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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 12/10/2026

I got my bootleg Christmas Tree Shops tshirt just in time for @flaminghydra.com New England week

White woman taking a selfie while wearing an in loving memory of Christmas Tree Shops tshirt

In loving memory of Christmas Tree Shops gone but not forgotten 1970-2023

jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/06/2026

More stickers on cars without a lot of stickers that make me wonder why this is the singular statement that a person would want to make with their car

I got my ass ate at the witches full moon circle

Yeah I'm into BDSM
Big Ducks Such as 1
Wallards

My other ride is a centaur. He is very hot and very strong. His name is
Ban
abus Fiddlehoof. With a mane as golden as the sun and eyes that sparkle like the stars, he carries me swiftly across lands of legend and lore.
ESCAPE

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/06/2026

I’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.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 28/05/2026

I’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.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 25/04/2026

Wtf I share a birthday with Bari Weiss this sucks

Bari Weiss (/'bæri wais/ BARR-ee WYSS; born March 25, 1984) is an American political commentator who is the editor-in-chief of CBS News.!! She was an op-

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 27/03/2026

damn this card for reporters is such a flex

I don't want to talk about it Don DeLillo

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 27/02/2026

hello Buncombe County, NC (found on Reddit)

FUCK AI All my homies use Public library

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/02/2026

From 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.”

Silence is a Commons
Computers are doing to communication what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets.
by Ivan Illich
Minna-san, gladly I accept the honour of addressing this forum on Science and Man. The theme that Mr.
Tsuru proposes, "The Computer-Managed Society," sounds an alarm. Clearly you foresee that machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people's lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The new electronic devices do indeed have the power to force people to
"communicate" with them and with each other on the terms of the machine. Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture dominated by their use.
The machine-like behaviour of people chained to electronics constitutes a degradation of their well-being and of their dignity which, for most people in the long run, becomes intolerable.
Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 13/02/2026

There 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!

No, your coworkers don't want to grab a drink — they want to hit the cold plunge
By Juliana Kaplan and Ana Altchek

Feb 12, 2026, 5:07 AM ET
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Corporate bonding has left the bar and headed straight for the yoga mat.
Remote work and a wellness-obsessed culture are driving alternative ways for coworker to socialize.
People who don't want to drink with coworkers may make surprising connections at the sauna instead.

At companywide conferences, Bethany Mascena's firm used to have what was called "lobby social club": Colleagues would convene at the end of the day to drink and hang out.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 03/02/2026

I wrote about some theories I learned at my yoga teacher training, like that the government shouldn't be telling you to vaccinate against disease and that you can heal cancer with reiki over at @flaminghydra.com. flaminghydra.com/issue-493/#i...

One of my instructors always gets strep, she said, because her throat chakra is blocked due to having to yell to be heard as a child. I heard a lot of theories like this one, at yoga teacher training. Like, you might be agoraphobic because one of your ancestors was once trapped under rubble, I heard. You can cure brain cancer by thinking the cancer away, we were told, or through reiki; you can manifest what you want in the world (like a boyfriend or wealth) as long as you are specific about your request and ask divination cards; we’re all in tune with the universe because humans, and the earth, are made up of H20 (the water element!)

“How do I keep getting myself into these ridiculous situations?” I texted my friend, a physician, a few days in.

“Just remember: shavasana into your third eye and your chakras will realign,” she replied. “Oh, and I forgot to tell you: we replaced all the meds in the hospital with crystals.”

More and more theories emerged: crystal singing bowls emit vibrations on the same wavelength as brains; Louise Hay was a spirit medium, not an evil capitalist charlatan; we cannot dissect a body and find the emotions that make up the greater part of our human experience, which is why chakras are real; 5G cell towers are poisoning people; John D. Rockefeller invented the pharmaceutical industry; the person you should trust is yourself, not “Western science.” The government shouldn’t be telling you to vaccinate against disease.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 31/01/2026

Ivan Illich never misses. Fom 1982 www.inist.org/library/1982...

Silence is a Commons
Computers are doing to communication
what fences did to pastures
and cars did to streets.
by Ivan Illich

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 23/12/2025

My favorite email of the year is here: the strange and unnecessary "Season's Greetings" card from the Copyright Office. Thankfully still signed by Shira, the People's Register of Copyrights.

season's greetings card from all of us at the United States Copyright Office, signed by Shira Perlmutter

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 10/12/2025

Dug up this screenshot so you don't have to. Yikes.

another idea for obama. not as good as bio signal intelligence. the cinese are willing to build a new collider. they will put up the money and build it, but need american tech. if he were to call it the obama xi collider. his legazy would be great in scinece and the project takes 15 -30 years.

Joi Ito<
to Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Good idea. It didn't seem like Obama was that interested in hard sciences though... What's your

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/11/2025

Got these framed and ready for my home office— so much 💜💜 to the @libraryfutures.bsky.social community

Library Futures posters— groovy swirly colors and people

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/11/2025

Posted this in my thread as a follow up but there’s a media narrative somewhere in here (love your newsletter btw!)

