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Wynne~🏳️‍🌈 (she/her)
@wynnehoped.bsky.social
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Your queer southern librarian auntie. 25+ years a library worker, 15+ years a librarian. Opinions mine, not my employer's. Organizer of https://www.meetup.com/Graphic-Book-Club/ since 2013. Founded a convention once.
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Two weeks until I sit with a bunch of nerds on ZOOM and chat about Science Fiction comic books, graphic novels, manga, and other forms of sequential art!

Join us!

www.meetup.com/Graphic-Book...
An advertising image featuring the covers of PLANETE (Makoto Yukimura), AAMA (Frederik Peeters), and COSMOKNIGHTS (Hannah George Templer) It advertises a GRAPHIC BOOK CLUB, on Tuesday July 22nd at 6pm on ZOOM Are you a fan of comic books or graphic novels? Join us on ZOOM for this month's meeting of Durham County Library's Graphic Book Club. Each month we pick a type of story (fantasy, crime, manga, etc), then come together to talk about our books and share our ideas and impressions of what we read. Our topic this month: Science Fiction! Join us on https://www.meetup.com/Graphic-Book-Club/ for more details about this month's topic, including springboard/discussion questions and a list of suggested titles, or register on the library's event calendar https://durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14396140 to get added to the mailing list!
July 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
Really enjoying @escherbug.art's Observational Drawing class at my library tonight!

Escher is a super patient instructor and I'm shocked at how I don't hate everything I've put on paper
A couple pieces of paper covered in sketches and traces of what is supposed to be a raccoon
June 10, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Hey @escherbug.art !

We got pencils! (and if an order goes through quick enough these might be upgraded to nicer charcoal options)
A bos of unsharpened, multicolored, thoroughly branded pencils.
June 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
I hope this number changes, but for now?

... nice.
A screenshot of the back end of a library event calendar product, showing the registration number for Misinformation in the age of "AI" with Dr. Damien Patrick Williams A program happening on May 31st at 2pm Eastern Time, on ZOOM There are 69 people attending... nice.
May 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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It's about that time! On June 17th @ 6pm ET I'll be holding the next meeting of my Graphic Book Club, which has run (nearly) monthly since 2013. The topic in June: Graphic Biography!

And you can join us too, because it's on ZOOM!

Find us here www.meetup.com/Graphic-Book...
A slide advertising a library program happening on Zoom. Graphic Book Club Tuesday, June 17th, 6pm. Find us at DurhamCountyLibrary.org/events or Meetup.com/Graphic-Book-Club The image features three book covers: FEYNMAN (Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick), MY FRIEND DAHMER (Derf Backderf), and BOWIE: STARDUST, RAYGUNS, & MOONAGE DREAMS (Michael Allred, Steve Horton, Laura Allred) Additional information below: Are you a fan of comic books or graphic novels? Join us on ZOOM for this month's meeting of Durham County Library's Graphic Book Club. Each month we pick a type of story (fantasy, crime, manga, etc), then come together to talk about our books and share our ideas and impressions of what we read. Our topic this month: Biography!
May 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
Snapped a picture of some of the advertising for @wolvendamien.bsky.social's program!

He'll be talking about misinformation and 'AI' on ZOOM, Saturday May 31st at 2pm eastern time.

It's a free program! It's online! You can wear PJs!
Register here: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14318472
Photo of a wall-mounted flat panel display advertising a super cool looking program Misinformation in the age of "AI" with Dr. Damien Patrick Williams A program happening on May 31st at 2pm Eastern Time, on ZOOM Register here: durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14318472 In considering today's so-called artificial intelligence systems we must realise that what we say we want them to do is often at odds with how they're built— that there is a lot of space between our technological goals and the reality of what we create and put into practice. Anyone seeking to perform research into, educate others about, or otherwise use “AI” must consider not just the promises made about these technologies, but the real and demonstrated harms of their use. Researchers must consider what it means that they say they're creating systems for interpreting and applying natural human language and concepts, but are actually designing, building, and training these systems in ways which almost guarantee that they'll do harm. What are the dangers of "AI" in our present society? Whose expertise will help us build and use "AI" in ways which help rather than harm our ethical, democratic, and pro-social ideals? And how can we overcome the influences of those who don't see any harm whatsoever in leaving these systems exactly as they are? Dr. Damien Patrick Williams is an assistant professor in Philosophy and Data Science at UNC Charlotte, where he teaches and researches on how technologies such as algorithms, machine intelligence, and biotechnologies are impacted by the values, knowledge systems, philosophical explorations, social structures, and even religious beliefs of human beings. Dr. Williams received his PhD from Virginia Tech in the field of Science, Technology, and Society. All of Dr. Williams' research is concerned with how the knowledges and experiences of marginalized peoples affect and should be centered within the technosocial structures of human societies.
May 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
So excited for @wolvendamien.bsky.social's program on misinformation and 'AI'!

