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Triple threat, no wonder he’s such a go-to source

Or at least conduct the punisher regards as bad...But you're right, the original point in the thread was that it was senators of the same party disciplining a a fellow partisan president, so the Obama example isn't pertinent.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 11h

Also when the Senate denied Obama court appointments...

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 11h

We're in a St. Elsewhere situation, but instead of being in the imagination of a small child, our world is the tariff-ridden nightmare fantasy of some descendant of Henry Charles Carey or John Bates Clark.

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Dan Cohen @dancohen.org · 20h

On the 20th anniversary of Zotero's 1.0 release on October 5, 2006, I wrote a history of the collaboration and years it took to create the popular research tool now used by over 20 million people: newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...

newsletter.dancohen.org

The Slow Formation of Durable Software

How a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 11h

(Either he or the News Journal reporter liked that formulation well enough that it's appeared attribute to him in the paper more than once, incl. the previous August ... ) www.delawareonline.com/story/news/l...

delawareonline.com

Thinking about buying in a community with an HOA? Find out about homeowners associations

Homeowners associations are "the most basic form of government in Delaware," an attorney said.

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

It was an honor to work with these contributors and our friends at The William and Mary Quarterly on this joint special issue. Early American historians and legal historians more generally will see how these essays offer a new methodological challenge to well-trod historiographical terrain.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 17h

A useful read; but now I’m even more curious about how AI-builders who *aren’t* in the hothouse of Bay Area fanfiction communities are thinking about, and doing, similar work. Presumably developers in the PRC have a different approach?

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 22h

”The employees of the National Weather Service should be ashamed about how they’ve capitulated to fascism” is not a thought I ever expected to have or deal with just looking up the forecast tbh

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

but that’s just life in 2025 am I right?

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Google Play Books” you took a perfectly good product name (“Google Books”) and made it sound like a something an unfortunately-named gorilla who was first learning sign language would spell out before asking for something useful, like a designer handbag or more bananas

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No one has ever bought a book on Google Play on purpose, that’s ridiculous to even put in writing

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Google has access to my entire email life, my car trips, and my search history – and with all that fine-grained data and world-destroying AI, it decided I was the kind of consumer who had bought books on Google Play(!?) that I’d like a robot to read. Brain genius use of cutting-edge tech, y’all

a shit ass marketing email for “Gemini notebook”

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Nomi Claire Lazar @nomiclairelazar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Folks just can't let go of the idea 'social movement' means 'left progressive.' False, egotistical, dangerous. I need to make a sign to tap.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

When will the modern Left find its own barbarian cape-favorer to fight The Snake of Monopoly

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wil Wheaton driving social media drama is such a throwback to his Chris Hardwick stan days

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

they put a mojito on the bev cart menu *one time* and it’s headlines forever jeesh

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The NYT piece is worth reading in full, because surveillance is ofc not the main concern or focus (nor should it be). The acts of service, and librarians' professional ethos of service, is critical, and this is a wonderful expression of that. A welcome light, especially in these dark times.

"A lady came in, and as you know, in public libraries, there are a lot of people who are homeless, so they just need a place to be. She comes into the central library and goes up to the information desk.

She has very interesting attire, and this big bag. She asks to see the head of the library. I was the head of the library. The librarian — and this is what they do — tried to get more information from the person. They said, “Well, what would you like to see her for?” She opens the bag and she puts out on the table an injured bird.

And the librarian says, “Oh, what would you like her to do?” And the woman said, “Somebody’s got to care.”
Carla Hayden, Washington, D.C.
14th Librarian of Congress

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Which isn't to bag on libraries or librarians, of course – every time I "choose" to use Canvas for teaching, or Google Docs for writing, I'm similarly stuck – just to illustrate that the choices of individual professionals and individual institutions are not as liberatory as perhaps imagined.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So libraries - public or private, general service or research - might not be actively profiting from surveillance economy, but that doesn't mean they're not in it. Arguably, they are both product and customer: they supply raw material (the patrons, for surveillance) and pay for the privilege.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Then there's emergent surveillance tech, as libraries fall within the edtech space where some of the most invasive stuff gets deployed first. For example, our campus library a few years ago installed a tool that uses wifi signals to track occupancy... tracking bodies tied to devices, in real time.

udel.edu

View available seating, crowd levels in Morris Library | University of Delaware

New tool Occuspace shows available seating for all floors in real time

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For good public safety reasons, I would wager almost all libraries, of any kind, have internet-connected cameras; how many of them are tied into Flock systems, or other, similar surveillance networks? Ditto software on library computers; there are blockers and content filters on on those, too...

