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TeamMidwest

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Feminist/Archivist/Quaker/Socialist, in chronological order. Resident of the Ohio River watershed. Author of A Green New Deal for Archives. Do no harm but take no shit.

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Wendell Berry's the Mad Farmer Liberation Front poem always hits so hard, and every line is somehow better than the last. If you've never seen it, it's worth the read. https://ag.arizona.edu/~steidl/Liberation.html

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Apparently the Ohio State president is on a bitcoin mining company board and invited an OSU alumna who hawked bitcoin to give the commencement speech. You can’t make this shit up!

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“After the singalong, Mr Pan began talking about investment, which eventually led to him recommending Bitcoin as a "very misunderstood asset class," earning audible boos and laughs from the crowd” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ohio-state-graduation-commencement-speaker-b2542310.html

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I am exceedingly proud that my book HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: INSIDE THE SYSTEMS THAT SHAPE OUR WORLD, has been longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award for Non-Fiction! Just look at that company, my goodness!

https://www.massbook.org/mass-book-awards

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@debcha congratulations! I’m reading your book right now. I’m inherently drawn to any literature on infrastructure but also want to say I love how you turn a sentence! Your writing style is major goals.

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A lot of the super exciting wins/campaigns in recent years seem to be concentrated in the Midwest - Newberry Library, Minnesota Historical Society, U. Michigan. If anyone knows of any other examples from the southern United States, I would be IMMENSELY grateful!

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once an alaska economist on twitter unfollowed me because I disagreed that “construct more houses” was the only way out of this housing crisis and suggested we may have some regulatory leverage as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/nar-settlement-antitrust-lawsuits-agent-commissions-affect-home-prices-2024-3?amp

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@seachanger I live in Cincinnati and the way California real estate investors are circling properties for sale here is a huge part of why one of the previously most affordable Midwestern cities is now having a massive housing crisis.

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Man, we gotta talk about stuff like this. The tendency of library leaders to not speak out fearing further retaliation rarely proves to be a winning strategy, and in fact can be demoralizing for staff: "Library directors are seeking opportunities to speak to others at peer institutions about these issues without drawing public attention. They do not want organizations to speak for them or advocate on their behalf, out of fear that it will draw negative attention to their libraries."

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Quote from the new Ithaka S+R report on self-censorship and academic libraries https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/new-report-on-self-censorship-and-public-university-libraries/

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One of the things that I still carry baggage around from my time in higher ed is how difficult and lonely it is to be the one who speaks out while others thank you in private for your "bravery." It takes a massive unbelievable toll on people. Truth tellers do not want to be thanked for their bravery, they want you at their side also adding your voice to the mix. United we bargain, divided we beg.

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A terrific essay on the parallels between the Lowell Mills labor organizing history and Etsy seller organizing, complicated by the challenges of platform capitalism and the freelancer economy https://open.substack.com/pub/taramcmullin/p/organizing-indie-labor?r=sx43&utm_medium=ios

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I'm sorry but why are we advertising archivist jobs that require an MLIS that pay less than $35k? Yes, living in Frankfort KY is a low cost of living area, but this is the salary I made more than 10 years ago - as a paraprofessional. It is also more than $15k below what the MIT Living Wage average salaries page says for education/library jobs in this county. https://careers.archivists.org/jobs/19926055/kentucky-historical-society-archivist

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I am not a long time member of ALA so maybe I should hold my fire here (my professional association loyalty is with organizations that primarily serve archivists, not librarians) but I see the “the executive director of ALA needs an MLIS” chorus has been reactivated and y’all….. do you understand professional association executives are a thing? We don’t require the ED of SAA to be an archivist, and frankly I think that’s a good thing!!!!

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As part of my appendicitis recovery I have asked folks to sign up to go on walks with me to maintain my mobility. I’ve been so touched by how many of my former coworkers from my academic library days have signed up. What they tell me about what’s happened since I left academia last year has resulted in basically net negative interest in ever returning to academia until it’s run by all the Marxists that the right-wing loves to fantasize about than the neoliberals who are actually in charge.