It's a free program on May 31st (open to all!), taking place on ZOOM from 2pm-3pmish Eastern time.

Register here (more info at the link or in alt text)
durhamcountylibrary.libcal.com/event/14318472
A totally rad flyer that wouldn't look out of place advertising a punk or metal show, but it's telling you about a library program, wow. Durham County Library Presents Misinformation in the age of "AI" with Dr. Damien Patrick Williams A program happening on May 31st at 2pm Eastern Time, on ZOOM In considering today's so-called artificial intelligence systems we must realise that what we say we want them to do is often at odds with how they're built— that there is a lot of space between our technological goals and the reality of what we create and put into practice. Anyone seeking to perform research into, educate others about, or otherwise use “AI” must consider not just the promises made about these technologies, but the real and demonstrated harms of their use. Researchers must consider what it means that they say they're creating systems for interpreting and applying natural human language and concepts, but are actually designing, building, and training these systems in ways which almost guarantee that they'll do harm. What are the dangers of "AI" in our present society? Whose expertise will help us build and use "AI" in ways which help rather than harm our ethical, democratic, and pro-social ideals? And how can we overcome the influences of those who don't see any harm whatsoever in leaving these systems exactly as they are? Dr. Damien Patrick Williams is an assistant professor in Philosophy and Data Science at UNC Charlotte, where he teaches and researches on how technologies such as algorithms, machine intelligence, and biotechnologies are impacted by the values, knowledge systems, philosophical explorations, social structures, and even religious beliefs of human beings. Dr. Williams received his PhD from Virginia Tech in the field of Science, Technology, and Society. All of Dr. Williams' research is concerned with how the knowledges and experiences of marginalized peoples affect and should be centered within the technosocial structures of human societies.
May 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
My boss putting up pride stuff three weeks early 🤣

(Yes, we're all aware some colors are off and in the wrong order. What do you want, she's cishet.)
Curtains that aren't quite the colors of the rainbow but they're close
May 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
From my own book display! ☺️

Three great tastes...

@carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social, @planetx.bsky.social, @tkingfisher.com
A shelf of books on display featuring THE FINDER LIBRARY VOL 1 (Carla Speed McNeil), HAWKGIRL: ONCE UPON A GALAXY (Jadzia Axelrod, Amancay Nahuelpan, Adriano Lucas, Alex Guimaraes, Carrie Strachan, and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou), and DIGGER VOL 1 (Ursula Vernon)
May 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
This is very likely to become a series of clever book display posters.
A book display poster reading "Democracies Die Behind Closed Doors" a quote attributed to Federal Judge Damon J Keith in a free speech trial. It advertises memoirs of journalists A book display poster reading "THE LOVES OF DICTATORS" with a quote from George Orwell's 1984 below "We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end." An image from Camiccini's painting THE DEATH OF JULIUS CAESAR is behind the words
May 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
wynnehoped.bsky.social
My coworkers make the best displays, I swear
A library display sign that reads "And Remember Kids.. the Next Time That Somebody Tells You, 'The Government Wouldn't Do That," Oh Yes They Would." A library display sign that reads "IT'S A WARNING, not an instruction manual..." with handmaids from THE HANDMAID'S TALE in the background. Visible on display are DVDs of THE HANDMAID'S TAIL, 1984, and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
May 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM