librarypunk

We're talking with Kelly about the IMLS executive order and fallout.    Kelly on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/heykellyjensen.bsky.social  Literary Activism Newsletter: https://bookriot.com/newsletter/literary-activism/  Media mentioned https://mn.gov/mmb/budget/federal-investments/data-and-reporting/ https://www.13newsnow.com/article/news/local/virginia/virginia-beach-moca-museum-of-contemporary-art-federal-grant-terminated/291-bbbaeb6f-6954-4f3a-ab6d-96d63b962619 May 11   IMLS stories https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.rid.59257/gov.uscourts.rid.59257.64.0.pdf (May 21) https://bookriot.com/trump-seeks-stay-in-imls-injunction-sonderling-bashes-imls-employees-in-declaration/ (May 20) https://www.wordsandmoney.com/ala-urges-court-to-deny-dojs-motion-for-reconsideration-in-imls-case/ (May 14) https://bookriot.com/massive-victory-in-lawsuit-filed-against-trump-administrations-dismantling-of-imls/ (May 13) https://bookriot.com/the-latest-from-the-institute-of-museum-and-library-services/ (May 6, 2025) https://bookriot.com/recent-attacks-on-libraries/ (Apr 15, 2025) https://bookriot.com/imls-gutted/  (Mar 31, 2025) Labor Lessons from the US South event: bit.ly/laborlessons  Live show tickets: https://bit.ly/librarypunklive25  Conference sticker fundraiser: https://ko-fi.com/s/8b9407ef58  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/57rpgz05 (more disjointed than usual due to recording issue)

We're doing a commentary track for Party Girl! Download this and manually sync up while you listen. You can also download a version with the Party Girl audio ducked while we talk here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/krw8v6bq8hh5d6b2svmif/149final.mp3?rlkey=925eywxqlana90acil7eeaqsd&st=hbgjxs3n&dl=0  You can also join the discord to see other ways to enjoy this track! Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript download: https://pastecode.io/s/wxnjkfox 

This week we're talking with the editors of the new book Censorship is a Drag. We talk about putting yourself on the line, personal and professional risks, and reacting to the latest administration's onslaught against queer people.  Order Censorship is a Drag here: https://litwinbooks.com/books/censorship-is-a-drag/ Media mentioned The Joy of Gay Sex: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-joy-of-gay-sex-charles-silversteinfelice-picano  Sara Ahmed's works The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/sara-ahmed/the-feminist-killjoy-handbook/9781541603752/?lens=seal-press  Bri Watson join Homosaurus call: https://bsky.app/profile/brimwats.com/post/3lkvvyv4szk2w Form for Homosaurus: https://forms.gle/tADEnq9qPYk3e5eE6  Fairhope Public Library story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/alabama-fairhope-public-library-book-bans  Indigenous metadata projects to look into: Maori: https://natlib.govt.nz/librarians/nga-upoko-tukutuku Others: https://guides.library.ubc.ca/Indiglibrarianship/knowledgeorganizations  Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/r8istne2 Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

We're talking with Josh from TWOAPW about Patmos Public Library, his personal connections to it, and the issues around public library funding and censorship of LGTBQ materials.  https://www.worstpossible.world/  https://www.twitch.tv/traditional_scrench  TWOAPW Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kp7xkxfutoinhqeg3sfswghd Media Mentioned Segment: https://www.kcrg.com/2025/02/25/bill-ban-obscene-material-iowa-libraries-advances/  Why it's called the Patmos library: https://hudsedfound.org/what-we-do/engage-alumni/marvinandjunepatmos.html  Whose Children Are They: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18559276/  Reporting from the time of the initial removal vote:  https://www.metrotimes.com/news/conservative-michigan-town-defunds-library-over-lgbtq-book-30736450 https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/upset-over-lgbtq-books-michigan-town-defunds-its-library-tax-vote  https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/jamestown-township-library-close-failed-millage-lgbtq/69-021f241b-611c-4856-bd7f-0994f967e714 Go Fund Me set up: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fund-patmos-library-for-2023 Reporting on the failure of the second vote: https://www.mlive.com/politics/2022/11/patmos-library-millage-fails-again-following-controversy-over-lgbtq-books.html MLA statement after second vote: https://www.milibraries.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1375:statement-on-patmos-library-millage---news---michigan-library-association&catid=44:news-advocacy&Itemid=311 Funding approved:  https://lanthorn.com/101674/news/allendale/jamestown-library-funding-approved-after-multi-year-content-disagreements/ https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/politics/michigan-politics/millage-vote-fund-jamestown-township-patmos-library-fails-ottawa-county/69-8102ff6f-1944-4246-a967-c2b3dc3a119e  MLive documentary on banning books in Michigan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x043zuGWgMA Another Michigan library: https://bookriot.com/alpena-public-library/  Porn hunters in Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6656855  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/ybvo6u1t 

