Corey Murata

Trump Is to Accept a Luxury 747 From Qatar for Use as Air Force One

I'm not allowed to accept swag from a vendor worth over $50, but I guess a half billion dollar airplane is OK.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...

I'm guessing the orange kool-aid man is going to appoint Marco Rubio as the next Librarian of Congress.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a Japanese American National Museum leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” 🔥

Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

I started watching TV with closed captions on all the time and discovered what I really need is closed captions for when I'm talking to my teenagers.

Random thought this morning - was "hands" originally used to measure height, and "feet" for length?

Has Trump named his nominee to lead the Ministry of Silly Walks yet?

Singer-songwriter Cassie Blanton, who signed the Fight for the Future letter, tells Rolling Stone, "Musicians are struggling, but libraries like the Internet Archive are not our problem! Corporations like Spotify, Apple, Live Nation and Ticketmaster are our problem. If labels really wanted to help musicians, they would be working to raise streaming rates. This lawsuit is just another profit-grab."

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TIL that you can't just throw around a Monty Python reference like, "nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition," without someone taking it seriously.

Art and copyright librarians: If I tape a banana to my wall, is that a forgery, a reproduction, or a derivative work?

Kakistocracy

The Department of Government Efficiency could be one of the ministries out of 1984.

Today I've been pondering the possibility of an increase in fraudulent journals to support systemic mis/disinformation. Can scholarship survive a head-on attack at the veracity of the scholarly article?