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this article is out of date but unfortunately still correct

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The best kind of grocery cart is this kind. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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This is also true of music scores 🙃

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Purging vital public data at CDC. How it started (yesterday from wayback machine), how it's going www.cdc.gov/yrbs/index.h...

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context, for anyone who needs it: essential reading for anyone interested in the idea of librarianship 📚

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Today at the reference desk i taught a patron what a .zip file is and how to make one. It felt like sharing Secret Knowledge™️ #academiclibraries 📚

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Layers of information in an archival document: - What is said - What is not said - What is alluded to - What is omitted intentionally (and unintentionally) - What is misleading - What is ambiguous - What is highlighted - What is downplayed - What is weaponized - What is unintelligible today ...

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I just want to beat the drum again that no other public institution grants civic respect and standing to kids quite like the public library, and that eroding or destroying it is a direct attack on a democratic ideal according to which even the powerless and voiceless have a place among us. 📚

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Today we will remember Dr Martin Luther King Jr for his radical theories of fighting systems of oppression, capitalism, and racism. We will not allow Dr. King’s legacy to be used as an example of peace and pacifism by those who seek to convince us to accept fascism disguised as democracy.

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Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe DON'T mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here. You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!

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if I was sam altman and a librarian wrote a 40 page zine against my product i would simply leave my earthly things behind and enter a monastery in hope of redeeming my soul

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There's this potentially weird dystopian cyberpunk future where the Internet Archive loses all its copyright battles while OpenAI wins all of theirs, and our only record of the history of the Internet-that-was is locked up inside the unreliable narration of obsolete large language models.

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i'd like to create the opposite of the permalink — a link that's always intentionally shimmering, changing its characters every second as if being lightly blown by the wind

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I consider myself a fairly calm person until I’m standing in the spice aisle in a busy grocery store looking for an ingredient and have read all of the labels 3x but still can’t find it. Guess I’ll try again next time 😬

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Looked at my StoryGraph recap today and boy does it describe my 2024.

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Folks in this thread pointing out that low pay for high experience jobs makes them 'hobby jobs' - things for rich folks to do. When we make the cultural infrastructure of our country a hobby for the rich, we end up with a culture that valorises wealth. It is a political choice, and a dangerous one

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announcing for all to hear that i've got the malaise of centuries of ancestors wailing in my bones only to realize it's just time for breakfast

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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

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I have a tradition of listening to John Green's review of Auld Lang Syne on NYE. It's particularly poignant as we enter 2025. "We live in hope--that life will get better, and more importantly that it will go on, that love will survive even though we will not." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgh8...

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Many creative acts don’t lend themselves well to the brief, clickbaity style that social media encourage. A “brand” and social presence have become a prerequisite for success. This is particularly dangerous in a world where AI is actively stealing and trying to replace creative work.

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📚 Library patrons! Please check out a book you plan to read someday, but not right now. We won’t be able to tell you haven’t read it, it’s good for our metrics, and it prevents good books from getting weeded when they still have a kindred spirit out there.

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Yeah, remember when Google was actually USEFUL? 📚

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gentle reminder:

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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

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Folks in North Carolina can also access JStor through NCLive!

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The ethical conundrums of using social media posts for research are super fascinating. Just because something is posted publicly does not constitute informed consent. This thread from @cfiesler.bsky.social is a great investigation into the topic.

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I am: Epic Sleepy Sloth Explorer 🦥🗺️ “Minimal movement through the social jungle, just hanging around occasionally. Always venturing beyond, bringing external knowledge and resources to enrich conversations.” Pretty accurate, tbh

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky 💙📚 Day 7

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Taking some time off work next week? Archiving the internet things you care about can be fast, easy, and reduce feelings of helplessness and despair. We can show you how on Monday.

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Skimming through slide decks from my erstwhile "Data Infrastructure" class, I happened upon this treasure from the Old Place:

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"Connecting this to that," a blog post about how library tech support is rarely about learning to use one tool and is much more about how all these tools interrelate, with one fun example. www.librarian.net/stax/5610/co...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky 💙📚 Day 6

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This video is the most succinct and well-informed explanation of the Current Moment™️ that I've encountered. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Pn...

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky 💙📚 Day 5

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky 💙📚 Day 4

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From salvaging 1914 Orient Express archives for The Last Express to the fight for digital preservation, legendary game designer Jordan Mechner shares why safeguarding our cultural artifacts—like video games—is vital. 🔗 blog.archive.org/2024/11/21/v... 🕳️ #VanishingCulture @jmechner.bsky.social

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky 💙📚 Day 3

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky 💙📚 Day 2

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #Booksky #BookChallenge #Books Day 1

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Remember, "I don't know, I lack sufficient information on this topic" is NEVER an acceptable answer. Instead, loudly state the first opinion that pops into your head, speak with authority, and gaslight anyone who disagrees until they begin to question everything they know.

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A few landscape shots from a recent sunrise hike.

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