A debut upper #MG #historicalfiction #novelinverse that I could not put down! bookshop.org/a/102434/979... #library #books #tlsky #skybrarian #skybrarians #librarian #bookrecommendation #librarians #kidlit #mglit
Small lime green metal bucket is on a woodgrain surface next to a set of clear acrylic drawers. A sign on top of the drawers says “this or that." The left drawer is labeled with a picture of Pete the Cat. The right drawer is labeled with a picture of Jasper Rabbit from Creepy Pair of Underwear. Each of the drawers has several red and blue bingo chips inside.
This week's book character match up at our library's circulation desk features Pete the Cat and Jasper Rabbit. Any predictions on this week's winner? #SchoolLibrary #kidlit #TLSky #EduSky
Hand-knitted jumper, on display at the National Library of Scotland
What every well-dressed librarian is wearing @natlibscot.bsky.social
Our investigation found that the school in question targeted just under 200 titles from the school library shelves. The librarian was labeled a safeguarding risk and later resigned due to extreme stress.
Read the investigation ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho... 2/2
"Book bans are not about protecting children – it’s an act of censorship, an act of control."
Thanks to Glamour UK for speaking up about book banning in the #UK, including our investigation into a school in Greater Manchester ⬇️
www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/thes... 1/2
Chess is back this Wednesday in the school library. Hope to see you there!
One of the many highlights of the event was a session on school libraries and we watched this short video on what having a library (and an excellent librarian!) means to some of the kids:
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Not sure when I'll actually get around to them (in the midst of a tall pile from the library), but I now have several original HB & ND stories on my Kindle. Curious to see how the writing differs from what I remember (from, like, 40+ years ago, so probably going to also need to borrow HDs from lib).
As a former extensive Hardy Boys reader, I'm now super-curious abt the original books.
Since they & Nancy were published pre-1931, they are in the public domain!
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3rd reason? The books were written at too high a level, and were too long, spending time on things like "creating atmosphere" and "building suspense".
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1 reason? Parents had been complaining abt the level of racism for over a decade.
Another? The originators of both series (a married couple) thought the ghost writers had created characters that didn't respect law enforcement & capitalism enough.
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Turn out, they were published starting in 1930 (4 books 1st year! 2 each next 2 yrs! 1/yr after!) (& Hardy Boys started in 1927!), but were extensively re-written starting in the late 1950s.
Why?
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Wife is reading the Nancy Drew books for the first time. Asked me when they were originally published. Top of my head, I say the 1940s. She concurs, asks why one is talking about NASA.
Enter Wikipedia!
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The 2026 Atlantic storm name list: Arthur Bertha Cristobal Dolly Edouard Fay Gonzalo Hanna Isaias Josephine Kyle Leah Marco Nana Omar Paulette Rene Sally Teddy Vicky Wilfred
the 2026 Atlantic hurricane names have been released, and I need to tell you all right now that if I get swept off this mortal coil by a storm named Kyle I am haunting the halls of the World Meteorological Organization until the end of time
a red toy poodle is sitting in front of a dark leather sofa, his chin tilted slightly up. his snout fur is so fluffy it’s completely blocking his eyes. underneath his little black nose, his mouth is open just enough to show off the tip of his tongue and four almost identical white teeth, like posts in a picket fence.
This is Nimo. He's not sure why everyone's obsessed with his smile. Might have something to do with his teeth, but he's not sure. 13/10 (IG: nyooochan)
Okay but this is no joke. In my sensei's dojo, I can keep up with pretty much everyone around me except for our oldest student who has been doing martial arts for longer than I've been alive.
When I first met him sensei told me to train "seriously" with him, as if he was out to kill me.
In early April, a warehouse worker burned down a $500 million Kimberly-Clark facility and told his co-workers exactly why. The federal government’s response tells you more about power in America right now than the fire itself does.
speaking of academic folks boycotting the U.S., over 2,000 mathematicians are petitioning the International Mathematics Union to move its annual conference outside the United States this year over their immigration policies and war in Iran.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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"Of course, we have to teach our students about AI technologies. Teaching about AI technologies
should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette
smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them." - I love it.
This * one billion
Even if good uses exist, they are a tiny piece of a deeply unethical and violent technology that causes significant harm simply by being used
There is no way to use it w/o causing harm; the only question is whether the benefits outweigh the harm (they do not)
And when it’s put to *bad* uses… whew
So miss me with the AI literacy solutions. In fact, keep missing me until you propose “AI literacy” that teaches folks how these systems incorporate systemic oppression into its operations. That’s the kind of literacy we need.
Anyone arguing that some flavor of AI literacy will protect women from AI deep fake porn is at best unserious and at worst desperate to protect their automated goon generator. This is prima facie not a literacy problem.
Like, AI literacy in any form will not protect black and disabled folks from the algorithmic bias, and the violence that emerges from it, of spicy autocomplete. Full stop. No amount of AI literacy can protect us in the deployment of the system because it is tracking the wrong problem.
So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
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