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TeamMidwest

@TeamMidwest@glammr.us

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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    @seachanger @inquiline I’ve heard this from rural Appalachian newspapers that have relied on “big city” newspapers like the Cincinnati Enquirer to report on local corruption because of those same dynamics. As a Cincinnatian it baffles me to think of our city as big enough to have that kind of media influence but it’s true.

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    The fact that some people I work with still have this guy’s comics up at their desks is very off-putting.

    I used to, they were engineering-related and we kind of all did like 15 years ago. Then he went off the deep end and I threw that shit away.

    Here’s a recent gem of a tweet 🙄

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    @absolutspacegrl those of us on MetaFilter have known this guy has been a total creep for a long, long time https://mefiwiki.com/wiki/Scott_Adams,_plannedchaos

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    You enjoy your Friday happy hour beer talking about your weekend plans, I enjoy mine reading about how much of the National Flood Insurance Program is going to be affected by climate change by 2100, we are not the same.

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    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-policy-history/article/troubled-waters-the-national-flood-insurance-program-in-historical-perspective/3F9481EC44EBC8F83AD93A5689E33A14?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

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    I am 2 pages into this history of NFIP article and feeling like I did when I watched Oppenheimer: desperately wanting a cigarette about 20 minutes in because I know it's only going to continue to keep getting more grim. Reader, I have not smoked cigarettes for almost 20 years.

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    the fact that an NFIP reform bill was named BIGGERT-WATERS and then another bill that overturned it was partially named GRIMM is like when we had that whistleblower named Reality Winner. We are living in a simulation, this cannot be real.

    josh, to random

    Intriguing piece by @TeamMidwest A Green New Deal for Archives

    cc @ekansa @ethan @aejolene @electricarchaeo @scott_bot @marshdrifter

    h/t @bkeegan

    https://www.clir.org/2023/07/new-publication-proposes-green-and-sustainable-future-for-archives/

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    @josh @ekansa @ethan @aejolene @electricarchaeo @scott_bot @marshdrifter @bkeegan thanks so much for spreading the word!!! Very happy to see this circulating outside of the archivist community 💚🥰🌎

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    I am like thisclose to writing a manifesto about how any employer of archivists who does not support their professional development with paid time off and funding is committing professional malpractice. The stories I keep hearing are completely bonkers to me. I understand lots of places don't have $$$ to send their employees to multiple conferences requiring travel, but not even supporting employees to take a day off for a local conference is the height of complete bullshit.

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    Archivists are PROFESSIONALS. Would you trust a doctor or dentist who had not attended professional development in 10 years? Why do we allow this kind of bullshit from employers? It's giving workplace abuse.

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    The cult of keeping someone on the reference desk is beyond the pale. THEN CLOSE THE DAMN READING ROOM FOR A DAY. Teachers have in-service days for a reason! This is the height of austerity brain and it's embarrassing. This whole thing is why the Number 1 piece of advice I give to new archivists is to ASK and press very hard about professional development support in interviews and negotiations. Places that do not support this are a red flag because they will normalize all sorts of weird nonsense

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    If you prevent someone from developing professional networks by making it difficult for them to get involved in national or regional archivist professional associations, then you cut them off from neutral unbiased third-parties who can say "yeah actually that thing your boss is asking you to do is weird and not normal." This is why I am adamant that employers who place barriers to professional development are enacting a kind of workplace abuse.

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    The way reply guys behave on Al Gore's internet is truly a sight to behold. The second you push back in even the most tepid way they absolutely melt down and/or block you. I thought y'all were constantly crowing about free speech and the importance of debate, lmao.

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    I have been pushing back against men steering out of their lane basically my entire life, and it will never not amuse me the way men who receive pushback from women absolutely overreact. Shout out to all the men who I've been like, "hey that thing you said was weird/uncalled for" and they were like, "you know what? you might have a point. let me think about that." I can count those dudes on one hand, but guess what, those moments of humility grew my respect for them!

