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/ https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/index.htm kt0E46n9m...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 126
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/tt0080569/ Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca.com/about Gretchen Felker-Martin, Manhunt, Cuckoo . https://twitter...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 125
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-chuck-tingle...
Feb 17, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 124
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 adolescents’ online sexual experiences and recommendations for supporting their sexual health and wellbeing Ma 2022 Patterns of online relationship seeki...
Feb 14, 2024•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 123
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://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhysida-ransomware-gang-claims-british-library-cyberattack/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/08/british_librar...
Feb 05, 2024•45 min•Ep. 122
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: Building a Privacy Literacy Program [for browsing] Open-licensed privacy literacy curriculum Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent might be of ...
Jan 29, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 121
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 mentioned https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/ Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.feministandaccessiblepublishingandtechnology.com/ Cait McKinney, Informa...
Jan 18, 2024•47 min•Ep. 120
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.medium.com/a-case-for-library-archives-boycott-and-divestment-exlibris-493737a911c5 . Chuck Tingle post: https://www.tumblr.com/drchucktingle/739065274126...
Jan 12, 2024•50 min•Ep. 119
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.pubpub.org/ Zombie journals: what’s left after editorial board leaves like Glossia/ Lingua https://www.openlibhums.org/news/656/ - Glossia/Lingua https...
Dec 20, 2023•46 min•Ep. 118
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/20190323204714/http://lucyparsons.org/history.php https://web.archive.org/web/20011116035809/http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/texts/disco.html https://web.a...
Dec 11, 2023•55 min•Ep. 117
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_directors/ Salvage or Plunder? Israel's "Collection" of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/42473 ...
Dec 01, 2023•52 min•Ep. 116
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...
Nov 22, 2023•50 min•Ep. 115
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/AJHpwx946
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 114
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-technology/2023/10/google-will-shield-ai-users-from-copyright-challenges-within-limits/ https://chokepointcapitalism.com/ https://www.versobooks.com/product...
Oct 30, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 113
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-technology/instructional-accessibility-tips https://udlguidelines.cast.org/ https://dwcag.org/ https://ask.springshare.com/libguides/faq/1065 https://www.ti...
Oct 26, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 112
Oh boy we’ve got something special! We’re joined again by laborkyle to talk about Walter Benjamin and his essay The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Also AI, fascism, and dreams. Kyle’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/laborkyle Profane Illuminations: Theology for Militants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeV314axro4 All Gamers Are Bastards: https://soundcloud.com/agabpod Media mentioned https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm https://www.i...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 111
Same thing as with Jay, but now featuring Justin. Also some news. Discord: https://discord.gg/7WcvM7Xdq Media mentioned https://www.applevalleynewsnow.com/news/court-blocks-push-to-close-dayton-library/article_b73f99a8-58bf-11ee-98ed-efcddf58abbd.html https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/26/fcc-announces-plans-to-reinstate-net-neutrality/...
Oct 12, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 110
We’re covering updates on the Mütter Museum’s exhibits, digital collections, and human remains policies. Media mentioned Segment: https://www.wired.com/story/prisoners-training-ai-finland/ Article that named Mütter Museum as one of Philly museums still holding indigenous remains: https://www.inquirer.com/news/native-american-remains-penn-temple-mutter-20230113.html (January 13, 2023) Original article that gained traction, there was an earlier one on the digital collections going down that might ...
Sep 29, 2023•46 min•Ep. 109
We’re going over the daily life of a library worker for those who are interested! First up: Jay! Media mentioned Segment: https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96 https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8?si=jc3ouGYgcJIlfJsx https://www.dukeupress.edu/complaint Discord: https://discord.gg/qTMg4v7Xu...
