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librarian, cataloger, reader, writer, nature-loving nerd girl
All these AI "features" showing up everywhere really feels like someone is remotely turning on all my house lights in the middle of the night - not helpful or wanted, and a huge waste of electricity
July 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
All these AI "features" showing up everywhere really feels like someone is remotely turning on all my house lights in the middle of the night - not helpful or wanted, and a huge waste of electricity
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This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)
May 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This development is welcome news - but it is limited and temporary. We will not rest until IMLS and its funding are fully restored. #ForOurLibraries (2/2)
When you remove trained book reviewers, trained editors ... remove PEOPLE from the AI equation, you get bs
This is the future of book recommendations when libraries are defunded and dismantled. Trained professionals are removed in exchange for this made up, inaccurate garbage.
Are you fighting yet?
Are you fighting yet?
I went into my library's database of Chicago area newspapers to confirm this isn't fake, and it's not.
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
@chicago.suntimes.com Why the hell are you using ChatGPT to make up book titles? You used to have a books staff. Absolutely no fact checking?
May 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
When you remove trained book reviewers, trained editors ... remove PEOPLE from the AI equation, you get bs
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SCOOP: Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED.
What is happening?
What is happening?
Two Men Claiming to Be Trump Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office
The men appeared at the US Copyright Office days after after the Trump administration fired its leader, who had just published a report about the use of copyrighted materials for AI training.
www.wired.com
May 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
SCOOP: Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED.
What is happening?
What is happening?
Losing Hayden at the Library of Congress is a huge blow to our democracy
May 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Losing Hayden at the Library of Congress is a huge blow to our democracy
Jacqueline Woodson, yes plz
DPLA’s Book Talk series is returning with a free webinar on April 25, 2025 featuring award-winning author Jacqueline Woodson in conversation with Jill Egan, lead curator of DPLA’s Banned Book Club.
Register today:
dpla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register today:
dpla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Jacqueline Woodson, yes plz
I'm going to just leave this here...
How 'degenerate art' purges devastated Germany's museums – DW – 07/19/2017
For the "Degenerate Art" exhibition sponsored by Hitler, the Nazis confiscated modern art from museums in 1937. The works were ridiculed before they were destroyed. The impact of the purges can be fel...
www.dw.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I'm going to just leave this here...
Yay! Comic book creators showing up for libraries and the freedom to read
I teamed up w/ ALA for their upcoming “Right To Read Day” on April 7th— here’s an illustration I contributed for their “Drawn To Freedom” campaign!
Libraries are fundamental to a free society— learn more about fighting fascism by standing up for them here: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...
Libraries are fundamental to a free society— learn more about fighting fascism by standing up for them here: uniteagainstbookbans.org/right-to-rea...
March 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Yay! Comic book creators showing up for libraries and the freedom to read
We digitize historical photographs to make visible our history - this "purge" is obscene
References to a WWII Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among photos and posts marked for deletion as the Defense Department works to purge DEI content, according to a database obtained by AP.
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge | CNN Politics
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and the first women to pass Marine infantry training are among the tens of thousands ...
cnn.it
March 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We digitize historical photographs to make visible our history - this "purge" is obscene
Pay attention
We should all pay attention to what is happening at the National Archives
On Friday night, the president officially fired the Archivist of the United States, as he had promised to do before taking office. So, hi there! 👋 Former National Archives employee here.
www.linkedin.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pay attention
Challenge America (supporting art for under-served communities) is out. Semiquincentennial projects are in? Oh, what exciting art that will be. RIP NEA
Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...
www.arts.gov
February 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Challenge America (supporting art for under-served communities) is out. Semiquincentennial projects are in? Oh, what exciting art that will be. RIP NEA
Working in higher education, you wouldn't believe how many "data security" type trainings they make us take. Then to just let randos sift through sensitive financial and personal info about our students?!
Hear me out —
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is.
Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.
Musk staff have access to student aid data now.
