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⏰Game On! Grant applications close TOMORROW! Make sure to get your great ideas for library gaming programs and collections in soon: games.ala.org/game-on-gran... 🕰

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This is one big problem with these laws. If I am supposed to use women's rooms, then many many cis men can too, WAY more easily than having to convince someone they're trans women.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

This will not be the first economic blackout or the last. But it's a place for new people to start, and for others to continue their boycott. Eat. The. Rich.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

If you played TTRPGs between 1970-2004, PhD Candidate Geoffrey Ramirez (Binghamton U) is seeking participants for “Character Creation: The Tabletop Role-Players Oral History Project” as part of his dissertation. Interviews will be archived at the Strong Museum of Play (can be time-locked, etc)

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

If you are a cis person please take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

submitted 13 days ago • 155 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 59 comments

If you want to show your opposition to banned books, please look on lists for living authors, particularly queer authors and authors of colour. John Steinbeck and Harper Lee don’t need your money. Living authors do.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

As the world gets darker, we are all going to be looking for superheroes & librarians may seem like the perfect savior. But we are just people. Many of whom are just as bigoted & complicit with fascism. Give us support but remember that we are people. We can make mistakes. We’re also learning.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Musk is the living embodiment of AI: a broken, tech-bro tool that inserts itself into everyone's life unsolicited and makes everything worse.

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This just weeks after a study showed that AI usage, especially among minors, encourages cognitive offloading and hampers critical thought. What a sad day for California higher education. AI is plenty accessible and teachable without this. We do not need massive contracts with OpenAI and big tech.

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order: "It does nothing" "It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach" Will not comply.

submitted 31 days ago • 177 comments

I get to moderate this panel, and I’m so excited!

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Be like Chicago Public Schools

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Our Game On! Grant application is now open until March 10. This year we are excited to announce that the award amount has doubled to $2000 thanks to a generous donation from @cardsagainsthumanity.com ! Full details and application link here: games.ala.org/game-on-grant/

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If you went to college: 1. What was your career goal when you started? 2. Your initial major? 3. If you changed majors, what to? 4. What do you do now? 1. shrug writer? 2. English (creative writing) 3. Hospitality for a month, then back to English 4. Academic librarian

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Ooh, CFPs open for one of my absolute favorite virtual conferences! If you have any interest in fandom and LIS, I recommend checking it out.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

me when any program's AI assistant asks me if I want help writing:

submitted 52 days ago • 25 comments

It's dangerous to go alone, take our FREE #TTRPG group lines and veils consent checklist! Built with @mimicsnmisfits.bsky.social, it's now available in robust and condensed versions. It's customizable, auto-updating and shareable! https://buff.ly/3ZlnV2g https://buff.ly/3Zkmrp0

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

I can't stop thinking about these people risking their lives to save this city and the people in it who voted just a few months ago to keep them working in these unimaginable conditions

submitted 54 days ago • 12 comments

Call for Papers: #QueerAnalogGameStudies Special Issue @analoggamestudies.bsky.social “Analog games are here…but are they queer? What’s queer about analog games? What does it mean to queer tabletop, board games, or LARP? How might analog games be queered.” Essays due April 7, 2025

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Can you present for 15 minutes on something relevant to libraries and video games? Submit a proposal! You do not have to be a library worker, but your presentation must be about video games and relevant to library spaces. #gaminginlibraries 📚🎲🎮

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Dylan Roof killed 9 Black people with the motivation to incite a race war—NOT charged with terrorism. Luigi Mangione killed 1 CEO with the motivation to rebuke healthcare injustice—charged with terrorism. Class warfare is when working Black people are not a protected class but wealthy CEOs are.

submitted 75 days ago • 16 comments

If you know someone who is passionate about critical AI, data, or media & disinformation literacy, please share this call for (stipended) topic curators. We're especially keen to have high school teachers and librarians involved in the creation of this open educational resource! #oer #libraries

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Oh, pre-ordered one for myself and one to gift my niece; I cannot wait to introduce her to Tortall!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Kickstarter is hiring for a Head of Games, Outreach (remote) position. They just posted the opening today. If you are passionate about crowdfunding and tabletop games, this is a good job to check out.

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments

Don't. cross. the picket line.

submitted 95 days ago • 3 comments

The NYT has spent years pushing an anti-trans ideology. Trans people have actually lost rights in recent years, making them vulnerable to draconian laws and violence. Now the NYT says trans activitists are being a little too mean to transphobes online, and that's why their losing their rights.

submitted 96 days ago • 5 comments

Periodic reminder: a lot of what makes AI "work" is exploited people doing the tasks, just hidden behind fancy websites. It's good that a normie outlet like 60 Minutes is reporting on this.

submitted 101 days ago • 17 comments

📣 New zine!! "A Librarian Against AI; or, I Think AI Should Leave" is a 40-page zine about why we should think twice about using & supporting generative AI. violetbfox.info/against-ai/ #noAI #zines

submitted 105 days ago • 79 comments

As a writing studies person & academic (😬), I’ve honestly felt embarrassed & disappointed at how some teacher-scholars seem inclined to make peace w/ AI, trying to teach it rather than calling it out as fundamentally unethical. But here’s an article arguing for resistance & not giving an inch.

submitted 107 days ago • 10 comments

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submitted 117 days ago • 1581 comments

This place is all fucked up: defector.com/this-place-i...

submitted 117 days ago • 7 comments

Hey Nevada, pick up your phones!

submitted 118 days ago • 4 comments

Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope! Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C. www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/Walters...

submitted 132 days ago • 15 comments

I can already feel that I’m overextending myself for spring-summer next year, but is that gonna stop me? Probably not. There are just too many cool things with games and podcasts coming up!

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Library friends - if your library wants to participate in International Games Month (Nov), register by Sept 30 for a chance to get a free game from an IGM sponsor! IGM is an initiative of the Games & Gaming Round Table of the American Library Association. 📚🎲 Info here: games.ala.org/internationa...

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Great news! Is your library, school, or university interested in acquiring some amazing indie TTRPGs? Well, @ipr.bsky.social is now offering them a 25% discount! www.indiepressrevolution.com/xcart/Librar...

submitted 164 days ago • 0 comments

calling all full-time academic library/archive workers! could you take my survey to study why academic librarians of color stay in the profession in comparison to the wider population? I would really appreciate it! t.co/PqAd0AMMjx

submitted 174 days ago • 2 comments

yes, let's use the exact same technology currently being sued by the federal government for exacerbating the housing crisis by colluding to raise rents to investigate unemployment benefit appeals.

submitted 174 days ago • 1 comment

@bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reviews Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction, edited by Sonia Sulaiman: a collection of SFF short stories that showcases Palestinian stories in their own words: reactormag.com/book-review-...

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Submitted revisions for a fun, weird article about scholarly podcasting this week, and I can’t wait to see what the final product actually looks like.

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