Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica tells the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

I'm honking with my ever-changing collab project ⛈️🛰️⛈️( myself & Moskos from Drainolith on this outing). We are opening for a new Special Interest affiliated project.

It is on Wednesday night. I leave the continent on Thursday for most of November. So come say by ! It's like my MTL bday.

the actual Luddites were big fans of automation technology, when it was owned and used by craftsmen. the only reason you believe otherwise is that capitalists waged a propaganda war against them

you should check out @brianmerchant's Blood in the Machine

Three Palestine Action activists in the UK have begun a rolling hunger strike to protest prison conditions and alleged unfair treatment.

They demand a fair trial, an end to solitary confinement, and the lifting of restrictions on their activities and correspondence. The strike comes after all other efforts to communicate with authorities failed.

The protest underscores ongoing tensions between authorities and activists advocating for Palestinian rights.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

Just got an email about an open letter for professors to sign, because the Standing Committee on Science and Research just decided to grab personal demographic info and the EDI portions of tri-council research grant from the last *25 years*. This is really bad. Please please please let's not do anti-science and anti-EDI here in Canada?

Hard to parse all of this, and I don't want the open letter to get spammed so I'm not going to link. Here's the meeting notes: https://www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/SRSR/meeting-6/minutes