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digital initiatives/techbrarian. public librarian lost in academe. tech doomsday. @LibraryFreedom luddite-badass. missing my cat poe. 💔 opinions mine. 😈 she/they 🤘
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megomatz.bsky.social
The Trump administration is working to dramatically expand school choice, moving kids to a range of private & religious schools or homeschooling. Ultimately, what percentage of children would remain in public schools? A Moms for Liberty co-founder told me: “I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.”
These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
www.propublica.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
puglibri.bsky.social
not all heroes wear capes
competentposter.bsky.social competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · Oct 4
wizard frog is insane
October 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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massaabb.bsky.social
(2) Write a letter of support to the library defending the freedom to read by emailing LibraryTrustees@watertown-ma.gov (there is no deadline).

Let us know if you're going to go in person or send an email!
July 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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massaabb.bsky.social
The Watertown Library Trustees will be meeting July 31 at 7 pm at Watertown Middle School (68 Waverley Ave). Support the library and the freedom to read in one of two ways:

(1) Come to the meeting in person (no hybrid option) and make a public comment. Signup is first come first served.
July 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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massaabb.bsky.social
The books are: A Map for Falasteen by Maysa Odeh and
Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

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watertown.minlib.net
July 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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massaabb.bsky.social
Watertown Free Public Library has received >2000 emails from across the country, as well as some direct local harassment, claiming that 2 books on their suggested summer reading lists are antisemitic.
July 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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massaabb.bsky.social
🚨 The Watertown Free Public Library (MA) has been receiving organized harassment for including 2 books on suggested summer reading lists. Support the library and defend the freedom to read JULY 31 at 7 pm at the library board meeting at the Watertown Middle School. @authorsabb.bsky.social 🧵
July 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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laurahelmuth.bsky.social
That sound you hear is future generations screaming fuuuuuck youuuuuu
EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act
The agency proposal would rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 29, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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onekade.bsky.social
what happens when a bunch of dumb as bricks, roided up, incurious Nazis use machine learning technology to "predict threats" in cities? we may be about to find out. theintercept.com/2025/07/23/c...
Border Patrol Wants Advanced AI to Spy on American Cities
A Customs and Border Protection “Industry Day” deck also asks for drones, seismic sensors, and tech that can see through walls.
theintercept.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals.

Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?

📚

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Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts
DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…
www-nbc4i-com.cdn.ampproject.org
July 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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motherjones.com
An American-funded food distribution network provided Israel with cover as starvation spread, @pemalevy.bsky.social reports.

“This is Trump’s famine."
“This is Trump’s famine”: How the US is complicit in Gaza’s suffering
An American-funded food distribution network provided Israel cover as starvation spread.
www.motherjones.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
"This Pro-Israel Silicon Valley Bro Just Went Viral for Islamophobic Tweets About Zohran Mamdani"

Meet Shaun Maguire, the multi-millionaire tech VC embracing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate as Silicon Valley pours money into US and Israeli defense startups:
This Pro-Israel Silicon Valley Bro Just Went Viral for Islamophobic Tweets About Zohran Mamdani
Meet Shaun Maguire, the multi-millionaire tech VC embracing anti-Muslim, anti-Palestinian hate as Silicon Valley pours money into US and Israeli defense startups.
zeteo.com
July 7, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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insidehighered.com
ICYMI | Here are a few headlines from this week:

🏛️ @usedgov.bsky.social Outlines Plan to Change Debt-Relief Program for Public Servants
💸 Tuition Discounting Hits Another High
🔬 Researchers ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ NIH Will Restore Grants

Read more ➡️ #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3G2TJ4V
June 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
puglibri.bsky.social
🚨 If anyone feels so inclined to thank me for being born, now is the time!!!

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June 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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robsonfletcher.com
"AllTrails has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to 'shorten my route' or 'make this more scenic.'

But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers say the feature is going to exacerbate an issue they’ve been warning about for years: hiking apps providing false information."
AllTrails launches AI route-making tool, worrying search-and-rescue members
One of the world’s most popular hiking apps has a new generative AI feature that can be asked to "shorten my route" or "make this more scenic." But the people in charge of searching for lost hikers sa...
www.nationalobserver.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social
ICE is essentially disappearing people.

