jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 14/09/2026Such a pleasure to be on @404media.co podcast talking about the past, present, and future of libraries! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...podcasts.apple.comFighting for the Future of Libraries (With Jennie Rose Halperin)Podcast Episode · The 404 Media Podcast · September 14 · 1h 2m 171
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 06/09/2026Just watched Network for the first time, holy shit 2150
Reposted by jennie rose halperinMaria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 04/09/2026Phenomenal news. @littlewow.online has a great piece at @flaminghydra.com on the backstory flaminghydra.com/wiki-workers... 0108
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 31/08/2026What is going on with hotels in NYC? It’s always expensive in the nice months but I can’t find anything under $600/night in either Manhattan or Brooklyn in mid September, which feels extreme? 400
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 27/08/2026The potential acquisition of HF by NVIDIA really reminds me how extraordinary it is when open source companies, projects, and nonprofits are able to maintain their independence over time. 022
Reposted by jennie rose halperinLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton was an incredible advocate for literacy, a library innovator, and a brilliant musician. She gave away over 300 million (!) books in her lifetime, fought the increasing censorship of her Imagination Libraries, and wrote one of the greatest feminist anthems of all time. Love you, Dolly! 1346
Reposted by jennie rose halperinFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 26/08/2026TODAY: @littlewow.online in conversation with labor lawyer and union organizer Jeremy Bernick on U.S. Wikipedia workers' union drive. "What we’re asking for ... are basic social and political rights that our own employees in other countries are already entitled to." flaminghydra.com/wiki-workers...flaminghydra.comWiki Workers of the World UniteThe Wikimedia Foundation’s annual Wikimania conference in Paris drew nearly 5,250 participants this year, in person and online. It’s the Foundation’s 25th anniversary, and the conference’s organizers ... 05325
Reposted by jennie rose halperinLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Our comms manager is on a much deserved vacation so it's me, @littlewow.online, staffing Bluesky this week. (Not gonna tag her so I don't bother her) AMA about libraries and digital rights, it'll be fun. 😈 061
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 14/08/2026The Bartz case reconfirmed that we have to look out for each other 044
Reposted by jennie rose halperinLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 14/08/2026There's still time to register for Tools for Intellectual Freedom Training (Monday 8/17). Learn some stuff AND play a bit of the Pickle of the Persistent Press Hound with our own @librariansreed.bsky.social, @littlewow.online, and @samhelmick.bsky.social! elearning.ala.org/local/catalo... 032
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 23/06/2026Wrote about capitalist realism, academia, and the radical monopolies inherent in innovation tied to capital. 082
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 08/06/2026Library advocates in multiple states and major advocacy organizations wouldn’t be fighting back if corporate greed didn’t dictate their collections over their community’s needs. Supporting a library’s right to fair terms in digital is what brave, forward-thinking, and informed authors do. 0163
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/06/2026I’ve been taking pictures of good bumper stickers for more than 3 years (400 photos!) and the thing I love the most is that you rarely see the same deranged one twice. This was the only sticker on a new looking white Kia Forte parked at the North Carolina State Farmers Market on a Sunday morning. 3475
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 28/05/2026I’m exhibiting @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this year and was surprised to see that an org that says they care about privacy selling participant data to vendors, particularly at a time when a lot of people are taking a risk in attending the conference at all. 010
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 13/05/2026“Moreover, campus surveys suggest that many students feel compelled to self-censor. Out of fear for their grades, they often respond to exam questions by drawing on what their professors have taught them, thereby reproducing expert opinion.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...mcsweeneys.netWe’re Diversifying the University by Hiring More Crackpots“For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underreprese... 020
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 13/05/2026“No one goes to Pilates thinking ‘I’m going to be a fascist today’” 0284
Reposted by jennie rose halperinHamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026How Things Work is three years old this week. It's not the most important thing in the world but it is nice to know that it is possible to build sustainable independent media in 2026. If you're a subscriber, thank you for keeping hope alive. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/three-year...hamiltonnolan.comThree Years of How Things WorkA brief annual update on this nice place. 19014
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 25/04/2026Wtf I share a birthday with Bari Weiss this sucks 3100
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 24/04/2026I have never used another browser unless I was forced to, so I was surprised to see that Firefox has less than 5% market share! It’s not even that ideological, I just like it. 070
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 22/04/2026Wrote about why we need a strong consumer protection movement to fight digital contract abuses over @techdirt.com. Thanks for the opportunity @masnick.com ! www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/y...techdirt.comYou Can’t Vote Out Amazon Web Services: Fighting Internet Contracts One Library At A TimeFor nearly twenty years, I’ve used Google Docs for most of my writing: class notes, personal notes, a novel in progress, research, activism, and my day job. It’s become an essential piece of infras… 15916
Reposted by jennie rose halperinLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“We’ve been signing away our rights one click at a time…. If we want to take them back, libraries are the most powerful place we can start.” Our ED @littlewow.online in @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/y...techdirt.comYou Can’t Vote Out Amazon Web Services: Fighting Internet Contracts One Library At A TimeFor nearly twenty years, I’ve used Google Docs for most of my writing: class notes, personal notes, a novel in progress, research, activism, and my day job. It’s become an essential piece of infras… 0138