We're talking with Nicole of Brave Co-op about their overdose sensors, and Samantha of Guelph Public Library. Trigger warning: death by overdose is mentioned several times Media mentioned https://www.brave.coop/about Welcoming Streets Guelph: https://guelphchc.ca/welcoming-streets/ Hope House Guelph: https://www.hopehouseguelph.ca/ Facts on Narcan and fent test strips in Texas: https://www.trs.texas.gov/Pages/healthcare-news-202301_Fentanyl_Facts.aspx  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/j4gauhdc 

We're talking with QLL about who they are and what they do! Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/queerliblib  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/queerliblib/?hl=en  Bsky https://bsky.app/profile/queerliblib.bsky.social  Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@queerliblib  Media mentioned https://www.queerliberationlibrary.org https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/queer-liberation-library-offers-free-lgbtq-books-response-wave-school-rcna156463 https://xtramagazine.com/culture/books/queer-libraries-book-bans-activism-255227 https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/library_sp/68/  https://www.gaycity.org/library-information/ Donate: https://givebutter.com/J9nhcW  Preorder The Emperor of Gladness (% of pre-order proceeds go to QLL): https://sites.prh.com/emperor-of-gladness/preorder/  

It's in the title.  Media mentioned BIBFRAME Must Die,Jeff Edmunds https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/fc19faee-70b9-44b3-9346-18e40a2cd990 BIBFRAME Must Die, Part II: the Official RDA Toolkit, JEFF EDMUNDS https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/40be29ce-4342-475f-b380-d8ed065b3643 BIBFRAME Must Die, Part III: A Brief History of the Future of Cataloging https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/6100de9a-5f6f-400f-90ea-fe517d16152d  “Missing the MARC: Utilization of MARC fields in the search process.” https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1314&context=lib_pubs  Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/ssabs0oo  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

We're talking with Rachel about peer mentoring, networking, friend groups, and how we're navigating the online social space. What experiences do we have with peers, how is engagement changing after COVID?  Media mentioned “They didn't teach this in Library School” Against The Grain 30, no. 6 (2019) https://issuu.com/against-the-grain/docs/atg_v30-6  https://pemento.org/ Descriptive presentation at Charleston 2022 https://youtu.be/_mkHudh_LAg?si=gSril-1fQa9Ue344) Amplifying Historically Marginalized Voices Through Open Pedagogy in Rethinking Institutional Repositories p.219 Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/g1wgo1nk Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

This week we have Mike Nason on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core. https://bsky.app/profile/ahemnason.bsky.social Media referenced Better Practices in Journal Metadata https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/metadata-practices/en/ (NISO) JAV Revision + Draft https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/jav-revision PIDs and Open Infrastructure Deck https://slides.com/ahemnason/pids-osi-2024  Identifying Metadata Quality Issues Across Cultures (preprint) https://osf.io/6fykh  Mike's https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5527-8489  Getting Found, Staying Found: https://docs.pkp.sfu.ca/getting-found-staying-found/en/   Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/k67htspf  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  

We're talking about Library Futures! All of them! All at once! CDL, ebook contracts, opera, genAI, and some surprisingly deep Jennie-lore.  https://www.libraryfutures.net/who-we-are   https://bsky.app/profile/littlewow.bsky.social  https://bsky.app/profile/libraryfutures.bsky.social  Media mentioned The End of Ownership https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262535243/the-end-of-ownership/  UC AI-generated course: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/comparative-literature-zrinka-stahuljak-artificial-intelligence?taid=6755debeb8836e000133c355  New Research Report: OER in Public Libraries: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/new-research-report-oer-in-public-libraries  Hoopla content issues: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/hooplas-content-problem  Storm Center (1956) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049800/  Library Futures ebook legislation: https://www.libraryfutures.net/library-futures-ebooks-policy-paper How to Read a Contract: https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/how-to-read-a-contract  Library Freedom Project vendor scorecard: https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Library-Freedom-Vendor-Scorecard-110719.pdf Authors Alliance - Developing a public interest training commons of books: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/05/developing-a-public-interest-training-commons-of-books/  I think AI should leave: https://violetbfox.info/against-ai/  Justin's word list: https://pastecode.io/s/s3kq4kzo    More from Library Futures https://cats.libraryfutures.net/ https://www.cilip.org.uk/news/685877/US-Election---the-risk-for-libraries.htm  https://syllabus.pirate.care/topic/piratecareintroduction/ https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/were-still-fighting-for-fair-use https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2020/the-library-commons/ https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262542333/the-promise-of-access/ https://www.libraryfutures.net/oer https://www.libraryfutures.net/post/how-much-does-obamas-summer-reading-list-cost-your-library https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/an-app-called-libby-and-the-surprisingly-big-business-of-library-e-books CATS! from Library Futures https://cats.libraryfutures.net Vintage banger: https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2014/who-are-you-empowering/ https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4184946   Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/ri7ufg9o 

