Oliviaaaah
@unbuildingwalls.bsky.social
She/her | librarian & legal researcher| 🪐📚 | Lake Michigan adjacent (U.P.➡️Chicago➡️Milwaukeee)
Opinions my own.
Opinions my own.
Pinned
Trans rights are nonnegotiable 🏳️⚧️
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“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“I miss blockbuster video” the library has every dvd totally untouched and I never see you there
I see some of you are just learning that Noam Chomsky is not a good person.
December 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I see some of you are just learning that Noam Chomsky is not a good person.
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
I know this is probably just a reflection of this being the first presidential election that I was paying attention to (8th grade) but ...
I firmly believe this is when we entered the Bad Timeline.
I firmly believe this is when we entered the Bad Timeline.
25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.
December 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I know this is probably just a reflection of this being the first presidential election that I was paying attention to (8th grade) but ...
I firmly believe this is when we entered the Bad Timeline.
I firmly believe this is when we entered the Bad Timeline.
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these guys don't have the juice. they're gonna lose. believe your eyes
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
these guys don't have the juice. they're gonna lose. believe your eyes
Sharing this again in light of today's Disney AI deal news.
"We need to protect artists from AI predation, not just create a new way for artists to be mad about their impoverishment."
"We need to protect artists from AI predation, not just create a new way for artists to be mad about their impoverishment."
A really worthwhile read from Cory Doctorow.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Sharing this again in light of today's Disney AI deal news.
"We need to protect artists from AI predation, not just create a new way for artists to be mad about their impoverishment."
"We need to protect artists from AI predation, not just create a new way for artists to be mad about their impoverishment."
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Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.
From @prisonpolicy.org: New analysis of government data from ICE via the Deportation Data Project shows federal agents reliant on local jails and police to reach their arrest numbers.
December 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Really useful analysis of data to show how many people are going to ICE detention from local jails. These arrests are less visible to the public - as compared to raids or street arrests -- so we don't see the full scope.
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Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
December 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
Recommended listening if you, like me, are preoccupied with space junk—perhaps even moreso if you've never thought about space junk.
Hey cool, the Smithsonian Podcast episode interviewing me about space debris is out! https://www.smithsonianmag.com/podcast/series/theres-more-to-that/season-2/the-astronomical-problem-of-space-junk/
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
(disclaimer: I have not yet listened to it!)
Smithsonian Podcast: There's More to That Blog Smithsonian Magazine
_Smithsonian_ magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet the magazine’s journalists and hear how they discover the forces behind the biggest issues of our time.
www.smithsonianmag.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Recommended listening if you, like me, are preoccupied with space junk—perhaps even moreso if you've never thought about space junk.
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It’s a small thing in the larger white nationalist project, but I keep thinking about the national parks story. It’s so explicitly racist, and its pettiness (and the way it just sailed through the news cycle) makes it even more sinister.
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
National parks' fee-free calendar drops MLK Day, Juneteenth and adds Trump's birthday
The Trump administration, which has railed against what it describes as "woke" policies, removed MLK Day and Juneteenth from next year's list of fare-exempt days for visitors at dozens of national par...
www.npr.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
It’s a small thing in the larger white nationalist project, but I keep thinking about the national parks story. It’s so explicitly racist, and its pettiness (and the way it just sailed through the news cycle) makes it even more sinister.
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
www.npr.org/2025/12/06/g...
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I hate to break it to y'all but the answer to why everything in the US is as fucked up as it is, is always gonna be White Supremacy.
December 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I hate to break it to y'all but the answer to why everything in the US is as fucked up as it is, is always gonna be White Supremacy.
A really worthwhile read from Cory Doctorow.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
Pluralistic: The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI (05 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
December 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
A really worthwhile read from Cory Doctorow.
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
😲
Here is a true story.
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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To every person who doesn’t see the big picture regarding AI, this is something you need to see and consider.
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
jesus christ
December 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
To every person who doesn’t see the big picture regarding AI, this is something you need to see and consider.
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
Ask yourself: “If AI isn’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things and is unrelated to the rise of fascism, why are fascists so preoccupied with its proliferation, adoption, and use?”
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Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
December 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thinking back to how people were "hysterical" for calling trump white supremacist and now he's doing nordic theory on the campaign trail
Spotify was already evil but this is some next level evil shit.
Stop giving your money to corps that want to destroy artists and give your money to artists instead.
Stop giving your money to corps that want to destroy artists and give your money to artists instead.
Pretty infuriating: King Gizzard quit Spotify over ethical concerns -- and now Spotify is letting AI knockoffs of its music (with all the lyrics copied verbatim) proliferate on its platform
futurism.com/future-socie...
futurism.com/future-socie...
King Gizzard Pulled Their Music From Spotify in Protest, and Now Spotify Is Hosting AI Knockoffs of Their Songs
An impersonator appears to be using generative AI to poorly clone rock band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's iconic sound on Spotify.
futurism.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Spotify was already evil but this is some next level evil shit.
Stop giving your money to corps that want to destroy artists and give your money to artists instead.
Stop giving your money to corps that want to destroy artists and give your money to artists instead.
I'm no longer in a public facing reference role, but—talking to my former colleagues at the map library— not only is this a problem, the AI bot crawlers are wreaking havoc on digital collection too.
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I'm no longer in a public facing reference role, but—talking to my former colleagues at the map library— not only is this a problem, the AI bot crawlers are wreaking havoc on digital collection too.
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
December 6, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public
The most iconic building in my hometown burned yesterday.
"Tearful faces could be seen on adjacent blocks as community members shared stories and memories of the beloved building as it went up in flames ..."
"Tearful faces could be seen on adjacent blocks as community members shared stories and memories of the beloved building as it went up in flames ..."
Landmark House of Ludington burns in downtown Escanaba
I just read "Landmark House of Ludington burns in downtown Escanaba" on MyNews.OnTheGo
mynewsonthego.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The most iconic building in my hometown burned yesterday.
"Tearful faces could be seen on adjacent blocks as community members shared stories and memories of the beloved building as it went up in flames ..."
"Tearful faces could be seen on adjacent blocks as community members shared stories and memories of the beloved building as it went up in flames ..."
These evil assholes.
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
These evil assholes.
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me: religion is so embarrassing
me listening to John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: god is real and he made a little frog puppet to tell us to be good to each other
me listening to John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: god is real and he made a little frog puppet to tell us to be good to each other
December 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
me: religion is so embarrassing
me listening to John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: god is real and he made a little frog puppet to tell us to be good to each other
me listening to John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together: god is real and he made a little frog puppet to tell us to be good to each other