Never let an ARCHIVIST help you move.

Effin' Birds@effinbirds.com · 2w ago

Never let a writer help you move

Never let a writer help you move

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WORDS By #FranzWright I don’t know where they come from. I can summon them (sometimes I can) into my mind, into my fingers, I don’t know why. Or I’ll suddenly hear them walking, sometimes waking— they don’t often come when I need them. When I need them most terribly, never.

Currently reading @jessicaduchen.bsky.social’s biography of Gabriel Fauré and I’m at the bit where he’s writing his First Piano Quartet. So what better to listen to than one of my favourite pieces, that I’ve neglected a bit recently?

Quartetto Fauré Di Roma - Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartets op. 15 & op. 45

Listen to Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartets op. 15 & op. 45 on your streaming service

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I would be most excited about the Bartok String Quartets!

Richard Littler@richardlittler.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Crazy flea market haul. Instant #Stravinsky on Columbia collection, plus Penderecki, Bartok, Faure, Durufle, the complete John Dowland. #classical

That's the problem, though: Conference organizers make "active learning" a REQUIRED element of the rubric. So we have to put that in the presentation, or the proposal is rejected.

madison@beastlibrarian.bsky.social · last wk.

maybe this goes against what most folks do now in teaching and in conference presentations -- but the more a session involves "active learning" or lots of interaction and engagement with the audience, the less likely I am to attend. I have zero interest in doing an activity in a learning environment

My institution's IT helpdesk page is blocked... by IT... for being insecure... Who exactly do I contact about this?

This pairs well with my mantra lately, "the library is not the bookstore," which is needed this semester much more frequently than previous semesters, for some reason...

Emily Drabinski@edrabinski.bsky.social · last wk.

The library school is not the library, rinse, repeat.

[Exit Queen.]

Thought-provoking! Also an excellent time to reiterate that Clara Schumann was a better composer than her husband, and that she does not deserve all the hate she gets, primarily from men, and their conspiracy theories that they virulently proclaim about her "affairs" or "abuse."

Leah Broad@leahbroad.bsky.social · 2w ago

I get so sick of being told that there has been no gender-based prejudice against women musicians. So here are some genuine reviews written about women, between 1893 & 2021, with a couple words/letters changed to make them about men.

Or non-Orthodox, like me.

Siobhán@shibbi.me · 2w ago

Twilight has so much Mormonism embedded in it that only ex-Mormons and converts can fully see. If you were never Mormon you won’t know the references; if you’re BIC you won’t notice them like fish don’t notice water.

you’re not being oppressed by a scientist using an LLM

There’s a lot of folks on this site that love to play “I’m not touching you” with “deniable” threats (“it’s just a photo of the Haitian Revolution”), trying to skirt the rules, and cry foul when the mods call a spade a spade (this is clearly meant as a threat, why say it otherwise), it’s irksome

Doll@dollspace.gay · 2w ago

Good riddance they finally permaed bitdizzy. She made a death threat against Hailey. The ban was warranted and long overdue. Long. Long overdue. Ignore the crocodile tears of bitdizzy's little sympathizers demanding her unbanning

I don't want to link any of them here, because these users don't need to know that I exist, but there are _a lot_ of posts objectifying sister missionaries in youtube ads. /

As an archivist, this is only true partialy. An archive DOES hold copyrighted material, but under STRICT research terms. Think of it as the Reserves section of a library, but with even stricter reuse terms. You cannot duplicate anything except for personal use. AO3 makes everything public.

Dragon Quill - erotically codependend@dragonquill.bsky.social · 2w ago

"An archive is defined by blatant copyright infringement. If it doesn't allow blatant copyright infringement, it's not an archive!"

This is exacerbated by the fact that many people conflate "agentic AI" with Agentic Browsers, which for most people are AWFUL. Perplexity's Comet Browser is mind-numbingly slow and ineffective.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w ago

a few general observations from a week that has included a lot of getting yelled at: 1) many to most people still think of AI as chatbots. Chatbots are at this point useful but they are imo perhaps an order of magnitude less useful than agentic AI.

An “AI” version of Hazel might be able to organize my files based on (for example) client, without having to specify how to associate the files with a client because the AI uses info from the file itself to classify it without me having to set hard rules or “tag” files as from a client (as I do now)

it looks like you are trying to make decisions in the present without a full grasp of the past. would you like some help with that?

Yeah which was my point when all of this nonsense discourse started. It’s fine to hate some of it, but if you are going to make blanket statements about how AI is ruining everything, you gotta specify.

This is the entire premise of Jacques Ellul's "The Technological Society," and it is amazing how relevant it, and its grandchild, Neal Postman's "Technopoly," are today. See also Frederick Taylor's "Scientific Management," or "The One Best Way."

Ginger 🫚🏳️‍⚧️🥀 Hawthorne@gulopine.com · 2w ago

This feels like a direct result of productivity culture. Americans in particular have been generally trained that we always need to doing something useful, or else we’re wasting our time. So “useful” becomes its own goal, which doesn’t need any further justification. :/

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 2w ago

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

we had to use second life in my library school. Extensively

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

As someone who was also a 13yo Mormon when I discovered AO3, I agree.

Luce Northstar 🔞@lucezozzerie.bsky.social · 2w ago

tumblr is having a great one about this, little masterpiece of a post I'd say

If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.

1. I think this is amazing. I listen to them as they are chanted in #Anglican Psalmistry (psalmchant) each morning. 2. This will be used as evidence that the #mormon church is attempting to become "more mainstream #Christian" and/or appropriating other religions' practices.

David T@improvementera.com · 2w ago

I divide #ComeFollowMe into 5 daily readings per week. Today included Psalm 23, which I studied with my son, who agreed to work on memorizing it this week. After dropping him off at school, I listened, as I always do, to the Daily Catholic Mass Reading. Today's Responsorial Psalm was Psalm 23.

Something that always astonishes me is the number of incoming students who assume that everyone else is ALSO incoming, and that they can share some "wisdom," which is really something that many other people have known for years. Many even assume that I am brand new at my job.

Doubly true for required administrative tasks.

Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · 2w ago

My other piece of unsolicited writing advice is to always have two things going at the same time because you can use one to procrastinate on the other until they’re both done.

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