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Can't say I'm exactly loving how very closely and specifically the mismanagement of Mars in it is paralleling the governance of my own country right now, but the current season of @mikeduncan.bsky.social's Revolutions, on the Martian Revolution of the 23rd century, just keeps getting better.

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I wanted a copy of Wikipedia in case it gets overwhelmed with slop, so I bought a box of it: store.wikimedia.org/products/int...

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Let's get this built. Direct passenger rail to the 11th and 12th provinces!

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"In broader terms, automation generally is not supportive of reciprocity, of difference, of back and forth. When you use software in your job, you often become aware of how limiting your help becomes — you can’t do something because the system says no. That’s messing with your authority & agency..."

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Point of order: Point of order: I think the None of the Above Party needs to have a party bylaw that only allows those with a last name beginning with XY or Z to be allowed to run:

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Thinking about this art work in Canada’s National Gallery today www.gallery.ca/magazine/you...

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🧵Alongside my student co-author Arman Sohi, happy to share a new publication in Dalhousie Law Journal entitled "Racial Capitalism, Neocolonial Wealth Transfer, and Canadian International Student Policy". digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/dlj/vol48/is...

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The time has come my friends 🤖 We are so excited to launch the registration and early agenda for We Robot 2025! You can find more details for registration, what you can expect, and hotel booking here: www.werobot2025.ca. @windsorlaw.bsky.social

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I'm a huge fan of the work of Avery Alder. That's why I'm supporting "Going for Broke: a sitcom game about making rent" www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b... I love the idea of an RPG being framed as a sitcom. It sends players a clear message that they can be silly and inventive.

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This @thedigradio.bsky.social interview w/ tenant organizer Hannah Srajer was what I needed today. “You’re trying to break people out of the numbness that structures are like in the USA because we have to be numb to survive what we are surviving right now.” www.thedigradio.com/podcast/buil...

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Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.

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I don’t want to fill your feed with more bad news, but I think you need to know how the personal has been politically weaponized to hurt communities by the new us administration.

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🌬️UofWinds 405, Week 6 2025 🫘: The Evil Housekeeper Problem, "Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA", Monday Night Red Beans & Rice: www.uofwinds.com/405/

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New from 404 Media: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries, forcing librarians to sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI. www.404media.co/ai-generated...

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Today is my blogging birthday. To celebrate, I wrote this post: "Where do you stand?" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/02/04/w...

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Protest at the Treasury in DC Tuesday 5PM. Pass it on.

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I learned about the @eotarchive.org project earlier this year thanks to MIT libraries. Turns out librarians have been on top of systematically backing up government websites before presidential transitions for over a decade! eotarchive.org

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I've decided that contribution to the Wikipedia project is to upload details about each Supreme Court of Canada decision to Wikidata. I've just added 2025 SCC 1, R. v. Hanrahan at www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125275... And I know that people have seen the work because of this 'Wikipedia Unwrapped' thing!

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Last year we started a project to download and preserve public data. lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/01... Since saving public data is in the news today — but is always needed — let’s talk about what you can do to help.

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Today's Today in Tabs is really good. www.todayintabs.com/p/illegal-an...

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The premise of this SNL skit is actually low-genius. It’s the dude version of the feminist framework of The Hologram www.plutobooks.com/978074534332...

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I have a question for my librarian colleagues 📚 Our ILS only allows for a keyword search limited to an author field. Do you have an ILS that allows the reader to bring all the works of a person using their author authority record? (1/2)

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🌬️UofWinds 404, Week 4 2025: It's Not a Marathon, Survive the Tyrant, Bibliomancy For The Living Autobiography In The Third Person: www.uofwinds.com/404/

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MIT Press’s Direct to Open reaches annual funding goal for 2025, opens access to 80 new monographs https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-direct-to-open-reaches-annual-funding-goal-for-2025-opens-access-to-over-80-new-monographs/ AwesomeSauce! #OpenAccess #OER

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Bibliomancy as the new PKM I love the practice of bibliomancy because re-introduces myself to the books that I have bought, and it re-animates my writing with ideas that I’ve already responded to and may have forgotten. 📚 librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/01/24/b...

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Guys, bibliomancy works! This text found me just days ago: librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/01/16/i...

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This Oatmeal Comic is from 2017. theoatmeal.com/comics/reach... A good rule of thumb is that a platform should not get between yourself and your subscribers. A red flag to watch is when a platform does not allow you to export your subscriber list.

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"DIY Web Archiving": new free zine by @quinnanya.me @bitarchivist.net @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net & me, based on the 11/2024 @sucho-org.bsky.social @webrecorder.net @ach.bsky.social workshop: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... #DHmakes +

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The media called Musk's salute, which Neo Nazis celebrated, a "hand gesture." Why won't they acknowledge exactly what we all saw here? As someone who worked in national newsrooms for years, let me explain why the media is allergic to meeting the moment in times like this. youtu.be/D9UNmoFEtDQ

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J.G. Ballard's collage series "Project for a new Novel" (1958): openculture.com/2016/09/j-g-...

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The law students here have named their year-end formal the "Carbolic Smoke Ball Masquerade Law Gala 2025" which (I think) is named, in part, after this case? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill...

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I spent several hours revisiting all my faved TikToks (to download the faves of the faves) and all the pandemic memories it brought up were so overwhelming. I feel time-sick.

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This is a significant reason why the kids are downloading RedNote and will not use Reels www.theverge.com/2025/1/17/24...

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In Praise of Bibliomancy: A Self-Portrait/Self-Portent, January 2025 📚 librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/01/16/i...

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Canadian physicist and Ursula Franklin wrote many years ago about how technology shapes the way we work. In her discussion of prescriptive vs. holistic technologies, she channeled what Albert Borgmann would later articulate in his device paradigm: technology serves to commoditize and optimize.

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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

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More Laurie Anderson on the BBC. An insightful interview on Desert Island Discs www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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