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    I don’t know who needs to hear this, but climate anxiety is not a good reason to avoid setting aside money for long-term needs like retirement (assuming the caveat that you can afford to do so in the first place). I say this as someone who reads IPCC and climate science reports regularly. Some of yall have never dealt with eldercare poverty and it shows. At minimum, ageism might drive people out of the labor market and you’ll be glad to have some extra $ set aside.

    josh, to random

    It’s hot

    what temperature is an average infrared sauna? between 120°F and 140°F An infrared sauna can operate at a lower temperature (usually between 120°F and 140°F) than a traditional sauna, which is typically between 150°F and 180°F. May 29, 2018

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    @bkeegan @josh @cyberlyra hello, thanks for spreading the word about my new pub! Would love to hear your thoughts about it! 💚✌🏻

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    It’s always the right time to read John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Given some of the incredibly offensive nuclear humor I’m seeing in my social media feeds related to the Oppenheimer release, I just want to remind everyone that the United States conducted arguably the largest non-consensual human experiment of all time when it bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Once you read Hiroshima you will never be the same afterwards. Hiroshima https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima

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    A lot of parallels between universities who want to assert rights over faculty syllabi and teaching materials (so they can get someone cheaper to do the teaching) and the studios wanting AI to copy someone’s movements and pay them once. Both are dehumanizing in that they construct labor and knowledge as a one time commodity for service, rather than investing in a model of continuous craftsmanship.

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    Apropos of nothing, one observation I’ve heard people who used to be involved in labour negotiations here in Iceland is “people with American brain worms don’t know how to negotiate with unions”

    (Paraphrasing, since the original is always in Icelandic.)

    This is noticable in that you can guess with reasonable certainty, which company is run by an executive trained in the US just by how badly they are handling union contract negotiations

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    @baldur @simeon typically one of the few places in American universities that are actually well-resourced are schools of business, which perpetuate very capitalist anti-labor points of view in their teaching. At my last position in a large US university, the faculty were unionized but our lowest membership rates were from the business school faculty.

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    @baldur @simeon Also because there has been so much divestment from public higher education, students go into incredible debt for a degree so they feel pressure to pick a major that will make them a lot of money to pay off student loan debt (like a business major). This is why business school enrollments have soared in recent decades and humanities majors have plummeted. It’s a very disturbing self-reinforcing cycle.

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    @simeon @baldur Not my area of expertise but the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom is considered one of the United State's leading experts on the intersections between debt, higher education, classism and racism. Here's her work: https://thenewpress.com/books/lower-ed

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    Just learned that A GREEN NEW DEAL FOR ARCHIVES was just published thanks to a wave of text messages from friends 💚💚🥰🥰 SPREAD THE WORD! https://www.clir.org/2023/07/new-publication-proposes-green-and-sustainable-future-for-archives/

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    I need someone to write a story about how the invocation of “frizz” is a racially coded euphemism that white people use about hair that is akin to “bad schools.” In fact I need someone to write an entire cultural history about white women’s relationship with curly hair because as a white woman with naturally curly hair let me tell you I have a lifetime of stories about how other white women react towards my hair and what it betrays about them

    MnemosyneSinger, to random

    What religion is this because I'm interested

    TeamMidwest,
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    @MnemosyneSinger i wish to subscribe to this newsletter

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    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working groups usually put out a "Summary for Policy Makers" that is a summarized version of the extensive technical reports. TIL that Working Group I (the physical science group) has put out a "Summary for All" meant to make climate science understandable for a wide audience. Really appreciate the graphics in this one, which are much easier to explain to a lay audience. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/resources/summary-for-all/

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    I am always on the hunt for climate graphics to put in my presentations for generally smart lay audiences who do not need to be convinced of the reality of climate change, but who also aren't science people and need some basic climate literacy. This graphic is one of the single best images I've ever seen explaining the high (low?) points of climate change for a lay audience. Thanks IPCC WGI!!!! (see the "graphics" folder at https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/resources/summary-for-all/)

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    @Brendanjones here’s a more technical explainer https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-how-shared-socioeconomic-pathways-explore-future-climate-change/

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