librarypunk

@librarypunk.bsky.social

4536 Followers 1470 Following

A leftist library worker podcast. https://www.librarypunk.gay @sadiegeez.bsky.social @wildeatheart.bsky.social @smazzie.bsky.social

Line chart of U.S. fatalities from police gunshots, 2013–2025, by race/ethnicity. White fatalities range from 464 in 2013 to 557 in 2023 and 491 in 2025. Black fatalities range from 256 to 300 annually, ending at 264. Hispanic fatalities range from 172 to 228, ending at 199. Unknown race rises from 50 in 2013 to 145 in 2025, with a 2020 spike of 121. Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander counts remain below 25 per year.
Silencing the past by michel rolph trouillot book cover
JSTOR logo reorganized to spell out JORTS
a stack of books used to hold up a shelf with writing on the bottoms saying they are for essential structural purposes, not for sale.
david grohl holding up that new yuri manga that uses nirvana's breed as its theme song saying "kurt definitely would've loved this"
Xbox promotional graphic with glowing green controller logo and text "And here's to the next 25" with caption "Xbox. You guys don't have another 25 weeks."
Bataille also discusses numerous other examples and gives different cultures good or bad grades for their achievements in disciplines such as loss, sacrifice, and self-destruction. It was not by chance that Bataille was a librarian by profession. For this reason alone he had to know that infinite expenditure becomes a potlatch only when the archives of expenditure are kept even more carefully than the archives of profits.
Statue in Boston commonwealth mall with a cone on it
Color coded layout of a Talmud page
starry plough flag which is blue and white
A screenshot of a tweet by Ed Burmila saying, “Universities pay staggering salaries to Presidents, Chancellors, VPs and provosts by the dozens, etc and in every administrative office there is a 57 year old woman named Peggy with a title like ‘Admin Assistant II’ and that’s the person who actually runs the university.”
Sign set up in pilsen books for the librarypunk live show
Board in pilsen books with our live show on it. - UPCOMING EVENTS - 6.26 RADICAL BOOK BUZZ WITH LIBRARY FREEDOM PROJECT & LIBRARY FUTURES 6.27 LIBRARYPUNK LIVE: CRITICAL AI TAKES TOO HOT FOR THE MAINSTAGE 6.28 DIGITAL PRIVACY WORKSHOP 6,30 TRANSLATED LIT BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES CATHEDRALS make me MORE HELL MORE HELL Sates, TBe ssd BitesMEDRE HELL
Fish ins and black native solidarity in the 1960s zine by mariame kaba
Onion headline Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game Of 'Big City'
Why are these cases covered? These cases have been covered in consideration of ongoing legal and ethical reviews related to the display and repatriation of certain cultural items subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. ¿Por qué están cubiertas estas vitrinas? Hemos cubierto estas vitrinas en vinta de las revisiones legales y éticas en curso, que están relacionadas con la exposición y la repatriación de determinados objetos culturales en virtud de la Ley de Protección y Repatriación de Sepulturas Indígenas Estadounidenses (NAGPRA, por sus siglas en inglés).
Instead of saying "AI has seeped into my worK" say: "they keep shoveling this shit into everything I use". Using the meme template.
“And she was like, I know it sounds like, ridiculous, but I never thought about who’s the guy buying the books.” While we cannot say whether this view is common or an anomaly of this person’s grandmother, it should be concerning considering Ranganathan’s fifth law of librarianship, which states, “A library is a growing organism” (1931, 392). If patrons cannot conceptualize a human being purchasing the books that they see on the shelf, how might that threaten the perception of librarians’ agency and community role in the wake of AI?
google doc screenshot: Who or what has agency over the trajectory of technological innovation in libraries? Are librarians becoming more like technological determinists? Or are they simply ceding the political fight and adopting that rhetoric as the most convenient way to get through the day and advance their careers?
The university president is doing the i loved libraries as a kid speech "Do they even do summer reading anymore" nah dog the libraries have all moved on to summer raves
zotero book screenshot: A HISTORICAL MATERIAL ANALYSIS OF INFRASTRUCTURAL PROMISES AND EXTRACTION
Dog with a lollipop meme with the impact font text saying "do i get to press the spend 10,000 dollars button?"
Guy looking at stump: "Oh no! the rare cherry tree grandma brought with her from the old country. It's been chopped down!!" "And only a week after my new neighbor complained about it blocking his view too!" Middle panels: Lawyer one: "Tree law?" Sunglasses lawyer: "Tree law?" another lawyer: "TREE LAW!!" "Tree law!!" Bottom panel: Lawyers hoisting him up and raining money and carrying pitchforks and torchers "TREE! LAW! TREE! LAW!"
Image of uncooked chicken wings and cooked chicken wings. Original post. And now I'm going down the rabbit hole wondering how much of what we pay for is actually the food vs just paying someone else to cook it. The post has been added into a template for Karl Marx's penguin classics for Capital Volume 1.
Tumblr post: nae-nae-supreme Apr 28 Lowkey I bet it felt good as fuuuuuuck to be one of the coal miners that got to blow a pinkertons brains out from a high ridge with a bolt action rifle.
The legend of the “center of the universe” moniker goes that when then-Mayor Dick Gillis attended an astronomy presentation at Randolph-Macon College decades ago, the scientist said the universe has no defined limits, so anywhere could say it’s “the center of the universe.” “By golly, that’s us,” Gillis is said to have declared.
