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Letterboxd is an amazing application because it just allowed me to discover that Madonna was an executive producer on Agent Cody Banks (2003)

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only interesting thing out of MOUNTAINHEAD was its ‘twist’—which doesn’t feel even feel impactful enough to be a narrative climax. those inclinations are what draw men like that into the tech industry in the first place

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Feels like yet another Charlie Brown football moment, again with big tech playing center. Why are we always rolling up our sleeves to help these people??? AI trained on out-of-copyright anthropology books, what could go wrong? abcnews.go.com/Technology/w...

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50 years ago today, JAWS premiered! "Reification&Utopia in Mass Culture" still the greatest "all contemporary works of art-whether high culture modernism or mass culture-have as their underlying impulse fantasies about the nature of social life as it ought be lived" www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4...

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“‘We saw blatant collaboration between ICE and CPD,’ says Naranjos [organizer with the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression]. ‘…And when residents were trying to protest…CPD was there blocking them from interfering with ICE.’” prismreports.org/2025/06/17/chicago-police-ice-raid/

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ICYMI RARE/EARTH: The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals + the AI Supply Chain w/ @triofrancos.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVM... Opening remarks albert.ias.edu/server/api/c... Event brief www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/aig...

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I was so adverse to cheating in school that I went thru 2 masters degrees using Zotero as only a PDF manager & thought that creating citations thru software was too automated to be acceptable :o turns out I just had really great teachers who taught us to cite by hand!

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New interview/post by Christine Henseler on our Center for Humanities Communication’s blog: “Johanna Drucker on Identification, Imagination, and Problem-solving to Communicate the Humanities.” center-humanities-communication.org/humcomm-talk...

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Another reason we wrote The AI Con was because the pariah status conferred on you for being an AI critic was crazy-making, and we wanted to show that, no, you're not alone.

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heartbroken by this loss. Ed was a shining light & a joy to be around. still processing that he’s gone—we just did a program together last month. “In lieu of flowers memorial contributions are appreciated to the Nature Conservancy” 💜 www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/f...

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what a loser!

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common knowledge: library workers use systems that include technology shocking information to both insiders and outsiders: those systems are political in nature

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building this Letterboxd list about technology. hoping to include films that interact with technology as an imaginative vehicle for communication, like #othernetworks, beyond demonstrating dystopia boxd.it/HQmEO

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Walter Benjamin, 1940

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world happening all the time and a beloved colleague passed away today. too much. too much!

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as someone under 30 who has studied mass media, it has always felt like corporate media, as businesses, cared more about ad $$ + keeping status quo over independent discovery through reporting. but now it means truly staying in lockstep w/ the WH as a fundamental aspect of agenda setting for news.

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advocated for this during a job talk today and it was well recieved 🫡

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#NewArchivists + @saa-snap.bsky.social members: our call for proposals for the section’s annual meeting next month is out! come present on your projects “in light of recent attempts to dismantle this country’s institutions of information.” #SAA snaproundtable.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/s...

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This is it. Some folks think they are always going to be on the “right side” of the camera, microphone, sensor, tracker…

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I’m still getting used to playing on CDJ-3000s, lots of buttons and bright lights. The 2000s feel much smoother to me—but maybe a sign to go back to basics (learning vinyl).

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Saturday night: DJing at Smartbar! Party starts at 10pm, my set starts at 3am 🪽 1st time closing at @smartbarchicago.com—it’s been years since I played deeper into night. excited to dive right in + keep the energy going! buy advance tickets here: www.etix.com/ticket/p/970...

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it’s frustrating when movies about mass media, especially when they intend to transpose themselves over real-time events, fall short boxd.it/9NJ8ot

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SHOWING UP (2022) is so accurate in its depiction of art school that it is almost sinister

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work news: I’m a Junior Fellow in the Web Archiving Section at the Library of Congress! I’m contributing to the Documenting the Digital Age project, working with the Mass Communications Web Archive. 🥳 newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

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i am now a master Of Information! (and library science)

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“A mod for The Sims 4 that removed LGBT and Black nonplayable characters (NPCs) from the game and automatically changed them to ‘straight’ and ‘white,’ respectively, has reappeared in spite of EA's attempts to shut it down.“

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whoever moved or passed away and sold these to half price books in the suburbs… thank you

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did a very brave thing at work and will now be on personal leave for an cool internship (announcement tbd). i also walk at graduation on sunday at UIUC for my MSLIS! big weekend

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i love a good hot summer thunderstorm in the city of chicago

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very excited for this!!!

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are you a student, recently graduated, or new to the field in archives and special collections? do you know someone who is? @saa-snap.bsky.social is accepting nominations for steering committee roles until May 21st: forms.gle/exF2KYqxqHCa... i’ll become Chair in August—reach out with any questions

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this is, quite literally, a stacked collection of contributors

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if only god knew anything about Jerry Reinsdorf

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it’s even funnier when this might as well be your uncles on any given Sunday afternoon in October

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interview scheduled for First Ever Librarian Job 🫨

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this is the best day for Chicago Catholics since the premiere of The Blues Brothers

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Writing about #digitalLibrianship from a #feminist, #antiRacist, #antiAbleist perspective? Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship is inviting submissions! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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