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librarian in front of a computer | researcher with the library newsroom project | archivist of your grandma's old photos
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kim kardashian was right, no one wants to work anymore

quick rhyme to help you differentiate: if he tells you to let love in, that's nick cave and has always been if he steals the declaration of independence, then brother that's nick cage in attendance

brittany spanos interviewing lorde... i'll take 12 please www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"Baseball is cinema" slate.com/culture/2025...

texted this to my partner who replied with this

honda sports night

ME: Give it to me straight doc. Is the tumor malignant? MY ONCOLOGIST WHO THE INSURANCE COMPANY REPLACED WITH AI: Regarding White genocide,

this also counts as a scholarly conference

they did it. those bastards did alchemy. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

the weirdness at the Copyright Office intensifies, with both Dems and MAGA pointing fingers at Elon Musk for the firing of Shira Perlmutter, and identifying the AI report as the reason www.theverge.com/politics/666...

when i get on the subway and the car is full of people reading books... that's a scholarly conference

i talk about and think about this book all the time since i read it last spring. take advantage of this sale and get a copy for yourself!

Gimme the pope boys / I see that smoke / I need that old guy in the big white robes

Orange smoke at the conclave means they're listening to Sleep's Dopesmoker

all other things aside are we ready to deal with the ramifications of calling god an artificial intelligence nymag.com/intelligence...

the more i read about and interact with students who use AI the more i think about malcolm harris’ ‘kids these days’ and the optimization of childhood to prioritize success in the workforce over just… living

Also DREAM big! Don't Rank Eric or Andrew for Mayor

it is so exciting to face living in a world where i am never exposed to new things because the powers that be decide to do digital necromancy

*big steam whistle goes off* day's over, boys. walk away from your work computers and get on home to your loving home computers

final weeks of grad school and my procrastination has reached levels i didn't know were possible. i spent most of yesterday evening + night writing a proposal for a journal instead of the work i am actually on deadline for... inspiration is everywhere!

sorry chuck i will not be doing that ❤️

i’m experiencing inconveniences you would never believe

presenting at a conference on friday. it’s not a competition obviously but i’m going to win

New Yorkers, do you want to know where the Mayoral candidates stand on increasing funding for our public libraries? Well, NYC Public Library Action Network has you covered: nycplan.org/candidates-s... - Keep checking this page for updates.

cuomo, trump, and adams all grew up in queens which further advocates for and answer to my eternal question: what the fuck is up in queens

am i breaking copyright by uploading a PDF to something like google translate or doc translator

old music journalism (album reviews, no christgau) and message boards from the early 2000s where people tell you how to accomplish some technical skill (like digitizing photos)

what are we doing to address the issue of email forwarding in academic departments

i have obtained information that leads me to believe the city of new york is unaware of the existence of an entire six-block avenue on the east side

ICE threatening charges against people for asking supposed officers to show their badges is weakness. Not succeeding where they hoped to, left relying on threats that likely won’t go anywhere in court (harassment isn’t nothing, but it’s limited). It’s a sign to resist their abuses more, not less.

wikipedia is a nonprofit with editorial standards! chatgpt is just some guy in a bar who loves to lie.

1) they often make things up which means more work verifying claims 2) the people who are selling you on AI want to replace you with AI (see that blodget piece) 3) social, economic, and environmental concerns are valid reasons to think something sucks and isn’t useful

every day I log on and people try their best to get me to lose my faith in humanity. but I am resilient and have a bad memory

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's nearly 8-week-old blockade.

we went from harshly judging child-free people to harshly judging people for having children so fast and honestly both sides are giving gilead, giving eugenics…