Talya

my councilmember's office (district 26) had not heard about this and the person i spoke to is urging more people to call and write in!!

woke is back babyyyy

Bobst Building Entrance I want to acknowledge the ongoing interest in the status of the barricades in front of Bobst. Campus Safety continues to evaluate and adjust security measures as needed. At this time, I’m not aware of any immediate plans to remove the barricades.

closing in on 2.5 years of “ongoing interest in the status of the barricades” (working on “open data” in a building that is physically barricaded with large orange gates and multiple ID checkpoints)

preach

there are a lot of problems w library education/credentialing but gotta say "replace it with a chatbot" was not one i had considered!

the new Laura Bush grants have "particular interest in exploring alternative pathways into the library services field. . . that explore innovative alternatives to traditional credentialing and librarian education" also "cutting edge tools in the content and provision of continuing education"

I’m sorry but I can’t believe that someone named breezy Johnson won a gold medal in the precise historical moment when there’s controversy abt ski suit crotches’ wind resistance

it's Mechanical Turk all the way down

2 - protein folding is the only example of so-called societal benefit of AI that these folks ever refer to

and to me it sounds like ploughing an entire planet to grow one potato

thank you for everything you did for we here and for the library and information science profession, fobazi. you were an incredible friend, thinker, writer, supporter. you’ll be dearly missed 🤍

genuine question not to be a jerk but what is the utility of know your rights training when ice is operating with 0 regard for the law?

one of the many things this piece is about is the travesty that is scientific communication in the present-day, which enables high powered scientists at big institutions to claim authorship over 2000+ articles with varying levels of fraudulence that lead to real harms in the world

Current ownership dynamics of Big 5 publishing:
S&S: private equity KKR (sold by Ellison's Skydance)
PRH + Macmillan: formerly Nazi affiliated Bertlesmann + Holzbrinck
HarperCollins: Murdoch's NewsCorp
Hachette: conglomerate Lagardère Group

Independent publishing has never been this important. 📚

twin cities sign at target field

I LOVE MINNEAPOLIS MINNESOTA AND WISH FOR AN END TO STATE TERROR THERE

YouTube video by Buju Banton - Topic Murderer

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“They want violence” no they very explicitly want compliance and acquiescence and if you don’t give it to them they will fucking murder you

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just a thought experiment . . . what if every artifact of human existence wasn't "data"

on top of everything else it's totally crazy-making that the only way archives will be able to get grants/justify their existence is by presenting themselves as untapped treasure troves of data waiting to be mined by AI.

reading this article like . . . .. . . what am i doing with my life man

this rocks and also as an affiliate of an org that had a grant cancelled and now uncancelled, I can tell you it creates massive administrative and financial confusion!!

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many are asking

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Wait uh if you watch through to the end of the clip THEY TRIED TO BUY TACOS FROM A SHOP WHERE THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY KIDNAPPED A WORKER, WHO IS STILL DETAINED

i'm sorry but it's crazy that the house oversight committee released the Epstein emails on Google Drive (and a "backup" on Dropbox)?!?

Tim kaine in the membrane

there was a rodent running around the ambient show at Public Records, must‘ve been ratuichi squeakymoto

can’t wait to read this 😈