Info Lit Goblin

I hate gay Halloween what do you mean you’re an uncataloged book someone tried to rebind with duct tape

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

How many tech companies build themselves up on a mission of goodwill (we're a nonprofit! We just want to connect people!) only to "restructure" once they have fundamentally changed a part of society and made people dependent upon them? Why do we keep falling for it?

Shout out to the educators who have been saying for years do not become dependent upon (like superseding all your writing and critical thinking skills to) one single tool because the operators of that tool can make whatever decisions they want whether you agree or not, cuz now you're hooked.

We have the students, they just don't have any questions.

First time as a #saturdaylibrarian what is up my people

They blew up the chicken man in Philly last night? AND they blew up his house too?? Damn.

I am, once again, on the phone.

Spending my entire morning trying to maybe potentially see a doctor sometime in the future but I’m glad single-payer healthcare would be too complicated for us to even think about.

Welp, time to buy a CD player

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

@propublica.org found more than 170 U.S. citizens who have been held against their will by immigration agents. They’ve been kicked, dragged and detained for days.

Full story by immigration reporter @nicolefoy.bsky.social w/ photos by me here: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Thank you!

Will this be made available under a CC license like the Framework for Information Literacy?

*looks directly at camera*

I am not a lawyer but I am witch.

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

How it feels to be talking to a colleague who got tenure before you were born.

Hello faculty, it is I, your Gen Z correspondent.

Overheard at 3 pm on a Tuesday: "Yep, that's a bear."

I am so excited for this. My holds have been placed at the library 🥰

Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World Trump supporters are doubling down on AI sadism.

Social arsonist OpenAI.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Anyway, Bookshop has free shipping today & tomorrow: bookshop.org?utm_source=b...

No shit, the real criminals aren’t hanging out at Home Depot, working at a warehouse, or on a farm field.

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money The White House is asking nine major universities to commit to President Donald Trump’s political priorities in exchange for more favorable access to federal money.

A lot that is strange about this. No tuition for "hard sciences" but everyone I know who studied a "hard science" is out of a job right now and moving abroad because of federal cuts.
apnews.com/article/trum...

OpenAI is essentially selling sophisticated Deep Fake creation tools and even showcases the abuse potential...

How much more cartoonishly evil do these companies want to become?

Legal opinions usually aren't exciting. This one has everyone talking | CNN Politics Not since the years before the Civil War had a trial-level federal judge signed off on an opinion simply as “Judge of the United States.”

In a book-length opinion, Senior Judge William Young ruled that the Trump administration can’t deny First Amendment protections to non-citizens, such as pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, or retaliate against them because of their positions.

Good.