This definitely would've benefitted from an interview with someone more directly in the trenches I think.

"The headline finding: librarians have a notably higher rate of resistance to AI. About a third reported not using AI and having no plans to do so. (Across the full dataset, it was 20%.)"

unusual whales @unusual w.... 5h BREAKING: Businesses can claim refunds starting today for Trump tariffs declared unconstitutional, per AP Tim @trouble man90 So businesses raised their prices ta offset the tariffs, we the consumers paid those higher prices, and now those same businesses can get reimbursed from the government for tariffs we already covered for them by paving higher prices?? And *they* get a refund and we don't??

America, in a nutshell

Harvard Grad Student Union Set to Strike Tuesday as Last Bargaining Session Yields Little Movement | News | The Harvard Crimson Harvard’s graduate student union is set to strike Tuesday morning after a Monday bargaining session — the last scheduled before the union’s midnight deadline — sidestepped the economic issues at the c...

Harvard Grad Student Union is on strike this morning

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

I think its time to make pot only available from a dude named Dan living out of a van again

Hi there! Some news, but as of this morning, I am no longer with Mad Cave. I am eternally grateful for the past 4.5 years with you all, and with such an amazing team.

Thank you so much for trusting me with marketing your books!

Hey folks, after nearly 4 years at Mad Cave, I was let go this morning. It was a wonderful time getting to work with an amazing list of creators. If we have worked together, please stay in touch. I am available for freelance editing and would love to work with you all in the future.

More links:

www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

studentaid.gov/understand-a...

What the New Loan Caps Will Mean for Grad Students This Fall

Some news coverage and info here: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

It isn't that loans are gone. There are new limits and the Grad Plus loans are eliminated altogether. And yes people can still take private loans if they want but that is a really bad idea.

Yes that's the case.

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The Study of Comics in Academia
May 30, 6 PM EDT
I'll be moderating a panel for @cartoonist.coop Nib & Ink Digital Comics Festival, with @neilcohn.bsky.social @scottmccloud.bsky.social @nsousanis.bsky.social - geeking over the developments in comics studies.
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People are so without whimsy

I can't use ear buds so it aint like a replacement is cheap

They were almost a decade old so I mean I'm sure a replacement ain't the worst idea but

Fork exhausted me

.... dammit

I just did something very not like me

And left my headphones on my Amtrak connector bus

Submitted a lost item thing but dammit

The temperature swung more than 40 degrees in the last 72 hours since I left and got back wtf

"Tobacco ruled the world until it didn't" is such a good reminder and rallying cry

Eating fancy on Amtrak 🤌

look at palantir (and other AI) dipshits talk about the work they do - ie identifying, monitoring, & facilitating the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world - and tell me you defend a corporate structure's right to exist, or a "kill chain's" right to exist.

and MY work scandalizes you?

A guide to safer communication with Signal. Screen readable PDF available here: https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/signal-best-practices.pdf

New resource from LFP and CoRD: safer communication with Signal. Our best practices based on common threat models and concerns. Feel free to share! PDF downloadable at libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

It’s the first day of National Library Week 📚

Take some time to reflect on everything libraries do and stand for and the threats they are facing.

Then think about how you can help.

👇

The 11 fields in which a professional degree may be awarded, as contained in the consensus definition, are (1) Pharmacy (Pharm.D.), (2) Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.), (3) Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.), (4) Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.), (5) Law (L.L.B. or J.D.), (6) Medicine (M.D.), (7) Optometry (O.D.), (8) Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.), (9) Podiatry (D.P.M., D.P., or Pod.D.), (10) Theology (M.Div., or M.H.L.), and (11) Clinical Psychology (Psy.D. or Ph.D.).24 These 11 fields include those that align with the nonexhaustive list of professional degrees in 34 C.F.R. §668.2, and also specify Clinical Psychology (Psy.D. or Ph.D).

Ed is using a definition of "professional" to be essentially just doctors and lawyers.

www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

If I've missed any statements or informational posts from ALA, ACRL, MLA, etc., please send them along.

Starting July 1 there will be new limits on student loans for MLS students under the limited understanding of what fits as a "professional" degree.

This limit is going to further restrict access to the field.

I haven't seen anywhere near enough discussion of this (truthfully, none) by pro orgs. 📚

Increasingly impossible to exist at all without a tech company claiming control or ownership over you, your identity, and/or any information about you.

And, no, "just stay offline" isn't really a solution. We've all but made living without using the internet impossible.

We need a better compact.

people get hella mad when you say adult drivers should be more responsible than children on our streets.

Who even are you

A frog in a rowboat reading a book while a fish in the water is also reading a book. The caption at the top reads "It's a Whole Great Big Fun Thing"

A fifteen drawer card catalog with some drawers pulled out and Library of Congress literature in the drawers and on top.

It is National Library Week and the Library of Congress has done a cute nationwide thing with old card catalogs highlighting a lot of their core programs. I'm partial to their "Free to Use and Reuse Sets" but I'm sure we've all got our faves. 📚

newsroom.loc.gov/news/library...

Don't give them any ideas

Great to meet you in real space! 🤘

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