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This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too! Media mentioned https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14 "FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS" by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527 "US curator denies smuggli…
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133 - Pentiment feat. All Gamers Are Bastards
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We’re joined by All Gamers Are Bastards to talk about Pentiment, a mystery game with an opening similar to the novel/film Name of the Rose (1986) in many ways. Time for the history boys to drop some historiography. https://soundcloud.com/agabpod https://x.com/agabpod https://x.com/kayandskittles https://x.com/laborkyle Kay’s other podcast and YouTu…
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This week we’re talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more! Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Media mentioned Tamara’s presentation at the Mormon Transhu…
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Movie night again! We’re talking about the film Close-Up about a strange case of fraud in Iran surrounding a film director, made by a film director who was part of the events because he wanted to make a movie about it. The layers! Media Mentioned https://web.archive.org/web/20120322165628/http://www.projectorhead.in/one/closeup.html https://www.cri…
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This week we’re doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests. Media mentioned https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/ https://x.com/librarypunk/status/17…
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129 - Tumblr, Vtubers, and Ana Valens
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We’re talking with Ana Valens! Internet culture, learning about yourself, and vtubing. https://twitter.com/acvalens Readings Tumblr Porn by Ana Valens (Remember the Internet, Vol. 1): https://instarbooks.itch.io/tumblr-porn-by-ana-valens-remember-the-internet-vol-1 Trans Women and Smut: The 4 Worst Tropes From Porn Artists | [Sex Ed Video Essay]: h…
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In an ep to coincide with the release of Infra Finder, we’re joined by Chrys and Lauren from Invest in Open Infrastructure to talk about the release, open source challenges, IT supply chains, and more! https://investinopen.org/ https://infrafinder.investinopen.org https://investinopen.org/blog/blog-introducing-infra-finder/ Reasonable Costs project…
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We’re talking with Quill and RiotDad about the community side of the response to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and local school board issues surrounding transmisia, book bans in school and public libraries, and how to push back. Salary petition, board email/phone, and template email are in the notes. Email trustees@fvrl.org (Template email be…
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126 - Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
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Movie night. We’re learning about the cutting edge of postmodernist impact from the Internet in 2016. Media mentioned https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World https://walkerart.org/magazine/minnesota-declaration-truth-documentary-cinema-1999/ https://walkerart.org/magazine/we…
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This week we’re joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage. Check the notes to see how you can help support them! https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/03/low-paid-librarians-fed-up-in-vancouver/ https://www.thestand.org/2024/02/take-action-raises-f…
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We’re talking about Jon’s upcoming book on Bloch and how libraries are or are not models of utopia. Pre-order Jon's book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500 Media mentioned https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe…
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We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making. https://twitter.com/david_demchuk https://bsky.app/profile/daviddemchuk.com https://hazlitt.net/feature/where-monsters-are-made Media mentioned Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt00805…
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This week we’re talking to the world’s greatest author, what else is there to say? Pre-order Bury Your Gays: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874658/buryyourgays Chuck’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chucktingle Media mentioned TLA post by Chuck: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126499840/the-texas-library-association-tells-chu…
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121 - Info Seeking Behaviors of Queer Folks feat. Audrey
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It’s our Valentine’s Day episode! RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/ Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC Bluesky @Aud Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk Media mentioned Reddit segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/s/lWgNJFVxif Coyne (2022) “We have to figure it out ourselves”: Transfeminine ado…
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We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout. Media mentioned https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1aeq1ek/library_moral_dilemma_from_a_while_ago/ https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2010/long-term-access-digital-information.html (Dorothea mentioned) https://ww…
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119 - Privacy (and sex!) feat. Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Initiative
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This week we're talking about privacy literacy. Instruction, workshops, and how your data ends up all over the place. Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk [shorter LOEX conference paper] Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory to Teaching Practice [longer book chapter] The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: …
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118 - Queer Internet History feat. Dr. Alex Ketchum
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Download some sage jpegs and ponder the AI, we’re talking with Alex about queer Internet histories, LGBTQ2S+ archives, email archiving, feminist restaurants, and technopaganism. Be sure to check out the notes on this one! https://www.alexketchum.ca Register for the Queer Food Conference: https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registration.html Media…
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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.medi…
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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.p…
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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…
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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_dir…
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113 - Privacy Policies at RELX feat. Becky Yoose
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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…
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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/AJHpwx946By librarypunk
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111 - Seizing the Means of Library Interoperability feat. Cory Doctorow
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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-technol…
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110 - Accessible Instruction Design w/ Anaya
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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-techno…
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