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New episode of the podcast! On this episode, we talk with caustic riff rockers "Super Kill Me Now" about attempting to subvert nostalgia, a musician's social obligation to community and the legacy of the Languorous Rock of the 2010s.

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This is what I think about when people say we need to give people "AI literacy". How do you AI literacy out of this exactly? This shows how absurd the concept is, this is what the goal of AI is for every worker.

It is as bad as it sounds, and freedom to read folks have been anticipating this now for years.

Make your phone calls. Send your emails.

Sharing some relevant reflections on AI as an attempt to "square the call center", as described by Mark Fisher as the closest one can get to encountering the centerless system of capitalism, from 'Why We Fear AI':

Had a blast talking to Justin, Sadie, and Jay from @librarypunk.bsky.social about anything from libraries, AI and the economy of knowledge to organizing and the movie Pride!

Profitability metrics for departments are invented by the people deciding if the department is worth having around. I've seen the same administration use completely incompatible metrics to argue that both STEM and humanities are in the red. If it's convenient to say you're unprofitable, you are.

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press Industry insiders Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer dive into the dark, twisted world of AI to demystify the many nightmares we have about it. They combine expertise in cognitive science and machine lea...

Buy a copy for yourself here! And order it for your library! www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-f...

159 - Why We Fear AI feat. Hagen Blix

This week we’re joined by @hagenblix.bsky.social to talk about their new book on AI and labor/power/knowledge/eugenics. We also discuss some library Reddit developments.

fucking genocidal

Feb 25, 2026, Instagram post from transarchives: “NYC Trans Archives. We are looking for: Photography & Art; Posters & Signs; Zines & Poetry; News articles & magazines. Info@transarchives.org. TransArchives.org/acquisitions.”

#NYC Trans Archives is a “new, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.” Expanding their collections, they’re seeking: photos, art, posters, signs, #zines, news articles, magazines, and more. 🏳️‍⚧️ transarchives.org/acquisitions/ #activism #archives #LGBTQIA

yeah i read reddit but i dont really know much about the culture except whining

Obviously discovery layers are going to have to deal with this if someone finds a use case like surveilling what's checked out to challenge books.

From the Libraries community on Reddit: I built a site that shows what books are being checked out at the Naperville Public Library Posted by UIUCTalkshow - 0 votes and 5 comments

So the librarypunk discord consensus so far is this is built on scraping the discovery layer, since otherwise this guy would need an API from the library. www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/...

i looked and this was written by one of our faculty members so i gotta take it

it's... heart is in the right place? it's for supporting children whose family members have parkinson's disease but like... idk handing your child slop is kinda gross

You literally can't escape this shit.

I was just handed a physical AI written children's book as a donation....

i've been copied on several of those so i know firsthand

same tone as the people who email math faculty at universities declaring they've discovered new math and demanding a reply

I made it for my husband but i was proud of it so i wanted to post it as well

YouTube video by superhans She doesn't have the range.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrLO...

Soho Press has announced a special fifth anniversary edition of RED X for US readers, on sale June 2026. The cover features a handsome young man’s face, blurred out, entirely in shades of red - with a die cut circle where his left eye should be. In the cut out is the title and the author name.

So here’s the thing.

I really like getting review copies, I should do more book-reviewing service stuff.

I'd read it!

“Anna’s Archive Points Out Legal ‘Concern’.” Highlighted text reads: “According to the complaint, Anna’s Archive then warned Nvidia that its library was illegally acquired and maintained. Because the site previously wasted time on other AI companies, the pirate library asked NVIDIA executives if they had internal permission to move forward. This permission was allegedly granted within a week, after which Anna’s Archive provided the chip giant with access to its pirated books.”

lmao

huh

Now that I'm back in front of students I have to explain to them "10 years ago I would have taught you how to use Google competently. Now I literally can't do that as well, so we're focusing on the catalog"

If they don't want drugs getting into prisons they're going to have to stop letting the guards in every day.