’s capital made history on Jan. 8, 1867, by giving Black men the right to vote with the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill.

How D.C. first lost its right to self-govern, and the long road to home rule

In 1871, Congress took over the capital city, blaming the District’s financial mess on Black voters.

March 2025
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Columbia Suspends Nearly 80 Pro-Palestinian Student Protesters While Trying to Appease Trump "At the end of the day, I don't think my education is as important as the lives of people in Gaza who are being murdered and intentionally starved right now."

"At the end of the day, I don't think my education is as important as the lives of people in Gaza who are being murdered and intentionally starved right now."

A stack of the booklet Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? by Marc Fischer with burgundy printing and black ink rubber stamping on reddish beige paper.

The 19th printing of my text Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? since May 1st. The print run is over 1,200 copies now. Still just $3.00 from www.halfletterpress.com.

Awful—this is going to be a huge blow to the entire field of Folklore

Text announcing the oncoming AFSCME DC 33 city worker’s strike, which will begin on Tuesday July 1st following a breakdown in negotiations with the city. Support the strikers!

🚨 For the first time since 1986, Philly’s AFSCME DC 33 is going on strike. The union represents thousands of blue collar city workers (including street pavers and sanitation workers) and is the city’s largest—and lowest paid—municipal workers union. The strike will begin at 12:01am on July 1st. 🚨

Project 2029 is going to be as bad as Project 2025, but printed out in Garamond instead of Comic Sans.

among the losses are genealogy databases, test-prep databases, a variety of scholarly databases from Gale, and--of particular local significance--the archive of Boston Globe articles.

60% of usage is from schools. there were 9 million full-text downloads last year, a 12% increase.

this is sick. 📚

Gritty's a librarian now thx.
#ALAAC25

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

Many libraries would not be able to start a collection if it weren't for the generosity of the zine community.

Mail your zines to:

Zine Pavilion
c/o Ben Wildflower Art
PO Box 4798
Philadelphia PA 19134

We will be accepting donations until mid June in preparation for #ALAAC25! 💫

Screenshot of an Instagram post from @andeeszines, “Calling all Black zine creators and self-publishers, archivists, and Black History buffs” to be interviewed for a mini documentary and zine on Black zines and self-publishing.

“Calling all Black zine creators and self-publishers, archivists, and #BlackHistory buffs”: @andeeszines on IG is seeking to interview you for a short documentary and zine on Black #zines and self-publishing. www.instagram.com/andeeszines #BlackZines #DIY

Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)

“libraries are nothing without the labor of library workers” "if you see all of the external threats coming to our profession and then turn around and say "yeah the best i can do is hire part time for a job that requires a master's degree and offer no benefits", you are part of the problem and I am seeing this far too often in my search."

"if you see all of the external threats coming to our profession and then turn around and say "yeah the best i can do is hire part time for a job that requires a master's degree and offer no benefits", you are part of the problem" #LIS #GLAM #Libraries

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