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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · Jul 20
Spent some time with Corita yesterday—
Typewritten class directives recorded by a student who took a course with artist Corita Kent in the 1960s at Immaculate Heart: "Keep a journal—fill it with everything you come in contact with—be very aware—of shapes, everything, because letters are shapes." "Make a list of 100 signs you read today. Look and jot down the message that it gives you." From the Papers of Corita, Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute
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Come work here at Illinois! We have two Diversity Residency Visiting positions open. I'm chairing one of the two searches:

www.library.illinois.edu/geninfo/resi... #libraryjobs
Library Diversity Residency Program – General Information – U of I Library
www.library.illinois.edu
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado. I write to leave a warning. I write to call for help."

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I Want You to Understand Chicago
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November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
mimosaishere.bsky.social
A baker's dozen of 5 y.o. & 3 daycare workers boarded the bus at my stop, en route to a field trip in the rain.

It's these little things that keep me afloat.
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
Blue background with "OOF" written in yellow letters across it
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 AM
mimosaishere.bsky.social
Now. Go. Watch and listen.

Just stunning.
hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 11d
I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.

Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins

Whew. What they did!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
m.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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govevers.wisconsin.gov
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️
No.
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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essyem.bsky.social
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 4d
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.
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."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
She a taco girlie???? How many she need?
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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zinelib.bsky.social
I like how the Schlesinger research guide points to zines by topic and shows some zine cover. guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_... I've never gotten around to making a research guide at the Barnard Zine Library, but maybe I should. Our website predates CMSs, so it's less neatly organized
Research Guides: Zines at Schlesinger Library : Home
Research Guides: Zines at Schlesinger Library : Home
guides.library.harvard.edu
November 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass."

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina
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."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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mandophotos.bsky.social
Members of the community yell towards Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and federal officers while they conduct an immigration enforcement action Friday in Waukegan.
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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harvardbookstore.bsky.social
Join us in raising money for the Greater Boston Food Bank throughout November. We're accepting monetary donations at the registers in store through November 23. Learn more about volunteering, donating food or money, and receiving assistance at their website: www.gbfb.org
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Raising a glass for Rosalind Franklin tonight. James Watson absolutely did her dirty.

But beware...
Rosalind Franklin at her microscope
November 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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electrostani.bsky.social
ICYMI, my piece in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social on what Zohran Mamdani learned from his mother's films. I published a book on Mira Nair's films in 2018..

Here I focus on "Mississippi Masala" (-->immigration/ refugees) and "The Reluctant Fundamentalist" (-->Palestine).

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What Mamdani Learned from His Mother’s Films - Pittsburgh Review of Books
Zohran Mamdani, as most readers know by now, is the son of a filmmaker, Mira Nair. His parents met while she was working on Mississippi Masala (1992); his
pghrev.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
mimosaishere.bsky.social
"The policy expects officials to first take screenshots of the text messages on their work phones, send it to their work email, download it on their work computers and then run a program that would recognize the text to store it in searchable formats . . ."
mimosaishere.bsky.social MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 3d
I hate that we are living through the "screenshots or it didn't happen" section of record-keeping.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
mimosaishere.bsky.social
I hate that we are living through the "screenshots or it didn't happen" section of record-keeping.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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hayao.lol
we used to be a proper country
a can of Pringles, a blue translucent telephone, an empty bottle of Jolt cola and a blockbuster VHS tape on a side table
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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404media.co
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.
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."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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alexip718.com
To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 4d
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
Tesla shareholders approve $878 billion pay plan for Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk scored a resounding victory on Thursday as shareholders approved a pay package of as much as $878 billion over the next decade, endorsing his vision of morphing the EV maker into an AI and robotics juggernaut.
reut.rs
November 6, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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ryancordell.org
Job alert!

@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year

Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM