photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar, we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

A map showing private drains leading from residences to common shores, or sewers Boston Town Records, BPL Special Collections

A receipt from Peter Virginia, an African American laborer, to Boston’s Board of Selectman for ‘taking twenty Load out of the North School Vault’

I’m currently obsessed by Boston’s early C19 sewage infrastructure, which relied heavily on the labor of African Americans. Here’s an 1803 map of sewers in Middle (now Hanover) St in the North End & an 1802 receipt from Peter Virginia for emptying septic tanks. This is literal History from Below! 🗃️

Kill Chain On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children

New, from me.

the school where I work had a combined IT and library division and you can see this in the shifting balance of power there. hard-charging 2nd wave feminist leaders (women!) who stripped the library side to build up IT

counterexample: Microsoft Bob

The fact that Ari Emanuel bought both the Frieze art fair and UFC because he claims the people will need diversion in the coming age of reduced employment through AI … pure ideology™️

@lenorajoon.bsky.social you may find these of interest

was at this bar a year ago and these have stayed up the whole time

Table of four columns headed, respectively, "1,000,000 Years Ago," "150,000 Years Ago," "10,000 Years Ago," and "150 Years Ago." The first column contains four roughly-shaped stone tools, the second has four more finely-shaped stone tools, the third has yet more sophisticated stone and bone tools, and the fourth has the text "Introduction of Interchangeable Parts."

Get your war on 3: ok I hate to act like a fucking dumbass but are we at war? I mean, did we ever officially declare war? Declare war? Who's got time to declare war when there are so many bombs to drop

"It says here on page 62 that the task of Danish Marxism is to abolish itself", said Toad cheerfully.

"Lovely", Frog replied.

The verse goes

Midst the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me
And as He died to make men Holy let us die to make men free
Our God goes marching on

And, like, honestly you wanna burn down Richmond all over again when you hear it!

Strings of lights back and forth on the side panels seemed to be their solution

I think there’s only the one, saw it parked on leonard avenue once

our local cybertruck is sporting christmas lights

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

It’s not the first year they’ve done this! I was sure it would be changed but no.

stock photo of a smiling man in front of a classroom with the text “alert but not paranoid; relaxed but also situationally aware.” “Alert,” “paranoid,” and “situationally aware” are written in a cursive “wine mom” font.

why does the active shooter training use wine mom font

This is Queen Mary and Queen Anne erasure

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

@lenorajoon.bsky.social I was instructed to share this with you

1 AM, clouds moving in

features in my Alfred Thayer Mahan but with magic fanfic

guys want one thing and it's literally 'a single-family home designed by TKA that looks like a state-system university library built in the 70s'

American Library Association poster text reads: Library Work: The Profession on Which All Other Professions and Occupations Depend; The library serves: teacher, minister, doctor, lawyer, engineer, merchant, artisan, social worker, student, home-maker; It offers: culture, information, recreation; Library work puts the librarian in touch with every human interest. A challenging field to the college graduate

kinda wanna put this ~1925 ALA poster on the inside of my library science zine

old news, twenty-five years ago i was calling myself a neo-loyalist

The series of questions I ask myself when I wake up each morning 📚

An image of a proposed redesign for the Massachusetts flag: it is a photo collage with a huge Dunkin Donuts at the center with the Harvard "Veritas" seal on the front of the building and a huge lobster plush doll walking out the front of it. The enormous smiling head of Governor Maura Healey rises up from behind the building, with heart-shaped sunglasses pasted over her eyes. Three bros in the lower left of the photo are raising a toast in red Solo cups, and in the lower right a (possibly drunk) young white person wearing a white T-shirt and sunglasses is waving a huge rainbow flag and wearing a rainbow boa. The word "MASSACHUSETTS" appears in the upper right in enormous pink-sprinkled letters in the Dunkin Donuts font.

The submissions for the new Massachusetts seal, flag and motto are up, and my friends, they are a *trip* www.mass.gov/doc/massachu...

Kaiju press conference

I’m a firm believer that with SHIN GODZILLA returning to theaters, Toho should also re-release the figurines of the kaiju giving apologetic press conferences.

Dubbed Peterloo by Manchester Observer. Meeting called for Parliamentary reform and repeal of corn laws. 4 women and a 2 yr old among the dead. The Waterloo veteran killed was John Lees, the son of a mill owner who joined the Royal Artillery aged 15, a regiment which had two guns present but not used at Peterloo. He was beaten horrendously and died of wounds 3 weeks later.

OTD 1819 Peterloo Massacre. 18 killed & hundreds wounded when pro-democracy meeting of c.60,000 people charged by Cheshire yeomanry, Manchester & Salford Yeomanry & 15th Hussars with 31st & 88th Regts & artillery also deployed. 15th fought at Waterloo & a Waterloo veteran among marchers killed.