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/04/2026Our mutual hatred of this mural was one of the first things my partner and talked about... the dystopian "Chesterfield cigarettes" billboard that rises above it is missing, which makes it look oddly threatening. Kate Bowler might be great, this mural is terrible. www.reddit.com/r/bullcity/c...reddit.comFrom the bullcity community on Reddit: Love this quote by Kate Bowler 🩵Explore this post and more from the bullcity community 220
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 09/04/2026Sometimes I wonder if the chat LLMs are basically Ask Jeeves in its most evolved form. 160
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 08/04/2026If you or someone you know is in North Liberty Iowa, @libraryfutures.bsky.social is so proud to be supporting this event and community read of Ink Knows No Borders: Poems of the Immigrant and Refugee Experience! northlibertylibrary.org/programs/eve...northlibertylibrary.orgEvents Calendar – North Liberty Library 122
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 06/04/2026Thanks to @bookriot.bsky.social @heykellyjensen.bsky.social for featuring our new Imagine IF game! Play as a librarian as you CYOA and fend off Intellectual Freedom challenges! bookriot.com/library-futu...bookriot.comAn Interactive Approach Helps Librarians Protect Intellectual Freedom: Book Censorship News, April 3, 2026Library Futures developed a game to help librarians protect the right to read. Here's what it is, why it was developed, and how to try it out. 152
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 02/04/2026I read through a ton of Seder supplements and made my own Haggadah! you can download it here! 👇 1143
Reposted by jennie rose halperinAnna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Ugh so considerate and this is the thanks you get! 021
Reposted by jennie rose halperinKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 30/03/2026You: basic, hate the internet because of AI or social media brainrot or whatever. Me: wise, has always hated the internet, for killing off CD-ROMs 671977107
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 30/03/2026This from @masnick.com was thought provoking— as an old school “learn to code” type with humanities background, I am interested in the role of expertise in tech. Agentic code bots transform the gatekeeping of code, and I’m much more here for it than I thought I’d be www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/a...techdirt.comAI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open WebI remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall… 020
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 30/03/2026What’s interesting about this article is that it doesn’t ask whether AI has taste, just assumes it doesn’t, but rather how people can cultivate taste. It’s the same question asked of yuppies in the 1980s — replace “AI” with “money” and it’s the same old. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/s...nytimes.comIs Taste the One Thing A.I. Can’t Replace? 110
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 17/03/2026I guess now is as good a time as any to publicly admit that from about 2008-2011 I was adamantly convinced the iPhone wasn't going to take off. 130
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 11/03/2026Only interested in this feature if it’s Harold Bloom telling me he knows my work is unreadable based on the first three words and he’s not even going to bother with it 160
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 10/03/2026If I had to describe my gateway political ideology, it would be “know your neighbors!” Being able to rely on people who have little in common beyond proximity is crucial to navigating across difference and building small d democracy. It takes work, but it pays off! thewalrus.ca/cramped-cond...thewalrus.caBad Housing Is Turning Us into Bad Neighbours | The WalrusWe’re growing lonely, with no ties to the people next door 1111
Reposted by jennie rose halperinAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/ 522052
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 27/02/2026Platform based licensing is like printing money for big publishers and intermediaries – why charge once when you can charge again and again? 030
Reposted by jennie rose halperinFlaming Hydra @flaminghydra.com · 26/02/2026TODAY: @littlewow.online on "paranoid reading" and its remedies. "To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/#a...flaminghydra.comHow to readJennie Rose Halperin on transcending paranoia 0228
Reposted by jennie rose halperinparker higgins @xor.blue · 24/02/2026inordinately charmed by the hibernating mister softees 36111
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 24/02/2026One of the best essays I’ve read on AI from @rusty.todayintabs.com yesterday. “I’ve watched all three of my children learn what a cat is, and in each case the number of pictures of a cat they needed to see was not ‘all of them.’” www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...todayintabs.comA.I. Isn't PeopleHow many Reddit posts does it take to learn to read? 092
Reposted by jennie rose halperinMatt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social · 23/02/2026Now you can play being a Librarian with Imagine IF: imagineif.libraryfutures.net A choose-your-own-adventure experience supports public librarians through scenario-based gameplay. Play the role of a librarian as you navigate intellectual freedom issues and interact with patrons and staff. 📚📜imagineif.libraryfutures.netIntellectual Freedom - Choose Your Own Adventure! 16737
Reposted by jennie rose halperinLibrary Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Got book challenges? Need informative, interactive, level-headed, and fun advice on how to handle them? We've got you. Imagine IF: The Game is out now from Library Futures! See where you intellectual freedom adventure takes you! www.libraryfutures.net/post/library...libraryfutures.netLibrary Futures Presents… Imagine IFResearch and advocacy for the future of libraries. 087
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 23/02/2026Want to experience what it feels like to be a librarian on the front lines of an intellectual freedom challenge? Play Imagine IF, the new game from @libraryfutures.bsky.social, where you can be the helpful library cat, or…. Choose chaos! imagineif.libraryfutures.netimagineif.libraryfutures.netIntellectual Freedom - Choose Your Own Adventure! 099
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 18/02/2026My friend @brendanballou.bsky.social is in the NYTimes to announce the new @publicintegritylaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Corruption Is Rampant. You Can Stop It. 020
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/02/2026From Ivan Illich “Silence is a Commons,” 1982. “The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity… The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.” 031
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 13/02/2026There is literally no world in which I would ever "hit the sauna" or take an exercise class with my colleagues and I am a sober spin instructor. These are free time activities! 170
jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 13/02/2026I read the puffy, flattering Newsom piece in the New Yorker and somehow I find him even more unlikable than I did before I read the piece. 150