I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Me: I don't know, Professor Hoppington, something about you is a little familiar. Professor Hoppington: That's because you can learn to make me on Creativebug. We could make it a library program. Me: Okay, that's a really good idea.
Reo Eveleth@reveleth.com · 2w agoI need you all to know that the Berkeley Public Library has solicited submissions for a new mascot, and you can now vote for the contestants and I'm losing my mind. berkeleypublic-library.github.io/Fiber-Mascot...
Can't wait to see which country-club dipshit gets the no-bid contract for grooming and maintaining forests.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRep. Jeff Van Drew: "Canada isn't working because they are so far left. This should be a warning shot to them. You better come to America, say, 'We're sorry, we're gonna mend our ways and do what we used to do and groom and maintain the forest.'"
On this moon landing anniversary, a look at these two editorial cartoons from July 1969 illustrating both the public's awe and the public's criticism of the mission. Both are by Herbert Block, commonly known as Herblock. The Herbert L. Block Collection was donated to the Library of Congress in 2002.
'Death in the West' is a 1976 British anti-smoking documentary composed of Marlboro cigarette commercials, interviews with six American cowboys who had either lung cancer or emphysema, and interviews with two executives from Philip Morris tobacco company.
This Week: Death In The West : Martin Smith, Peter Taylor : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Death in the West is a 1976 documentary film directed by Martin Smith, which is believed to contain the first recorded admission from a tobacco company...
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A bit of wisdom I’ve learned as an archivist: Everything is always falling apart. You can’t ever stop it because that’s what matter does. Your job is to slow the process down as much as you can. It’s true with documents, books, and art. And with life too- falling apart is what we do.
This is cinematic-level reporting on a food truck saga in Washington, DC.
Inside the Food Truck Mafia Wreaking Havoc Around the National Mall
Turf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn.
washingtonian.com
Things your unhoused neighbors can use this summer, aside from the obvious: - candy (I get asks for this more than almost anything) - sunscreen (high SPF pls!) - lip balm (bonus for SPF) - electrolyte packets for water - cash - gift cards for fast food and/or accessible grocery stores 1/
1998, Baltimore Sun, on how, after tobacco companies stopped doing paid product placement in movies, product-placement firms stepped in as the middleman between cigar manufacturers and the movie industry. As seen in, for example, 'Independence Day.'
Cigar-chomping Hollywood heroes: Glamour: The industry pays well-connected brokers to put their product into the hands of the hottest actors.
Aliens blow up the White House. The human race teeters on the brink of annihilation. What does a brash young hero need as he sets out to save the day? “Oh damn, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait, wai...
baltimoresun.com
No American artist has looked more intently at Greenland than Kent did, but he was not the first to paint it. https://bit.ly/4vyaoSa
Rockwell Kent’s View From Greenland
His paintings reveal the value of looking carefully at the territory and the hazards of imperial misrepresentation
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Fuck the fascists, the homophobes, the transphobes, and those who carry water for them. 💜🖤💜
A trans woman made history by organizing what is believed to be the first Pride festival in a Kentucky prison, reports Mo Viviane. With the help of peers who made paper Pride flags in the prison's art room & hung rainbow paper rings throughout the yard, Jayda accomplished something extraordinary.
Pride in prison
In a rural Kentucky prison, a trans woman made history by organizing what is believed to be the first LGBTQIA+ Pride festival at the Lee Adjustment Center
prismreports.org
TIL that the Library of Congress has a credit union, membership is open to all ALA members, and eligibility can be extended to state library association members after minimal paperwork from the organization. www.lcfcu.org/about-us/mem... #ALAAC26
Who Can Join - Library Of Congress FCU
Proudly Serving America’s Library Community Since 1935, the Library of Congress FCU has been honored to serve America’s library community including employees of the Library of Congress and members of ...
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@bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social Since we're doing genres, my 1988 hip-hop/rap nominations include: The Beatnigs - s/t Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary Cash Money & Marvelous - Where's the Party At?
'testosterone and the bible are the new punk rock' kinda shit your youth pastor tells you while sitting backwards on a folding chair two weeks before getting shuffled off to another ministry because a 16 year old girl tempted him into the sin of lust
dan sinker@dansinker.com · last mo.absolutely fucking not.
Older lady peeped the rainbow flag on my bike, asked in a thick Russian accent “It’s your Pride?” She told me her youngest grandchild is “not she berry or he berry but no berry.” I said “Nonbinary?” She got so excited. Yes! Yes! And “Is a secret, but they are my“ *looks around, whispers* “favorite.”
I assimilated all the way to Congress and this idiot still tells me to go back where I came from.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Tom Emmer: "Minnesotans are so afraid that you're gonna call us a racist, you're gonna call us an Islamophobe. You know what? I'm done being even the least bit careful. Somalis don't assimilate. And if they don't assimilate, then they should go the hell back to where they came from."
i never miss a chance to plug @rickperlstein.bsky.social's seminal 2012 history of right-wing mail-order grifts for @thebaffler.com. booze is a relatively new (and dumb) extension of this trend, but it's been going on for literal decades:
The Long Con | Rick Perlstein
Mitt Romney lies to be loved.
thebaffler.com
Marco Langbroek@marcolangbroek.bsky.social · last mo.Genious: their target audience is so easily manipulated
Hi, I’m selling these stickers and will donate 100% of sales to legal fees and bail funds for the Prairieland defendents. I will be sure to post reciepts! $4 each, DM to order, and please help me spread the word!
Helen Ripley-Marshall - Green Chaos [Australia, Ambient / Electronic] (1988) https://redd.it/1rs7x0x https://youtu.be/jNlSt-fXqM4
Helen Ripley-Marshall - Green Chaos [Australia, Ambient / Electronic] (1988)
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This is such a great piece. I worked in record stores for a few years myself, and every bit of it rings true, including the part about looking for a job with fewer difficult people only to find that people, always and everywhere, are people.
Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · last mo.Over the weekend, I wrote about my long-ago inglorious days as a record store clerk for @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/a-brief-hist... (If you see the bonus photo of how my hair used to look at the time, I would prefer that we.....did not ever discuss it)
there's an amazing toolbar with an article's stats/history you can turn on in settings but no one ever cares when i recommend it!!! so i explained my random thoughts/reactions in case it helps show how interesting and fun and useful it is
In the words of Howard Zinn, you can't be neutral on a moving train.
Cascadia(PNW)@cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis was anonymously leaked by several Timberland Regional Library employees. Includes: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston Counties.
Maripedia is an online archive of every pattern that Marimekko have made. You can search by era. marimekko.com/eu_en/maripedia
