Tim

@geistweg
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Museum curator who spends a ridiculous amount of his workday looking at old photographs and lost forms of cursive.
I Was Called for Jury Duty in Richmond, VA. Here's What I Wish I'd Known.

What to actually expect when you're called for jury duty in Richmond, VA, from the confusing mail instructions to voir dire and everything in between.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817

I'm told by @Privacymatters that Germany has stayed strong and blocked the Council majority, so chat control is dead (for now)!

Thank you, everyone who's worked like a dog to stop this nonsense. Again...

Bluesky is melting down and Mastodon will not (I believe) benefit from it, and one reason why is that the one single technical advantage Bluesky has over Mastodon— the ability to migrate instances without consequence— turns out to be an absolute showstopper.
I'm in the middle of my summer weeding project on the library side of our collections and I'm seeing a number of folks on the Sky app talking about it as well. Which makes me wonder, did I pick up the habit of doing this during a particular season in my early career and just continued?

Starfield doesn't come out for another few weeks but there are already lofi music channels for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65CJotE_0jM&ab_channel=VibeVaultMusic

Lofi Beats to Play Starfield to | Chill Gaming Music

YouTube
Though I'm conflicted about it, I flew for the first time in 10 years to present some of my thesis work on undertaking systemic #climatejustice in libraries at the 2023 IFLA#wlic, so if you're attending please come say "hi" or "hoi" so we can collaborate and/or learn from each other
First request in the box this morning: "Please send me four primary sources and four secondary sources about the holocaust for my research project."
Still thinking about ways to keep SAA vibrant and healthy after attending #saa23 as one of three GLAM conferences I attended in one month. One thing that I think SAA could do to improve programming all around is to *require* panels to have archivists from different sectors. No more all-academic panels. I’m super proud that the panel i chaired had a mix of local gov, university, museum, and self-employed speakers, and the turnout was just as diverse for who came to hear us speak.

It's kind of weird to be reading about some of the reasons why people on Bluesky left Mastodon and recognizing them as things I actually like about being here. I guess that's why I am not using my Bluesky account at all...

#bug #feature

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

I've made a career out of building, repairing, and preserving the web. Now, closer to the end of my career than the beginning, I see I haven't spent enough time learning methods for how to dismantle and disentangle the web from work and lived experience. How to practice viable and effective strategies for resisting automation & convincing decision makers when to turn things off.