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156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter | librarypunk
We’re talking with Kevin again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
Twitter: https://x.com/AmericanWork47
readingstruggles.info...
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156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter
We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...
We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...
A correct move!
09-11-1935 USA: The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congres...
Congress of Industrial Organizations - Wikipedia
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November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A correct move!
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The first AI "over my dead body" volleyed at ZLuC. AI is not compatible with zine library values. Do we need to add a "Fuck AI" section to the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics?
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The first AI "over my dead body" volleyed at ZLuC. AI is not compatible with zine library values. Do we need to add a "Fuck AI" section to the Zine Librarians Code of Ethics?
Talking to a faculty member in IT, and my supervisor. Do they not know everything is just cloud based now? They talk about server space like we have big machines whirring in a basement still.
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Talking to a faculty member in IT, and my supervisor. Do they not know everything is just cloud based now? They talk about server space like we have big machines whirring in a basement still.
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Has anyone seen research on gendered differences related to AI use? e.g. enthusiasm, skepticism, environmental or ethical concerns, etc? Some folks must have done this work. Thanks!
November 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Has anyone seen research on gendered differences related to AI use? e.g. enthusiasm, skepticism, environmental or ethical concerns, etc? Some folks must have done this work. Thanks!
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I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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read this!
a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...
a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
read this!
a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...
a companion: @librarypunk.bsky.social (Justin’s quoted in this article)’s recent episode on AI refusal with yours truly 😎 www.librarypunk.gay/e/155-ai-ref...
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posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 AM
posted this four months ago but tonight as buckaroos like mamdani sweep elections i will post again. hope this is sign to all establishment goofs that trotting to the center is not the move. protect the buckaroos who are in perilous circumstances and do not give an inch
idk if it's a rate limiting thing but it's funny how internet archive is just like "ok we're done fixing metadata now" for a while if you have to go back and change something on a handful of items. And you just gotta leave it for later.
November 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
idk if it's a rate limiting thing but it's funny how internet archive is just like "ok we're done fixing metadata now" for a while if you have to go back and change something on a handful of items. And you just gotta leave it for later.
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“Amplifying forms of informal and formal organizing the workplace, amplifying and circulating struggles and informal practices of time theft or insubordination, all those things can only be understood from the perspective of the workers themselves." On the @librarypunk.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
“Amplifying forms of informal and formal organizing the workplace, amplifying and circulating struggles and informal practices of time theft or insubordination, all those things can only be understood from the perspective of the workers themselves." On the @librarypunk.bsky.social
Uploading the student newspaper archives from the 60s onward to the Internet Archive today. Pretty excited to have them in a much better format than our old vendor solution.
November 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Uploading the student newspaper archives from the 60s onward to the Internet Archive today. Pretty excited to have them in a much better format than our old vendor solution.
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Take a listen! Joined hosts Justin and Jay on the @librarypunk.bsky.social podcast to chat about The American Worker pamphlet, Grace Lee Boggs and Phil Singer, Karl Marx and CLR James, workers’ inquiry and organizing in the US, and neighboring topics. Thanks to for having me on!
November 1, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Take a listen! Joined hosts Justin and Jay on the @librarypunk.bsky.social podcast to chat about The American Worker pamphlet, Grace Lee Boggs and Phil Singer, Karl Marx and CLR James, workers’ inquiry and organizing in the US, and neighboring topics. Thanks to for having me on!
156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter
We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...
We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...
156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter | librarypunk
We’re talking with Kevin again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
Twitter: https://x.com/AmericanWork47
readingstruggles.info...
www.librarypunk.gay
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
156 - The American Worker feat. Kevin Van Meter
We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...
We’re talking with @americanwork47.bsky.social again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.
www.librarypunk.gay/e/156-the-am...
Whisper ASR is definitely getting worse.
November 1, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Whisper ASR is definitely getting worse.
Setting every podcast record.
Happy Halloween! Episode 376 is now live! 12 hours into a 26ish hour review of every Amityville movie. soundcloud.com/user-3179105...
376a - Amityville: The Podcast (The Horror Vanguard Movie - We Review Them All [Mostly]) Chapter 1: A Hero Returns
Chapter 1: A hero returns with an unfamiliar face. A villain reveals their hands. Old comrades ride out against this new threat.
Films Reviewed:
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Amityville II: The Poss
soundcloud.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Setting every podcast record.
Found a spooky bookmark at work
October 31, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Found a spooky bookmark at work
Time to Pay those Ghosts with @horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.librarypunk.gay/e/030-horror...
030 - horrorpunk feat. Horror Vanguard | librarypunk
Welcome boils and ghouls, to the first episode of horrorpunk, the premiere podcast for information science and materialist analysis of horror movies starring your favorite co-ghosts from the Horror Va...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Time to Pay those Ghosts with @horrorvanguard.bsky.social www.librarypunk.gay/e/030-horror...
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I keep banging the drum that genAI doesn't save time but creates it. Even if you personally save a couple minutes, that time gets kicked down the road and compounded, sometimes back to you but often to someone else who now has to do their job *and* deal with yours.
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I keep banging the drum that genAI doesn't save time but creates it. Even if you personally save a couple minutes, that time gets kicked down the road and compounded, sometimes back to you but often to someone else who now has to do their job *and* deal with yours.
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Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Librarians or others, would you like a helpful one-pager zine that you can print to let people know how to report ICE?
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Available for Chicago, DC, Philly, Portland, NYC, CA, CO, FL, DE, MA, MD, RI, VA, WA, WI, WY & other metro areas. Thanks @meganpiont.bsky.social
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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#OtD 25 Oct 1882 German anarchist Johann Most was released from Clerkenwell Prison in London after spending a year and a half there doing forced labour for praising the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9781...
October 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#OtD 25 Oct 1882 German anarchist Johann Most was released from Clerkenwell Prison in London after spending a year and a half there doing forced labour for praising the assassination of Tsar Alexander II by Russian revolutionaries stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9781...
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I'll be tabling at the Philly Zine Fest next Saturday Nov 1. Stop by and I will also have some free zines along with the ones available for purchase. www.phillyzinefest.org
Philly Zine Fest – Celebrating DIY & small press publishing since 2002
www.phillyzinefest.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I'll be tabling at the Philly Zine Fest next Saturday Nov 1. Stop by and I will also have some free zines along with the ones available for purchase. www.phillyzinefest.org
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Folks love this tech so much because it automates anti consent.
Republican Candidate "Debates" Opponent By Sincerely Arguing With AI Deepfake For Nearly an Hour
John Reid, a Republican candidate in the Virginia lieutenant governor race, streamed a "debate" with an AI deepfake of his Democrat opponent.
futurism.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Folks love this tech so much because it automates anti consent.