Erin A. Sulla
@archivalarden.bsky.social
humanities librarian in LA • enjoys cats, zines, critical librarianship, opera, shakespeare, earrings, cultural history, wingspan, & library pilgrimages • little guy first, librarian second, medievalist third • views my own 🏳️🌈📚👹
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
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November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.
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Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world
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They should invent a California where you can afford to live
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
They should invent a California where you can afford to live
i love this Día de los Muertos print i got to make at a student-run workshop in our letterpress studio today!!
November 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
i love this Día de los Muertos print i got to make at a student-run workshop in our letterpress studio today!!
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possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween
October 28, 2024 at 5:37 PM
possibly the greatest cat photo ever. happy halloween
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Emma Thompson on AI and writing
October 28, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Emma Thompson on AI and writing
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'lowkey' and 'coded' are great for implying more or less whatever you want about something without committing too much. i'm going to start using them in my descriptions. 'this manuscript, possibly 13th-century but tbqh kinda 12th-coded, provenance germany but lowkey italian vibes, is srsly goated'
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
'lowkey' and 'coded' are great for implying more or less whatever you want about something without committing too much. i'm going to start using them in my descriptions. 'this manuscript, possibly 13th-century but tbqh kinda 12th-coded, provenance germany but lowkey italian vibes, is srsly goated'
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when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired
bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity
bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity
Feels symbolic that a Confederate statue first installed in 1901, at the peak of the consolidation of the Jim Crow system—when the states of the former Confederacy were in the midst of revising their constitutions to disfranchise Black citizens—has been reinstalled.
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A Confederate statue toppled in Washington, D.C., in 2020 has been reinstalled
A statue of Confederate general Albert Pike, which had been pulled down during the Black Lives Matter movement, has been put back up in Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
when it comes to Confederate statues, you gotta melt the shit down or otherwise fuck it up so badly it cannot be repaired
bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity
bc if there is even a possibility that it can be restored?? these motherfuckers are gonna put it right back up at the earliest opportunity
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43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
October 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.
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Tile of red earthenware, from Chertsey Abbey, c. 1260-1290
A pattern of four roundels containing images of a lion, griffin, an abbot's & a king's head on a field of stylised foliate crosses, inlaid with white clay and partly glazed.
(V&A London)
A pattern of four roundels containing images of a lion, griffin, an abbot's & a king's head on a field of stylised foliate crosses, inlaid with white clay and partly glazed.
(V&A London)
October 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Tile of red earthenware, from Chertsey Abbey, c. 1260-1290
A pattern of four roundels containing images of a lion, griffin, an abbot's & a king's head on a field of stylised foliate crosses, inlaid with white clay and partly glazed.
(V&A London)
A pattern of four roundels containing images of a lion, griffin, an abbot's & a king's head on a field of stylised foliate crosses, inlaid with white clay and partly glazed.
(V&A London)
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$40,000,000,000
That's more than 130 years of 2024 IMLS funding (~$300,000,000/year)
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apnews.com/article/trum...
That's more than 130 years of 2024 IMLS funding (~$300,000,000/year)
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apnews.com/article/trum...
US is working on doubling aid to Argentina to $40 billion by tapping private funding sources
The Trump administration is looking to provide an additional $20 billion in financing for Argentina.
apnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 8:12 PM
$40,000,000,000
That's more than 130 years of 2024 IMLS funding (~$300,000,000/year)
📚
apnews.com/article/trum...
That's more than 130 years of 2024 IMLS funding (~$300,000,000/year)
📚
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.
For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.
Please share your joys with us.
For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.
Please share your joys with us.
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now.
For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.
Please share your joys with us.
For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours.
Please share your joys with us.
guess we shouldn’t have left mcnaughton/brodart for baker & taylor this year 🤠
Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.
From the Libraries community on Reddit
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October 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
guess we shouldn’t have left mcnaughton/brodart for baker & taylor this year 🤠
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CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
October 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't
CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.
ISILDUR: true
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One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
October 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.
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"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.
October 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"A.I." is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists leading to a world devoid of meaning or art.
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so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’
Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...
www.404media.co/iceblock-own...