“The Ice official told me they are under no obligation to tell the family or the attorneys of the detainees that they have been apprehended, or that they’ve been moved to another state, to another facility, or that they’ve been deported.”
Ice’s ‘inhumane’ arrest of well-known vineyard manager shakes Oregon wine industry
Friends and family of Moises Sotelo ‘disappointed and disgusted’ after respected fixture detained outside church
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
Editors should stop letting people do the “big reveal,” that they used chatgpt, for the end of the essay. At least show it up front so I don’t waste my time reading it. www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/17/1...
I don’t consider this essay to be great art. But I should be transparent: I relied extensively on ChatGPT while drafting it. I began with a rough outline, notes typed on my phone in museum galleries, and transcripts from conversations with colleagues. I uploaded older writing samples to give the model a sense of my voice. Then I used the tool to shape a draft, which I revised repeatedly—by hand and with help from an editor—over several weeks. There may still be phrases or sentences in here that came directly from the model. But I’ve iterated so much that I no longer know which ones. Nor, I suspect, could any reader—or any AI detector. (In fact, Grammarly found that 0% of this text appeared to be AI-generated.) Many people today remain uneasy about using these tools. They worry it’s cheating, or feel embarrassed to admit that they’ve sought such help. I’ve moved past that. I assume all my students at Harvard Business School are using AI. I assume most academic research begins with literature scanned and synthesized by these models. And I assume that many of the essays I now read in leading publications were shaped, at least in part, by generative tools.
June 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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noethematt.bsky.social
We're going to live shorter, poorer, and worse lives than the generations that came before
June 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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apnews.com
Iran launched new missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least four killed in central Israel. Iran has vowed retaliation for the deadly surprise attack on its nuclear program and military leadership that Israel began last Friday.
Iran renews missile attacks on Israel, killing 3 and wounding dozens
Iran has launched a new wave of missile attacks on Israel, triggering air raid sirens across the country as emergency services reported at least three killed and dozens more wounded in the fourth day of open warfare between the regional foes.
bit.ly
June 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
Every single one led by a Black mayor.
phillewis.bsky.social Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jun 16
Trump is now directing ICE to focus on Democratic-led cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York:
Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History. In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens. These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!
June 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Trump is now directing ICE to focus on Democratic-led cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago and New York:
Our Nation’s ICE Officers have shown incredible strength, determination, and courage as they facilitate a very important mission, the largest Mass Deportation Operation of Illegal Aliens in History. Every day, the Brave Men and Women of ICE are subjected to violence, harassment, and even threats from Radical Democrat Politicians, but nothing will stop us from executing our mission, and fulfilling our Mandate to the American People. ICE Officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this TRUTH, to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History. In order to achieve this, we must expand efforts to detain and deport Illegal Aliens in America’s largest Cities, such as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, where Millions upon Millions of Illegal Aliens reside. These, and other such Cities, are the core of the Democrat Power Center, where they use Illegal Aliens to expand their Voter Base, cheat in Elections, and grow the Welfare State, robbing good paying Jobs and Benefits from Hardworking American Citizens. These Radical Left Democrats are sick of mind, hate our Country, and actually want to destroy our Inner Cities — And they are doing a good job of it! There is something wrong with them. That is why they believe in Open Borders, Transgender for Everybody, and Men playing in Women’s Sports — And that is why I want ICE, Border Patrol, and our Great and Patriotic Law Enforcement Officers, to FOCUS on our crime ridden and deadly Inner Cities, and those places where Sanctuary Cities play such a big role. You don’t hear about Sanctuary Cities in our Heartland!
June 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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esqueer.net
Trump posted this deranged message ordering every federal agency, including the pentagon, to do mass deportations in major cities because of trans people. I wish I was joking.
Alt text: Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump, dated June 15, 2025, at 8:43 PM. The post praises ICE officers for their efforts in what he calls the largest mass deportation of illegal immigrants in U.S. history. Trump accuses "Radical Democrat Politicians" of obstructing ICE and claims Democrats use illegal immigrants to gain political power. He targets cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, calling them centers of illegal immigration and crime. He expresses support for ICE, Border Patrol, and other agencies, and says his administration is focused on deporting immigrants and reversing what he terms “Mass Destruction Migration.” The post ends with a rallying message to federal agencies to “GET THE JOB DONE!” and mentions receiving 2.3k ReTruths and 8.29k Likes.
June 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Trump's sweeping travel ban limits immigration based on bigotry, not safety.

It will put countless lives at risk and tear mixed-status families apart.

Hate is a bad policy. We're ready to fight it again.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 5
President Donald Trump on Wednesday restricted the entry of travelers to the United States from more than a dozen countries, resurrecting and expanding sweeping restrictions from his first term that are expected to draw swift legal challenges.

It is slated to go into effect June 9.
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June 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM