Mr. Sonnenschein
@sonnenschein.me
He/him. 🌈 Weekday librarian, weekend church pianist.
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Yeah no. MOST Christians believe in loving thy neighbor and support the right for anyone to access any materials they'd like in the library.
This is a form of evangelical christianity.
Let's not demonize all folks of faith because it serves no one. Be specific in who the demons are.
This is a form of evangelical christianity.
Let's not demonize all folks of faith because it serves no one. Be specific in who the demons are.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Yeah no. MOST Christians believe in loving thy neighbor and support the right for anyone to access any materials they'd like in the library.
This is a form of evangelical christianity.
Let's not demonize all folks of faith because it serves no one. Be specific in who the demons are.
This is a form of evangelical christianity.
Let's not demonize all folks of faith because it serves no one. Be specific in who the demons are.
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Mainstream media has failed at even the basics of journalism for a very long time which is why I haven't followed any of it in decades. I agree with Christiane Amanpour. youtu.be/Qh_xMdzeI-k?...
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Mainstream media has failed at even the basics of journalism for a very long time which is why I haven't followed any of it in decades. I agree with Christiane Amanpour. youtu.be/Qh_xMdzeI-k?...
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I’m so tired of every webinar being about AI and having a throwaway slide about “being aware of” and “considering” the ethical issues
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
I’m so tired of every webinar being about AI and having a throwaway slide about “being aware of” and “considering” the ethical issues
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump Administration to Drastically Cut Housing Grants
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
This is far worse than anyone expected.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps.
All as mass internment camps are being built.
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I find myself just endlessly frustrated that my librarian career has been completely overshadowed by GenAI. There are so many more other things I'd rather think, learn, and talk about.
November 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I find myself just endlessly frustrated that my librarian career has been completely overshadowed by GenAI. There are so many more other things I'd rather think, learn, and talk about.
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BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
November 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
BREAKING: Cornell caved.
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...
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Take extra care driving on twisty roads around lakes and over mountain passes.
We mapped five years of Montana highway crashes. Here's what jumped out at us.
MTFP crunched Montana Department of Transportation data to identify crash rates for Montana highways from Eureka to Ekalaka.
montanafreepress.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Take extra care driving on twisty roads around lakes and over mountain passes.
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Having a unique ORCID identifier is one way for academics to distinguish themselves from other researchers with the same name, but a far simpler solution would be for the bigger one to consume the smaller one.
November 3, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Having a unique ORCID identifier is one way for academics to distinguish themselves from other researchers with the same name, but a far simpler solution would be for the bigger one to consume the smaller one.
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Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Imagine being wealthy and not building libraries.
Embarrassing.
Embarrassing.
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“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”
SNAP benefits feed essential needs while still leaving many hungry for more
Journalist and author Adam Chandler explains what so much of the conversation about them gets wrong.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”
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As chair of an academic department at a public university, if I tried to pay myself five bucks I’d be fired.
Trump seeks to approve his own $230M payback from DOJ over past probes
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Trump seeks to approve his own $230M payback from DOJ over past probes • Kentucky Lantern
President Donald Trump says he is personally owed a massive payment from the Department of Justice and would have the authority to approve it.
kentuckylantern.com
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
As chair of an academic department at a public university, if I tried to pay myself five bucks I’d be fired.
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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I don't understand the moping about how no one cares that the president of a republic is demolishing the people's property to build palaces and monuments for himself. This is exactly the kind of visible and concrete offense that inflames people.
October 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I don't understand the moping about how no one cares that the president of a republic is demolishing the people's property to build palaces and monuments for himself. This is exactly the kind of visible and concrete offense that inflames people.
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Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
AI’s Invasive Species
The slop is winning.
www.theatlantic.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Hi. I wrote an essay about AI slop: How it feels like an invasive species for the internet. How its boosters describe building a future that’s devoid of craft. How frictionlessness can be nihilistic & how this stuff seems to leach part of our shared humanity out of the world. I hope you'll read it.
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Y'all know better
October 18, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Y'all know better
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Wikipedia is a better place to begin your research now than Google is because Google is just loaded with garbage, even if you're *really good* at your search terms. Wikipedia at least gives you places to begin easily.
Wikipedia took a lot of crap when I was in university, and I also complain about it, but it's dedication to citing sources is really, really important these days.
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
October 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wikipedia is a better place to begin your research now than Google is because Google is just loaded with garbage, even if you're *really good* at your search terms. Wikipedia at least gives you places to begin easily.
AI failing to answer basic reference questions? Shocking, I tell you. www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...
Billings police: Don't trust Google AI for local emergency phone numbers
Citizens around the City of Billings are beginning to notice a strange feature on Google's AI Overview search.
www.ktvq.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:19 AM
AI failing to answer basic reference questions? Shocking, I tell you. www.ktvq.com/news/local-n...
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B&T is a book distribution company that has been around for more than a century in support of public libraries book acquisition and collection management. That they are closing on such very, very short notice is creating new pressures on both libraries and other vendors in the space. Bad news.
seems very bad www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Baker & Taylor Prepares Plan to Shut Down
At a town hall yesterday, B&T owner and CEO Aman Kochar announced that following the termination of the ReaderLink acquisition deal, he does not see a path to keep the library wholesaler in business.
www.publishersweekly.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
B&T is a book distribution company that has been around for more than a century in support of public libraries book acquisition and collection management. That they are closing on such very, very short notice is creating new pressures on both libraries and other vendors in the space. Bad news.
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The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin 'Loyalty Oath' Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities that court government favor in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological...
www.aaup.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
This is corruption.
Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.
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A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
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We really do need to stop referring to "Christianity" as some sort of monolith religion because it absolutely isn't and many Christians do not view other Christians as adherents.
Trump is trying to make the Michigan attack on the Mormon church an attack against Christianity.
But many of his MAGA Evangelical followers don't consider Mormons Christians.
But many of his MAGA Evangelical followers don't consider Mormons Christians.
September 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We really do need to stop referring to "Christianity" as some sort of monolith religion because it absolutely isn't and many Christians do not view other Christians as adherents.
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Law enforcement agents burned nearly 200 pounds of materials — not just 2 pounds of methamphetamine, as previously reported — inside an animal crematorium in Billings on Sept. 10, according to burn records reviewed by Montana Free Press.
Burning questions hang over the Billings methamphetamine incineration
The fiasco — including 188 pounds of unspecified materials burned by law enforcement — has drawn concern about safe disposal methods for Montana’s most commonly seized narcotic.
montanafreepress.org
September 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Law enforcement agents burned nearly 200 pounds of materials — not just 2 pounds of methamphetamine, as previously reported — inside an animal crematorium in Billings on Sept. 10, according to burn records reviewed by Montana Free Press.