WELL. ok that is sensible

yes but WHERE do you STAND on FLINT vs DETROIT coneys OAF

every time I hear about the Caesar I always think about how much you hate it

I'M SO FULL OF HATE

If Mastodon is a complicated HOA, Bluesky is a network of Ring cameras in an Aperture Laboratories-esque facility that is ran by an army of Wheatleys that can barely understand what they're doing.

This girl!!!!

At what point is automation bad? Should we take down library websites? Remove all signage? Take spine labels off of materials? That would result in having to employ *so many people*. Is that good?

seriously even if clam piss was delicious, it's still just an existing rather complicated innovative drink that you added one shitty thing to, you are not a genius

The Caesar. I will never stop yelling about the Caesar. Somebody takes a Bloody Mary, puts clam piss in it, and then yells "I AM CULINARY GENIUS". entire nation celebrates. Madness.

The EU’s Court of Justice has just ruled anti-LGBTQ+, including anti-trans, laws are ‘contrary to the very identity of the Union as a common legal order in a society in which pluralism prevails’.

Young People might not realize but for about a year or so Apple officially endorsed and supported running MacOS on *non-Apple* hardware, e.g., Mac clones. A wonderful time. Jobs returning killed that dead.

Now that Cook is on his way out, can we bring back Gil Amelio plz

I am a famous Book Hater and *I* get these.

Bluesky just sips from the intellectual lineage of crypto grifting, where you gesture meaningfully towards "decentralization" but really, 2-3 powerful players own everything.

...I honestly thought Bill O'Reilly was dead, but I was probably mixing him up with Limbaugh.

Mitchell!

...mitchell?

Bluesky is has gotten two large funding rounds from VCs with ties to the crypto industry, it's more than a little absurd to conflate it with a community project run by a nonprofit.

Damn man AGI is truly here

well, to be fair, it's probably odds-on favourite that any given person is not really sleeping enough

Some folks really, really, really want you to eat your vegetables, even if you have been eating your vegetables, Kevin

hugs spud

Can you tell I have a paper due today to a journal and I think the paper is garbage (I think everything I write is garbage) and I dislike myself and want to live in a cave forever? Am I disguising myself enough?

And by.... many, many, many other metrics. Love of books (not really), cardigans owned (zero), cats owned (zero). Why am I even in this profession, he asks himself

Related: I have been *invited to speak*, specifically me invited, to exactly one conference as well in all that time. I am a shitty librarian, by these metrics.

So when I hear about people in libraries getting headhunted a lot, I'm like "Yes, I know I suck ass. No need to rub it in."

I have been actively recruited for a management role at another university library exactly once in my entire 30+ year career, and the invite I got was *massively insulting* -- less pay than the job I already had in a place where the cost of living would easily be 2-3x as much.

When ChatGPT was launched, almost all users were men – but now, women are the majority

www.update.news/p/will-ai-dr...

Orange fluffy cat inside my car.

I have to go to work and this is not my cat.

This Data Center Is Getting a $77 Million Tax Break to Create One Job No other project in the country has gotten such a large subsidy to create so few jobs, according to watchdogs.

NEW: In return for nearly $77 million in tax breaks, the expansion of a JPMorganChase data center in Orangeburg, NY promises to create exactly one permanent job.

The subsidy is the largest of its kind, per job, in the country.

yeah like good lord the "do you have any questions for us" is *a trap*. Like a trap in a good way; we *want you to ask us stuff*. You absolutely gotta prep for it.