Sep 22, 2023•59 min•Ep. 108
This week we’re joined by Jon and Ash from Horror Vanguard to talk about the spookiest movie of the summer: Storm Center (1956). Horror Vanguard: https://linktr.ee/HorrorVanguard Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan Media Mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhLP8M9eXD8 https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/2729-in-praise-of-communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Brown_(librarian) Face to Face with Communism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_jbMrXcVmw...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 107
Justin and Jay both had to talk about this for work, so why not do an episode? Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan Media mentioned https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/08/29/appeals-court-rules-against-mandatory-deposit/#:~:text=In%20a%20decision%20handed%20down,violation%20of%20the%20takings%20clause . The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool | Techdirt Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon Introduction to Large Language Models and the Transformer Architectur...
Sep 07, 2023•58 min•Ep. 106
We’re doing another bad news roundup. And you know we’re Bataille posting! https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan Media mentioned Justin https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/publishers-booksellers-sue-texas-over-public-school-book-ban-2023-07-26/ Sadie https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-gives-campbell-county-library-board-in-wyoming-the-finger-after-library-director-is-fired...
Sep 01, 2023•57 min•Ep. 105
Part 2! https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan Media mentioned https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/ https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing) https://mayfirst.coop/en/ https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/ https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/book...
Aug 24, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 104
A two parter because we had so much to cover! Jonny joins us to explain Fediverse, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and other mysterious hives of villainy. How do preservation? Also: Microsoft lost the keys to their cloud. Also we started a discord! https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan Media mentioned https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/ https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/ https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#foru...
Aug 18, 2023•52 min•Ep. 103
We do the closest thing to a bonus episode. We get meta: lifting the veil on how we do the podcast, what we listen to, and the friends we’ve made along the way. Also lots of copyright, AI, and Georges Bataille. Media mentioned https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/ https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121 FSCI event: https://semanticclimate.org/p/en/events/fsci2023_event/ Carl Malamud corpus: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158...
Aug 10, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 102
This week we’re joined by Leòn from The Left Page & Here Be Media to talk about Da Netherlands, Mastodon, and tech policy in Europe. https://shows.acast.com/63bb2e28364f560010c45f46 https://bsky.app/profile/leftpagemedia.bsky.social https://twitter.com/leftpagepod Media mentioned https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/lawmaker-calls-for-changes-at-archives-and-history-after-lecture-on-alabamas-lgbtq-history.html https://fediversereport.com/dutch-government-officially-launches-mastodon-server/ https...
Jul 31, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 101
It’s a bad news roundup pardner! We’re talking public library leases, book ratings, and Montana being a shit to Emily Drabinski. Open letter in support of Emily: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/preview Sadie https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-07-11/a-kansas-town-is-threatening-again-to-kick-out-the-public-library-unless-it-removes-lgbtq-books Justin https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/texas-sexually-explicit-books-law/index.html OSTP memo https://d...
Jul 20, 2023•53 min•Ep. 100
This week we’re talking about John Rogers, a memorabilia mogul who flew too close to the sun (fueled by cocaine) by buying up newspaper photo collections and promising digital archives in return, while flogging the rarest photos for a profit. A warning to libraries and museums to be careful when a new digitization scheme rides into town! https://defector.com/he-said-he-was-going-to-save-a-century-of-priceless-sports-photos-he-ended-up-the-madoff-of-memorabilia Media mentioned https://www.cnet.co...
Jul 14, 2023•51 min•Ep. 99
Miriam is back to talk about her Digital Labor course and how it went teaching undergrad IT students to think critically about tech and logistics. We also cover student anxiety and why Justin could never get a BBL. https://twitter.com/miriamkp https://bsky.app/profile/miriamkp.bsky.social Course syllabus. https://miriamposner.com/classes/dh150s23/ Media mentioned Zizi Li: influencer labor. https://www.zizili.net/ https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/vtube-nation-ft-j-aubrey/ Acid Horizon: Data is...
Jul 10, 2023•59 min•Ep. 98
We have the wonderful Ben and Matt on to talk about their new comic Justice Warriors, but also about the role of satire, book bans, cops in libraries (e.g. Winnipeg), and cuts to the social safety net in favor of cops where libraries become the service point of last resort. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226 https://twitter.com/benclarkson https://twitter.com/MattBors Media mentioned https://thenib.com/ https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/ https://s...
Jun 27, 2023•47 min•Ep. 97
