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ohhhh crying in the libraryyyyyyyy
A student in their final semester who has been checking out a laptop from us every week their whole time here just came up to return, not renew, one because they could finally afford their own and they wrote up a testimonial to talk about the positive impact it had for them.
There is a lot, way too much, bullshit at my institution, but these little moments where we get to really see what the library can do for a person is what keeps me in the fight.
The internet in Iran has been disconnected for more than 135 consecutive hours, despite the Foreign Minister's promise yesterday that communication would be gradually restored.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Iran
In an age of blatant lies shouted by public figures and weaponized disinformation campaigns at scale...
...the role of citizen archivist is incredibly important.
Download everything. Save copies. Share them with each other. Let the records of truth stand the test of time and the attacks of liars.
Interesting interview with @pluralistic and @Zitron which includes a bit around the 40m mark talking about using LLMs to cut out professional ethics - let the bosses fire the people who say no.
Which now makes me think every AI-first company is trying to be Boeing or Volkswagen.
Stay safe.
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Better Offline podcast - CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)
What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.
The only unusual factor is that she was white.
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.
Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.
Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.
No accountability. No punishment.
Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.
#abolishice #ice #uspol #minneapolis #fascism #immigration #reneenicolegood
The #UNFCCC treaty for global cooperation on climate change serves the survival interests of everyone on this planet.
Every country in the world has agreed to it.
Trump withdrawing the US because it “no longer serves American interests” is not just ‘embarrassing’, it’s dangerous.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/07/trump-international-groups-un
THIS IS A MAN-MADE FAMINE.
Forced starvation is an act of genocide.
@glyph the story in four acts we are about to see (just one example, but could be Wikipedia, or anything else as well)
RE: https://aoir.social/@rwg/115850257889327061
"It's no wonder students are increasingly leaning on these tools to do writing and so much else. Their own universities are telling them to do so by contracting with companies like Microsoft.
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And along the way, students are ceding the capacity to think to corporations."
The frustrating experience of getting a Microsoft product to do what you actually want it to do, one that many people (myself included) are acutely familiar with
RT: https://aoir.social/users/rwg/statuses/115850257889327061
