James T.
@jathaj.bsky.social
Public librarian. Erstwhile historian. Personal account - posts do not represent the views of my employer.
Pretty sure this is what resurrected Spock.
"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 25, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Pretty sure this is what resurrected Spock.
This post gets at an unfortunate truth: the price of childcare is literally unbelievable until you’re paying for it.
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This post gets at an unfortunate truth: the price of childcare is literally unbelievable until you’re paying for it.
Until we can give indigenous communities their land back copies of Eat, Pray, Love and Excel 2007 for Dummies will have to suffice.
A Little Free Library initiative bringing books to book deserts in Indigenous communities throughout the United States and Canada
Culturally Connected Literacy: The Impact of the Indigenous Library Program
A Little Free Library initiative bringing books to book deserts in Indigenous communities throughout the United States and Canada
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Until we can give indigenous communities their land back copies of Eat, Pray, Love and Excel 2007 for Dummies will have to suffice.
Wokeness is dead at the Great Mall. It’s warfighters only now.
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Wokeness is dead at the Great Mall. It’s warfighters only now.
Why pay for this when you can just phone XFINITY customer service?
Hold up
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Why pay for this when you can just phone XFINITY customer service?
Trump take Glowfari
Oakland Zoo’s Glowfari has returned, but prices are higher due to tariffs trib.al/TgBlqwL
Oakland Zoo’s Glowfari has returned, but prices are higher due to tariffs
President Donald Trump’s tariffs caused production prices to go up, Zoo CEO says.
trib.al
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trump take Glowfari
It’s one of those days where I really wish the predictions for the “paperless office” had come true.
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It’s one of those days where I really wish the predictions for the “paperless office” had come true.
Gotta get those share prices to pop a few more times before it all deflates.
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here on.ft.com/3JERVRg
AI pioneers claim human-level general intelligence is already here
Tech leaders say systems now rival human intelligence in key tasks, further fuelling the superintelligence debate
on.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Gotta get those share prices to pop a few more times before it all deflates.
Happy Election Day! Especially to the people of California who are about to slowly go insane over the next few weeks as they wait for our excruciating ballot counting to conclude.
November 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Happy Election Day! Especially to the people of California who are about to slowly go insane over the next few weeks as they wait for our excruciating ballot counting to conclude.
Jill Lepore has taught regular undergrad classes in the last decade? I call BS.
This is an absolutely incredible thing to say. As someone in Ivy-ish (Duke) classrooms from 2016-2022… I call bull.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
Or she was saying offensive shit.
October 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Jill Lepore has taught regular undergrad classes in the last decade? I call BS.
Proud to have attended the school that is dead last on this list. I welcome the hatred of the chuds who created it.
City Journal, the magazine of the libertarian right-wing Manhattan Institute has its own college rankings. Clearly aiming at places moving to the right ideologically.
Georgia friends will notice GT and UGA are both in the top 10.
Georgia friends will notice GT and UGA are both in the top 10.
October 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Proud to have attended the school that is dead last on this list. I welcome the hatred of the chuds who created it.
They hate us for our freedom
NYT confirms our reporting from days ago - which the WH said was fake news - that Trump and Hegseth are pulling a stunt to fire artillery rounds over I-5 between SD and LA onto Camp Pendleton as a stunt, one of the busiest highways in America. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...
Military Plans to Fire Artillery Over California Freeway on Saturday
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
They hate us for our freedom
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A lot of terrible parts of California are downstream of what seemed like a good idea: direct democracy.
October 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A lot of terrible parts of California are downstream of what seemed like a good idea: direct democracy.
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Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.
October 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not exaggerating when I say that SB 79, a bill making it easier to build housing near mass transit, is the most consequential piece of legislation that the Democratic Party has passed all year. Saying no to the worst people in our coalition proves we're serious about the future.
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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
cayimby.org
October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM
[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
Our statement:
cayimby.org/news-events/...
The head of the Eisenhower Presidential Library was canned after he refused Trump’s demand to give an artifact that belongs to the American people to a monarch.
After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The head of the Eisenhower Presidential Library was canned after he refused Trump’s demand to give an artifact that belongs to the American people to a monarch.
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I know this sounds strange, but I think the left need to take back the word "conservative" from the right. Like, it's conservative to want to preserve Medicaid, Social Security, the NEH, PBS, vaccines, the NLRB, the FCC, a non-weaponized DOJ, a world in which organizing a coup is considered bad.
September 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I know this sounds strange, but I think the left need to take back the word "conservative" from the right. Like, it's conservative to want to preserve Medicaid, Social Security, the NEH, PBS, vaccines, the NLRB, the FCC, a non-weaponized DOJ, a world in which organizing a coup is considered bad.
Arthur Blessitt did this wheelie cross thing for decades.
September 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Arthur Blessitt did this wheelie cross thing for decades.
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This is true!
That said, be prepared for the fact that libraries will not have DVDs for the streaming exclusives. That’s on the streaming companies’ greed, not the libraries.
I say this not to convince you to keep streaming, but to prepare people not to go “whaddya mean you don’t have x show?”
That said, be prepared for the fact that libraries will not have DVDs for the streaming exclusives. That’s on the streaming companies’ greed, not the libraries.
I say this not to convince you to keep streaming, but to prepare people not to go “whaddya mean you don’t have x show?”
Hello friendos
Your librarian here with a tip
Your library has DVDs of movies, TV series, and documentaries that you can't find on streaming. They may even have foreign films.
Your librarian here with a tip
Your library has DVDs of movies, TV series, and documentaries that you can't find on streaming. They may even have foreign films.
September 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
This is true!
That said, be prepared for the fact that libraries will not have DVDs for the streaming exclusives. That’s on the streaming companies’ greed, not the libraries.
I say this not to convince you to keep streaming, but to prepare people not to go “whaddya mean you don’t have x show?”
That said, be prepared for the fact that libraries will not have DVDs for the streaming exclusives. That’s on the streaming companies’ greed, not the libraries.
I say this not to convince you to keep streaming, but to prepare people not to go “whaddya mean you don’t have x show?”
What the heck is LA County’s malfunction?
I've now categorized the votes by region.
Bay Area: 73% voted Yes (11/15)
Greater Sacramento: 83% (5/6)
Central Valley: 78% (7/9)
LA County: 32% (7/22)
San Diego: 67% (4/6)
Inland Empire & Orange County: 40% (6/15)
Coastal: 33% (2/6)
Far North: 100% (1/1)
Bay Area: 73% voted Yes (11/15)
Greater Sacramento: 83% (5/6)
Central Valley: 78% (7/9)
LA County: 32% (7/22)
San Diego: 67% (4/6)
Inland Empire & Orange County: 40% (6/15)
Coastal: 33% (2/6)
Far North: 100% (1/1)
September 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What the heck is LA County’s malfunction?
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I say it again: Get in Loser We’re Urbanizing California
September 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I say it again: Get in Loser We’re Urbanizing California
People joke, but President Camacho had a realistic view of his country’s problem and sought counsel from the smartest man in the world on how to solve it. Trump is a far worse president by any measure.
September 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
People joke, but President Camacho had a realistic view of his country’s problem and sought counsel from the smartest man in the world on how to solve it. Trump is a far worse president by any measure.