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A leftist library worker podcast.
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157 - The Politics of Weeding and Little v. Llano County | librarypunk
We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.
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https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/is-including-hidden-ai-prompts-in-academic-papers-gaming-the-...
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157 - The Politics of Weeding and Little v. Llano County
We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.
We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.
I love him
February 13, 2026 at 1:29 AM
I love him
Editing the podcast, learning I cough now when I have indigestion
February 12, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Editing the podcast, learning I cough now when I have indigestion
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When you see slates of absurd bills, purposefully intended to harm, shame, and damage young people and educators in the public school world, it's about vouchers. It's about stealing money from public institutions and giving it to rich people for private, unregulated schools.
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
When you see slates of absurd bills, purposefully intended to harm, shame, and damage young people and educators in the public school world, it's about vouchers. It's about stealing money from public institutions and giving it to rich people for private, unregulated schools.
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For all the evil that gets done legislatively and judicially, there’s something to be said about the complicity of regular people who are all too willing to be “overly cautious.”
February 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
For all the evil that gets done legislatively and judicially, there’s something to be said about the complicity of regular people who are all too willing to be “overly cautious.”
Had a great and energizing recording session with @librarian.bsky.social and why do people talk to AIs for fun when people like this exist?
February 12, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Had a great and energizing recording session with @librarian.bsky.social and why do people talk to AIs for fun when people like this exist?
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The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
Library warming centers strained workers and left people without help for complex issues, staff say
Library workers and volunteers say people in mental-health crises, struggling with substance-abuse issues, and requiring wound care are coming to the warming centers and they have no backup.
www.inquirer.com
February 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM
The Parker administration is failing so many of our most vulnerable neighbors while hanging our overworked, underpaid library workers out to dry www.inquirer.com/news/philade...
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for a fired professor, “the university recorded four of his classes using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom.” having read Foucault is such a burden in this new world
“The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently rolled out a new policy that permits university officials to record classes without notifying the instructor. It’s a practice administrators have used in the past to investigate professors but have now formalized in writing.”
UNC Admin Can Now, Officially, Secretly Record Faculty
The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.”
www.insidehighered.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
for a fired professor, “the university recorded four of his classes using the existing Panopto camera in the classroom.” having read Foucault is such a burden in this new world
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#OtD 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. @LGSMpride raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movts. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e...
February 11, 2026 at 10:25 AM
#OtD 11 Feb 1987 Mark Ashton, leading member of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners, died aged just 26. @LGSMpride raised huge amounts of money for Welsh miners during the strike of 1984-5 and brought together the LGBT & workers movts. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2019/06/10/e...
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What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...
Turns out that the publisher of the property law textbook I use, Thomson Reuters, "holds a contract worth up to $22 million (U.S.) that began in May 2021 to provide ICE with access to a law enforcement investigative database subscription". Welp, new book time...
www.thestar.com/business/mor...
www.thestar.com/business/mor...
More than a dozen Canadian companies – including Thomson Reuters – have done business with ICE, Star analysis reveals
Such contracts have become controversial as concerns mount that products or services sold to ICE could be used by the agency in activities that may violate human rights.
www.thestar.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
What is the academic equivalent of #NoTechForICE? A colleague has proposed #NoPapersForICE... A lot of the journals we publish in and subscribe to are behind some of the grossest targeting of humans in the US. See also: bsky.app/profile/jamb...
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I think our GAs put some manga in the blind date with a book pile. That'll be funny to get volume 4 of Full Metal Alchemist.
February 9, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I think our GAs put some manga in the blind date with a book pile. That'll be funny to get volume 4 of Full Metal Alchemist.
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oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2... - '28 days of librarians' for Black History Month
28 Days of Black Librarians
In 2026 ASALH, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History honors Black History Month with A Century of Black…
oaklandlibrary.org
February 8, 2026 at 6:32 PM
oaklandlibrary.org/blogs/post/2... - '28 days of librarians' for Black History Month
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Zine Culture
Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist's underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface
From 1943 to 1945, Bloch produced 96 editions of 'The Underwater Cabaret' while he and other Jews hid from the Nazis in an attic crawlspace.
forward.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Zine Culture
Let us know if you'd like any of us to guest on your podcast. We're available if you need a library worker POV about copyright, publishing, government censorship, academia, IT, etc. Or if you want to talk about any of our pet interests like opera, horror, video games, gay shit, and bad books.
February 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Let us know if you'd like any of us to guest on your podcast. We're available if you need a library worker POV about copyright, publishing, government censorship, academia, IT, etc. Or if you want to talk about any of our pet interests like opera, horror, video games, gay shit, and bad books.
Making a zine on copyright abolition, can't decide who it needs to be directed towards more: leftists or library workers
February 8, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Making a zine on copyright abolition, can't decide who it needs to be directed towards more: leftists or library workers
Update I'm wrong on this, I misunderstood the 2019 suit
The requirement for registration to be able to sue is so strange, since it's not in the legislation at all as far as I know.
Every time I get a new email about the Anthropic class action settlement I just want to fucking cry because it's a reminder that I (and a ton of other writers) have been excluded from even having this tiny crumb of justice because our publishers didn't take the extra step of registering copyright.
February 7, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Update I'm wrong on this, I misunderstood the 2019 suit
The requirement for registration to be able to sue is so strange, since it's not in the legislation at all as far as I know.
Every time I get a new email about the Anthropic class action settlement I just want to fucking cry because it's a reminder that I (and a ton of other writers) have been excluded from even having this tiny crumb of justice because our publishers didn't take the extra step of registering copyright.
February 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
The requirement for registration to be able to sue is so strange, since it's not in the legislation at all as far as I know.
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Free for ALA members! elearning.ala.org/local/catalo...
Responding to ICE at the Library: Real World Approaches | ALAeLearning
elearning.ala.org
February 6, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Free for ALA members! elearning.ala.org/local/catalo...
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I just find the pro-AI discourse in academia so ridiculous. It's a tool to deskill workers. If you're not an AI engineer, why learn to use it instead of specialist knowledge? It's like a class on how to work an assembly line. The point of the line is you don't have to know anything specialized.
February 6, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I just find the pro-AI discourse in academia so ridiculous. It's a tool to deskill workers. If you're not an AI engineer, why learn to use it instead of specialist knowledge? It's like a class on how to work an assembly line. The point of the line is you don't have to know anything specialized.
I made an 8 page mini zine to go along with it smazzie.itch.io/the-politics...
February 6, 2026 at 1:22 AM
I made an 8 page mini zine to go along with it smazzie.itch.io/the-politics...
Just gonna have to start a whole Epstein channel in the scholcomm shittalk discord
“[I] am in the newly formed board of advisors of scientific american,” wrote Nowak, a mathematician at Harvard University and a now former member of Scientific American’s board, in an e-mail to Epstein on September 23, 2009. “It seems almost everyone there is a friend of yours.”
Bro what
Bro what
Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism
Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show
www.scientificamerican.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Just gonna have to start a whole Epstein channel in the scholcomm shittalk discord
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Welp, time to do link cleanup for the CIA World Factbook from the LibGuides
February 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Welp, time to do link cleanup for the CIA World Factbook from the LibGuides