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meeting with other cuny library NTAs
"If only you knew how bad things really are."
October 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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finished reading it in english and now making myself read it in spanish 🤞
The Seven Madmen (Los site locos) by Roberto Arlt in English and Spanish
October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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there you have it folks: ron howard doesn't know the difference between its and it's
Review by Ron Howard, Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023: "Technically impeccable, and sustained it’s tension over a long running time. Great ideas meeting great control of the tension that cinema can bring."
September 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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i'm doing library instruction sessions for the first time this semester and i feel this so much! even leaving out specifically LLM-related stuff it feels like vendors and publishers have totally fucked us over wrt precision in searches and made it much harder to give clear instructions
“We are trying to teach how to construct useful, exact searching,” she said. “But really [these products’ intent] is to make that not happen. The problem with that in a university library is we’re trying to teach those skills but we have tools that negate that necessity. And because those tools don’t work well, you’ve not learned the skill and you’re still getting crap results, so you’re never going to get better results because you didn’t learn the skill.”
September 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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diva down !
Jair Bolsonaro in a hospital bed looking unwell.
September 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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a cult of action for action's sake, if you will
3. Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values. [from Umberto Eco's "Ur-Fascism"]
September 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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i keep thinking about this extract from a demsas article that someone shared a while ago (highlighting is theirs not mine) bc it's like so ridiculous to ignore how much of the MAHA ethos comes from the elite. it came from celebrities, influencers, and the wellness industry, not from below.
Demsas: (Laughs.) So I think most college-educated liberal people have a sort of knee-jerk reaction to RFK Jr. and his arguments about everything from vaccines to fluoride, and sort of his orientation towards science and public health. And I think that reaction is a combination of fear and dismissiveness. I mean, you're a doctor who's worked with a variety of populations, and, you know, you're supportive of vaccines and public health, and yet you wrote an article that I think might surprise some people.
September 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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like yes... they have... that's what the article is about... bsky.app/profile/coop...
This was unsurprising. For three decades the latte has been the favored blog-whistle of the trend piece writer. It signals liberalism, femininity, gayness, pretension, gentrification – ideally all of the above – so reflexively that its origins as an insult are rarely revisited. It began in earnest in 1997, when journalist David Brooks writing in the Weekly Standard coined the term “latte liberal”. He was trying, disparagingly, to give name to the crunchy consumerist leftism of the time, in which organic vegetables and world music had become part of the social justice hamper: “You know you’re in a Latte Town when you can hop right off a bike path, browse in a used bookstore with shelves and shelves of tomes on Marxism the owner can no longer get rid of, and then drink coffee at a place with a punnish name that must have the word ‘Grounds’ in it, before sauntering through an African drum store or a feminist lingerie shop.”
September 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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like in what way does giving birth to a gay person prove your bona fides in any way lol
post from chefdejour.bsky.social: "My family is GAY. I gave birth to them you fuckwit. I have skin in this. Take your aggrieved, privilaged [sic] ass out of our faces and find a more tolerant therapist to get that huge chip off your self important, fuckwitted shoulder maybe? Do the world a solid fucking favor."
August 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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so the free press is either locking their interns in small glass capsules or else they have toilet cubicles with glass doors. either way this is sicko behavior
Screenshot from Free Press video. Behind a woman talking, 2 small cubicles with glass doors. A young woman is perched on a stool in one cubicle.
July 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM