Nathan F
@librarypoweruser.bsky.social
Pro libraries, PIC abolition, and cats
Midwest, U.S.
Midwest, U.S.
December 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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1996 in the US saw the passage of the Telecom Act (deregulation, section 230), the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, & the Illegal Immigrant & Immigrant Responsibility Act. Those three things set up what we're living today.
December 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
1996 in the US saw the passage of the Telecom Act (deregulation, section 230), the Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, & the Illegal Immigrant & Immigrant Responsibility Act. Those three things set up what we're living today.
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it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media
December 8, 2025 at 10:26 PM
it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media
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At a personal level two things are true at the same time
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
November 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
At a personal level two things are true at the same time
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.
And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.
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Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing
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Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”
November 16, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”