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Vancouver Community Library, public library in Vancouver, Washington, USA.
“Art can be a very valuable destabilizing agent” to culture and “shake up the foundations a little bit.”
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Cee Peal will bring his love of theatre, storytelling and image-making to the Vancouver Public Library as the 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence.The actor, director, writer, dancer and producer from Nisga’a First Nation in northern British Columbia has a passion for Indigenous studies and cultural revolution and will provide a unique learning opportunity for visitors to the library.
📚 Lessons From a Lifetime by: David Suzuki, Ian Hanington
Across his 90 years on planet Earth, David Suzuki has inspired generations of his followers to fight for environmental and social causes with courage and conviction. In Lessons From a Lifetime, Suzuki shares pearls of wisdom and hard-earned l...
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Update. Here's some detail on #AI tools to help conservative schools ban books.
https://www.404media.co/blockade-the-right-is-using-ai-content-scanners-to-try-to-supercharge-book-banning/
One is BLOCKADE, which stands for “Blocking Lustful Overzealous Content, Keeping Away Depravity and Extremism."
"The program’s script includes a list of roughly 300 words, each assigned a severity score that contributes to an overall appropriateness score…The script explicitly defines 'educational inappropriateness' as 'content offensive to conservative values,' while also asking the AI 'not to include any additional text or explanation' for its decisions."
What a concept!
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"I come home that night empty-handed. No Yellow Bird. Not in the national libraries or in the cracked bookstores on Donceles or in the vaults of Morton Subastas."
Geoffrey Gray for Alta Journal: https://www.altaonline.com/books/a70453082/joaquin-murieta-yellow-bird-zamorano-80/
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‘BLOCKADE’: The Right Is Using AI Content Scanners to Try to Supercharge Book Banning
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