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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...

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...

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....

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...

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-cop...

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:/...

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 Me...

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 art...

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.wikip...

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 wi...

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.thedailyb...

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...

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/ ht...

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://sem...

This week we’re joined by Leòn from The Left Page & Here Be Media to talk about Da Netherlands, Mastodon, and tech policy in Europe. https://shows.acast.com/63bb2e28364f560010c45f46   https://bsky.app/profile/leftpagemedia.bsky.social https://twitter.com/leftpagepod   Media mentioned https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/lawmaker-calls-for-changes-at-archives-and-history-after-lecture-on-alabamas-lg...

It’s a bad news roundup pardner! We’re talking public library leases, book ratings, and Montana being a shit to Emily Drabinski. Open letter in support of Emily: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/preview Sadie https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-07-11/a-kansas-town-is-threatening-again-to-kick-out-the-public-library-unless-it-removes-lgbtq-books Justin http...

This week we’re talking about John Rogers, a memorabilia mogul who flew too close to the sun (fueled by cocaine) by buying up newspaper photo collections and promising digital archives in return, while flogging the rarest photos for a profit. A warning to libraries and museums to be careful when a new digitization scheme rides into town! https://defector.com/he-said-he-was-going-to-save-a-century-...

Miriam is back to talk about her Digital Labor course and how it went teaching undergrad IT students to think critically about tech and logistics. We also cover student anxiety and why Justin could never get a BBL. https://twitter.com/miriamkp   https://bsky.app/profile/miriamkp.bsky.social Course syllabus. https://miriamposner.com/classes/dh150s23/   Media mentioned Zizi Li: influencer labor. htt...

We have the wonderful Ben and Matt on to talk about their new comic Justice Warriors, but also about the role of satire, book bans, cops in libraries (e.g. Winnipeg), and cuts to the social safety net in favor of cops where libraries become the service point of last resort.  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226   https://twitter.com/benclarkson https://tw...

This week we're joined by Gracen to talk about the Lab, accommodations, death and remembrance, Crip futures, and lots more!  Transcript: https://sonix.ai/share/EshPDeD7BmqS2zUR4V3PoUL4 https://linktr.ee/disabilityarchiveslab https://twitter.com/DisArchivesLab    http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/blog/   https://litwinbooks.com/books/preserving-disability/#:~:text=Preserving%20Disability%3A%20Disabi...

Welcome to the first episode of Tender Subject! This week, we're going over the whats and whys of this podcast. Why cannibalism? Why aren't we talking about True Crime? We also talk a little bit about the current cannibal craze in media and why we always need to justify our enjoyment. Finally, we do a show & tell for each other about something we might not do an entire episode on but wanted to tal...