12 minutes ago
Michael Gold
Kentucky's Republican secretary of state, Michael Adams, has reminded residents of his state that they cannot, in fact, vote in today's New York City mayor's race — or at all. Perhaps because of intense election coverage by national news outlets, Kentucky officials were getting calls about the polls being closed. But Kentucky has no elections scheduled today.
"Kentucky votes next year," Adams wrote in a social media post. "You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 04/11/2025

the living embodiment of the 1976 Saul Steinberg New Yorker cover

Original drawing for View of the World from 9th Avenue, The New Yorker cover, March 29, 1976. Ink, pencil, colored pencil and watercolor on paper, 28 x 19 in. Private collection.

New York/9th avenue as detailed and large with a sketchy "rest of the world" beyond it.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 04/11/2025

this dude, who thinks that Mayor of New York City is the "second most important job in America," (all the Americas, apparently), should try leaving New York City some time, for more reasons than one.

Neil Blumenthal Co-founder and co-chief executive of Warby Parker
There's just a big difference between running a campaign and running one of the largest cities in the world.
Experience matters for the second most important job in America.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 18/10/2025

Durham, NC has turned OUT! The rally and march just kept getting bigger

People with a no one is illegal on stolen land sign

Trans rights flag next to an American flag

White Woman in a shuck the patriarchy hat

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 12/10/2025

A classic from bolerium books in SF

I BELIEVE ELECTIONS ARE A BOURGEOIS SHAM...
AND I VOTE!

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 12/10/2025

“Too Dumb for New York City Too Ugly for L.A.” lol me too

Too Dumb for New York City
Too Ugly for L.A.
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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 12/10/2025

I put the BDS in BDSM is a bold sticker to drive around with

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 08/10/2025

At a time when collections are under great scrutiny, it is a violation of professional values to offer materials that the library cannot stand behind as legitimate collection choice. Here's white supremacist Russian Propaganda from this morning. Is this in line with collection development policies?

arktos search with 5 white supremacist books

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 08/10/2025

In February, @404media.co did a piece on the overwhelming amount of AI Slop in public library vendor Hoopla Digital. They promised to clean up their platform, but just this morning I went looking and easily found a self-publishing house pushing shoddy health content by a fake author.

Stephanie Hinderock stock photo nonfiction writer

search for a bad self publisher with many health related books

stock photo with many women with different names

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 05/10/2025

Ah New England, how I missed you!

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 22/09/2025

My first Atlantic Beach pie was a hit! Tasted great even though it didn't quite look as neat as I wanted it to. Saltine crust + an entire mountain of whipped cream was better than key lime. #blueskybakers #usuallyibakenodairybutitwasabirthday

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 19/09/2025

In November I wrote about Trump’s obsession with the golden age of late night TV for @flaminghydra.com through the lens of his friendship with Joan Rivers. He hasn’t been invited back since 2016, but was once a regular; he appeared on Letterman more than 30 times. flaminghydra.com/the-trump-er...

Unable to adapt to streaming, the traditional late night shows are bleeding viewers. At his height, Carson reached 17 million Americans every night. Now, operating on a four-day schedule, The Tonight Show reaches about 2.04. million. And Trump himself may have something to do with the twilight of late night.
Tonight with Jimmy Fallon's head writer, Rebecca Drysdale, quit the show in late 2020 because she could no longer bear to write about him. In a Facebook post discovered by the Chicago Sun-Times and CNBC, she wrote that
"doing material about Trump has led to divided creative teams, anxiety, tears and pain... I don't believe that making fun of this man, doing impressions of him, or making him silly, is a good use of that power. It only adds to his."

In interviews and campaign rallies, Trump has made it abundantly clear that he misses the golden age of late night, particularly the legendary Tonight Show host, Johnny Carson.
Carson helped make Joan Rivers's career, and she was a popular guest host on The Tonight Show for years. But when news leaked that she hadn't made the cut for consideration as Carson's successor, she took Fox's offer to host her own show in the same time slot as The Tonight Show. Carson took his revenge; he never spoke to Rivers again and blacklisted her, forbidding any celebrity who appeared on The Late Show with Joan Rivers from coming on The Tonight Show.

Even as the news of late night hosts
"distraught" over Trump's win spread, the administration's circus has provided a firehose of outraged engagement. In 2017, a communications professor at George Mason University counted 3,100 jokes about Trump, as compared with Clinton's 1,700 in 1998 during the height of his impeachment scandal.

Some percentage of Trump voters believe that he is likewise just doing it for the ratings, that his terrifying authoritarian rhetoric is schtick,
"just riling up the news." Despite all evidence to the contrary, these voters still believe that Trump is a "businessman," that he's "fiscally conservative," that he won't touch the socially liberal policies that many Americans support.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 17/09/2025

I am once again pointing to the Lisa Feldman Barrett piece, which is still the best thing I've read on the issue of campus speakers. www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/o...

What’s bad for your nervous system, in contrast, are long stretches of simmering stress. If you spend a lot of time in a harsh environment worrying about your safety, that’s the kind of stress that brings on illness and remodels your brain. That’s also true of a political climate in which groups of people endlessly hurl hateful words at one another, and of rampant bullying in school or on social media. A culture of constant, casual brutality is toxic to the body, and we suffer for it.