This week we're interviewing Brandon and Katherine on metadata related to indigenous issues, but we of course stray into many other topics.  Katherine: https://linktr.ee/katwitzig  Brandon: bcastle [at] umass [dot] edu Media mentioned https://open.spotify.com/show/0ZtaU2XZlPEhmIW1OV7k8O PCC Task Group Charge: https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/Metadata-Related-to-Indigenous-Peoples-Americas-TG-charge.pdf  Preliminary Report (PCC Task Group for Metadata Related to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas): https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/taskgroup/Metadata-Related-to-Indigenous-Peoples-Americas-TG-preliminary-report.pdf  Short article on our work in Descriptive Notes (blog of Society of American Archivists): https://saadescription.wordpress.com/2024/05/20/taking-on-the-challenge-pccs-metadata-justice-work-for-indigenous-communities/  https://www.landgrabu.org/  https://localcontexts.org/  https://localcontexts.org/labels/traditional-knowledge-labels/  https://ailanet.org/  Transcripts:https://pastecode.io/s/ck3tz6ym Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG 

What can library workers actually do within their institutional limitations?  Media mentioned https://www.404media.co/leaked-documents-show-what-phones-secretive-tech-graykey-can-unlock-2/ https://www.blackrosefed.org/anarchists-in-the-labor-movement-4/  https://github.com/rechelon/zine_library  https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/ https://ssd.eff.org/ Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/3h472fne 

This week we're talking with Emily Weak from Hiring Librarians and answering listener questions about getting the MLS, job hunting, and more! https://x.com/HiringLib  https://emilyweak.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/hiringlibrarians.com https://livingwage.mit.edu/  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/rakyczca 

We're getting into our favorite copyright myths and some copyright related news. Media mentioned Tattoo copyright news: https://apnews.com/article/kat-von-d-tattoo-trial-miles-davis-388d1831c0a065b096fe4f69fe8a224e Wiley news, sells rights to AI https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors  https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction  https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer  https://www.eff.org/pages/eff-screen-lock-images-new-logo  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/q0qhmqpg 

We're joined by Adam Jones from Acid Horizon to talk about cybernetics and systems of control. We talk about how systems of control impact libraries, and how cybernetics can help us see the connections between different systems.  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  Media Mentioned Acid Horizon podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/  Anti-Oculus https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734147/anti-oculus-by-acid-horizon/  "Queer Animality", Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1652/chapter-abstract/178668/Queer-Animality?redirectedFrom=fulltext Trap Door: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544894/trap-door/  That Particular Flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrust_That_Particular_Flavor Resisting AI https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai Work Without the Worker https://www.versobooks.com/products/2518-work-without-the-worker Heike Bauer, ‘Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin', in Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, eds. Partington and Smyth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 17–33. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367662_2 Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/y926mbqh

The gang talks about linked open data. What did we learn in library school? What's the future? Where does it fall off a cliff?  Media mentioned https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/ The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/430f30bf-e029-483d-b1c8-d7e9bb430a8e  Aaron Swartz unfinished book https://web.archive.org/web/20220512132144/https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00481ED1V01Y201302WBE005  Tim Berners Lee https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Overview.html https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111938123937338008 https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111939286501257910  https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111731459659839112  https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#knowledge-graphs-a-backbone-in-the-surveillance-economy  http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/publishing_bnb_as_lod.pdf  https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2024/20240507-introducing-oclc-meridian.html Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript (plaintext): https://pastecode.io/s/qundkp0n

This week we're talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too! Media mentioned https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14 "FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS"  by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527 "US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024 https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916 https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs. https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines! https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan Episode transcript in HTML (download to view): https://pastecode.io/s/e7ye92tz  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

We're joined by All Gamers Are Bastards to talk about Pentiment, a mystery game with an opening similar to the novel/film Name of the Rose (1986) in many ways. Time for the history boys to drop some historiography. https://soundcloud.com/agabpod https://x.com/agabpod https://x.com/kayandskittles https://x.com/laborkyle Kay's other podcast and YouTube show https://x.com/vgatwtoe  https://www.youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles  Kyle's other podcasts https://x.com/horrorvanguard  https://x.com/profaneshow Media mentioned Kay's video: Two Games About History (And Why You Should Care) https://youtu.be/A1ibaKebZjo?si=wY_gStTszO9a_Uz3 https://forgottencitygame.com/ Episode transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/xiawczu3

This week we're talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more! Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/  Media mentioned Tamara's presentation at the Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfjjwmJ1Hc  Anya Bernstein Russian immortalists in the 19th century https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/anya-bernstein  Jacob Boss https://aiandfaith.org/featured-interview-jacob-boss https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/ Episode transcript: https://pastebin.com/0RWi1j5R

