Mastodawn

Excited to share this Techtonic episode featuring my visit to Repair Cafe El Barrio: volunteers repairing items, and guests who are ecstatic with the results.

This is how we'll beat the billionaires: building community.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-16-a-visit-to-repair-cafe-el-barrio/

Lauren Jan 22

I just read the intro to this book and already feel like it's going to do a better job articulating my concerns than my everyday muffled work screams and guttural yelps https://search.worldcat.org/title/1391093564

Lauren Dec 28

no newsletters in 2026. only zine

Lauren Dec 27

Erin Kissane Dec 23

Happy holidays, fediverse!

I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.

https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/

Landslide; a ghost story

On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.

wreckage/salvage

Lauren Dec 4

One of my coworkers stopped by my desk to tell me he quit Spotify 🥰 me being annoying about it is working 🥲

Show thread

Lauren Nov 13

"there is a feeling of alienation within LIS that contributes to the appeal of generative AI as a solution to problems that are, inherently, issues within the workplace and social environment." 🎯

Lauren Nov 13

It's not *our refusal* that is limiting patrons - they are already limited by the tech companies that are inserting their products without our consent into our libraries, schools, and public infrastructure https://online-roleplay.ghost.io/against-ai-library-trends/

Against AI: Library Trends

The following are my own remarks, edited for clarity, from a webinar produced by Library Trends. Before I became a library worker, I was, and still am, a researcher. My Master’s research into deepfakes from 2019-2021 gave me much of the theoretical knowledge [on artificial intelligence] needed to pursue

online roleplay

Lauren Nov 5

"By treating e-libraries as vast training datasets, algorithmic scraping has become both the fulfilment and the ruin of a core dream in public library culture: that access to books should be free and unlimited for all." Very excited to print this out at work https://monoskop.org/File:Careful_A_Repertorium_on_Shadow_Library_Practice_2025.pdf

File:Careful A Repertorium on Shadow Library Practice 2025.pdf - Monoskop

Wiki for Arts and Studies

Lauren Nov 4

today I led a mending workshop and (besides me) there were two other women who came wearing clothes they had mended 🥹 (ps how do I get dudes to come to mending workshops? Do I have to say they are about self sufficiency and pr*pping? Because they are lol)

Lauren Oct 24

Mark Hurst Oct 23

The tech media is largely failing to tell this story, so I’ll mark the moment: fall 2025 is when the new Luddite movement really began to accelerate.

For the first time in a long time, there is palpable energy – *positive* energy – in tech.

New from me:
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/the-luddite-renaissance-is-here/

The Luddite renaissance is here

Two weeks ago I stood outside the Apple Store on West 14th Street in Manhattan and watched someone dressed as Death destroy an iPhone with a rock. People...

Creative Good