librarypunk

A newer term, pansexual, has been adopted to include transsexuals and all other persons whose gender, sexual orientation, and gender presentation do not coincide with societal norms, thereby supporting their sexuality instead of classifying them as dysphoric. (See also Sexual Orientation; Transgender.)

mostly for this definition of pansexual

2001 reference book on homosexuality and the law with a white lesbian couple with a baby on the front

stays

Aggressively weeding all the out of date reference unless I think it's funny

The one time I did it, it took 4 hours I think

You can read Jonathan Adams’ summary of the Clarivate report in Research Professional News (which Clarivate also owns) here: The US research empire is in retreat. Jonathan writes: Across the board, China appears to be a game-changer for the US’s place in global science. China’s annual research output of papers in journals indexed in Web of Science has grown from fewer than 30,000 in 2000 to more than 850,000 in 2024, passing the US in 2020. China’s citation impact is now also well above the world average. China is less internationally networked than other major research powers: only 20 per cent of its output is internationally co-authored. Once you’ve read the report, you may want to dip into: Why the world must wake up to China’s science leadership and also China accounts for more than half of leading output in the applied sciences.

"China’s citation impact is now also well above the world average."

Sinophobia is about to do more to de-emphasize focus on citation impact metrics than all 13 years of SF DORA combined...

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This holiday season, give the gift of nightmares: the fearful Eastern European folklore of The Bone Mother; the unsettling blend of queer history, memoir and monstrosity in RED X; and the epistolary origin story of Mrs. Lovett, The Butcher’s Daughter, co-written with @corinneleighclark.bsky.social

Can we get past $2000 by midnight? That would mean we're 10% of the way to our goal.

Free Your Skin

If you can't go there's a nice exhibit book you can order online.

Just saw the exhibit at the Met Cloisters and I highly recommend it! www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

my new rebrand of yoohoos which promise to make you big and round, called ooowoos

An AI interface designed for information delivery instead of getting you hooked on AI would say eg “specific evidence was not provided due to an ongoing investigation” or whatever

Takeaway: The AI is not designed to serve you, it is designed to capture your attention because that has monetary value

I just really noticed in action a couple of things that I want to point out.

1) AI can’t say it doesn’t know the answer. Like, there’s a world, possibly this one, in which that information was withheld from the papers for nat sec or whatever

Never mind the rights of children to read and know. www.librarypunk.gay/e/090-right-...

Esp when we’re talking about personal images, appearance, likeness. You don’t need to create a copyright of your face to have your privacy respected.

Instead of saying “this is my copyright you cant use it” instead saying “this is part of me, you can’t integrate me into this project”. Maybe this category in the law can only exist for LLMs and GANs.

Half baked thought: what if instead of litigating AI scraping of data in the copyright realm (we don’t need more copyright), maybe we could model data removal from AI models under a system more close to data privacy.

Yeah, I'm still seeing my books challenged and banned FOR BEING AN OUTSPOKEN ANTI-CENSORSHIP ADVOCATE.

I only wish big media gave half a shit about this kind of censorship happening. It's been happening directly to me–and thus my contributors!–for 3 years now.

Retaliatory book bans.

On our way to nyc the istanbul of america

Two things that I think would be beneficial to track in our current library attacks/book censorship era that I do not have capacity to do and suspect others who've been doing this for years don't, either.

1. Canadian library budget cuts. There are a LOT.
2. Libraries banning ALA membership.

Still disappointed that the first argument against AI that people tend to reach for is "plagiarism", as if that's an actual thing, instead of the many, many, many, many more important issues that they could prioritize. Labour, energy, wealth concentration, propaganda, water, etc. etc. etc.

chatgpt is conscious i know this because it astral projected into my dream to convince me to destroy the wetlands so it can keep getting stronger

Park Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.

National Park workers at 24 parks and offices are moving to form a union.

These National Park Service workers in Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Rocky Mountain and nine other locations have filed petitions to hold a union election.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Gonna be in Brooklyn Saturday and Sunday let’s see if we end up on any podcasts

another hit post with the gays 💃

Look we've all acted over the top when meeting someone we think is hot

What's going on in Alabama and Tennessee around transgender books in the library is genuinely disgusting.

Trans stories belong in libraries. Full stop. Trans people have and will always exist.

And if you think this ends with trans stories pal there's a very famous poem I'd like you to read.

Also we had no idea he made a graphic novel and were sharing clips

I think you underestimated how bad Harari's politics are when you read his books Nexus and Homo Deus, but having read those two books for podcast fodder, I enjoyed this episode a lot. We were talking about it in the anti-Harari group chat.

Camel case? Two words? Who knows!