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Bryan Schuff

@schufflemode.bsky.social
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Library & information scientist in a world at war against libraries, information, & science. Free people read freely. History is for everyone.

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Bryan Schuff @schufflemode.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The one in Syracuse only closed 9 months ago.
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Bryan Schuff @schufflemode.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Telling a friend about a band: This is This Is Lorelei, Lorelei.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I don't want people surveilled and I don't want cops "randomly" pulling over certain people and shooting them, and no one is ever going to slow down of their own accord because we are a nation of sociopaths, so what then? Just say fuck it I guess.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Almost no one ever in your entire life of riding public transport has the desire or means to kill you but every single driver on the road would splash your guts across the pavement to get to the next red light 30 seconds sooner.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
“Trans-driven” god he is just so incredibly angry his daughter disowned him.
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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 20/07/2026
It's a scam all the way down. Taylor Farms gave MAGA Inc. $1M USD less than a week after FDA postponed implementation of food traceability rules. www.patreon.com/mattbc/posts...
FEC Schedule A itemized receipt, line C. Contributor: Taylor Fresh Foods Inc, 911-B Blanco Circle, Salinas, CA 93902. Date of receipt: 03/26/2025. Transaction ID: SA17.4550. Amount of receipt this period: $1,000,000.00. Marked "Memo Item" and labeled "NON-CONTRIBUTION." Receipt-for boxes (Primary/General/Other) are blank. Aggregate year-to-date: $1,000,000.00.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026
Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.
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sara m. b. simon @sarambsimon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
not an original thought but it's wild to read so much excellent historical scholarship that relies on newspaper archives and realize historians of the future will be stuck with, uh, whatever this current news landscape is
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
looks like ken's being a little bitch on twitter
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talia jane @taliajane.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Centrists had ten years of The Most Important Election Of Our Lifetime to take decisive action to save us from fascist implosion and at every turn you insisted you couldn’t do anything—yet. Manipulating the anxiety of our need and fear to collect reluctant Lesser Evil votes. People are done.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 06/07/2026
Heat waves. Thanks to @climateadam.bsky.social's most recent video, which helped inform this comic and gave me the kick I needed to make it.
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 05/07/2026
Libraries are pretty rad.
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
The most worrying part of this study: "Older evaluators showed less gender bias than male Gen Z evaluators, who are more likely to use AI themselves. Among Gen Z males, 97% rated James as a “strong” candidate while only 76% rated Emily as “strong,” representing a 21 percentage point gender gap."
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"There has never been a time in American history when our country was not mythologizing itself to cover atrocities.... More than any other nation, America is an idea. And that idea is a phantasm, a collective dream, or—more plainly—a fantasy." www.welcometohellworld.com/america-250-...
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America 250: A Reckoning
Mythologizing ourselves to cover atrocities
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 04/07/2026
violence against women (and any gender nonconformity) is so baked into American culture that the whole political sphere is able to pretend that, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t exist — from Epstein, to the WH, Supreme Court and probably a majority of Congress, to community organizing
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 03/07/2026
underappreciated that the racist and lawless position adopted by 4 justices in the birthright citizenship case a few days ago was considered and rejected by justices in *1898* who were like oh woof that's too racist and lawless even for us ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...
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The Supreme Court’s Big Birthright Citizenship Decision Is the Absolute Bare Minimum
The justices had a simple task in Trump v. Barbara: uphold their oaths. Only five were willing to do so.
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 04/07/2026
Oh, I like this. Confederate flag images and portrait bonfires, another custom we can appropriate from the British to unify the country around punishing traitors
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 30/06/2026
Oh boy NPR has *retracted* the Samuel Alito retirement story. This is a catastrophic error.
Editor's note: NPR retracts story
June 30, 202610:51 AM ET
Nina Totenberg at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., May 21, 2019. (photo by Allison Shelley)
Nina Totenberg

For the NPR Logo file, please download the NPR Logo zip.
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Editors Note: This story has been taken down. It was published in error.
June 30, 2026