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Like every other institution, US libraries don't control their "stack" – all non-physical media is provisioned through the same very large private content/database firms that *do* track and surveil users as part of their core business model.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

From that NYT group interview of librarians... I wonder to what degree this claim about libraries being a place outside the surveillance economy is actually possible – and what % of libraries are actually choosing to make that possibility real. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Librarians are defenders of democracy. We’re defenders of the freedom to read. We’re protectors of patron privacy. Libraries are one of the few places in this surveillance economy that are not trying to collect and sell your data to come and use our facilities. And I find, increasingly, that librarians have to be advocates for our communities.
Ed Garcia, Cranston, R.I.
Cranston Public Library

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The video is even weirder than the article makes it sound, but boy howdy have I heard this same “I asked AI and it told me…” a lot from people in power, from administrators to legislators www.tiktok.com/t/ZPL8tuQYL/

tiktok.com

“I put it through AI”: Fmr. NJ Lt. Gov. Caldwell pushes back on sexual harassment report

TikTok video by NJ PBS

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“In an on-camera interview with NJ PBS, Caldwell said he fed the investigative report through different artificial intelligence platforms about 59 times, asking in repeated prompts: “What would your findings be?”“ www.nj.com/politics/202...

nj.com

Caldwell used AI in effort to dispute N.J. harassment investigation

The former Lt. Gov told NJ PBS he ran the report through artificial intelligence platforms 59 times, claiming none found sexual harassment in his conduct

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A thread about a great cat, and the post-retirement creative evolution of a great artist, in 20 images...

My late cat The Bear in a box marked Hotel California, realising he can check out but he can never leave.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Je me souviens (other parts of Canada, too)

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Certainly Quebec has long had a very notable revanchist politics, but it’s not just French Canada that’s that way - Doug Ford is *currently* premier of Ontario, not just challenging for it, and Alberta…exists.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

some figures are too noble to bear any blemish

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Harry Truman *claimed* he did not cash in on the office, but that was more or less a lie. He was wealthy when he left it, and wealthier afterward in part because he got Congress to fund his lifestyle by claiming poverty... nymag.com/intelligence...

nymag.com

The Truman Show

How the 33rd president finagled his way to a post–White House fortune — and created a damaging precedent.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's comforting to know that Vince Guaraldi had exactly the kind of mustache his music for Peanuts would lead you to expect he did

A white man wearing glasses and a great handlebar mustache, in front of the Golden Gate Bridge: it's jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

dropkick murphys fans not fuckin around

Girl wearing a shirt that says I.C.E. Can gargle my balls

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

At a stage of life / imperial decline where I find myself legitimately shocked at the prices the middling grocery store is trying to get away with charging for beans (the gall! y’all are not fancy enough for $2.00 for a can of cannellini, gtfoh)

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 03/10/2026

Okay so remember how Alex Pretti had confronted ICE agents a few days before they shot him

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I interviewed @unlawfulentries.bsky.social earlier this year about her great book, "Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship," and also discussed these types of lawsuits attacking in-state resident tuition policies www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

insidehighered.com

Immigration, Federalism and Access to Higher Education

In a Q&A with Anna O. Law, Dominique Baker discusses how the history of migration in the United States impacts the current fight over access to higher education for undocumented students.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're joining a cool group of universities and states that have been sued because we believe that citizenship does not dictate our responsibility to help people have access to an education

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This company in the Marshall’s Islands advertises itself as capable of creating “Decentralized Autonomous Organizations” which are LLC-alikes that can (supposedly) be algorithmically controlled, for that jurisdiction as well as Wyoming. (Both are based on laws passed orig. for crypto issuers)

midao.org

Marshall Islands DAO LLC for Web3, DAOs & AI Agents | MIDAO

MIDAO is the sole registered agent for the Marshall Islands DAO LLC. Registration and compliance for Web3 projects, DAOs, and AI agents, using existing law.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Beyond the usual suspects in rival charter-mongering US states, I'd be surprised if similar proposals weren't seeing attn in other islands in the archipelago of the "network state," e.g. UAE, Singapore, Caymans, BVI, etc. You're quite right that more details abt how broad the movt is, are needed.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's a great question – I haven't done the leg work, alas. Javier Milei, pres of Argentina, made an announcement about plans for similar entities; but beyond the first splash I haven't heard how/if that's gone forward.

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Dael Norwood @dael.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If we don't diversify our fraud-to-market pipeline infrastructure, and deliver the options that Ai-forward founders plotting IPOs need, we won't be able to fund the port with escheatment, Karl. C'mon, be realistic.

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