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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 6h

I’m a Mets fan and a Dodger fan but it hurts to see the Phillies go out like that!

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John Bence @jdbence.bsky.social · 11h

Did they just kill one of the best Library schools for AI?

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 11h

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚

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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’

SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

www.dailytarheel.com

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 10h

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself.

Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped.

This is not okay.

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 17h

Watching a web archiving presentation and shout out to @literaturegeek.bsky.social for sharing the archived version of their dissertation website so it can be used to demo this new way of rendering web archives online 👏

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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prithi @prithik.bsky.social · 1d

“Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency” ~Mike Wallace

Congrats to Mike Wallace, NYC historian extraordinaire, for a lifetime of work & his new book Gotham at War. Gotham Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - what a rich legacy 🗽

Screen that reads “Historicizing the present robs it of its sense of inevitability, and restores its sense of human agency.” A quote by Pulitzer-prize winning New York City historian Mike Wallace. Photo taken at Gotham at War Book Event — a celebration of the culminating book in Mike Wallace's Gotham series and of his contributions to understanding NYC's history, organized by The Gotham Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, October 2025

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 1d

Los Feliz, of course, which is ridiculous. But we do manage to get La Cienega and Sepulveda right, which I’ve heard visitors mangle in all sorts of weird ways

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 2d

Sliwa going after the Yankee fans with these ads 👀

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

And here’s some local news coverage www.shawlocal.com/daily-journa...

Momence’s Baker & Taylor to close

The book is being closed on a Momence employment fixture as book publisher Baker & Taylor informed workers Monday the site is being closed.

www.shawlocal.com

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Luke W. Henderson @lukewhenderson.bsky.social · 3d

Official news now

www.shawlocal.com/daily-journa...

Momence’s Baker & Taylor to close

The book is being closed on a Momence employment fixture as book publisher Baker & Taylor informed workers Monday the site is being closed.

www.shawlocal.com

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

Same! They were a mainstay in my old bookselling life too. But I’m just hearing of it, don’t have any details.

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

That is one way to look at it!

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

And the library infrastructure for print books continues to crumble. No more binderies, no more distributors. Getting pretty bleak!

Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 3d

Baker & Taylor appears to be shutting down. A post on the r/libraries subreddit from an employee of B&T breaks the news and there appear to be other employees in the comments confirming the situation.

From the Libraries community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the Libraries community

www.reddit.com

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I see the Dodgers bullpen is at it again

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Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social · 3d

THIS! I'm a goddammned humanities professor and book hoarder who has had my nose happily buried in books since I was 5 and even I can't do it nearly as much anymore and it's not really about the phone (I have books on it) it's that I rarely have uninterrupted time of more than an hour a day if that.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

Pleased to shout out my comrade Annie Sollinger on this! bsky.app/profile/sonj...

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

Yelling about AI...Home Edition! Any fellow UMassians who are around on October 8, come on out! We're gonna have a good time.

OCTOBER 8 SOUTH COLLEGE E480 12:30PM - 2PM
AGAINST AI:
PERSPECTIVES ON THE PROBLEMS OF
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
JOIN US FOR A BROWN BAG GATHERING WITH PRESENTATIONS BY
ANNIE SOLLINGER
VISUAL ARCHIVIST/ART LIBRARIAN W.E.B. DUBOIS LIBRARY
"AI REFUSAL IN THE LIBRARY"

SONJA DRIMMER
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MEDIEVAL ART IN THE HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
"WHY CAN'T COMPUTER VISION SEE?"

AND INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY
MEG VICKERY

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

Desperate for a use case that isn’t better served by a human who knows how to excel. But I guess that’s why they’re ruining excel as we speak 🙄

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 3d

See also: academic libraries and AI

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

There are so few people actually asking, “is this any good for what we do?” Instead people give lip service to “responsible use” while plowing ahead with punching “AI” into everything. This isn’t just about selling a product; it’s about co-opting humanities researchers to train “AI” models.

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Sulu @codenimm.bsky.social · 13d

If you're curious about Theatre of the Oppressed and want to train with Julian Boal in NYC, Register for Nov 1-2. Early bird price until 9/30

www.tonyc.nyc/events

Events

Events happening at Theatre of the Oppressed NYC. RSVP for a show, learn about how to get involved!

www.tonyc.nyc

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3d

Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 4d

The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 4d

The 14yo and I watched a little bit of pledge drive from a New Jersey PBS station that was all Bee Gees giveaways and a documentary and I learned so much.

I also apparently knew nothing to begin with, because I said out loud, “Wait, they were brothers?”

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Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you UC faculty!!!!

Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 6d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Roxanne Shirazi @roxanneshirazi.bsky.social · 5d

It’s a bit warm for Octoberfest but I’m here for it 🍁

A pint of beer at an outside table with an orange menu of Octoberfest foods

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