Movie night again! We're talking about the film Close-Up about a strange case of fraud in Iran surrounding a film director, made by a film director who was part of the events because he wanted to make a movie about it. The layers! Media Mentioned https://web.archive.org/web/20120322165628/http://www.projectorhead.in/one/closeup.html https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1492-close-up-prison-and-escape https://sabzian.be/text/%E2%80%9Cambient-genocide%E2%80%9D

This week we're doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests. Media mentioned https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/ https://x.com/librarypunk/status/1786563891893342537  LFP Vendor Scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/Library%20Freedom-%20Vendor%20Scorecard-%20110719.pdf https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/  VandeBurgt, M. M., Rodgers, B. M., & Brown, K. (2021). Testimonies: The rewards and challenges of letting their voices be heard. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(5), 102420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102420 Journal of Radical Librarianship https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12  Related: http://radicalreference.info/ Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59859/  Youtube Video Downloader Justin Recommends: https://www.4kdownload.com/-54 https://archive.ph/ https://climatemirror.org/ https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/   https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-problem-with-spotify-w-steve-albini  Zines and Distros https://linktr.ee/mbtadistro  https://haters.noblogs.org/zines/  https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/  https://www.autistici.org/fugitivedistro/   

We're talking with Ana Valens! Internet culture, learning about yourself, and vtubing.  https://twitter.com/acvalens  Readings Tumblr Porn by Ana Valens (Remember the Internet, Vol. 1): https://instarbooks.itch.io/tumblr-porn-by-ana-valens-remember-the-internet-vol-1  Trans Women and Smut: The 4 Worst Tropes From Porn Artists | [Sex Ed Video Essay]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jf_aLAuCtE  Why Don't Games Journalists Cover Adult Games? It's Complicated. And Getting Worse.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m8C_gkvXGA  Public sex is at the center of a queer culture war: https://cashmeremag.com/public-sex-lgbtq-845525/  Pixiv's NSFW Ban In The US & UK, Explained — And Why DLSite Still Doesn't Have MasterCard & Visa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMdpWC-ReIA  Media mentioned https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-kill-the-couple-in-your-head https://global.oup.com/academic/product/trans-bodies-trans-selves-9780199325351 https://opendistro.net/

In an ep to coincide with the release of Infra Finder, we're joined by Chrys and Lauren from Invest in Open Infrastructure to talk about the release, open source challenges, IT supply chains, and more! https://investinopen.org/ https://infrafinder.investinopen.org https://investinopen.org/blog/blog-introducing-infra-finder/  Reasonable Costs projects: https://investinopen.org/blog/the-cost-and-price-of-public-access-to-research-data/ http://investinopen.org/blog/infra-finder-your-hub-for-finding-infrastructure-services-enabling-open-research-and-scholarship   Media mentioned UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science: https://www.unesco.org/en/open-science/about?hub=686 Nelson Memo: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-access-Memo.pdf Holden Memo: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/ostp_public_access_memo_2013.pdf Gates Foundation Open Access Policy: https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/ https://australiainstitute.org.au/report/ending-profiteering-from-publicly-funded-research/  https://www.heliosopen.org/ https://openscholarlyinfrastructure.org/ https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/scholarly-publishing/uc-open-access-policies-background/presidential/

We're talking with Quill and RiotDad about the community side of the response to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and local school board issues surrounding transmisia, book bans in school and public libraries, and how to push back. Salary petition, board email/phone, and template email are in the notes. Email trustees@fvrl.org (Template email below) Trustees phone contact: 360-906-5011 Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.org/board/trustees  Sign petition for FVRL staff salaries: https://www.change.org/p/it-s-time-fvrlibraries-pay-your-staff-a-living-wage?original_footer_petition_id=34850778&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=5&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uABhQQQIAAAAAZbwMe%2FqWz6hhNDJhOWQwNw%3D%3D  Readings https://www.columbian.com/news/2022/dec/06/opposition-to-drag-queen-story-hours-roils-fvrlibraries/  FVRL Board Meeting 2/20/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r6NqOlEi0  FVRL employees testimony https://keepthelibrarysafeforchildren.com/author/keepthelibrary/ Librarian Calls Police On Mom (Olga Hodges)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqqg-TBqPw0 2023 voters pamphlet (page 50)   Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG    Email template for FVRL Board of Trustees Dear Board of Trustees, I am writing to express my ongoing support for the Fort Vancouver Regional Library (FVRL) and its commitment to inclusivity for queer and trans community members. Members of the community have inspired me by attending Board meetings to counter misinformation regarding the Drag Queen Story Hour and other LGBTQ+ materials. I applaud their dedication and now wish to add my voice in their support. Also, during a recent meeting, dedicated FVRL employees and WPEA union members shared their struggles with low wages and an unsustainable workload due to high staff turnover. Starting salaries at minimum wage and capped wages force many to live in poverty. Employees are burdened with performing duties outside their job descriptions simply to keep branches functioning. I stand with these employees and the WPEA. I urge the Board to take immediate action to: Address the wage disparity by offering fair compensation commensurate with the cost of living. Invest in staff retention by providing competitive wages and benefits. Maintain the dedicated workforce required to keep libraries as vital community hubs. Furthermore, I encourage the Board to: Uphold the freedom of information by ensuring diverse materials representing all communities are readily available. Counter misinformation by providing accurate resources about LGBTQ+ topics and inclusivity efforts. Prioritize both the well-being of its staff and the needs of all members of the community.  Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, [Your Name/Group Name]

