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tltroup, 23 days ago to random

In 2006, I worked on a graduate degree in historic preservation. I was struck by the parallels with digital technology, and I pursued a graduate degree in lib/info sci to expand my knowledge & experience.

I don’t disagree that the Library of Congress needs more funding, but we also need a Digital Preservation Act on par with the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966. Preservation is local & diverse.

Quoting @skua:

https://mastodon.social/@skua/112464773719915994

histoftech, 1 month ago to random

In the spirit of making lemonade from🍋🍋🍋this week, I’d like to find a venue that might publish a scholarly piece informed by personal experience on tech, governance, disability (lack of) accommodations, institutional wealth & DEI hypocrisy. It’d be partly historical but not something that would fit in a history journal. Maybe a journal interested in tech and politics or tech and power that covers multiple disciplines…(1/2)

ai6yr, 3 months ago to climate

The Hill: Exxon CEO blames public for failure to fix climate change #climate #oil #gas #exxon https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4494543-exxon-ceo-blames-public-for-failure-to-fix-climate-change/

impactology, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Anyone on the TL knows a professional librarian?

What constitutes curatorial skills of a librarian nowdays and how has their training changed for developing those skills?

Specifically on what constitutes experimentation and creativity in curatorial skill

i.e in what way can you organize, curate or categories books to forge interdisciplinary connections.

pluralistic, 5 months ago to Watches

It's time for action

#horology #anarchism #sign #nola

Terra, 5 months ago to random

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tltroup, 6 months ago to random

I was cleaning my coffee maker this evening. I scoured the rim around the filter basket, and I scooped out spilled grounds.

When I looked in the reservoir, I gagged! A dead Lady Asian beetle lay in the bottom.🤢 I've been hyper-vigilant about vacuuming or disposing of them when they find their way indoors, so this was quite the shock! 🫠😬🐞🐞🐞🐞

Here’s a PSA to check your coffee maker, clean if necessary, and good luck keeping beetles out of your home!!

nixCraft, 7 months ago to random

The same old wine in new bottle 🤡

tltroup, 7 months ago to random

Glad to see UX designers working with educators on the design of parent messaging apps! 😁😁😁 Yes! Reply is the tiny button right next to delete.

#TinyIcons #OldEyes

inquiline, 7 months ago to random

Gonna go on the record stating once again that DMs here are nonsense. I just accidentally posted something* meant for a DM in "unlisted" and then had to delete; and earlier today someone DM'ed me and accidentally tagged someone they didn't mean to. Even if you know how to use this system very well, those mistakes should be much harder, or impossible.

*The very spicy DM was an LA Times editorial about banning leaded aviation fuel, here you go, weirdos:
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-24/editorial-leaded-gasoline-is-still-allowed-for-small-aircraft-its-time-for-the-epa-to-end-that

GrimmReality, 7 months ago to iowa

My cousin and her wife, nearly lifelong residents of #Iowa and two of the nicest, most giving people you could ever meet, have found new gigs in Duluth, MN, and will be relocating because they would prefer not to be unpersoned by the dogshit medieval MAGAocracy in Des Moines. Congrats to them and, since they're too nice to say it, Iowa has exhaustively earned the exodus of its best people and can get fucked.

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

Hi!
Was wonder if
u have any sugar???

(ima tap u see if any come out k?)

tapa tap tap tap tap tap

...

TAPA TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP

OK i see.
no.

(ima bite you now. k?)

futurebird, 8 months ago to random

I have an old calculus book. The delightfully sexist title "A Calculus Refresher for Technical Men" -- it's a cold war era relic. A crash course designed to impart the machinery, if not the entire context and meaning of calculus in such a way that you could solve equations, determine trajectories, understand cooling rates, as quickly as possible. It's a part of a vast machine of educational technologies developed to prepare men to use math as a tool in warfare. 1/

w7voa, 8 months ago to random

A charter bus has crashed in #NewYork, careening down an embankment off I-84. Authorities say 50 people have been injured, ten seriously. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/charter-bus-crashes-on-i-84-in-ny-careening-down-embankment/4700267/

inquiline, 8 months ago to random

One of the problems with Mastodon is there's plenty of violence here but nearly 100% of it that I see is from people who (even self-righteously) think they're good people, nice people, right-thinking people; and only the "other side" has a problem w shitty people & shitty behavior

jrefior, 9 months ago to random

“the US founders had a healthy fear of corporations after being exploited for years by those in England. As a result, they only granted select corporate charters, mainly to those that were beneficial to society as a whole. For the better part of the first 100 years of US history, the power of corporations was severely limited as owners could not own any stock or property, make financial donations to a political party, and legislators could dissolve a corporation at any time relatively easily."

lishaberzins, 9 months ago to PetBirds

I would like to enjoy mastodon but sadly my feed is dismal….. if you research, post about, or love, and not limited too, #birds #wetlands #gardens #writing #insects #conservation #R or #stats please say and I will follow you!

grammargirl, 10 months ago to random

My husband found a house that is a candidate for #FridayNightZillow.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/720-California-Ave-Reno-NV-89509/7262661_zpid/

helenczerski, 10 months ago to science

Today’s reminder that we are still very far from knowing everything: I have just found an odd gap in the scientific literature: the specific mechanisms of generating root pressure in trees and how this relates to the force that tree roots can exert on their surroundings (eg pavements/sidewalks), and what those forces actually are. As far as I can see, having done an extensive literature search, nothing has been done on this since the 1970s. Zilch. Not a sausage. Frustrating! #science #trees

mcc, 10 months ago to random

I also would like to see some academic writing on the sort of corporate metafictional hellscape of recent WB films (Barbie, Matrix 4, Space Jam 2… Looney Tunes: Back in Action?) in which the corporate apparatus responsible for making the film actually physically intrudes into and exists as a "character" within the film universe. How awful must it feel to be a writer on one of these films? Charged with promoting X company, but also empowered/required to criticize it, but surely not TOO much

Radical_EgoCom, 10 months ago to random

Justices Rule Police Do Not Have a Constitutional Duty to Protect Someone
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-police-do-not-have-a-constitutional-duty-to-protect.html

petrichor, 11 months ago to gardening

Any suggestions for what to do with a glut of lemonbalm? I usually give it a haircut about this time of year and it seems such a waste to put it all in the compost

#gardening #florespondence @gardening

archeaids, 11 months ago to history

The National Register of Historic Places 1836-1837 Christmas Cottage in Jackson, Louisiana. It is a 5-bay raised Carolina Lowlands architectural style built by Richard Christmas. The white door in front is access to the upstairs rooms. 1/ #architecture #History

futurebird, 1 year ago to random

Is that pro-bollard account still on twitter only? I want them to come here!!

#DraftTheBollard #bollardsForAll #bollards #probollard