the Dropkick Murphys have a timely new video: Who'll Stand With Us? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BRHuiRyVEE

@jalefkowit is there a way to add more? Princeton has three: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9924827643506421 and all are available in #iiif: https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/acb6ec9d-374a-44bd-ad88-e57a889bcc42/manifest (collection manifest) and we did an exhibition that featured them in 2023: https://dpul.princeton.edu/company-of-good-books

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

my younger kid is going off to college this fall, and i am having all the feels — sending an LGBTQIA+ kid out into this dumpster fire is obv. anxiety-inducing, but it's also just overwhelming to see the expressions of care and support that are part of this process

Capitalism didn't give us the internet.

Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.

@hardyoyo everyone is so desperate for easy AI tells that all kinds of things get thrown around — i remember seeing the word "tapestry" also suggested as a tell

I swear there used to be a time when my reaction to new software features wasn't a resigned sigh followed by figuring out how to switch it off.

Senator Van Hollen is going to El Salvador to try to aid Abrego Garcia. I reiterate my suggestion that people send a few bucks to Van Hollen’s campaign to make it clear that this the sort of bravery and action we expect and and reward.
[adding donation link https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/vanhollen]

come work with me! we're hiring a new head of cataloging and metadata services https://social.icims.com/viewjob/pt1743443956080bf4e5 — i'm not on the search committee, but i work closely with this position, and i'm happy to answer questions about princeton or living in #NJ #job

@gluejar i think it's good — the only way the bots will ever behave is if it costs them money to misbehave

R.E.M. led me to believe I would feel better about this.

@anarchivist looking forward to seeing you — and i think we have pins for different levels of openness to approach if that would help you navigate

U.S. civil servants deserve better.

Now is a great time to enthusiastically confirm your support for LGBTQ+ rights - particularly those of trans and enby folks at the moment - and the rights of women, BIPOC communities, and anybody else that the new US administration is actively trying to oppress.

I wholeheartedly support the rights of all of these people.

It shouldn't need to be said, but right now it _does_ need to be said. If you are able, consider donating to organisations that are trying to protect them.

@hardyoyo tbh, i try to avoid opening outlook on work time (using apple mail and calendar when i can, and outlook only when i must)

@timixretroplays 1.9cm

If you ever just needed to hear this, if it can be some comfort, please take my whole PhD and years of work on human achievement and all our research on software teams with thousands of developers and all the psychologists we cite: if you struggle with thriving in a contest culture it is not because you are not smart enough. Not because you're not TOUGH.

You are a human being correctly identifying something toxic. You are actually trying to protect what you love.

And you are not alone.

@TeamMidwest indeed — i have always thought the value of the information profession was pretty damn obvious in the information age

@hedgielib we have a link to our staff directory in our footer, so it's pretty easy for us — though we have thought about removing or limiting access when we have had harassment/doxxing scares

@ksclarke i have been tempted to write my own — but having to maintain it forever has always prevented me from actually doing so