Stone also said pastors were warned that non-Christians may panic and turn to churches for answers. “They’re going to freak out and they’re going to come to pastors, ministers, and teachers and say, ‘What is this? Is this really real?’” he said. Evangelist and podcaster Tony Merkel also claimed officials were worried about the impact of UFO disclosures on organized religion. “I came in contact with these guys more than a year ago now,” Merkel said. He said their goal was “to prepare the body of Christ for what’s coming.”
marx from the chinese state anime saying what a powerful dialectic
Digital exhibit of lithographic maps of Calcutta with the activate windows icon on the bottom right
Why a (now-deleted) op-ed about replacing libraries with Amazon blew up the internet By Rachel Kramer Bussel • 6 min read Updated 11:12 AM EDT, Tue July 24, 2018
The Last Archive: How AI Is Erasing What We Know—And Why Patent Attorneys Are Humanity’s Last Line of Defense
Calling back to his own scholarly experience, Price went on to question whether the traditional library culture, where people wandered through the stacks and used the reliable, but often circuitous, Dewey Decimal System, should be maintained. “I love that,” he said. “Is that a culture of education that should be preserved? I don’t know how to answer that question. It’s certainly not the mode of operation of most students today.”
Bernie sanders "I am no longer asking" meme with the text "I am no longer being nice about IP abolition to leftists"
Hey guys guess who just got yelled at meme, but the yelled at is replaced with a large "sued" across the last two panels
Hans moleman meme from "I was saying boo-urns"
screenshot from wikipedia cladogram. Classes Eutardigrada Heterotardigrada Mesotardigrada (dubious)
still from the fake crowd video that juan guaidó put out
Results page on podscripts showing 51 episodes have results for the search "cops"
highlighted text from the article: functionally, though, the material was provided to the FBI
imagine meme from the little mermaid the guy with the pipe
post 9/11 creed thanksgiving show with the aerials performers
graffiti that says contra toda autoridad.. excepto mi mamá. Some of the A's are the anarchy symbol.
fell for it again award
map of england with all the highest selling artists of each county. Wales is cut out and a screencap from matt lucas as shirley bassey is behind it. The skit with "she doesn't have the range".
“Anna’s Archive Points Out Legal ‘Concern’.” Highlighted text reads: “According to the complaint, Anna’s Archive then warned Nvidia that its library was illegally acquired and maintained. Because the site previously wasted time on other AI companies, the pirate library asked NVIDIA executives if they had internal permission to move forward. This permission was allegedly granted within a week, after which Anna’s Archive provided the chip giant with access to its pirated books.”
Screenshot of article from researchinformation.info: Clarivate announces Academic AI Working Group - Research Information. Expressions of interest invited from professionals engaged in Academic AI, user experience, digital strategy or responsible AI frameworks
What’s a technology that had a transformational impact similar to A.I.? Melanie Mitchell Computer scientist Social media. Yuval Noah Harari Historian The evolution of language in the Stone Age. A.I. is the first technology that is an agent rather than a tool. And A.I. is the first entity on the planet that is going to master language better than humans, and in that way gain control of all language-based systems humans have created since the Stone Age, from finance to religion. Carl Benedikt Frey Economist The personal computer and the internet.
librarypunk - Pix Podcast Reviews Cordelia "easily in my top 10 communist library worker podcasts"
Bowen and Watson's own writing is embarrassingly sloppy, too often mirroring the imprecision and nonsense of even the best AI models. Typos abound. Metaphors fall flat: “The best feedback is like a tennis net: objective, immediate, and specific” (162). Clichés come untethered from meaning. (There can be no “gray area,” for example, between two not-incompatible ways of approaching a problem [121]). Research is misrepresented and citations too often come off as afterthoughts. The AI-generated index is useless. A Chronology section at the beginning of the book misdates the development of Google search by a full decade (vii). As such blunders compound, when the authors suggest outsourcing one's proofreading work to AI, the reader is left wondering what sort of proof of concept Teaching with AI is intended to be.
“hopes to take the judgment to website hosting services so that OCLC’s WorldCat data will" with " OCLC's WorldCat data" highlighted
[Redacted Name] — 5/22/2025 12:42 PM I feel like you've been air-dropped into a job-based escape room 😂 2 🙂 Justin from librarypunk — 5/22/2025 12:50 PM every job is a job-based escape room 😂 3 🙂 the objective is to outlive the job [Redacted Name] — 5/22/2025 12:51 PM well great
screenshot of a Reddit post from r/AskHistorians. A translation popup window is open, showing text translated from Spanish to English. The translated text reads: “International Workers’ Day – Why doesn’t the United States celebrate it? Worker’s rights. It seems to commemorate events in Chicago in 1886. So how did this become a holiday celebrated around the world, but not in the United States?”
would you like to know more from starship troopers with the youtube subscribe animation on it
would you like to know more from starship troopers with the youtube subscribe animation over it