Aimee Gee

I told my landlord that I am the airlord and he started crying

You know what happens when you ask a blind person what color shirt you're wearing, and they don't know the answer?

They tell you they don't know.

So many of us have benefited from Fobazi's work.

Here's a chance to give back.

lonelily

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

NEWS: The Library of Congress has launched a significant upgrade to the Chronicling America website, the nation’s leading free resource for historical U.S. newspapers. newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

something I'm surprised gen AI discourse didn't hit yet is the attitude "I asked for it to be done, so I made it" has always been how rich people view using workers who have trained skills and do the technical side. they see themselves as creators for having an idea, we were just a means to that end

Library Startup ‘Briet’ Wants to Revolutionize E-Book Sales, Not Licensing Created by a team affiliated with Brick House publishing cooperative, a platform known as Briet is inviting publishers to sell rather than license their e-books to libraries, and several independent p...

Look at that, actual SALES of ebooks to libraries - not just 'perpetual access' licences but outright ownership. One concern would be content only being accessible via the in-house platform, rather than as digital files for the library to host or integrate as they chose, but still. Bravo! #ebookSOS

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

Reduction in Northwestern’s Workforce: Leadership Notes - Northwestern University In response to challenges we have been articulating since November, Northwestern has taken several measures to protect the University’s long-term financial stability.

I was laid off from Northwestern University today, along with 200 other people. 📚 www.northwestern.edu/leadership-n...

Scientists analyze 76 million radio telescope images, find Starlink satellite interference 'where no signals are supposed to be present' A new survey analyzed the effect of Starlink satellite emissions on 76 million radio telescope images.

Elon Musk ruined something else you weren't even thinking about:

"Astronomers have long voiced concerns about Starlink's satellite constellation interfering with observations of the universe, and a new survey by Curtin University confirms those fears."

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them.

tomlehrersongs.com

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

A sepia poster with a background of a brain texture reading “Art made by no one means nothing” and “please use your beautiful brain” in smaller text at the bottom.

Yearly remake of this poster.
My feelings against generative AI remain the same, if not constantly reignited.

So.. officially, I'm the last Black staff columnist left in the Washington Post's opinion section.

“We Couldn’t Generate an Answer for your Question” - ACRLog Editor’s note: We welcome a guest blog post from Jay Singley, Document Delivery and Circulation Desk Manager at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. In March 2025, Ex Libris unveiled thei...

This guest post by Jay Singley on ACRLog is a must-read.
"In the age of AI, our access to information is not spared from these attacks. We must uncover answers to the questions Safiya Noble, Joy Buolamwini, and others elicit: Who and what is safeguarded through AI tools in discovery searches?"

Agreeing, not liking that this happened to you.

My dear friend Michael Brooks @tmbsfm passed away five years ago today. 🌹

My dear friend Michael Brooks passed away five years ago today. 🌹

As Ruth Wilson Gilmore noted, "[Karl] Marx observed that tax struggle is the oldest form of class struggle."

Given the "Big Beautiful Bill," it might be useful for some of us to become more familiar with tax policy.

Here's a thread about U.S. tax policy and politics.

Thanks, Reina. Another chapter in a long history of exploiting the land and the people.

And now the reason for the proposed water rate hike becomes clear.

Why do politicians want data centers to come to West Virginia? Mountain State Spotlight explains Gov. Patrick Morrisey and lawmakers want to bring data center developments to West Virginia. So, what does that mean for the state?

Welp. "Local and county governments aren’t allowed to establish or enforce any regulations that would limit the development of a data center project." mountainstatespotlight.org/2025/07/17/w...

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.

Person in Africa is trying to mod a Nissan sport ute into a mobile library. If anyone has specific suggestions to help out...

www.reddit.com/r/carmodific...

#TLSky #EduSky #SchoolLibrary #Skybrarians

Post a book you love from the 1970s

Egg, almanac, & onion tumbling off table as lucky cat steals the fish, 1650. From the circle of Sebastian Stosskopf, whose day is today.

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

They have to have a lack of respect bordering on contempt for readers, writers, and the act of writing in general.

And most of all, a lack of understanding of what real translators do. They're counting on authors and readers not knowing or caring.

No to AI translation.
No to AI audiobooks.