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David William

@nrvscrcts.bsky.social

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Academic librarian, PhD in philosophy. Critical librarianship, phenomenology, synths, tabletop & video games, sci-fi. Settler on Treaty 7 land. He/him. All opinions my own. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · May 10

My band Fulfilment's new record is out on Bandcamp and streaming today! Listen and share with whomever you think might like 10 jams of Canadiana critique, punk amidst aging and indifference, ecological disaster, rainbow folk experience, and solidarity. #posthardcore #oldpunk

Husky House, by Fulfilment

10 track album

fulfilment.bandcamp.com

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 3h

Become ungovernable: apotheosis edition

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 9h

war, war never changes.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 11h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Russ Bengtson @russbengtson.bsky.social · 3h

happy 34th to badmotorfinger, the grunge 'south of heaven'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNh-...

Soundgarden - Outshined

YouTube video by SoundgardenVEVO

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1d

Alien Isolation was released 11 years ago today!
And so it has been a year since a sequel was announced.

So it's a good day to make this oral history of the making of Alien: Isolation available to everyone. 🖖

In the shadow of Alien: Isolation | The Spaceshipper

www.patreon.com

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 22h

"'I don’t think I’ve ever called Bill O’Reilly a fascist. I don’t remember ever doing that. Of course, if they were actually my students, I’d say, "include a citation."'" 🔥

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 23h

"Conservative lawmakers are confident the new bill will easily pass in the UCP controlled Legislature, but they may be in for a longer battle than they realize.

According to one source, the other side already has a counter attack waiting in the wings: the number 5,318,008."

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23h

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

CALGARY — With the province's teachers on strike, Danielle Smith’s UCP government has tabled new legislation banning the use of the number 58,008, in order to “protect Alberta’s most precious resource...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

Dear Alex,
We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available.

Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records?

Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC? 

The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

“It is hard to know who to blame, but if you can embody it in immigrants, then you have somebody who people can grasp as a target, as a kind of cause of their hardship.” #abpoli

‘Shameless’: How the Alberta Next Panel Blamed Immigrants | The Tyee

Divisive scapegoating, including showing a slanted video, fits the populist playbook, says an expert.

thetyee.ca

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“The Big Four accountancy and consultancy firm will repay the final instalment of its government contract after conceding that some footnotes and references it contained were incorrect, Australia’s Department of Employment and Workplace Relations said on Monday.”

Deloitte issues refund for error-ridden Australian government report that used AI

Big Four firm will repay final instalment after incorrect references and citations found in document

www.ft.com

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike...

From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum...

They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 1d

Judith Butler warns that society must resist right-wing transphobia, or else…

Judith Butler warns that society must resist right-wing transphobia, or else... - LGBTQ Nation

Transphobia is a form of fascism, the nonbinary queer theorist said in a recent talk.

www.lgbtqnation.com

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Jay Ulfelder @jayulfelder.bsky.social · 1d

"Organizers say that the crackdown has created a climate of fear and intimidation that is not only directly harming workers and their families, but is also stifling ongoing worker efforts to improve conditions on the job, and organize to protect themselves from raids."

How ICE Terror Campaigns Are Used to Discipline Labor

While Chicago sees a surge of ICE detentions, workers are facing retaliation as immigrants when they advocate for their rights.

prospect.org

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 2d

Four months ago, I sounded the alarm about the shortage of sterile drug consumption supplies across Alberta: drugdatadecoded.ca/recovery-alb...

Now, the UCP government is making it official, blaming 'overspending': www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@jenleecbc.bsky.social

Calgary outreach organizations worried as access to free harm reduction supplies dries up | CBC News

Some community outreach groups working with vulnerable Calgarians are scrambling after being told that, starting this month, they no longer have access to free, provincially funded needles, pipes and ...

www.cbc.ca

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 1d

"While we can hope this will be the first and last death from measles during this outbreak—newborn or otherwise—the disease has likely spread too far, through a population too poorly protected, for us to believe we’d be getting away with that." #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Alberta Medical Association @albertadoctors.bsky.social · 1d

More than ever before, there’s a feeling that someone on the internet knows better and the distrust seems to be getting worse. If we’re serious about reducing preventable suffering among kids, we need to relearn how to talk across our differences.
thewalrus.ca/how-alberta-...

How Alberta Became the Epicentre of Canada’s Measles Outbreak | The Walrus

A virus eradicated from Canada a generation ago just took the life of a newborn

thewalrus.ca

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Kurt Phillips (ARC Collective) @arccollective.bsky.social · 1d

Guthrie is a former UCP MLA. Worth a read.

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

Who is Anika Nilles? Meet the German virtuoso who's just been hired as Rush's new drummer, replacing the late, great Neil Peart.

Who is Anika Nilles? Meet Rush's New Virtuosic Drummer

When Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson announced plans to reform Rush, they stunned fans by saying that German drummer Anika Nilles was joining the group.

www.rollingstone.com

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 1d

chasing "balance" in news can sound like it's noble but it's not. treating all possible sources as comparably expert, rational, experienced, insightful, relevant, disadvantaged or empowered does not result in objective, accurate reporting. it results in false equivalency.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 1d

Really want to encourage libraries - especially school libraries - to put no-AI content into your collection development policy. At the very least, if you have a clause in there about requiring accurate information, you can use that to weed out or prevent genAI purchases.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention.

Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

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Karen Geier @karengeier.com · 1d

All my Santas gone

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

New ceremonial robes vs old ceremonial robes. #SCC

2026 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, where the new robes are black with red piping.

2025 photo of the Supreme Court of Canada, with the red velvet and ermine robes.

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 1d

The knock-on effects of fascist protectionism include breaking a fundamental process and value in which libraries everywhere participate.

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2d

Libraries worldwide have been impacted by Trump's tariffs. Books that are on loan from US libraries to international libraries are getting tariffed on their way back in, getting books from international libraries has turned into an expensive nightmare, etc:

www.404media.co/libraries-ca...

Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs

Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’

www.404media.co

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 2d

4 arrests: $7.25 million each.
Aligning 'border security' with the US far-right disinformation firehose: priceless.

#ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli

Alberta border patrol has made just 4 arrests for illegal immigration or drug trafficking in border zone, data shows

Critics are raising concerns about efficiency and cost, but province says it remains committed to border patrol plan

theijf.org

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David William @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity! ✊