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Snowden Becker

@snowdenbecker.bsky.social
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Archivist, librarian, weirdo

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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have so many thoughts on outsourcing household management to LLMs, and they're too numerous and complicated to all put here, but one 19th-century thought that occurs to me is that with servants far less common now, we've lost sight of what it means to have a home staff.
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Also reminder the best help for food pantries, or people struggling or any 'need' is cold hard cash. Always. Always always always. Food pantries can make that money stretch MUCH BETTER THAN YOU CAN, and it'll go to their most urgent needs. I mean, the other stuff is great too but cash is king
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ISTG if ONE MORE person tells me to “just ask ChatGPT” I’m going to become the lady on the street who is yelling angrily and incoherently at everything
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Jessie Lynn @catmomjessie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone knows what happened to Nolan.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There are certain people in my life who keep telling me “just tell Claude to…” and I wish they would understand that’s like telling a vegan to “just wrap it in bacon”
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Dianne Dupuis @iamfreetobeme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020. — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Michael Pizzino @savorypower.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It should be illegal for corporations to pay their CEOs until every employee receives a living wage, full benefits, and paid vacation—the same rule should apply to stock buybacks. #Corporations #CEOs #Wages #Benefits #Economy 📉⚖️
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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 12/09/2026
as seen in Kingston Ontario
image divided between two areas, one saying TECH MOGULS AND BILLIONAIRES TO-DO LIST: which reads

Fix world hunger 
⁃Cure @ancer. 
-fix climate change
- fix pollution 
- preserve animal species 
- heal environment 

on the right are two tech moguls, the first one says

OR we could pour out resources into technology that creates VERY BELIEVABLE FAKE IMAGES!!

