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Winamac, IN

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The Oatmeal, ladies and gents. Really thoughtful illustrated essay on the use and misuse of AI art and why it often feels…bad

Why skate around the subject? 📚 Books belong in libraries and readers have the right to decide what they want to read. Libraries protect your Right to Read this week and every other. This #BannedBook... TikTok video by Milwaukee Public Library

Roller derby librarians feels like the most Milwaukee thing ever. Incredible www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMkWcQ3t/

I got back to my hotel and saw the foreground involved FALL FOLIAGE! In California! I had to stay up to finish the edit.

Glad to live in this universe with you all ❤️

Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement The true cost of keeping the Internet Archive alive will likely remain unknown.

😖 “…despite Internet Archive arguing that there were comparably low downloads and streams on the Great 78 recordings—as well as a music publishing industry vet suggesting that damages were likely no more than $41,000—the labels intensified their attacks”

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A Type Designer's Take on Indian Sign Painting Through her India Street Lettering project, Pooja Saxena re-examines the craft and its clichés.

Even if you missed the Kickstarter you can still pre-order @matratype.bsky.social 's INDIA STREET LETTERING! At a discount, for a limited time!

www.blaft.com/products/ind...

Check out her Blag article for a sneak preview!

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Good News for the TL!

The Milwaukee Public Library opened a new branch and it’s all very wholesome!

Muir Woods exhibit is first casualty of White House directive to erase history "In order to know your role in history, you need to see yourself in it."

Visiting a National Park this summer? Consider photographing the educational signs you read and upload the images to the Data Rescue Project (www.datarescueproject.org/save-our-sig...)

Why No One Knows What’s Happening Tonight A love letter to music listings

In my debut for @theatlantic.com, I wrote about the disappearance of cultural listings from major New York media outlets, and what it portends for artists, audiences, institutions, and journalists. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“People who leave parties without saying goodbye save up to two days per year.”

From @internetarchive.eu: "Internet Archive Europe proudly announces the launch of Our Future Memory, a global campaign dedicated to safeguarding the digital rights of libraries, archives, and museums worldwide." www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

Two girls (in a silent film) stand in front of the doorway to a house. One nearest to the door points to the other, who has been carrying a bucket. There are a few trees in the background.

The microfiche digitization livestream from the Internet Archive also includes silent films, home movies, and other random things with lofi archive radio playing in the background for your listening pleasure. On a day like today, how cool is that?

www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R... via @archive.org

The sunlit backside of the Chicago Theater, in cream brick with black iron fire escapes’ shadows hanging long across it. At the top is a ghost sign for the theater. The alley in front of it is dim gray, with pigeons noshing near a dumpster.

The sunlit backside of the Chicago Theater, laced with the shadows of fire escapes and a ghost sign, make for high drama, watched by cooing pigeons below.

The quiet dioramas of city alleys are sometimes breathtaking, especially when spied from a noisy busy streetside.

Gritty's a librarian now thx.
#ALAAC25

Reading Aldo Leopold in summer sun on a warm summer morning is a lovely way to start the day.

Few pleasures are a delectable as inhaling the dense earthy aroma of freshly cut herbs. Sublime garden moment.

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏

@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

First fireflies of the season. Just magical, every year.

we may not find out how much damage gen AI will do to higher education because it may simply be dismantled first

Downtown Milwaukee off in the distance 6/23 #wiwx

Spent the past week sampling various playlists of Iranian pop, mostly from the pre-revolutionary era. This collection may be the best gateway, from the percussive Bandari jams of Zia to the quasi-Latin jazz sound of Googoosh. #dailyalbum open.spotify.com/playlist/4jF...

The End and the beginning After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won't pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. Someone has to trudge through sludge and ashes, through the sofa springs, the shards of glass, the bloody rags. Someone has to lug the post to prop the wall, someone has to glaze the window, set the door in its frame. No sound bites, no photo opportunities, and it takes years. All the cameras have gone to other wars. The bridges need to be rebuilt, the railroad stations, too. Shirtsleeves will be rolled to shreds. 286 Someone, broom in hand, still remembers how it was. Someone else listens, nodding his unshattered head. But others are bound to be bustling nearby who'll find all that a little boring. From time to time someone still must dig up a rusted argument from underneath a bush and haul it off to the dump. Those who knew what this was all about must make way for those who know little. And less than that. And at last nothing less than nothing. Someone has to lie there in the grass that covers up the causes and effects with a cornstalk in his teeth, gawking at clouds.

After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.

Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.

-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war

Arthur Rackham - Watercolor of a cat - 1911

The arks we build by accident, or: an essay for any author who fears obsolescence Trust in the spookiest parts of yourself; stop trying to understand them.

This is really lovely, and somewhat uncategorizable, as well as unsummarizable. It is not just about books. (Nor is it just about trees.) I urge you to read it.
By @annasplat.bsky.social

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