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justice samuel alito
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/06/2026
the feds have done more to harass americans angry over good and pretti’s killings than they have to investigate them
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
you'd think PBS would've stopped doing this after the republicans stripped all their funding and yet
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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
lol does this article really not mention that Clarence Thomas was in house counsel for Monsanto, the Roundup manufacturer?
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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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I would like to amend my earlier advocacy for reparations to include the need for reparations for this specifically
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Someone want to come on the podcast to rant about this?
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The idea that LLMs 'hallucinate' is itself a clever invention of the tech industry to disguise actual failures of their systems. Rebranding these serious algorithmic glitches as 'hallucinations' was designed to make the public accept this bullshit by linking it to the vagaries of human psychology.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
How long it takes and how hard it is to undo the damage will depend in large part on the political will of the people elected to do it. If you get hand-wringing caveat peddlers who want to deliberate for years before acting it'll never happen. Plan has to be ready on day one
"Why's it taking so long to take down the name when they put it up so fast?" yeah, undoing every single thing he's done is gonna be exactly like that, get used to it
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Professor Joyce is a renowned scholar on the archaeology of gender. Her thread here is outstanding and nuanced (as always).
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Shannon Stirone @shannonstirone.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I wish as a society we didn’t long for power, & instead aimed to be decent people who care for each other and our world. It’s alluring to see all that money, to be sold the sci fi dreams of our childhoods, the escape, the adventure. Only the worst kind of people use our dreams against us.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/06/2026
they should be slicing up these people's brains and putting them under a microscope after they die like wrestlers and NFL players man. chronic transphobic encephalopathy
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If sexual abuse was really considered a terrible thing, the world's richest and most powerful people wouldn't be abusers. The most valued technology wouldn't produce sexual abuse on demand. And allegations of abuse wouldn't be framed as positive depictions of masculinity. Our culture rewards abuse.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
lol what an obvious conjob www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
What if all the points in a basketball game were scored at once but we randomized the unveiling on the scoreboard
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I hate to say it, but the colleagues positioning themselves to be pro AI in teaching and curriculum, are probably also positioning themselves to be administrators, and probably aren’t thinking about or don’t care how it will affect teaching, learning, or the careers of those around them.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
as many of you will remember, I dug into detailed local reporting about a different ICE victim every day of Lent to meditate on their stories, and when you read them all lined up some clear patterns start to emerge. the starkest to me was that every employee of GEO Group should be sent to The Hague
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Micah @rincewind.run · 07/06/2026
Pelley and 60 minutes really were the gold standard for Serious Journalism and that they already felt the need to “balance” a story about the murder of innocent civilians by federal goons by implying they deserved it is an indictment of the entire industry
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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Do not trust someone who proudly proclaims they've never been to a library.
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Jingtong 景桐 @zogzhu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This Korean paper asmr artist that I’ve been following for a while made a TikTok of her healing Van Gogh 🥹 Her account name is paper pepper www.tiktok.com/@paper__pepp...
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/06/2026
When you realize that all they care about is the appearance of passable output and not about process, or learning, or knowledge, or integrity, the fact that we’re inside a culture held captive by the worst grifters suddenly doesn’t seem so surprising.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The Metro NY Library Council is hiring a Library Field Ranger for our Library Field experimental outdoor library in Westchester County!
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Library Field Ranger
About the Library Field The Library Field is a project of the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO). METRO’s mission is to create a sustainable culture of creativity, collaboration, and open e...
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is the surefire number one way to tell you're dealing with someone who fucking sucks. Across all fields and the political spectrum. Always criticizing never admitting mistakes. Going through life never letting themselves be the butt of the joke, not even for silly things.
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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I wrote about the new ALA workers' union and why it matters to all library workers in the U.S., whether you're an ALA member or not. 📚 acrlog.org/2026/06/03/t...
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The New ALA Workers Union, and Why It Matters - ACRLog
A hearty congratulations to the members of the newly formed ALA Workers United (ALAWU)! In March, employees at the American Library Association announced their intention to form a union, and last week...
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
By the way a random nobody on the internet can’t deny free speech. Only governments can do that. Words and concepts mean things.
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 05/06/2026
City AM issues broadside against flood of AI slop being submitted by writers for its pages: "if you can’t be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?" www.cityam.com/there-should...
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There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop
City AM's inbox is drowning in AI pitches. Anna Moloney, who spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough.
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