Movie night. We're learning about the cutting edge of postmodernist impact from the Internet in 2016.  Media mentioned https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World https://walkerart.org/magazine/minnesota-declaration-truth-documentary-cinema-1999/  https://walkerart.org/magazine/werner-herzog-minnesota-declaration-2017-addendum  https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-untold-story-three-young-hackers-web-killing-monster/  https://qz.com/778747/an-early-internet-pioneer-says-the-construction-of-the-web-is-crippling-our-thinking https://www.reddit.com/r/ElectroBOOM/comments/1772skr/server_room_goals/ https://www.thecut.com/article/amazon-scam-call-ftc-arrest-warrants.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/04/24/the-ecstatic-truth

This week we're joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage. Check the notes to see how you can help support them!   https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/03/low-paid-librarians-fed-up-in-vancouver/  https://www.thestand.org/2024/02/take-action-raises-for-sw-washington-librarians-overdue/  (article #1) FVRL Board: Pay your library workers livable wages! (thestand.org)   (article #2-following the action)   Media mentioned Joe Clement did this piece on the Old Mole Radio Variety Hour, and it contains research resources as well as public testimony audio captured from Nerissa, Carmen, Abbie, and Derya from the latest Board meeting on March 18. https://truthout.org/articles/public-private-partnerships-are-quietly-hollowing-out-our-public-libraries/ https://www.lsslibraries.com/ https://twitter.com/wylie_alan  FVRL Board Meeting 2/20/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_r6NqOlEi0  Old Mole Variety Hour on libraries upcoming April 8 https://kboo.fm/media/120834-old-mole-variety-hour-april-8-2024  Contact the FVRL Board The problem and the solution are simple: Fort Vancouver Regional Library workers are grossly underpaid, and they must be paid a living wage.    We are asking the community at large to speak up for libraries by telling the FVRL Board to approve the allocation of funds to ensure the dignity of a living wage for all FVRL workers.  Sign petition https://www.change.org/p/it-s-time-fvrlibraries-pay-your-staff-a-living-wage?original_footer_petition_id=34850778&algorithm=promoted&grid_position=5&pt=AVBldGl0aW9uABhQQQIAAAAAZbwMe%2FqWz6hhNDJhOWQwNw%3D%3D  Email board of trustees of FVRL trustees@fvrl.org Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.org/board/trustees  Trustees phone contact:  360-906-5011  More information Flyer https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQRWWVlrgZURJXOtSagHEcVoE0H-5j6f/view?usp=sharing Infographic https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MO9qZroV4NVwWnz7MTQfY4ElBg5nnzX-/view?usp=sharing   Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG 

We're talking about Jon's upcoming book on Bloch and how libraries are or are not models of utopia.  Pre-order Jon's book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500  Media mentioned https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/ https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/index.htm

We're talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making.  https://twitter.com/david_demchuk https://bsky.app/profile/daviddemchuk.com https://hazlitt.net/feature/where-monsters-are-made Media mentioned Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/  Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca.com/about Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Cuckoo. https://twitter.com/scumbelievable Hailey Piper, https://www.haileypiper.com/  Joe Koch, https://horrorsong.blog/ Suzan Palumbo, https://suzanpalumbo.wordpress.com/ Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/feeding-hannibal-janice-poon/1123457647 Tender Is the Flesh https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tender-Is-the-Flesh/Agustina-Bazterrica/9781982150921  On the Line: New Gay Fiction https://www.amazon.com/Line-New-Gay-Fiction/dp/0895940493 Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth The Borrowers Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time Rosemary's Baby Thomas Trion, The Other  The Haunting of Hill House Gerard Boesche, Feral The Stepford Wives The Exorcist John Updike John Cheever Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man, A Handmaid's Tale, Alias Grace David's favourite contemporary queer/trans+ horror writers Eric LaRocca Gretchen Felker-Martin Hailey Piper Joe Koch Suzan Palumbo Adam Pottle Allison Rumfitt Lee Mandelo Kingfisher A.C. Wise Sam J. Miller Ashley Deng Jordan Shiveley Nino Cipri Chuck Tingle

This week we're talking to the world's greatest author, what else is there to say?  Pre-order Bury Your Gays: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874658/buryyourgays Chuck's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chucktingle Media mentioned TLA post by Chuck: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle 

