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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Register for our AAUP webinar for the 3rd segment of our Toolkit series on intervening in institutional procurement TODAY Wednesday 10/7 at 3pm ET introducing our "Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work" resource with Cynthia Conti-Cook! www.aaup.org/event/strate...
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Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work
This webinar spotlights a strategy procurement playbook that outlines various tools and strategies for workers in higher education to democratize procurement practices around AI and other technologies...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Chronicle Review is just publishing Quillette's desk rejections now
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
She’s right. And, fyi, the globe is doing victory laps over on other social media platforms about how many new readers and new subscribers they’ve gotten out of that “news article”— so we can expect more fuckass “reporting” like that from them in the future
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Mike Elk @mikeelk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Lula bans online betting in Brasil
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey #ff2026 I got bumped with our massive IT failure! Come back to Madison Dining Rm A - Small (and zoom) at 4:15pm Eastern to find out what @amsichani.bsky.social and I have to say about Data Driven AI Without Data
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Tony @tonychiado.com · 11/09/2026
Doesn’t feel like the corporations are making a good faith critique of Mayor Wilson… *Data from SPD Crime Dashboard
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
History will not absolve them.
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🏳️‍⚧️ UNBAN LINK @biancamack.co · 30/08/2026
Love a direct, to the point queen. Say it plainly and leave no space for bad-faith bullshit.
Asked why the WNBA continues to experience these heightened distractions, Cloud said, "Men."
"The men now that are like 'Oh, we need to protect the WNBA,’ y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't be paid," Cloud continued. "Y'all were the same ones saying we shouldn't have been invested in, saying we're a joke, the same ones that don't respect Black women. So, if you're going to protect women, that means all women. That includes Black women, trans women and the list goes on."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all.
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.
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SCOOP: Northwestern moves to close Program of African Studies
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 20/08/2026
last Thursday was the first time in over 15 years that American prisons executed 3 people on the same day i did a lil digging and was confused at first to find that executions are at a modern high, even tho public support for the death penalty is at a modern low ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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How Republican Politicians and Conservative Judges Work Together to Preserve Capital Punishment
Public opposition to capital punishment is growing. But more people are being executed.
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amb @amb.fyi · 21/08/2026
in the absence of a green new deal, libraries and public transit are going to be america's de facto cooling centers, keeping large number of people alive during climate disasters for the indefinite future
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Bruce Springsteen played by The Rizzler
It’s a young pic of Jeremy Allen white
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
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Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Just so we're clear, what these people are doing is a little like protesting Tesla headquarters because they're afraid Cybertrucks will damage the Martian landscape. There is absolutely no valid analogy to civil rights protest. None.
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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The utility of Luigi Mangione isn't that he put a stop to anything it's that he exposed that almost the entire country, regardless of politics, understands the concept of social murder. With three key exceptions of course: politicians, columnists, and posters who think they're on The West Wing.
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
*looking up from my nearly-finished piece on how we should abolish libraries because they teach kids things are free* despicable
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As all the lawyers and legal scholars surely know, these two are the major vendors for legal research. The political-economy of our information infrastructures matters, as @sarahlamdan.bsky.social has advocated for years! There are lessons here for academic publishing!
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
New from 404 Media: ICE to spend millions to buy data from LexisNexis to then feed into a Palantir system. ICE has long bought data from LexisNexis, which feds use to map out a person's addresses, location, assets, etc. But now explicitly want to use with Palantir www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-l...
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ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir
LexisNexis sells a massive amount of data to law enforcement, including ICE. New records indicate ICE wants to feed that data into a Palantir system.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/08/2026
well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago.
Why we're reaching outFreedom To Read Foundation recently let us know that they believe some of your listings infringe their intellectual property (IP). In line with our Intellectual Property Policy, we've carefully reviewed their report and have removed these listings from our marketplace.Review the full report from Freedom To Read Foundation Freedom To Read Foundation Representative's Information [redacted] Freedom To Read Foundation Intellectual Property FREE PEOPLE READ FREELY trademark Trademark registration number: 7446426  A sticker made from a linocut print, which has the text “Free people read freely” in block capitals above a person in a dress reaching to take a book from a large bookshelf. The sticker is resting on a pile of old books.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 09/08/2026
workshopping a new sticker
Same "Free people read freely" sticker with the illustration of the girl, but "free people read freely" text has been crossed out in red, "TM" has been added at the end, and "some restrictions may apply" has been added below
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Brandon 🤖🔨 @brandontlocke.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm a little bit serious about this
Album art for Smashmouth's album Fush Yu Mang
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 26/07/2026
Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/07/2026
Lemme tell you about the angel of history being blown backwards into the future: The shackles these people have been put in are Hiatt brand, same company founded in 1780 to mass produce shackles for slaver ships.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
One of the biggest challenges to teaching right now is trust, which has been eroded by gen AI — for professors AND students. Copware isn’t the way to get it back.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/07/2026
🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.
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Neil J. Young @neiljyoung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
If, for whatever reason, reporters are interested in speaking to an expert on the history of closeted Republicans — I’m available! 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♂️
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The federal government told the Klamath Tribes they weren't a "salmon tribe" because dams wiped out their fish 100+ years ago. So the Yurok Tribe applied for the $5.9M grant & passed the funds through. This is Indigenous solidarity in action. www.hcn.org/articles/the...
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The Klamath Tribes couldn’t get federal dollars for salmon. Then the Yurok stepped in - High Country News
For more than 100 years, salmon had been absent from the Klamath Tribe’s lands — a fact that cut them off from funding sources to fix that.
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DougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
*meredith brooks voice* im a mitch im mcconnell i help trump comma donald ive a turtle for a head im probably really dead
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Join us tomorrow!
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
CSPAN is airing John Adams and Thomas Jefferson impersonators as if they’re in an actual debate and is treating the whole thing like it’s real. Thrilling. Absolutely thrilling.
Impersonators of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson join CSPAN’s Ceasefire
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 02/07/2026
imagine putting your life in the hands of american higher education administrators right now
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As international enrollment falls, U.S. students face program cuts and higher prices
New data show the number of foreign students, who subsidize domestic ones, continues to decline
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 02/07/2026
I know everyone is scrambling to figure out how to respond to GenAI in the classroom, but 1. More surveillance tech will not be the answer 2. “Respondus LockDown Browser” & “Respondus Monitor” have to be in contention for the most dystopian edtech product names of all time—which is a high bar
A screenshot from an email reading:

