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No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race. And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress. Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.

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Dr. Noor Abdalla will be spending her first Mother's Day as a mom without her husband Mahmoud Khalil, who is still locked up hundreds of miles away from her in ICE detention. He should be holding his son who he hasn't met yet, but he is instead detained without due process by the U.S. government.

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Called it.

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It's absolutely ridiculous that Musk and DOGE made federal workplaces hellscapes and federal agencies are surprised that so many took the DRP. I know This is the playbook but STILL

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On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t happened since the pandemic. cnn.it/3YA0Rf6

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poisoning a community with uncontrolled methane emissions to nonconsensually “remove her clothes” www.404media.co/elon-musks-g...

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Trees planted by Mary Ellen Pleasant, a Blackwoman who became a powerful figure in 19th c. San Francisco, successful plaintiff in a transit discrimination case, Underground Railroad participant-- and who reportedly funded John Brown. Visited her little grove last week.

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Bots are really messing with our ASpace PUI, so this sounds nice 😅

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We read Virginia Eubanks’s Automating Inequality and I talked to my students about the importance of always asking cui bono, who benefits? It seemed so crude to explain that this is all just a massive wealth transfer to private actors, but that’s legitimately what it is.

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“The fact that sanitation is this free*, unlimited** service, sort of untouched by neoliberalism, is very appealing to me… It’s us and the public library,” said Thomas Crespo, sanitation worker. * not exactly, ** not always, but still, I appreciate the larger point about the public good

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Tbh I didn't make it all the way to the end post BUT thinking about a "civil religion" intertwined with so-called Christianity has explained a lot

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I panic bought batteries at Costco today and instead will use Karen's list now 🙈

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Our big win made it into the headlines across a few different publications! In this new piece from @huffpost.com, we see some inspiring words from our coworker Megan at REI Union Durham as they reflect on what our victory means for REI green vests nationwide: www.huffpost.com/entry/rei-me...

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I wrote on Wednesday about how the radar outage at Newark is a terrifying omen for the future. I did not realize the future would be.... uh today defector.com/the-mess-at-...

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I had forgotten about this! 🥹🥹🥹

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🔥🔥🔥

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Voted for Trump but mad at “the government” is exactly how this will all be memory-holed.

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Carla Hayden deserves better!!!!!!! The guy before her was So Over and she has done such amazing work to bring LC's and library work's importance back into the light.

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Extrapolating from history: the labor market will cannibalize mid-tier knowledge workers, burn out senior knowledge workers, then shout at colleges & govt for not making enough labor-market ready grads, then govt will blame moms for not making K-12 prepare kids for college pre-labor-market skills.

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This works for pretty much every field. AI can be useful for legal research and drafting. But you cannot know when the research and writing it generates is good and when it is worthless, unless you are already an experienced attorney.

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lol where is Brad

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Defector is the best, happy to be a subscriber. Long live Defector

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Enterprise software: never not relevant!

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I know quite a few people who've dedicated their careers to digital equity. They've worked to develop state blueprints, digital navigator pgms, municipal wireless plans, etc — and they're now watching all that labor and promise evaporate, while many of their promised resources are funneled to Musk

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#FridayFlowers #bloomscrolling Gratitude.

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lol

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web.archive.org/web/20050207...

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This is true, but we also need to remember that last fall Colleen Shogan at the National Archives was doing some pre-emptive censorship — removing exhibits about the government's oppression of Native Americans, the history of birth control, etc.

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My only interaction w/ Dr. Hayden was a few yrs ago, when I moderated a panel on which she spoke — but she appointed me Kluge Chair of Modern Culture at the LoC this year. My interactions with LoC staff indicate that she — one of few librarians appointed to the role — was deeply appreciated 💔

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Raniero Mancinelli, 86, has been a tailor for about 70 years. He made the robes that welcomed the Pope today. You can read about him in the National Catholic Reporter (check the links in the IG handles below). IG sistersreport and ncronline

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Here's one of my best friends (who, before being illegally fired, was the data scientist at NEH) showing just how much money NEH could distribute back out to US taxpayers based on their lifetime contributions. Get ready to make it rain with thousands of pennies y'all!

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I can speak on authority about the Gates Foundation as a money and social reputation laundering vehicle bc I was a contractor who supported the rollout of Bill’s transition from CEO to public intellectual. It was PR & a tax write off paid by the staff he cheated out of health & retirement benefits

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I'm happy about a baseball pipe, can't lie

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Useful read if you need a catchup on just why the sole candidate to be president of UF needed to write a begging oped about how he disavows DEI

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<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>

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