“Four Oregon Democratic lawmakers, and two hopefuls, are calling for a three-year moratorium on new data centers in the state in response to growing public concern over energy and water demand, farmland loss, tax fairness and community benefits[.]” Reporting from @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social

Democratic lawmakers propose three-year moratorium on new large data centers in Oregon • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Oregon would join 15 other states that have proposed data center pauses in the last year.

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New essay out about the challenge of being fully present in our lives, especially while chasing enoughness or with the tenuousness of disability, chronic illness, and caregiving responsibilities. meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/20...

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

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18.

Al Pacino & Robert De Niro Face To Face in Heat

Alt: Al Pacino & Robert De Niro Face To Face in Heat

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · last wk.

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie from the year you turned 18

Never let someone tell you that you must excuse owning enslaved people or participating in killing Native people because someone was "of their time". Silas Soule was of the same time.

Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · last wk.

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

The vast majority of our outlets are owned by right-wing billionaires and last night our most prominent political reporters spent an hour chuckling along with a clearly senile Republican president as he insulted them incoherently. Here's why our media has a liberal bias problem.

A reminder that UC _faculty_ and Faculty Associations — not the universities themselves nor their administrators — are waging this battle in court, demonstrating great bravery and moral clarity.

White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

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It is BEYOND depressing how many of the responses to this news are "well it must be mainly because of increased confidence, right? Better energy levels? People who take GLP1s are more likely to be improving their lives overall??" Truly, what would it take for you to believe that fatphobia is real?

NBER@nber.org · last mo.

GLP-1-induced weight loss increases single women's partnership rates by 29 percentage points and non-employed women's employment rates by 27 percentage points after 1.5+ years, from Rebecca Diamond www.nber.org/papers/w35387

It's almost like being passionate about life and justice can give you rizz.

The American Diabetes Association appears not to have learned their lesson the first time around (below). Now they've blocked publication of an editorial about this event that was slated for publication in the same journal, Diabetes Care, this week. But here it is. You know what to do.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2mo ago

From 500 views in the first two months to over 100,000 views in the last few days. The ADA opinion piece that was too scary to be distributed at the ADA meeting has gone full Streisand. Y'all are doing the Lord's work.

hey, remember: don't eat anything and don't breathe

My fucking congresswoman bravely voted "present." 🙄 What a coward.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here are all 98 Democrats who voted *against* the amendment to cut military aid to Israel. As well, the 10 Democrats who voted "present":

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

So far only one football superpower that Spain could not defeat at this world cup- Cabo Verde

Chatting with my cousin in Spain (where it's so late and he's a farmer!!) while Spain beat France in the World Cup just brought me so much extra joy from their win. ¡Vamos España!

The same is true of autoimmune diseases, frequently diagnosed in women during the perimenopause/menopause years. If you're a woman in your 40s or 50s, there is apparently no other malady that can impact you save menopause. I can't tell you how many times I heard it. thesicktimes.org/2026/07/10/s...

Stop telling women their Long COVID is menopause - The Sick Times

From friends to medics, women are used to having their health issues dismissed, minimized, or blamed on their hormones.

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Fuck yeah! I've been wondering when Dr. Thrasher was going to sue given how egregious the actions taken against him by Northwestern were. His firing, their treatment of protestors, and their settlement w/ the administration are why my straight-A kid isn't applying to Northwestern this year.

Librarianship Should Resist Credential Erosion by Bobbi Newman and Sam Helmick 📜📚 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Librarianship Should Resist Credential Erosion (opinion)

We should resist calls for credential erosion. If anything, the need for a foundational M.L.S. has only grown in this era of information abundance.

insidehighered.com

Finally got around to watching this keynote and WOW has this landed at just the right time for me! Meredith's wise advice on slow librarianship and the importance of extending kindness to yourself and your colleagues was exactly what I needed to hear right now 🥰

Meredith Farkas@librarianmer.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you missed my CALM Keynote, Slow Management in a Fast World, it's now available on YouTube fully captioned. youtu.be/frkgyhEERfs?...

"Other things that The Atlantic has declared to be ending: “The End of Men”, “The End of Diplomacy”, “The End of Trust”, “The End of Human Rights”, “The End of Democracy Has Already Begun”, “The End of Rule of Law in America”, “How America Ends”, “The End of the West”.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4w ago

Everything is always ending in The Atlantic. Men, diplomacy, trust, world order, and so on and so on. It’s a business model likely pitched to older readers, whose keener understanding of their own mortality can sometimes make them project it onto the world around them. trib.al/Bpu8H0L

Serious #copaganda from @oregonian.com, which should surprise no one who regularly follows them. If the only possible reason for long response times from the police is that they need more funding, doesn't that give the police an great reason to take longer to respond to calls?

Lydia Kiesling@lydiakiesling.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is an absolutely horrific story & it's also absolutely journalist malpractice to uncritically craft it as a PPB talking points memo about Portland's police budget. And it's disgusting for the PPB to leverage their performance here into a lobbying opportunity. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Appreciating this ode to Google Reader. Long live blogs and following creators directly and sharing links with our friends

Buttondown@buttondown.com · 4w ago

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators. buttondown.com/blog/google-...

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

We have an even bigger problem than Graham Platner

The candidate's rise and fall perfectly illustrates the sexism in lefty media

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Here it is: the story I've been trying to track down now for over a week and in the midst of researching, learned this library is a 501c3, and thus, not eligible to FOIA. The New York Public Library's leadership has sold out to Trump, including censoring book lists. us250nypl.my.canva.site

this is like the literal opposite of true. the most fruitful eras of the modern democratic party coincided with periods where the walls separating political radicals from the mainstream were way less solid

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 4w ago

Democrats became great by fighting the far left—and today’s party can learn crucial lessons from those battles, David Brooks argues:

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

These Maine librarians are helping patrons resist AI and Big Tech

Despite breathless reporting on how AI is going to change the world, Hannah Cyrus, a Bangor librarian, said that, in her experience, most library patrons aren’t finding it helpful.

bangordailynews.com

I wrote about how slow food and slow librarianship have faced similar critiques from those who think it's too political and also not political enough. I address some of those critiques here in "Slow librarianship, slow food, politics, pleasure, and moderation" meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/20...

I think the Platner thing hit me so hard bc it was one of the most protracted, widespread acts of misogynist gaslighting from my own side that I've seen. We were presented with an obvious violent scumbag who was constantly lying (badly, might I add) and told we were crazy for not loving him