Timothy Vollmer
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When lightning strikes I’ll be on my bike.
Union member: @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social
When lightning strikes I’ll be on my bike.
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Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th!
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
February 15, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Lecturers contract bargaining starts February 19th!
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
Berkeley Unit 18: Show your support all day at Bauer Wurster Hall.
Everyone: Join us for a solidarity bake sale at California Hall from 10:30am-2:00pm! @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social @karodger.bsky.social #WeTeachUC
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This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 AM
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
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NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump administration drops its appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. But it ...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:41 AM
NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Meta internal memo says they plan to launch facial recognition for their Ray Ban snoop glasses and it should be fine because groups like the ACLU are busy fighting fascism so won't have time to fight back. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Meta internal memo says they plan to launch facial recognition for their Ray Ban snoop glasses and it should be fine because groups like the ACLU are busy fighting fascism so won't have time to fight back. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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The San Francisco teachers strike is over as the school district and teachers union reach tentative agreement, a $183 million deal increasing educators salaries and health care benefits in a two-year contract.
Schools will remain closed Friday, with classrooms open again on Wednesday.
Schools will remain closed Friday, with classrooms open again on Wednesday.
S.F. teachers strike is over as school district and union reach tentative agreement
The teachers union and the school district officials agreed to a deal that would end the strike after four days.
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The San Francisco teachers strike is over as the school district and teachers union reach tentative agreement, a $183 million deal increasing educators salaries and health care benefits in a two-year contract.
Schools will remain closed Friday, with classrooms open again on Wednesday.
Schools will remain closed Friday, with classrooms open again on Wednesday.
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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is February 23–27, 2026, the 13th annual celebration of balance in copyright law!
Learn how to participate: www.arl.org/blog/partici...
#FairUseWeek #FairDealingWeek #Copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Libraries @carl-abrc.bsky.social
Learn how to participate: www.arl.org/blog/partici...
#FairUseWeek #FairDealingWeek #Copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Libraries @carl-abrc.bsky.social
Participate in Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week! — Association of Research Libraries
Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is February 23–27, 2026! This is the 13th annual celebration of the balance in copyright law, promoting further progress, and accommodating freedom of speech and expression....
www.arl.org
February 11, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is February 23–27, 2026, the 13th annual celebration of balance in copyright law!
Learn how to participate: www.arl.org/blog/partici...
#FairUseWeek #FairDealingWeek #Copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Libraries @carl-abrc.bsky.social
Learn how to participate: www.arl.org/blog/partici...
#FairUseWeek #FairDealingWeek #Copyright #FreeSpeech #FreeExpression #Libraries @carl-abrc.bsky.social
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UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧 @ucaft.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
UC-AFT lecturers are kicking off contract bargaining on February 19. At Berkeley, Unit 18 lecturers can show their support at Bauer Wurster Hall throughout the day, and everyone can stop by California Hall for a solidarity bake sale 10:30a-2:00p! ✊🥧 @ucaft.bsky.social
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I "enjoy" the hybrid roles this sort of doomerism serves to simultaneously misrepresent what the technology is actually capable of, and misdirect attention away from the fact the real problem is a pretty traditional one: greedy, shitty people
Anthropic safety researcher quits, warning ‘world is in peril’
Other AI safety researchers have also left leading firms, citing concerns about potentially catastrophic risks.
www.semafor.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:24 PM
I "enjoy" the hybrid roles this sort of doomerism serves to simultaneously misrepresent what the technology is actually capable of, and misdirect attention away from the fact the real problem is a pretty traditional one: greedy, shitty people
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me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
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tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
February 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get
…
tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text
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The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
“We cannot just abolish ICE!”
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
Bestie, you are older than ICE.
February 8, 2026 at 3:59 PM
The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children
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The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
February 8, 2026 at 4:58 AM
The radical and unrealistic position of "no concentration camps"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
The reasonable moderate position of "some concentration camps in certain circumstances"
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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Sir, yes sir. Budget-Chicken-2425. He’s the antifa number 2. Real mastermind
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Sir, yes sir. Budget-Chicken-2425. He’s the antifa number 2. Real mastermind
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hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 7, 2026 at 3:53 AM
hard to think of a better example of "you may not believe in class war, but billionaires know they're in one" than this
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A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
“ICE GTFO OF MN”
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
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Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.
February 7, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Sad news but honestly a good innings for an APC-free, community-led open access journal.
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The attack comes a week after the Trump administration was sued by the families of two men killed in an earlier strike.
Pentagon Kills 2 More in Another Boat Strike, Bringing Death Toll to 128
The attack comes a week after the Trump administration was sued by the families of two men killed in an earlier strike.
buff.ly
February 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The attack comes a week after the Trump administration was sued by the families of two men killed in an earlier strike.
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NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
Grant Guidelines for Libraries and Museums Take “Chilling” Political Turn Under Trump
Former Institute of Museum and Library Services leaders from both political parties expressed concern that the new funding guidelines could encourage a more constrained or distorted view of American h...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:31 PM
NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.
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Join ARL & @recreatecoalition.bsky.social for a congressional staff briefing during #FairUseWeek, Wed Feb 25 in DC, on #AI & #FairUse!
RSVP: bit.ly/FUW26briefing
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Fair Use Week Congressional Briefing Hosted by ARL and Re:Create — Association of Research Libraries
Join the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and Re:Create Coalition for a congressional staff briefing in Washington, DC, during Fair Use Week. The briefing will highlight perspectives on AI and....
www.arl.org
February 6, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Join ARL & @recreatecoalition.bsky.social for a congressional staff briefing during #FairUseWeek, Wed Feb 25 in DC, on #AI & #FairUse!
RSVP: bit.ly/FUW26briefing
@authorsalliance.bsky.social @nyulaw.bsky.social @eff.org @bb.usefairuse.com @davehansen.bsky.social @ktrendacosta.bsky.social
RSVP: bit.ly/FUW26briefing
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AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
AAUP President on the Elimination of Tenure at Oklahoma Regional Universities and Community Colleges.
WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academ...
www.aaup.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:40 AM
AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.
“When asked by The Post if they were still committed to their diversity programs, only 12 schools said yes.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/in...
Before Trump ban, universities were slowly making faculties more diverse
The number of Black and Hispanic faculty increased at large research universities after a wave of commitments. Now these pledges are being rolled back, a Post analysis found.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
“When asked by The Post if they were still committed to their diversity programs, only 12 schools said yes.” www.washingtonpost.com/education/in...
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After Charlie Kirk was shot, UCLA DEI director Johnathan Perkins said he was "glad when bigots die.” But was it a fireable offense? I spoke to Perkins and look at what's happened with the dozens of campus faculty and staff suspensions after Kirk's death:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
UCLA fires DEI director after social media posts on Charlie Kirk’s death
Former UCLA DEI director Johnathan Perkins, who was fired over his posts after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, said he plans to sue the university.
www.latimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 6:44 PM
After Charlie Kirk was shot, UCLA DEI director Johnathan Perkins said he was "glad when bigots die.” But was it a fireable offense? I spoke to Perkins and look at what's happened with the dozens of campus faculty and staff suspensions after Kirk's death:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Some recent film photos, shot on Ilford FP4.
February 5, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Some recent film photos, shot on Ilford FP4.
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Enormous loss for librarianship. Fobazi’s impact on the profession is indescribable. Peace to her friends and family. How honored we all were to know work and call her a colleague.
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Enormous loss for librarianship. Fobazi’s impact on the profession is indescribable. Peace to her friends and family. How honored we all were to know work and call her a colleague.