That’s why it’s reasonable, scientifically speaking, not to allow a provocateur and hatemonger like Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at your school. He is part of something noxious, a campaign of abuse. There is nothing to be gained from debating him, for debate is not what he is offering.

On the other hand, when the political scientist Charles Murray argues that genetic factors help account for racial disparities in I.Q. scores, you might find his view to be repugnant and misguided, but it’s only offensive. It is offered as a scholarly hypothesis to be debated, not thrown like a grenade. There is a difference between permitting a culture of casual brutality and entertaining an opinion you strongly oppose. The former is a danger to a civil society (and to our health); the latter is the lifeblood of democracy.

By all means, we should have open conversations and vigorous debate about controversial or offensive topics. But we must also halt speech that bullies and torments. From the perspective of our brain cells, the latter is literally a form of violence.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 27/08/2025

Why do I do this to myself every year @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/jammin/

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 31/07/2025

My high school librarian gave me this poster my senior year, but I had to throw it away after a bedbug incident in college. The power of the Internet found me a new one after almost 15 years of searching, so now I get to fully indulge this library eccentricity in my home office!

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 23/07/2025

Grimmelman is right, and as usual we are seeing it first in libraries: the market is flooded with cheap imitations, it’s confusing, and it’s devaluing work not because it’s so good but because it’s so bad! Not sure it’ll work legally, but it is getting worse and has to be addressed by book people

But in his ruling, Chhabria also laid out what Grimmelmann called a "road map" that plaintiffs could use in future cases to demonstrate such harms. He suggested that authors and other creators could claim that Al tools and chatbots will undermine sales of their original work by flooding the market with cheap imitations.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 23/07/2025

I am pro-author, pro-fair use, and anti-corporations supporting fair use only when it’s conveniently destroying jobs and creativity and not for its myriad uses in education and innovation. But this framing is wrong— authors aren’t competing with AI companies, that is not how creativity works.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) said he wanted to find a
balance between promoting innovation and protecting

and encouraging artists and creatives. "How can creators

compete with Al companies that generate content at the

push of a button, particularly when the content might

mimic or even reproduce their own work?" he asked.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 27/06/2025

We @libraryfutures.bsky.social are at the American Library Association conference today in Philly! Come say hi!

COPYRIGHT HELP 5¢
THE SCHOLAR
IS IN brown haired white woman in a booth in a white shirt

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 25/06/2025

Somehow this escaped me until just now.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 22/06/2025

Someone I work with got an email with my name on it asking them to buy gift cards in an obvious spam hack — it was from a .ru email w/my name in mail merge. The only place I am connected to this person is LinkedIn. What do I do in this situation other than double check passwords? Email below

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/06/2025

Enormous turnout today in Durham (not my photo!) Vibe was very Durham: hot, friendly, a little wacky.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 29/05/2025

Durham County Public Library is really their rocking events and their graphic design!

image of a pizza with the words slice slice baby and the offer to win a 4 pack of Durham Bulls Tickets June 13-August 9th at the Durham County Library Pizza Crawl, open to all ages

Durham county library presents FIREFLIES who? what? when? where? why? Tuesday June 24 6-7PM Main Library

Durham Public Library Nic Cage Film Discussion Group 6:00PM Main Library Maker Lab, snacks provided for your enjoyment
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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 22/05/2025

Can someone explain this to me?

4 Florida with a Texas map in red white and blue

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 21/05/2025

Got this email at @libraryfutures.bsky.social within a few minutes of sending our latest email blast about our work combatting misinformation, supporting library workers, and fighting for equitable access. I don’t feel threatened, just sad and angry that someone felt the need to send this.

"Misinformation May"?
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Misinformation? Hilarious. You leftist clowns are the biggest purveyors. there's nothing "inspiring" about pretending the erasure of women is okay. Not to mention every other issue on which you seemingly strive to find the wrong side.

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 17/05/2025

It’s official! I earned my MPA as part of the NYU Wagner Global Public Leaders program with a focus in international technology policy. It was an incredible two years, and I’m so proud to have made it to this far. ❤️

White woman in a sweater and long skirt standing in front of a purple wall that says NYU Wagner

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/05/2025

About 200 employees work at BookOps to circulate tens of millions of books every year to millions of patrons. The infrastructure behind all this is so specific and well run— getting this many books to this big a geographic area on a limited budget is an incredible operation. Thank you tech services!

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/05/2025

Trucks come at night to NYPL and in the morning to BPL using a formula based on traffic and approximately how many boxes of books are generally ordered to each branch every day. There are daily shipments of pallets of new books to the loading dock that have to be sorted, tagged, and catalogued.

Book cart and baskets of books in a basement

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 15/05/2025

This is the book sorter at NYPL BookOps, which is the machine that sends the books to their correct branch. Each bucket corresponds to a different branch (92 in all, 62 in BPL.) The machine is programmed to drop the book into the correct bucket based on the barcode.

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