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Josue Hurtado

@josuehurtado.bsky.social
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Archivist/Academic Librarian. Coordinator of Public Services & Outreach. Special Collections Research Center. Temple University. Stanford & UMSI alum

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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ask me about the professors/PhDs who've never worked in archives getting put in leadership positions and immediately going towards "Well I would like it if everything is online" but who secretly love The Backlog because then they can pretend to Discover in the Dusty Box from The Archive
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Turning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impact
“I received several death threats.” Two D.C.-area college instructors who appeared on the Professor Watchlist describe what it meant for their lives.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
www.wordsandmoney.com/publishing-i...
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Publishing Industry ‘Study’ Says Digital Library Lending Is Cannibalizing Retail Sales—Librarians Say It Reveals Something Else
AAP and Authors Guild leaders characterized the study as “independent” and “the most rigorous analysis to date” of the shift toward digital lending in U.S. libraries. Librarians say it is neither.
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Public Universal Fiend @publicuniversal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Pitch: Philly DSA launch a crash “Save the Academy of Natural Sciences” campaign
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art
A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign 

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” 

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 25/08/2026
We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Male Orgasm Captured On Film
CAMBRIDGE, MA—Announcing "a major advance in the age-old quest to unlock the secrets at the heart of human sexuality," researchers at Harvard’s Center For The Graphic Depiction Of The Human Sexual Act...
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TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"resistance has been most effective—indeed, it may only have been effective—where faculty members have taken independent action." A new @aaup.org report on the Trump administration's "extorted compliance" of higher ed.
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Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance
Published July 2026.This report was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom andTenure and the Committee on College and University Governance and was appro...
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Conor P. Williams @conorpwilliams.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This administration blusters about patriotism, but its actions consistently show that it does not care about the things that make this country great. dc.citycast.fm/news/lincoln...
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Rare Lincoln Documents Exposed to Unsafe Heat in New Exhibit, NPS Staff Say · City Cast DC
Beneath the Lincoln Memorial, another potential disaster is brewing for the Park Service.
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Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
sick burn
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Paging Isaac Chotiner bit.ly/3QnRzSz
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Panic at CBS as Bari Weiss eyes 'blockbuster sit-down'
Reports that embattled CBS News head Bari Weiss is searching for a sympathetic ear among journalists for an interview to clear her name have some in the executive suites in a bit of a panic.According ...
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 24/06/2026
“and so it’s almost like a confession – as though the words on the pamphlet are: 'We worship the devil, signed, antifa’.” @reproutopia.bsky.social quoted in @lexmcmenamin.com's incredible new story
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‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prison
Advocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility
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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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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint
The described cocktail in a coupe glass.  It's very algae lookin
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
“If King Croesus crosses the Halys River, a great empire will be destroyed.”
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Damnatio memoriae
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Vanessa Hua @vanessahua.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
An amazing review of Coyoteland in the @bostonglobe.com ! archive.is/qVucT
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
At the end of the day, research requires work, effort, and friction. It probably requires money and travel expenses. In an ideal world, repositories would have enough staff and resources to provide at least nominal virtual access to those who need it. To do that, archives need money not LLMs.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
And to the folks upset that yeah, sometimes you gotta travel to see archival material, that will never not be a thing. There isn't enough money, staff time, or digital storage in the world to process everything in all repositories. And not everything can be digitized for a variety of reasons.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Tax the rich and funnel some of that money to community services like libraries, museums, and archives. That will do far more good than throwing cash at tech bros to buy another yacht.
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Advertise your account with a Simpsons image
Mole Man: "I was saying Boo-Urns"
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .
ALT: a group of trash cans are sitting on the side of a road .
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Fighting wokeness
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This is great! The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present. It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more. americanarchive.org
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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Marc Maron Speaks Out on Trans Jokes
YouTube video by NowThis Impact
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
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Historical Marker Ahead @historicalmarker.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Go Michigan
Michigan is the one state where people point to their hand to show where they’re from. I was born on the top hand, at the first bend of the ring finger
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James Longhurst @jameslonghurst.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
History is cool and I like archives, which are filled with cool and creative people who do cool things. Archivists are creative people and deserve to be treated better than they are by institutions and administrators. Archives should be treasured jewels of educational and cultural institutions.
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 26/03/2026
NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.
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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
NARA filled with a bunch of furious archivists and librarians going scorched earth in the survey.
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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists variety.com/2024/film/ne...
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Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection
The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.
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T H E VV O R S T @milfparade.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but
A flyer taped to a utility pole
It features John Fetterman’s face with the eyes and mouth replaced by elements from American printed money , under the words “call your senator” and  “I love bombing children with your money while you can’t afford healthcare “ and “call me” with his office number I assume
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PF Anderson @pfanderson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Fake references make Waite’s job as a librarian “so much harder,” she added. “I expect this on the wider internet, but not in reputable scientific journals,” she told us. “…It’s really worrying.” retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l... #medlibs
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Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal
Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Ilene Goldman @ilenegold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I, for one, welcome our new librarian overlords.
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Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) @ala-acrl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
New on ACRLog... Tribute Post for Fobazi Ettarh "With immense sadness, the writers of ACRLog acknowledge the passing of Fobazi Ettarh, library worker and influential LIS scholar." bit.ly/3MFuZmA
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
“I feel liberated,” one top banker told the paper. “We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' without the fear of getting cancelled.… It's a new dawn
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I think it was Marc Maron who said that Bill Maher speaks power to truth
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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
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a cartoon chef is making spaghetti in a kitchen .
ALT: a cartoon chef is making spaghetti in a kitchen .
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