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Library workers are a special kind of civil servant. Our mandate is to give you and everyone else free access to some of the best things you can have: learning, self-enrichment, community, contemplation, fun, and simple peace and quiet. the best way to appreciate us is to come use us. 🙂 📚

"Tech CEO says" is a news genre I wish would get a moratorium. Or at least be written about not from the perspective as a prediction of what is going to happen but from a "where's the guillotine" perspective instead.

(Read the thread from the start here)

I think, on reflection, one of the things that frightens me most about the world at present is the impoverishment of imagination in political and civic life - the inability to think that we could do things differently, better, and that the rules we made up can be easily unmade again.

‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

Mass hungerstrike in PA ICE detention center

"What started with 70 people participating in the strike on Thursday morning, escalated to roughly 100 people by Friday morning on Unit Four of the facility, the man said."

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...

Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.

Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.

And then there's this...

pet treats? khakis???? white people going after poc when amazon’s race war on what white people need to survive is right in the open

iGuillotine

Not everything is a purity test. Sometimes we’re just being asked to do better, think harder, act more ethically, be less selfish, use our power more effectively, or take risks

These are not purity tests and claiming they are delivers nothing but the soft bigotry of low expectations

I fear too many things, including useful critique and engagement, are being called purity tests

Not little Sacajawhite lady?!?

okay, this happens to me all the time.
Why do some people get so angry/upset when I tell them that refusal IS my ethical way to engage with gAI?
Guilt?

Audra Simpson's discussion of refusal as an anticolonial response just popped into my head

honestly big props to people who write mutual aid posts, whether for themselves or someone else. previously I've always reposted and didn't realize the amount of effort that goes into the writing. how weighty each word feels when it could lead to more visibility and donations. it's stressful! 😅

This is why we need more people with degrees who actually give a shit doing shit!

Everyone Is Lying to You for Money | Official Trailer UHD YouTube video by The Forge

Oh look, it's your boy Jay-Z in a video about scammers. Wowwwww

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Another reminder that white people can stop what's happening in the US whenever they want.

They are just choosing not to.

More of this.

"let us do whatever we want to you because the alternative is so much worse" is textbook abuser talk.

I think many thoughts about this, but I won’t say those thoughts out loud. 🙃

You ever think about the fact that the people who told you "violence is not the answer" are the same people who:

· raped and pillaged the entire globe
· bomb as they please
· own the most guns of anyone in the world

?

You should.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I’m a bedbound Latina artist: my asthmatic cat & I are homeless in a motel room…

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Repeated COVID (infections) are ruining education.

People like to attribute kids failing to do the work to the few months they spent at home in 2020. Choosing to ignore that Covid causes measurable brain impairment and cumulative cognitive deficits in not only adults, but children too.

Bluesky is hiding almost everything from Palestinians right now.

Only visible in Buffer.

I am forever saying that if refusal isn't a live option in any decision making process about "AI", then no ethical practice is possible. You've got to be able to stop if the thing is unacceptable.

Little tired of these wild +/- 20⁰ shifts in temp from day to day.

Cut it out up there.

It's been so interesting to watch this unfold. Barnes & Noble and other big book chains shut indies down in the the 1990s (and on) and then Amazon came along and ate up all the book market share. Now people tired of big corporations are creating demand for more indies