Putting aside all party politics, I submit: Congress needs to do more, the President needs to do less.

I'd read the shit out of a future book that did a good job of breaking down the history of Pax Americana and how its effects contributed to its own death

Generally their understanding of the Chinese cultural revolution is that only landlords died when my grandmas understanding of the cultural revolution was that the math teacher that was slightly too mean died

One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.

Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.

As a librarian who specializes in looking at incentive structures in a communication landscape (higher education), this -

Pardon my French, but CBS can fuck right off

I generally disagree with attempts to connect Palestinian experience with U.S. racial context. I simultaneously hold the view Ta-Nehisi Coates' points and voice on this are some of the most important to hear right now
newrepublic.com/article/1865...

For future visitors — I'm a scholarly communication librarian at a university in the great plains of the U.S.

I might screech/post/shitpost on anything that tickles my brain or dark sense of humor, but mostly on copyright, education, publishing, gaming, gardening, and spaceflight

Good breakdown from the great Kyle Courtney on the Internet Archive's Open Library appeal. Worth a read

I remain curious how a #fairuse challenge to a public/academic library's #ControlledDigitalLending program will play out. I could see a possibility it might fare better

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #3,982,122!

#proofofcat