It's our Valentine's Day episode!   RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/  Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC  Bluesky @Aud Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk  Media mentioned Reddit segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/s/lWgNJFVxif  Coyne (2022) “We have to figure it out ourselves”: Transfeminine adolescents' online sexual experiences and recommendations for supporting their sexual health and wellbeing Ma 2022 Patterns of online relationship seeking among transgender and gender diverse adolescents: Advice for others and common inquiries.  Skeen (2024) The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making  Rothbauer (2004) The Internet in the Reading Accounts of Lesbian and Queer Young Women: Failed Searches and Unsanctioned Reading. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A4%3A11553252/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A19872901&crl=c  Primed: The Back Pocket Guide for Trans Men and the Men Who Dig Them | Rainbow Health Ontario 

We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout. Media mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1aeq1ek/library_moral_dilemma_from_a_while_ago/  https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2010/long-term-access-digital-information.html (Dorothea mentioned) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhysida-ransomware-gang-claims-british-library-cyberattack/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/british_library_finances_remain_healthy/?is=b78b52a0bbc1b1a4c4446480c8d59b7f8abf7ac5db44dcfceee6104ddb4dab4f https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/24/rhysida-the-new-ransomware-gang-behind-british-library-cyber-attack https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/15/british-library-cyber-attack-staff-users-analysis  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk 

This week we're talking about privacy literacy. Instruction, workshops, and how your data ends up all over the place.  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk [shorter LOEX conference paper] Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory to Teaching Practice [longer book chapter] The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: Building a Privacy Literacy Program [for browsing] Open-licensed privacy literacy curriculum Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent might be of particular interest Dark Patterns: Surveillance Capitalism and Business Ethics deals with data brokerage (a la Becky Yoose and Nick Shockey's work for SPARC) #ForYou: Algorithms & the Attention Economy reimagines media literacy for algorithmic information environments ACRL Sandbox entries (complete with lesson plans) Workshop guides (teaching & learning materials, also linked from the Sandbox) Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit: https://sites.psu.edu/digitalshred/ https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/practicing-privacy-literacy-academic-libraries-theories-methods-and-cases Media Mentioned 1890 harvard law paper on right to privacy https://www.jstor.org/stable/1321160 “Nobody Sees It, Nobody Gets Mad”: Social Media, Privacy, and Personal Responsibility Among Low-SES Youth https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2056305117710455 Privacy Literacy and Its Problems. https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A6%3A19315958/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A133682180&crl=c  Lawrence Lessig Pathetic Dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathetic_dot_theory https://stopncii.org/ https://takeitdown.ncmec.org/ Shame Machine https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/606203/the-shame-machine-by-cathy-oneil/ Kate Devlin Turned On https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/turned-on-9781472950871/ Danielle Keats Citron Sexual Privacy https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/sexual-privacy Danielle Keats Citron The Fight for Privacy https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393882315 Kate Devlin https://www.hotpress.com/sex-drugs/sex-robots-frontlines-ai-revolution-kate-devlin-22775520  https://iste.org/standards Sarah's Sci Fi https://alastore.ala.org/content/self-subject-autoethnographic-research-identity-culture-and-academic-librarianship

Download some sage jpegs and ponder the AI, we're talking with Alex about queer Internet histories, LGBTQ2S+ archives, email archiving, feminist restaurants, and technopaganism. Be sure to check out the notes on this one! https://www.alexketchum.ca  Register for the Queer Food Conference:  https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registration.html Media mentioned https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/ Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/ Cait McKinney, Information Activism: https://www.dukeupress.edu/information-activism Deep Sniff: https://www.adamzmith.com/deep-sniff-poppers-book The Log Books: https://www.thelogbooks.org/ Hannah Zeavin, The Distance Cure: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045926/the-distance-cure/ Google study [pdf]: https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=404media.co 40 years of magic on the web:  https://airtable.com/appBlKZqOs8ATBq6f/shr1SocSlfKqSP8YV   Report on the State of Resources Provided to Support Scholars Against Harassment, Trolling, and Doxxing While Doing Public Media Work:  https://medium.com/@alexandraketchum/report-on-the-state-of-resources-provided-to-support-scholars-against-harassment-trolling-and-401bed8cfbf1 Missing Datasets: https://github.com/MimiOnuoha/missing-datasets Moya Bailey, #transform(ing)DH Writing and Research: An Autoethnography of Digital Humanities and Feminist Ethics https://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/9/2/000209/000209.html  The Historical Cooking Project: http://www.historicalcookingproject.com  The Feminist Restaurant Project: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com 

