Patricia 🧡

Letter to the Editor: Improving our public transit There has been a lot of discussion around the regional transit funding measure, SB 63. SB 63 would help prevent service cuts to our existing transit system, and so, it is critical for San Mateo County...

This one published just today re: our local transit + SB63.

Letters to the Editor: Libraries are essential services Dear Editor, I’m writing to express my gratitude for your coverage of the Redwood City Public Library, the San Mateo County Libraries, and what is happening in public libraries overall. As a resident,...

Written earlier this month in support of our local libraries 📚

Is it a good sign that my letters to the editors are being published in my local paper though? Because this month it’s been 2/2 ☺️

Haven’t been on here in a while but I wanted a space to share that I can’t believe it’s almost been a year since I’ve finished my dissertation and now I am finishing writing up a paper expanding on it. Idk where or if it’ll even end up anywhere but here’s to manifesting it does 🥹✨

You know the saying about how it libraries didn't already exist, there's no way we would create them now because it would be seen as """socialist"""? Same with the post office. If it goes away, they will never bring it back

What people don’t realize is that you don’t HAVE to watch that thing, you can just read.

if you like legally obtaining entertainment and research materials for free, I highly recommend your local public library

Tuning inward to local news more lately. I love seeing what’s happening in my community. Why have I not done this sooner?

Agree with you 100%. I came on here to shut out the noise. I want to get to stay focused and get to work. But also love seeing all the things library and archives colleagues are up to 🥹

support archives and archivists sufficiently in times of normal operation so we can do our jobs in times of crisis. read about ongoing efforts before your library of alexandria comparisons. respect the expertise of people who have been doing the work. fund permanent archival and preservation labor.

I guess timing is everything. I've posted links to this doc the White House dropped on 1.19.2025. It was removed the next day. I shared on Threads again today & it is finally picking up traction. This is how we rebuild. The National Resilience Strategy begins with community.

Support "friends of the library" organizations wherever you live!

Federal Spending Freeze Does Not Apply to Student Loans and Pell Grants (Gift Article) Students and parents panicked after news of the order, but the Education Department said the guidance would not stop the flow of money to students and schools.

The Department of Education said the memo calling for a broad pause on federal spending did not apply to federal student loans or Pell grants. That money will continue to flow, the statement said

I cannot express how much joy I feel about DeepSeek exposing the ugly part of Silicon Valley/the truth about AI. Seeing this all play out is 🤭

now that DeepSeek has completed AI, we hope that Silicon Valley will turn its attention to the next best thing: investing in rural history museums

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

The web actually was a lot of fun before monetization ruined everything.

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Also, came back to see academics following me so 👋🏼 I’ve recently graduated with my MSc but I already miss school so.. it looks like I will live vicariously through you all while I still contemplate getting a PhD 😅

It’s been a while since I’ve been on here and it feels livelier? Just feels lighter over here too, than the dark side..

Oh, and it’s free and open to all 😊

Signed up for this upcoming discussion (online!) on “Why Study Library History” from the Congregational Library & Archives. Feb 7th, 1pm EST! If you’re interested, register here!

www.congregationallibrary.org/events/why-s...

#AHA24 was a fantastic conference and it’s a shame I couldn’t be in multiple places at once 😅 Hoping for sessions to be recorded in the future! 🤞🏼Either way, what a great way to start the year.

Wrapped up #AHA24 and of course I couldn’t leave without some books from the expo hall 🤭 Also, my tote from @ihr.bsky.social came in handy to hold all these books! 😉

I’ve truly missed analyzing film and media and it dawned on me - why is it so hard for me to do this with text? As an MSc student this session was such a helpful exercise.

Really enjoyed the session “Reading Beyond the Text: Expanding our Methodological Approaches to the Past” because it helped me go back to my film and visual culture roots in asking the right questions - esp. even within text which I still struggle with - to dig deeper. #AHA24

“Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and the Future of History” was such an enlightening panel. I now dread generative AI and the future less; all it took were historians to put things into context to help put my mind at ease. My favorite session today! #AHA24

Anyway, looking forward to the AI, ML, and the Future of History panel today because that’s a perfect blend of what I’m in between right now. #AHA24

And then “oh you’re a librarian?” And I say “yes, for a venture capital company” and it’s always an icebreaker, I’ve literally been all over with my career 🤣