Sam Popowich

@redlibrarian
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books, libraries, politics, technology
Currently readingMaureen F. McHugh, "China Mountain Zhang"; Richard Whatmore, "What is Intellectual History?"
Wait. In Canada you can resign from the House of Commons? I think in the UK you have to get assigned to the All-Empire Committee in Respect of Jarndyce-v-Jarndyce or something.
Btw the curious distinction between the American billion and the European is well explained in Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger. #aProposOfNothing

RE: https://mastodon.social/@redlibrarian/115505735630235195

Shout out to Monique Woroniak and I, the only people to make it into library school at -40 Celsius after a “blizzard”.

I may be supervising a reading course in Adorno next year, so I guess I’ve arrived?
First snowfall. Lacklustre, 3 out of 10.

"We now use AI to predict when your library is open."

But library hours are well-structured data. The grift is real.

#LB But when i say there's only one political party, I'm the asshole.

CBC CONFIRMED!! Conservative MP Chris d'Entremont IS joining the Liberal Party -- He texted David Cochrane who just confirmed it live on air.

Now I really need to film my fuckin video wheeeeee

Liberals are now TWO seats short of a majority government instead of three.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@r.gilmore/post/DQpv-fwjUlD

People talking about the capitalist budget in Canada.
It probably doesn't help that I have not integrated my academic and creative writing. So I end up in a weird dislocated headspace trying to do both.