The ATLAS Teaching and Learning with Technology Team is seeking LAS instructors interested in participating in a Fall 2026 pilot of an “electronic blue book” solution using Respondus LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor product that both seamless integrate into the Canvas platform. This pilot is intended to support both in-class and out-of-class writing assignments by providing a secure, locked-down environment that helps deter the use of generative AI and other unauthorized resources during writing activities.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Cops are defunding YOU www.minnpost.com/glean/2026/0...
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Police overtime costs projected to put MPD more than $23 million over budget
Minneapolis officials warn police overspending threatens city's financial health. Also: Ellison criticizes the GOP's Chauvin tribute.
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Crystal Fincher @finchfrii.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Our method of counting votes remains intact.
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Saw a post: “250 years old? How cute! The pub down the road is a century older!” Gee, I wonder if there’s anything in UK history that explains why there’s so little physical evidence of human settlement in North America that’s more than a few hundred years old…? native-land.ca/maps/native-...
Map of North America with coloured overlays showing traditional territories of indigenous/First Nations peoples.
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Lex Vaughn @lex.vaughn.theneedling.com · 29/06/2026
You know Bruce Harrell would have made that sh happen if he'd been re-elected mayor. We'd be the laughing stock of not just the country but the world instead of the stellar World Cup host rep we're getting now.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/06/2026
Imagining a moderate Democrat study group where everyone reads the Harper’s Letter, the Vanderbilt Report, and the Kahlenberg-Lin document on ”the distortion of American Studies” by woke
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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 25/06/2026
@mayor.nyc.gov your constituents are counting on you to keep your promise and fund our NYC library systems at a minimum of 0.5% of the budget. New Yorkers can’t wait for libraries to be funded “someday” - the time is now to make good on your promise!
Two New Yorkers, one adult and one kid, hold signs that say “fund our public libraries” and “I love my library”
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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Last month two library workers reached out to Public Collectors to ask about making a booklet version of Fobazi Ettarh's essay "Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves" for a Celebration of Life event. We did, and it is now available for all: halfletterpress.com/vocational-a...
This booklet is a standalone print publication of Fobazi Ettarh’s essay, in which she defined vocational awe as the ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries are inherently good and sacred, and therefore beyond critique. Fobazi first presented on vocational awe at the Identity, Agency, and Culture in Academic Libraries Conference in 2017. Later on, she fleshed out the idea into this essay, which first appeared in the journal In the Library with the Lead Pipe on January 10, 2018. It sparked immediate rippling conversations about dynamics of systemic underresourcing, undercompensation, job creep, and exploitation across the library profession. It was cited more than 500 times in her lifetime, and she presented dozens of invited presentations and keynotes on it. In 2020, she was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker; true to her own values, she voluntarily revoked the award to protest Library Journal’s awarding of a Library of the Year that had been widely protested for hosting an event with a virulently anti-trans organization earlier in the year. In this time, public scholars and intellectuals in fields such as social work, teaching, nursing, and technology began to engage with vocational awe, including Cory Doctorow in Enshittification, Anne Helen Petersen in Culture Study, Simone Stolzoff in The Good Enough Job, and more. At the time of her passing in January 2026, Fobazi was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, furthering her research on vocational awe across domains, with a specific focus on tech work. May her memory politicize us all.

— Anastasia Chiu 

The proposal to publish this text as a booklet came from library workers Mimosa Shah and Jorge López-McKnight. With the cooperation of Fobazi’s widow Elena Maris, Public Collectors has designed, printed and published this essay for that celebration, as well as more widespread readership.
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Ret @ret.furry.engineer.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
Me in 1768: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive. Me in 2026: I dislike the new Prime Minister and the Steam Machine is still too expensive.
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cass @cassiusa.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The absolute perversity of calling this "intellectual freedom" is obvious but it should also maybe put to bed arguments about whether "academic freedom" will save us
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NYC Public Library Action Network @nycplan.org · 19/06/2026
@mayor.nyc.gov NYC’s authors and scholars call on you with this letter to fulfill your campaign pledge and commit 0.5% of the city’s annual budget to its public libraries, this year and throughout your tenure as mayor. 📸 Roxas Timmons with Human Flower Productions docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Two New Yorkers raise their fists while holding signs that say “find our public libraries” and “mayor Mamdani keep your promise”
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yung quaibo @videoteca-nod.org · 18/06/2026
oh is library conferenceball happening
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Whatever I do today will be less bad than this, which will cost more money to fix.
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Brandon 🤖🔨 @brandontlocke.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
@aj-boston.bsky.social where are you? I haven't seen you here at LPF, and I don't see your name tag, so I know you've come and checked in....
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/06/2026
*W.E.B. DuBois has entered the chat*
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