Nathan F
@librarypoweruser.bsky.social
Pro libraries, PIC abolition, and cats
Midwest, U.S.
Midwest, U.S.
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it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media
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than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)
December 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
than gin-&-limes you are cooler, darling, o come back to me (john berryman)
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Now!
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
TOMORROW from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com hear me spin some new indie and celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Australian community radio station 4ZZZ with some classics from Oz/Oceania artists
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Now!
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
Starting off with the new Avalon Emerson and some Stone Roses
*raises hand*
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
November 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
*raises hand*
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
youtube.com/watch?v=yWuz...
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TOMORROW from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com hear me spin some new indie and celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Australian community radio station 4ZZZ with some classics from Oz/Oceania artists
Inhailer Radio | Cincinnati | Independent Radio | Indie Music
Inhailer Radio is Cincinnati independent radio. Founded in 2017 to fill the void left by beloved radio station WNKU.
Inhailer.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
TOMORROW from 5-7pm Eastern on Inhailer.com hear me spin some new indie and celebrate the upcoming 50th anniversary of the legendary Australian community radio station 4ZZZ with some classics from Oz/Oceania artists
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At a personal level two things are true at the same time
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
At a personal level two things are true at the same time
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
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Many transhumanists and longevity guys are imo intent on overcoming their bodies' limitations/needs bc these needs (for clean water, air, food) represent a natural limit on forms of capital and technological development that erode our environment & are inimical to human life.
November 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Many transhumanists and longevity guys are imo intent on overcoming their bodies' limitations/needs bc these needs (for clean water, air, food) represent a natural limit on forms of capital and technological development that erode our environment & are inimical to human life.
Joined!
I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help.
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Joined!
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Promoting my most recently published book, and the one that's most accessible to general readers. @dandipiero.bsky.social called it "a secret lesson in the philosophy of freedom" and that's basically what it is, disguised in the story of a modern rock radio station
uncpress.org/978146967345...
uncpress.org/978146967345...
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Promoting my most recently published book, and the one that's most accessible to general readers. @dandipiero.bsky.social called it "a secret lesson in the philosophy of freedom" and that's basically what it is, disguised in the story of a modern rock radio station
uncpress.org/978146967345...
uncpress.org/978146967345...
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the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
November 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
the poetry collection you mortal beings-in-time need for the darkest month is right here
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
moonpalacebooks.com/item/0vBk0cP...
(in the UK and Ireland order from @carcanet.bsky.social or @kennysbookshop.bsky.social respectively)
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(remembering archive lets you play older games in the browder window)(gasping like i just emerged from a deep ocean)
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
(remembering archive lets you play older games in the browder window)(gasping like i just emerged from a deep ocean)
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Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
In October, statewide news reported that a sheriff's deputy in Texas searched thousands of Flock cameras in Washington for 'Had an abortion, search for female.’ New documents obtained by RANGE show Spokane County Sheriff's Office cameras were accessed in that search:
Texas deputy searched Spokane County Flock cameras for a woman who had an abortion– RANGE Media
Amidst nationwide and state scrutiny of the cameras, Spokane County’s Flock network was used by an out-of-state cop looking for a woman who had an abortion.
rangemedia.co
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Increasingly convinced the only solution is not making data.
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Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Information is "behind a paywall" for lots of reasons. Profit for sure, but also salaries and benefits and lights and heat and roof repair and on and on. Stuff costs money for now, revolution pending. Rather than yoink from a pirate site, why not boost usage stats at your local library instead?
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Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing
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Sometimes I think modernity has only given us two worthwhile inventions: modern medicine and cinema. Outside of that what we need more than anything else is time (and medicine gives us more time to live and cinema the time to sit with the beauty of the world). Other tech mostly just steals our time
The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.
Learning with AI falls short compared to old-fashioned web search theconversation.com/learning-wit...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Sometimes I think modernity has only given us two worthwhile inventions: modern medicine and cinema. Outside of that what we need more than anything else is time (and medicine gives us more time to live and cinema the time to sit with the beauty of the world). Other tech mostly just steals our time
Used to find the who follows who social media connections novel and edifying (“I knew they must travel in the same circles,“ even though following never corresponded with attention), but now, learning two posters who seem complementary do not follow each other is a relief. The web isn’t so small
November 19, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Used to find the who follows who social media connections novel and edifying (“I knew they must travel in the same circles,“ even though following never corresponded with attention), but now, learning two posters who seem complementary do not follow each other is a relief. The web isn’t so small
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Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”
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SUNDAY 5-7p Eastern I’ll be on Inhailer.com with a show celebrating trans people’s contributions to indie music bc it’s transgender awareness week
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
SUNDAY 5-7p Eastern I’ll be on Inhailer.com with a show celebrating trans people’s contributions to indie music bc it’s transgender awareness week
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I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.
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...
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 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I encourage people to listen. Sonic protection. Acoustic healing.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“She watched herself as if from far away, rising unsteadily to her feet like a ghost”
medium.com/@leighalexan...
medium.com/@leighalexan...
The Hunger
A horror
medium.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“She watched herself as if from far away, rising unsteadily to her feet like a ghost”
medium.com/@leighalexan...
medium.com/@leighalexan...
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I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
October 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
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November 2, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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from EB White's perspective Blue Moon is a movie about trying to write in a bar, being interrupted by an alcoholic 5'0" man in his late 40s in love with a smoking hot 20 year old NYU student, inadvertently getting an idea for a book about a mouse who drives a little car from him, then leaving
October 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
from EB White's perspective Blue Moon is a movie about trying to write in a bar, being interrupted by an alcoholic 5'0" man in his late 40s in love with a smoking hot 20 year old NYU student, inadvertently getting an idea for a book about a mouse who drives a little car from him, then leaving