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mastodon 4.7.3Librarian. Half-ironic physiocrat. Monist. Interested in food. And in things peri-scholarship.
A blog at @kingsboroughlibtech@mastodon.ocert.at.
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My first ever cake of 7542 came in the mail today.
infrastructure
I’ve seen a few people complain about the recent direction of Newsblur, but honestly I am just happy that it is getting some development attention now, after what seemed like a few years of stasis
today in fediverse scholarship:
"Social media 'back in the hands of the people'? Nuancing assumptions of legitimate content moderation on Mastodon"
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14614448261437809
"With this journal, we’re doing something unique: we’re creating a forum for humanistic approaches to librarianship and libraries. Such a venue has been decidedly — and rather inexplicably — missing from our profession."
https://kingsboroughlibtech.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/03/01/cfp/
Replying to
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
He would try hard to fight it
But all he would get was renku
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renku
a nice mug of shou after a big meal
a late night yoga studio, for people who want to do yoga at 11pm, 2am, etc
There are some Roy Orbison live albums on Bandcamp and now I know what I’m doing tomorrow
Good luck playing this one for your spouse without crying:
https://jasonisbell.bandcamp.com/track/if-we-were-vampires-2
I know I’ve already posted a couple of links to Stephen Macdonald’s articles on library neutrality, but they continue to be excellent, so here is another one:
“LIS Neutrality: a Wittgensteinian approach”
https://www.emerald.com/jd/article-abstract/78/3/580/202264/LIS-neutrality-a-Wittgensteinian-interpretation?redirectedFrom=fulltext
(paywalled)
Good work picking apart the “neutrality debate” in librarianship:
https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2019-0102
(paywalled)