Matthew Noe

Easily a top 5 best thing about our apartment: these Belle-observation windows

Audiobooks don’t really count as reading? Think again. — Harvard Gazette Education scholars say rigor, learning same as paper, stigma an unnecessary hurdle.

"Not only does the brain operate the same when reading print books or listening to audiobooks, Gaab said, but the learning process is also the same."

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There are hundreds of really good reasons to fund larger, better public transit systems, more pedestrian friendly streets, and cities that encourage slowing down.

This is a really big reason.

Will we act before it is too late?

We may soon have 70 million boomers too old to drive, too car-dependent to stop. As the baby boomer bubble pushes into its eighties, we are driving into a demographic wall.

"It is inevitable: Take 70 million aging baby boomers and put them in big SUVs and pickup trucks on North American roads, and you have a whole lot of accidents waiting to happen."

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Did you miss our event with Rachel?

You're in luck!

We were able to record her talk and you can view it now on our @countwaylibrary.bsky.social Author Series page:

countway.harvard.edu/events/autho...

#GraphicMedicine

I... don't know how to respond to the regular reminders to build good relationships with local law enforcement and to call them if ICE shows up.

Y'all.

The local police in Worcester literally collaborated with ICE and have a vendetta against anyone who tried to stop them.

They aren't allies.

EBSCO is trying to nudge all of their publishers to agree to LLM training.

Shoutout to @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social for saying no and for being transparent with these messages.

litwinbooks.com/ebscos-publi...

Harvard’s Computer Science Faculty Keep Heading to Industry. SEAS is Trying to Keep a Foot in Both Worlds. | News | The Harvard Crimson 12 of 43 SEAS tenure-track professors affiliated with computer science currently hold or have held industry positions within the past five years during their time at Harvard. The rapid growth of artif...

Thanks, I hate it

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

screenshot from the book from a booklist webinar

New Shaun Tan this year!

Hometown out from @levinequerido.bsky.social

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Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ Have it your way?

AI can't do your job, but it absolutely can make your experience of work worse.

Embrace Luddism.

Say no to AI.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Watching the recording of Responding to ICE at the Library: Real World Approaches since I missed it live.

Feeling some kind of way that this is the world we're living in.

NNLM Reading Club March 2026 Food and Nutrition Covers of The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Jospeh Tychonievic Butter by Asako Yuzuki Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

For March, we added 3 new titles and reading guides to the NNLM Reading Club on Food and Nutrition!

The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food by Jospeh Tychonievic

Butter by Asako Yuzuki

Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken

More: www.nnlm.gov/resources/re...

#medlibs #GraphicMedicine

"Are you okay?"

No. Why, are you?

Grief isn't something that needs a cure, first of all

Feeling ambitious and want to see if I can get the corn/beans/squash trio to cooperate.

Barring that, my wife wants to do tomatoes and I'd be game to try collards.

Submitted an application for a nearby community garden plot.

Fingers crossed!

Wi2026: Bookstores in the Time of Fascism "You do not wait for times to get better," said Keaun Michael Brown of Ujamaa Community Bookstore, Indianapolis, Ind., during Winter

"You do not wait for an administration to end," Brown continued. "You wait for nobody but yourself."

www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202...

If AI is the future of higher ed, I need to find a new career.

So why should anyone read it?

Not sorry, Alex, but no.

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

Apparently we all, not just famous people, need to find a legal way to prevent our likeness from being used after death now

I'm on the bus home from school, slowly ruining my Meteora CD because anti-skip couldn't handle rural KY roads, angstily dreaming of Somewhere I Belong(ed)

(I'm exhausted today)

An old tweet reading chronic pain be like meh i'm used to it meh i'm used to it meh i'm used to it meh i'm used to it I'M SO TIRED OF BEING IN PAIN ALL THE TIME I HATE MY BODY I HATE BEING LIKE THIS EVERYTHING IS AGONY PLEASE MAKE IT STOP I'M EXHAUSTED PLEASE meh i'm used to it meh i'm used to it

Accurate.

Wait what the fuck

"The majority explained that the parents were ultimately likely to prevail on the merits of their claim that the state’s policies interfere with their right to freely exercise their religion."

I.e. if your parents are bigots and they justify it through their faith, your suffering at home is legal.

Court sides with parents in dispute over California policies on transgender students The Supreme Court on Monday night granted a request from a group of California parents to reinstate a ruling by a federal district court that prohibits schools in that state […]

Another day, another SCOTUS ruling that puts kids at risk in the name of so-called "parent's rights."

www.scotusblog.com/2026/03/divi...

"Trauma does that... it's an explosion with your heart at the center. It changes everything all at once."