Larry (he/him)
@liblarrian.bsky.social
Colorado Librarian & DH person. Embroider. D&D/TTRPG Nerd. Movie Guy (https://boxd.it/xUjP). Occasional Star Trek posting and pictures of baked goods. Moderately feral. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Opinions my own.
Opinions my own.
I'm trying to be a lot more careful about this in my teaching too.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I'm trying to be a lot more careful about this in my teaching too.
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Dickens is actually the perfect encapsulation of today, where people who are deeply worried about societal inequality causally fantasise about genocide between rants about unfairness
... Boy, Dickens is the worst example to pick here.
"Dickens's world is too far removed from modern experience."
What, you mean the world of enormous wealth disparity, the industrialization of human life begetting generational suffering, the young forced to scavenge on the fringes of society...
"Dickens's world is too far removed from modern experience."
What, you mean the world of enormous wealth disparity, the industrialization of human life begetting generational suffering, the young forced to scavenge on the fringes of society...
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Dickens is actually the perfect encapsulation of today, where people who are deeply worried about societal inequality causally fantasise about genocide between rants about unfairness
God, I've just realized my two monitors are different temperatures and now I'm going to spend as long as it takes making them display the same, aren't I?
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 AM
God, I've just realized my two monitors are different temperatures and now I'm going to spend as long as it takes making them display the same, aren't I?
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my library's policy.
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
my library's policy.
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Librarians like to say that book bans interfere with parents' direction of their children's reading. But also, by letting minors be patrons, librarians do not collude with parents' control over their children's reading.
The freedom to read is radically democratic. 📚
Are you ever just standing in a conference hotel after sending roughly 30 emails about a grant proposal asking yourself out loud "where am I going? What time is it? What day is it?" as you scroll through the Sched? Yeah, me neither... 📚📜
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Are you ever just standing in a conference hotel after sending roughly 30 emails about a grant proposal asking yourself out loud "where am I going? What time is it? What day is it?" as you scroll through the Sched? Yeah, me neither... 📚📜
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If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.
November 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
If you thought women ruined the workplace, wait until you see what us enbies are doing. Flex hours, pay equality, plants on the desk, diverse hires, accessible desk spaces ... Real "9 to 5" shit, just like Dolly Parton taught us.
I am WHEEZING. I love and respect Grumbo.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I am WHEEZING. I love and respect Grumbo.
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RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
November 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.
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i'm happy for everyone who got to see the beautiful aurora borealis tn and am not at all jealous and crying 🥹
May 11, 2024 at 2:29 AM
i'm happy for everyone who got to see the beautiful aurora borealis tn and am not at all jealous and crying 🥹
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as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream
please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier
please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 11:15 PM
as someone with two children who are talented at math and need (especially the younger one) a lot of help with social and emotional stuff this makes me want to scream
please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier
please help your children learn to interact with the world, it will make their lives (and everyone else’s!) so much easier
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
Proposal: instead of pouring resources into AI, tech companies first figure out a way for people to be able to copy slides from one PowerPoint presentation to another without the formatting getting all fucked up
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
starting a list of actual problems actual coders could tackle to make modest but real improvements in work n life
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
mac mail search that actually works
scamproofing that isn't freakin' 2 factor for a restaurant res
citation format conversion generator
reliable synching of bluetooth devices
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I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.
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More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 AM
More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.
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Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Joyce Carol Oates: Demonstrating the Value of the Humanities through Public Ownership of the Richest Man on Earth
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In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
I've been carrying my DFF pass like everywhere for the past few days (taking it off outside of venues so as not to look like a mark and a tourist, which is evergreen advice about conference badges from one of my library school profs) and now I feel like I'm forgetting something when I go out.
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I've been carrying my DFF pass like everywhere for the past few days (taking it off outside of venues so as not to look like a mark and a tourist, which is evergreen advice about conference badges from one of my library school profs) and now I feel like I'm forgetting something when I go out.
I cast spiritual weapon so often that my DM knows what happens when I say "for my first trick" at the start of every combat AND another player in that game says "I cast bonk" in the game that I run even though his cleric's weapon isn't a war hammer. Clerics aren't for healing. Clerics are for bonk.
Good morning to the clerics who do anything but heal the party, and to them only.
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I cast spiritual weapon so often that my DM knows what happens when I say "for my first trick" at the start of every combat AND another player in that game says "I cast bonk" in the game that I run even though his cleric's weapon isn't a war hammer. Clerics aren't for healing. Clerics are for bonk.
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This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
Something fun about me is that I'm in an entirely 1-sided competition with a VERY elderly man at DFF to see who can see the most movies. He sees so many that the "see everything you can possibly see" pass is named after him. I have seen 26/36 movies +2 shorts programs. I am losing this competition.
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Something fun about me is that I'm in an entirely 1-sided competition with a VERY elderly man at DFF to see who can see the most movies. He sees so many that the "see everything you can possibly see" pass is named after him. I have seen 26/36 movies +2 shorts programs. I am losing this competition.
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I promise, it can be so easy
Remember, if you accidentally misgender or deadname someone, it's very easy to just say "Shit, sorry," and then say the correct name or pronoun.
The two important follow-ups are to not rend your garments and make it all about you and to then also make sure you work hard on not doing it again.
The two important follow-ups are to not rend your garments and make it all about you and to then also make sure you work hard on not doing it again.
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I promise, it can be so easy
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And this is why I stress that we cannot let genAI take over library processes. Try having genAI figure out how to catalogue that book. Humans use reasoning, our knowledge of the field, patron needs, and yes, our own biases and priorities. Cataloguing tells you a lot about a system's values.
November 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And this is why I stress that we cannot let genAI take over library processes. Try having genAI figure out how to catalogue that book. Humans use reasoning, our knowledge of the field, patron needs, and yes, our own biases and priorities. Cataloguing tells you a lot about a system's values.
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Personally I cant wait for Lego Tuvix!
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The Lego 'Star Trek' Set Is Here, and It's Exactly What You Want
Boldly go with the USS 'Enterprise'-D in Lego form when it hits shelves in late November.
gizmodo.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Personally I cant wait for Lego Tuvix!
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.
Do you pull him apart… or put him together?! What a moral quandary this lego is! Available for ages 6+ and up.