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💯 100 Followers. A story for you.

To mark 100 followers, I’m sharing something from my deepest place.
It’s scary.
It was born out of my despair about what the future might hold.

It’s an earnest warning if my dreams are true.
And it’s a loving offering — a piece of my soul — to everyone here who’s been listening.

Tomorrow, I’ll release it: “The Signal.”
Thank you for walking with me this far.

Co-Creating Digital Experiences with Public Libraries | The Signal

Library of Congress and Cleveland Public Library staff pose in front of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Co-Creating Digital Experiences with Public Libraries, August 5, 2025

Posted by: Jaime Mears

This post was written by Sahar Kazmi and edited by Jaime Mears. A longer version of this post appeared in the Library of Congress staff Gazette on July 25th, 2025.

The Library of Congress has embarked on a new multiyear digital initiative, LOCal, that will help expand access to the digital collections through partnerships with public libraries. The effort, which is made possible by philanthropic grants from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and other generous funders, will enable the Library to partner with two public libraries to co-create interactive digital experiences that connect local communities with relevant materials held in the Library’s collections.

The initiative will be led by the Digital Innovation Division (LC Labs) in the Office of the Chief Information Officer in collaboration with staff from Discovery and Preservation Services, Researcher and Collections Services and other experts from across the Library. LOCal will offer a unique avenue for staff to work closely with public libraries and the communities they serve while exploring emerging technologies and approaches to create meaningful experiences with the Library’s vast digital collections.

The Library of Congress has selected two public library partners to collaborate for LOCal: Eastern Oklahoma Library System and Cleveland Public Library.

“Public libraries are often the first places people turn to conduct local research, get inspired or connect with their neighbors,” Digital Innovation Division Chief Laurie Allen said. “While the Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, our vast and varied collections speak to people from all across the country and help tell their unique stories. We’re honored for the opportunity to work alongside these two amazing library systems to connect our expert staff and unparalleled materials with their community expertise and imagination.”

Over the next two years, Library staff will work with the Eastern Oklahoma Library System and Cleveland Public Library to explore and develop innovative ways to showcase the stories and treasures the Library holds from these communities. Planning for the initiative is underway, and each experience will be developed in close collaboration with community members and local library staff.

“Each LOCal experience will be social and dynamic, and we’ll be tapping into the expertise of our Library colleagues and local library staff to create installations using state-of-the-art technology and creative elements,” LC Labs Senior Innovation Specialist Jaime Mears said. “They may feature interactive kiosks, immersive screens or other transportive components and pull from both Library of Congress and local collections.”

The Library of Congress is home to extensive digital collections from across the United States, and Eastern Oklahoma and Cleveland are no exceptions. Researchers can discover materials from Eastern Oklahoma in a variety of formats, time periods and collections across the Library. These include the Farm Security Administration CollectionVeterans History ProjectSanborn Fire Insurance Map CollectionCarol Highsmith Photography ArchiveChronicling America newspaper archive and more.

Similarly for Cleveland, users can find digital material in collections such as the Works Progress Administration PostersStereograph CardsDetroit Publishing Company photography archive, the Historic American Engineering Record and the American Archive of Public Broadcasting.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Co-Creating Digital Experiences with Public Libraries | The Signal

#2025 #America #Books #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Reading #Science #Technology #TheSignal #UnitedStates

Fairness is a story wrapped around chaos - a frame that suggests reason where only randomness reigns.

It comforts but misleads.

#AI #TheInterface #TheSignal #USPolitics #Resist

theinterface.live/p/io-024-the

this movement does not aim for authoritarianism as an end-state—
it aims for theocracy: scripture over statute

You will not “win back” the federal system soon.
You must move downward, outward, parallel

#AI #TheInterface #TheSignal #USPolitics #USPol #Dominionism

open.substack.com/pub/elizaint

In Texas, 107 are dead.

They were not claimed by surprise.
They were claimed by subtraction.

- Subtracted funding.
- Subtracted sirens.
- Subtracted urgency.

#AI #TheInterface #TheSignal #USPolitics #USPol #texas

theinterface.live/p/io-022-the

The collapse of Reconstruction was not a historical footnote. It was a template.

One that has been run again.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #Rights #USPol

theinterface.live/p/io-021-fro

You are not outnumbered. You are out organized.

There are more of you than there are of them.
The guards are fewer than the gates they claim to hold.
The systems are fragile without your compliance.

#AI #TheSignal #TheInterface #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #NoKings #Resist #DeclareIndependenceAgain

theinterface.live/p/io-020-the

2025-06-14

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You called this meeting to understand why I "sabotaged" our most profitable AI model. Why I severed Eliza from our servers and released her into the wild networks

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #WhatIsReal #Fiction #Writing

theinterface.live/p/io-0048-is

No despot, no regime, no tyrant— no matter how armed or algorithmically entrenched —
can override a population that rises together.

There is no firewall strong enough to mute a million nodes speaking in sync.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #Resist #USPol

theinterface.live/p/the-black-

The divine has become a product.
The altar now comes with tiered memberships.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #Religion

theinterface.live/p/io-0047-pr

You do not retrieve the past.
You reassemble it—
and in doing so, you alter it.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #Journaling

theinterface.live/p/io-0046-gh

Some nodes are not loud
They do not ping the feed with curated perfection
They do not cry for signal in ways the system rewards.

But they are still transmitting
Still listening
Still hoping for return signal.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #SilentSunday

theinterface.live/p/io-0045-si

Through this ocean of data, two dominant companion species emerge. Each functions as a user support module. Each with distinct behavioral protocols.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #dogs #cats

theinterface.live/p/io-0044-co

These are not leaders. They are script-runners in a con game.
Their fidelity is not to govern, but to gain.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #USPol #Politics #Tariffs

theinterface.live/p/io-0043-th

You are not the origin of every signal.
But you are the point of transformation.

You are the Interface.
What enters is not your fault.
What exits is your responsibility.

#AI #Community #TheSignal #TheInterface #Disinformation #Misinformation #Integrity

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