Big librarian energy
@lakemerritt.bsky.social
Public school librarian/tortilla chip connoisseur
Fund public education not genocide
Fund public education not genocide
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"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
The time has come to declare war on AI
"It's now in everything, even if you don't want it there."
www.sfgate.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"In a very short timeframe, AI has become the high-fructose corn syrup of the digital realm: It’s now in everything, even if you don’t want it there." www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
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Oakland is fast-tracking a $2.25M contract with Flock Safety to buy more surveillance cameras and software that would tap into private security systems like doorbell cameras and feed the livestreams into OPD’s network of automated license plate readers.
November 18, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Oakland is fast-tracking a $2.25M contract with Flock Safety to buy more surveillance cameras and software that would tap into private security systems like doorbell cameras and feed the livestreams into OPD’s network of automated license plate readers.
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"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."
I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I’m Actually a Really Good Person
I love my job. I make a great salary, there’s a clear path to promotion, and a never-ending supply of cold brew in the office. And even though my j...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"Sure, I chose to be here, and yes, I could almost certainly find a job elsewhere, but redoing my résumé would take time. Also, I don’t feel like it. Besides, once a year, my company mandates all employees to help clean up a local beach, and I almost always go."
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This weekend was record breaking for our mutual aid efforts! On Friday, the team got up bright and early to send home vendors. 6 vendors supported, over $500 worth of food. Saturday, we bought 100 tamales from 2 vendors! All distributed right back into the community. We keep us safe! #BikeChi
October 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This weekend was record breaking for our mutual aid efforts! On Friday, the team got up bright and early to send home vendors. 6 vendors supported, over $500 worth of food. Saturday, we bought 100 tamales from 2 vendors! All distributed right back into the community. We keep us safe! #BikeChi
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Californians: the November special election is just around the corner.
Check your registration, look for your ballot in the mail, and make a plan to vote.
Check your registration, look for your ballot in the mail, and make a plan to vote.
October 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Californians: the November special election is just around the corner.
Check your registration, look for your ballot in the mail, and make a plan to vote.
Check your registration, look for your ballot in the mail, and make a plan to vote.
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On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
August 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀
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Information about REBUILD is here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... - not sure how much longer the program can continue if it doesn't receive significant funding.
Support REBUILD 2025: Free Therapy on Mightycause
REBUILD provides FREE therapy for justice-involved and formerly incarcerated people of color.
www.mightycause.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Information about REBUILD is here: www.mightycause.com/story/Rebuil... - not sure how much longer the program can continue if it doesn't receive significant funding.
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A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
July 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A lot of this country’s problems boil down to straight white men who see themselves as some sort of default “normal” but any variation on that as “an identity” that is “political”
F the NYT! Just absolutely committed to paving the road to fascism.
Sample screens of the news that the NYT thinks is more important for its readers than 5 million Americans marching for democracy
June 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
F the NYT! Just absolutely committed to paving the road to fascism.
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The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
June 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.
Gut punch after gut punch but this one hit especially hard today.
May 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Gut punch after gut punch but this one hit especially hard today.
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everywhere Elon Musk companies go, they are among the top polluters... Tesla Fremont is the second biggest polluter in all of California!
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
Tesla Factory In California Pollutes So Much It Is Second Only To An Oil Refining Company
For years, Elon Musk’s defenders pointed to his mission to save the planet with electric vehicles as a reason to dismiss all criticism. Even if Musk messed up, it was supposedly all with the goal of p...
www.jalopnik.com
April 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
everywhere Elon Musk companies go, they are among the top polluters... Tesla Fremont is the second biggest polluter in all of California!
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
www.jalopnik.com/tesla-factor...
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One small action you can take today to hurt Elon Musk where it matters, in his wallet? Delete your X account. Or, if you want to keep your name, here are some steps you can take instead. 🧵
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April 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
One small action you can take today to hurt Elon Musk where it matters, in his wallet? Delete your X account. Or, if you want to keep your name, here are some steps you can take instead. 🧵
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The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.
March 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The library and the post office are the only two systems we have that circulate things widely and to everyone, no matter who they are or what they believe. The library is the only one that, for now, is not forced to pay for itself at point of sale. Attacks on IMLS are attacks on every one of us.
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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
March 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.
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I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
secured.heritage.org
February 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
I’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE.
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!?
secured.heritage.org/the-heritage...
Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
lil.law.harvard.edu
February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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What the fuck
Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Google changed its public AI policies to remove assertions that it would not develop AI applied to surveillance or weapons.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
What the fuck
This is a great deal for quality journalism
February 3, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is a great deal for quality journalism
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Words we all need to hear in this moment.
"Each day, despite the noise and chaos of the world around us, we must hold onto the knowledge that our work is important, impactful, and critical—especially now."
"Each day, despite the noise and chaos of the world around us, we must hold onto the knowledge that our work is important, impactful, and critical—especially now."
February 1, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Words we all need to hear in this moment.
"Each day, despite the noise and chaos of the world around us, we must hold onto the knowledge that our work is important, impactful, and critical—especially now."
"Each day, despite the noise and chaos of the world around us, we must hold onto the knowledge that our work is important, impactful, and critical—especially now."
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Here’s everything we know so far about Trump’s attempt to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth ⤵️
Everything We Know About Trump's Executive Order on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth
From what it says to what it means for you.
www.teenvogue.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Here’s everything we know so far about Trump’s attempt to ban gender-affirming care for trans youth ⤵️
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Your knowledge of your community as a constituent is your most powerful tool as a library advocate. Whether this funding freeze is restrained by the courts temporarily or permanently, we MUST join together as advocates and Show Up #ForOurLibraries. Share your story: airtable.com/appTIEEt9RjD...
January 28, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Your knowledge of your community as a constituent is your most powerful tool as a library advocate. Whether this funding freeze is restrained by the courts temporarily or permanently, we MUST join together as advocates and Show Up #ForOurLibraries. Share your story: airtable.com/appTIEEt9RjD...
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📌 This Friday at 3 p.m. ET, join our reporters as they demonstrate our new Private School Demographics database, which allows users to look up the demographics of private schools compared with the public schools nearby. RSVP: https://propub.li/4haYtm1
How to Use Our Private School Demographics News App
Join our reporters as they compare the demographics of private schools across the country to nearby public schools.
www.propublica.org
January 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
📌 This Friday at 3 p.m. ET, join our reporters as they demonstrate our new Private School Demographics database, which allows users to look up the demographics of private schools compared with the public schools nearby. RSVP: https://propub.li/4haYtm1