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Historians of tech and STS folks, do we have any examples of a technology being developed that clearly had grave ramifications and there was a rapid “no we will stop developing this, it’s too dangerous” response? I am far from a nuclear or AI expert but it seems like there are a lot of rhetoric of inevitability/Cold War parallels between both and this got me wondering if there are counter examples of wholesale squashing technological development in its tracks.

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Does anyone know (personally, professionally, or otherwise) of municipal regulations requiring green space on commercial property? US is most useful, but I'll take anything, and from green roof to potted plants by the door.

Please boost, and please suggest hashtags that might help!

#urbanGardening #climateAction #urbanDesign #cityPlanning #climateDiary #zoning

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@aehdeschaine @stephestellar NYC has a solar or green rooftop requirement for new buildings! I have spoken with some folks from NYC who report that most opt for solar roofs because green roofs have more maintenance issues. https://www.urbangreencouncil.org/nycs-sustainable-roof-laws/

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Don’t know if it’s true, but I have just heard from my sib Tidy that “a state of emergency” has been declared for Austin the weekend of the eclipse. She says so many fucking weirdos are heading down here to stare at the sun through cardboard gas station glasses that the population is expected to DOUBLE. My weekend farmhand has already told me she won’t be coming in because she fears the traffic. IN JOHNSON CITY TEXAS, POP 1627. I cannot get behind this. Stay home. I beg of you.

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@iBlame @ai6yr a friend from Bloomington, IN told me they’ve been advised to expect “three football weekends worth of people”

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I'm researching the idea of zero growth/steady state libraries (believe it or not, an idea that has existed for decades) as part of my work on net zero archives. Curious if anyone into #libraryhistory can speak to the 1976 Atkinson report, prepared for UK universities. From what I've gathered from 1970s library literature, this report seemed to have a wide impact on the thinking of library leaders around the world on starting to rethink space allocation needs for major research libraries.

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Here is a link to the report. Thank god for the Internet Archive and OhioLINK, otherwise it would be impossible to get obscure 1970s reports to do my work as someone who no longer has research library access privileges https://archive.org/details/capitalprovision0000grea/page/4/mode/2up

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@clive I worked in academic libraries for 15 years and never truly appreciated what a privilege borrowing privileges are until I left for self-employed life!

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/digital-preservation-film-tv-shows-archives-1235851957/ I always wonder how the press gets their contacts for stuff like this. I'm guessing they didn't call, like, AMIA? It's not terrible and I think it barely passes the Tansey test if Linda Tadic and the asset manager count...but I think @ashley @The_BFOOL many others would drop some bomb quotes here if contacted.

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@j_feral @ashley @The_BFOOL i really like Linda a lot, from my POV she passes the Tansey test. Based on my experience with reporters, they typically do a quick google search, email a ton of people, interview whoever replies, and then ask that person for other names. Sometimes they interview great people but it ends up being on background (like the time I got reduced to an “experts say” by a NY Times reporter) and no quotes make it into the final piece

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If there are any practitioners who are using AWS and have admin rights, I would love, love, love to see what the customer carbon accounting reports look like if you're willing to share a copy of your org's with me. Happy to sign a confidentiality agreement or similar to make this happen. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/ccft-overview.html

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Spotify keeps recommending obscure women folk singers from the 1960s (Barbara Dane, Connie Converse) to me and I'm not mad about it except for the part when I read their wikipedia article and see how the music industry treated them like shit so they stopped recording

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please stop using words like "effectuate" in reports that are already likely to lapse into jargon given the topic, thank you!

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My kingdom for a plain language requirement in every single organization that includes people in the audience who are not academics https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/

TeamMidwest,
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Okay but also for real my commitment to plain language also derives from my Quaker commitments to equality and integrity. Using unnecessary jargon or refusing to define your terms in contexts when specialized language is called for is, in my opinion, both a form of discrimination and also of positioning yourself as an untouchable authority. This is why I think plain language guidance is really important, ESPECIALLY for folks socialized in academic writing norms.

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