We're covering the Chuck Tingle thing. Also the damned mouse. Do we need DMCA for Trademarks? Who knows!   Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk  UPDATE on Tingle story at TLA: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/book-event-disinvites-queer-author-because-his-disability-aid-makes-others-uncomfortable/ Media Mentioned https://boxreceiver.medium.com/a-case-for-library-archives-boycott-and-divestment-exlibris-493737a911c5. Chuck Tingle post: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chuck-tingle?source=share  https://mashable.com/article/youtube-demontizes-public-domain-steamboat-willie-disney-copyright-claim  Even 2023. Keeping the Good Faith: YouTube, Fair Use, and the DMCA Meyer n.d. https://theholmesfirm.com/takedown-notices-why-trademarks-and-copyrights-are-so-valuable-but-can-lead-to-damages-for-infringers/ Percival 2020. Social Networks, Counterfeit, and Contributory Trademark Infringement: Are Social Media Giants Still Protected Ten Years After Tiffany? https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1355&context=uoplawreview  Dong 2022.  https://jbipl.pubpub.org/pub/fzs4ru5v/release/2 Balancing the Interests of Trademark Owners and E-Commerce Platforms during the Internet Age  

We're talking about more issues in scholcomm. Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk  Media mentioned Hijacked journals: https://www.science.org/content/article/leading-scholarly-database-listed-hundreds-papers-hijacked-journals Hbomberguy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ Weird MIT report on OA: https://access-to-science.pubpub.org/  Zombie journals: what's left after editorial board leaves like Glossia/ Lingua https://www.openlibhums.org/news/656/ - Glossia/Lingua https://www.science.org/content/article/zombie-papers-wont-die-retracted-papers-notorious-fraudster-still-cited-years-later

We're infoshopping. What are they? Justin ponders if they can make leather vests for straight people.  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk Media mentioned Street Libraries: Infoshops and Alternative Reading Rooms - Chris Dodge This City Is An Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority - Samuel Burgum, 2022  https://web.archive.org/web/20190323204714/http://lucyparsons.org/history.php  https://web.archive.org/web/20011116035809/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/texts/disco.html  https://web.archive.org/web/20030223215959/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/infoshops_defined.html  https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-radical-bookstore  https://radar.squat.net/en/groups/category/book-shop-info-shop-library https://slingshotcollective.org/ https://search.worldcat.org/en/title/1235906145 The Radical Bookstore: Counterspace for Social Movements, by Kimberley Kinder West, Jessamyn. "On-the-Fly Reference." American Libraries 33.5 (2002): 54-57. https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2021/09/01/library-birdwatching-programming-on-the-fly/    

We're watching a documentary about Palestine! Libraries and museums are implicated in settler-colonialism and we're gonna talk about it! Media mentioned Film: The Great Book Robbery: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2012/5/24/the-great-book-robbery  Reddit Question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/17w0bu8/other_trans_library_directors/ Salvage or Plunder? Israel's "Collection" of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/42473  Overdue Books Paper: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78440#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%2C%20the,other%2C%20still%20in%20historic%20Palestine.  Overdue Books Zine: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Overdue-Books-AP-zine.pdf  Antiquities Trafficking: https://2017-2021.state.gov/tackling-illicit-trafficking-of-antiquities-and-its-ties-to-terrorist-financing/  Hobby Lobby's Hammurabi Robbing Hobby: Power and Appropriation at the Museum of the Bible: https://theijournal.ca/index.php/ijournal/article/view/39322  Other stuff related USPS General Delivery: https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-is-General-Delivery  Librarians with Palestine Readings and Resources: https://librarianswithpalestine.org/readings-and-resources/  Land Grab Universities: https://www.landgrabu.org/ Join the discord https://discord.gg/bYBNxPbT

We're joined to Becky to talk about the SPARC report on Science Direct! Data privacy, contracts, the big companies that have us over a barrel! Media mentioned https://zenodo.org/records/10078610 https://www.politico.eu/article/data-at-risk-amazon-security-threat/  https://librarytechnology.org/mergers/ https://journal.code4lib.org/articles/15122

We let the ADD take over this episode.  Media Mentioned https://newsguild.org/scholastic-workers-walk-out-to-protest-glaring-hypocrisy-by-the-childrens-publishing-powerhouse/ Join the discord: https://discord.gg/AJHpwx946 

Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about his books The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism and the applications to libraries. We talk interop, vendor contracts, and even writing productivity. Pre-order Cory's new book The Lost Cause: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/thelostcause  Media mentioned https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/10/google-will-shield-ai-users-from-copyright-challenges-within-limits/  https://chokepointcapitalism.com/  https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification  - Cory Doctorow  https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudalism-by-yanis-varoufakis/ https://librarysimplified.org/ 

This week we're joined by Anaya to talk about accessibility! Interwebs, Libguides, buildings, Braille Playboy magazines, swear words! We cover it all.  Media mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/17alk55/bookseller_turned_librarian_associate/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaU6tI2pb3M  https://accessibility.umich.edu/assistive-technology/instructional-accessibility-tips  https://udlguidelines.cast.org/ https://dwcag.org/  https://ask.springshare.com/libguides/faq/1065 https://www.tiktok.com/@j2atv/video/7229460849893625131