February 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Working in higher education, you wouldn't believe how many "data security" type trainings they make us take. Then to just let randos sift through sensitive financial and personal info about our students?!
websites come and go - let's hope Internet Archive is forev
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
websites come and go - let's hope Internet Archive is forev
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Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org
End of Term Web Archive
The End of Term Web Archive is a collaborative initiative that collects, preserves, and makes accessible United States Government websites at the end of presidential administrations.
eotarchive.org
February 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Since 2004, Internet Archive has collaborated with a group of libraries and research organizations on the End of Term Web Archive. 💾 Learn more about the effort: eotarchive.org
I'm a sucker for a good mentor-mentee story - and excited to read more about baby monster-hunter Erica
The award-winning duo, writer James Tynion IV and artist Werther Dell’Edera, reveal more of Erica Slaughter’s secret past in 𝗦𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗦 𝗞𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗦𝗦𝗨𝗘 𝟰𝟭!
Watch how your favorite monster hunter earns her teeth when the highly anticipated series returns this April!
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Watch how your favorite monster hunter earns her teeth when the highly anticipated series returns this April!
boomstud.io/SIKTC41A
SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN Returns in April 2025 - BOOM! Studios
SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN Returns in April 2025 A brand new story arc to kick off Year Six of the “Slaughterverse". As the Slaughterverse enters its sixth year and BOOM! Studios celebrates its...
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January 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm a sucker for a good mentor-mentee story - and excited to read more about baby monster-hunter Erica
hot take after book club: V for Vendetta hits way different for Gen X vs. Gen Z
January 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
hot take after book club: V for Vendetta hits way different for Gen X vs. Gen Z
The web is ephemeral - without the Internet Archive so much our history will fall into the black hole of time and make it easier to paint over what really happened
The Internet Archive is in danger
More than 900 billion webpages are preserved on The Wayback Machine, a history of humanity online. Now, copyright lawsuits could wipe it out.
www.wbur.org
January 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The web is ephemeral - without the Internet Archive so much our history will fall into the black hole of time and make it easier to paint over what really happened
The magical bridge generation
My Kids Think I’m a Boomer
What does “skibidi” mean?
www.newyorker.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:23 PM
The magical bridge generation
Reading the great Nikki Giovanni today. Damn, this poem
The Laws of Motion
The laws of science teach us a pound of gold weighs as much as a pound of flour though if dropped from any undetermined height in their natural state one would reach bottom and one would fly away Laws...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 10, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Reading the great Nikki Giovanni today. Damn, this poem
Bardcore is where it's at : youtu.be/V7jOobdrdGo?...
December 6, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Bardcore is where it's at : youtu.be/V7jOobdrdGo?...
Reread Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá's Daytripper again for our library's graphic novel book club and damn, that book just tears me up every time
December 4, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Reread Fábio Moon & Gabriel Bá's Daytripper again for our library's graphic novel book club and damn, that book just tears me up every time
Because we can't and shouldn't digitize everything. But we do get to digitize as much of the sweet stuff we can and should (when we got time and $)
I wrote this because of this common question. peelarchivesblog.com/2017/05/31/w...
Why don’t archivists digitize everything?
Today on the blog we’re tackling one of our most frequently asked questions: “Why don’t you digitize everything?” and its related runner-up, “When will you be putting all your records o…
peelarchivesblog.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Because we can't and shouldn't digitize everything. But we do get to digitize as much of the sweet stuff we can and should (when we got time and $)
Cataloging some slice-of-life manga from Erica Sakurazawa and have to share this on-point upset nose-drippy toddler
November 21, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Cataloging some slice-of-life manga from Erica Sakurazawa and have to share this on-point upset nose-drippy toddler
More murmurations plz
Dr. Kathryn Cooper uses a 19th-century photographic technique to capture the complex movements of a starling murmurations.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/kath...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/11/kath...
November 19, 2024 at 7:44 PM
More murmurations plz
Oh man, I missed a holiday in Michigan. Happy belated Shake Your Mailbox day to you all.
Shake Your Mailbox Day!
A good shake could save your mailbox! Winter maintenance can damage mailboxes if they aren't sturdy, so take a few minutes to check it before winter starts. Tighten screws, replace loose hinges, and m...
www.kalamazoocity.org
November 19, 2024 at 1:50 PM
Oh man, I missed a holiday in Michigan. Happy belated Shake Your Mailbox day to you all.