the other one says "sounds fun!!"
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regcalgary.bsky.social @regcalgary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fuck Flock.
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Starting a resistance movement of those who are childless by choice, standing in staunch opposition to the “declining birth rate” catastrophizers. Gonna call it Fecund to None
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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️
8 Hours for Work, 8 Hours for Rest, 8 Hours for What We Will. Based on a screenprint by Ricardo Levins Morales after the organizing work done by Robert Owen.
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Power to the people! ✊
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It was bad in 2022, when medical issues exacerbated by the hostility at work made me leave. It’s worse all the time. Show up for your local libraries. Get involved with the boards. Shout down the bigots. Demand protection for the freedom to read and for librarians doing their jobs.
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
About to start prepping for my third colonoscopy, AMA
Plastic one-gallon jug of Gavilyte-C solution for colonoscopy prep sitting on a hex-tiled countertop
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Our new thing is making Lily into a zen garden while she’s sleeping
Photo of a young, pure-white cat with pink toe beans curled up asleep like a shrimp on a fluffy white cat bed. Two black pebbles on her back are surrounded by corduroy lines of raked white fur.
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 20/08/2026
not everything where people agree is an echo chamber. Sometimes it's *consensus* based on *observation* and *listening*. Gravitation is not an echo chamber. Evolution is not an echo chamber. Rejecting "AI" and its fascist promoters is WISDOM.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not only do digital things not last forever, digital objects are even more fragile than physical ones! You can put a piece of paper on a shelf for a century, but you probably can't read a Unity project from 10 years ago
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clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Dr. Nwachukwu Egbunike of Pan-Atlantic University Press shares his insights on scholarly publishing, digital preservation, and ensuring today’s knowledge remains accessible tomorrow. Watch the interview youtu.be/uCjCfH_7pwM?... #ScholarlyPublishing #DigitalPreservation
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Preserving Africa’s Scholarly Record: Why Digital Preservation Matters for the Future of Knowledge
We had the pleasure to interview Dr. Nwachukwu Egbunike a Senior Lecturer, School of Media and Communication and the head of Pan-Atlantic University Press in Nigeria. Pan-Atlantic has recently joined…
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clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Welcome to our YouTube Channel! Here you’ll find recordings of our webinars, interviews with thought leaders, and conversations exploring the latest developments in scholarly communication, digital preservation and more. www.youtube.com/@digital_pre...
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CLOCKSS
We are CLOCKSS. A community-led collaboration of academic publishers and research libraries around the world, working together to provide a sustainable online archive. Together we ensure the…
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Jay Stanley @jaystanley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Without appropriate public access to videos, the technology can be worse than useless www.aclu.org/news/privacy...
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ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras But the Fix is In | ACLU
The technology appears unlikely to constrain the immigration agencies; much more sweeping reforms are needed
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Brad Houston, Cardboard Relocation Maestro @herodotusjr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Institutions who get around the "post your salary on the job board" requirement by putting either $1 or $1,000,000 in the salary field: NOBODY IS IMPRESSED BY YOUR NOT-AT-ALL-CLEVER GAMING OF THE SYSTEM. POST YOUR DAMN SALARY.
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
So, funny story: I did exactly this on a listserv this week, and someone replied that “salary is normally not even mentioned“ because “it’s one of those things negotiated at the time of the offer.” Honestly shocking to me that people still have that notion in 2026.
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✨[redacted]✨ @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i encourage all of you, regardless of your age, to not take this shit advice
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Gen Z job seekers should be willing to work for free, long hours, 'willing to do anything, says Squarespace
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BY ORIANNA ROSA ROYLE
July 20, 2024 at 3:00 AM PDT
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Who wants “I’m having trouble getting my estrogen patches and I vote” bumper sticker for the midterms? 🙋‍♀️
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I told the clerk I’d bag my own groceries because I enjoy it. “It’s like Tetris!” I said. “What’s Tetris?” he replied. In that very moment I lost the power of speech and aged 1,000 years
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Happy international Cat Day to Lily, whom my partner and I rescued on July 5. She’d been taken in by people and dumped back out on the street twice already. Now she has a forever home where she can rest easy and never be hungry again.
Photo of an all-white cat with green eyes and the most adorable pink nose you’ve ever seen curled up daintily on someone’s lap
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clockssarchive.bsky.social @clockssarchive.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
With fewer than 50% of open access books preserved in long-term archives, how can publishers, libraries and preservation agencies coordinate to prevent permanent loss of digital scholarship? Gali Halevi, Independent Scholar, discusses here: buff.ly/lbdWHZE
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Faculti: Digital book preservation: who is responsible for safeguarding scholarly monographs – Gali Halevi
With fewer than 50% of open access books preserved in long-term archives, how can publishers, libraries and preservation agencies coordinate to prevent permanent loss of digital scholarship?
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is actually a place where those of us who have some seniority and no fucks to give can leverage their privilege. If someone posts a job to a list without salary info, I will IMMEDIATELY reply on-list to say “Before I forward this to great candidates who might be interested, what is the salary?
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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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+ All the people who are anti-Al or want to slow Al progress, I have one question:
If Al disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without ChatGPT, Claude, or any other
Al tool?
Imagine Al was suddenly banned.
Would you actually be willing to give it up?
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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sabrina, uncluttered @unwisewoman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
being helpful is fun
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same urgency and ruthlessness to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 01/08/2026
This is a public service
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
A friend reached out this evening to request clarification on an AI apologist’s talking point, and it’s worth reiterating: Digitizing is a process librarians, archivists, and curators understand to preserve the information inside a book as a unique entity. What these bros are doing is destroying.
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Mary and the moon @deannyg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Abolish Billionaires.
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The older I get, the more things from my childhood I now recognize as indoctrination into eugenics and the self-sacrifice demanded under late-stage capitalism. Take the coveted Perfect Attendance Award, for instance.
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear something nice today, but I am currently house-sitting for friends who have two dogs and this handsome bird. And whenever I bring him out for some fresh air in the evening, an anonymous neighbor, whom I cannot see, whistles back and forth with him, making him so happy.
Photograph of a lilac-crowned Amazon parrot, glancing coquettishly at the camera, with a blue sky in the background
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 25/06/2026
As ridiculous as Mrs Bennet is written, I’m not sure I’m enjoying Mr Bennet being as laid back or even as passively antagonistic as he is? What’s his deal? Why is he acting all Whatever about all this?
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
This is incredibly heartening news—not least because sickle cell disease is far more common in the Black community. Medical racism is very real. Any advances in treating/curing ailments that are thought of as “a Black thing” are SO hard-won.
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SciAm Union @sciamunion.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
On Tuesday, Scientific American was sold by international publisher Springer Nature. Large numbers of staff were immediately laid off, and salaries of remaining workers were cut by as much as 30% SciAm staff had just voted to unionize. We should call this action what it is – blatant union-busting.
A poster titled “Scientific American Rally” invites people to a rally on tuesday june 30 at 5pm at 1 new york plaza. it says “show springer nature that science journalism and the people behind it matter!”
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Extremely niche PSA: The grab-and-go chicken salad sandwich at Portland International Airport is genuinely tasty. It has celery AND capers, and it’s on nice fresh whole wheat bread!
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Y’all, I just learned that a man I know who is 55 has been dating an undergrad for at least a year. 😳 Like WTAF
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So what I am saying here is that just claiming that AI is mid misses the political and economic project it’s being leveraged to bring about (upward wealth transfer), while only focusing on that project without noting the flaws of the tech risks missing HOW it’s carrying out that project. 12/n
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Snowden Becker @snowdenbecker.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
@tkingfisher.com warned us!
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
There are these data centers that use minimal amounts of electricity and don't need millions of gallons of water, to cool them. They're called libraries.
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