Oh boy we've got something special! We're joined again by laborkyle to talk about Walter Benjamin and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Also AI, fascism, and dreams.    Kyle's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle Profane Illuminations: Theology for Militants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeV314axro4 All Gamers Are Bastards: https://soundcloud.com/agabpod Media mentioned https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068327/    Discord: https://discord.gg/2CNQgjwgR 

Same thing as with Jay, but now featuring Justin. Also some news.  Discord: https://discord.gg/7WcvM7Xdq  Media mentioned https://www.applevalleynewsnow.com/news/court-blocks-push-to-close-dayton-library/article_b73f99a8-58bf-11ee-98ed-efcddf58abbd.html https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/

We're covering updates on the Mütter Museum's exhibits, digital collections, and human remains policies.  Media mentioned Segment: https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/ Article that named Mütter Museum as one of Philly museums still holding indigenous remains: https://www.inquirer.com/news/native-american-remains-penn-temple-mutter-20230113.html (January 13, 2023) Original article that gained traction, there was an earlier one on the digital collections going down that might have prompted it: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html (Updated June 3, 2023) Petition in response to article: https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-integrity-of-the-m%C3%BCtter-museum  Pro Quinn article that came out with Guardian piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/science/mutter-medical-museum.html (Aug 13, 2023) Most recent: https://whyy.org/articles/mutter-museum-public-engagement-program-collection-future/ (Sept 17, 2023) https://www.inquirer.com/arts/mutter-museum-human-remains-debate-town-halls-20230918.html ( Sept 18, 2023) Three Identical Strangers: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7664504/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henrietta_Lacks Twin Rabbit - Plains Sign & the Myth of Indigenous Illiteracy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pogA7PQCtu0 

We're going over the daily life of a library worker for those who are interested! First up: Jay! Media mentioned Segment:https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96 https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8?si=jc3ouGYgcJIlfJsx https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint   Discord: https://discord.gg/qTMg4v7Xu 

This week we're joined by Jon and Ash from Horror Vanguard to talk about the spookiest movie of the summer: Storm Center (1956).    Horror Vanguard: https://linktr.ee/HorrorVanguard  Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan  Media Mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLP8M9eXD8  https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/2729-in-praise-of-communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Brown_(librarian) Face to Face with Communism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jbMrXcVmw  ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive_futurism Hammer and Hoe https://uncpress.org/book/9781469625485/hammer-and-hoe/ https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalist-realism-new-edition  https://www.versobooks.com/products/2631-class-war https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/ https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/080-moms-for-libertymoms-for-libraries/  https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500/201-in-the-earth

Justin and Jay both had to talk about this for work, so why not do an episode?  Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan Media mentioned https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/08/29/appeals-court-rules-against-mandatory-deposit/#:~:text=In%20a%20decision%20handed%20down,violation%20of%20the%20takings%20clause. The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool | Techdirt Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon Introduction to Large Language Models and the Transformer Architecture | by Pradeep Menon  Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright - The Verge Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian  https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/generative-ai/  https://www.copyright.gov/ai/ Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. - Wikipedia. AI-Generated Art Lacks Copyright Protection, D.C. Court Says (1) AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says | Reuters

We're doing another bad news roundup. And you know we're Bataille posting! https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan  Media mentioned Justin https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/publishers-booksellers-sue-texas-over-public-school-book-ban-2023-07-26/  Sadie https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-gives-campbell-county-library-board-in-wyoming-the-finger-after-library-director-is-fired  Jay https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/attempt-to-remove-san-diego-librarys-lgbtq-books-backfires/   The Pornographic Imagination (Sontag) https://www.remittancegirl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/124506505-The-Pornographic-Imagination-by-Susan-Sontag.pdf https://repeaterbooks.com/product/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures/

Part 2! https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan   Media mentioned https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/ https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing) https://mayfirst.coop/en/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/  https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/ https://piracy.solutions/

A two parter because we had so much to cover! Jonny joins us to explain Fediverse, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and other mysterious hives of villainy. How do preservation? Also: Microsoft lost the keys to their cloud. Also we started a discord! https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan  Media mentioned https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/ https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing) https://mayfirst.coop/en/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/  https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/ https://piracy.solutions/

We do the closest thing to a bonus episode. We get meta: lifting the veil on how we do the podcast, what we listen to, and the friends we've made along the way. Also lots of copyright, AI, and Georges Bataille.  Media mentioned https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/ https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121  FSCI event: https://semanticclimate.org/p/en/events/fsci2023_event/ Carl Malamud corpus: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8 https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/wet-tyrant-contest-feat-patrick-wyman/ https://tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_the_Eye Acid Horizon episodes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623479739 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623904471 Stuart Kindall biography on Bataille https://www.amazon.com/Georges-Bataille-Critical-Stuart-Kendall/dp/1861893272/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi Cargo Cult podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930 Good Omens https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/