@rar @feditips Where did I say anything about the length? The problem with "fediverse" and "fedi" is that it sounds and feels unnatural in the context of the Fnglish language.
You failed at portmanteauing and are blaming everyone who doesn't like the results instead of analyzing the failure.
Extremely common Mastodon user behavior
@feditips Nah man "user feel doesn't matter" and "people are wrong for using words that are technically inaccurate" is much more reflective of the typical mastodon user worldview, I think
(And I'm using mastodon here to mean the entire fedspace whatever-you-call-it)
legitimately uncomfortable whenever I see someone sharing a twitter link/embed these days.
Like yeah, sure, maybe that guy in the nazi bar said something funny or drew something hot, but **stop visiting the fucking nazi bar**
* "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
* We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."
Interesting phenomenon that my experience of twitterlikes is such that, if anything I say gets more than one or two likes (let alone a reply) other than from mutuals, my brain seizes up and starts yelling "wait, no, stop! that wasn't supposed to happen!" until about 30 minutes after the last notification comes in.
Even when they're from the person I was literally speaking directly to
* "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
* We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."
* "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause.
* We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act."
2/6
"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."
3/6
"The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.
Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "
6/6
@indubitablyodin ::stands up::
::applauds::
@Logan @indubitablyodin you should be proud of being a librarian regardless. This is just the cherry on the icing on the cake.
You rock. 'Nuff said.
@Logan @indubitablyodin Librarians are my heroes. Incidentally and interestingly, German hacker club and NGO Chaos Computer Club recently became the publisher of a novella on just that topic. It's here:
https://42.ccc.de/de/2042-die-verbotene-bibliothek/
Only in German, unfortunately. But isn't it thrilling how literature channels ideas floating around and making them tangible like nothing else?
A lot of people forget how Republicans used the hysteria of 9/11 to gain powers that they later used against domestic political opponents, dissidents, advocates, & journalists
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238
https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oracle-s-coziness-with-government-goes-back-to-2820370.php
Ubiquitous surveillance being its most enduring legacy
https://www.newsweek.com/death-western-valuessurveillance-conformity-post-9-11-state-opinion-1906892
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/
https://www.nyclu.org/report/repression-surveillance-and-resistance-20-years-after-911
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight_(Kendzior_book)
@indubitablyodin This is all cool and dandy but you've never met Nazis willing to burn down the library.
These stories were cool to deal with something that resembled a government.
That world is gone, the US as a democratic state with a stable system of governance is dead.
The US is being managed by Nazis now.
If the library doesn't comply, the Nazis will burn it down, this is the new reality.
Wake up.
@elaine1helen @indubitablyodin
Oh great. That's so bright, isn't it.
@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-fing-stop-this-s
It was about the election, but it's still relevant now.
Stop dumping your hopelessness on the people who are working to fix this.
Will what they're doing here be enough? No, but no one thing will solve this and incremental progress is a win. Others will do things on other fronts.
There will be no hero, because no one fixes this alone - it'll be the sum total of a *LOT* of little things that makes the difference.
Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something better. The cynic sees a proposal for change and immediately lists why it won’t work. They’
@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin
And this is what it looks like in practice:
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-somebody-doing-something
@vruz @indubitablyodin Nothing is helped by dumping your failure to cope on others.
Maybe some things they do won't be enough, but better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Meanwhile, I suggest you stop giving up before you start.
@vruz @indubitablyodin that was a response for the situation at the time, not a tutorial for how to survive a totalitarian state, take the same thinking, and apply it to the current situation.
The general idea, is that sabotage can take many forms, some extremely effective, despite a high degree of plausible deniability, and relatively low risk for the people committing it.
I saw a post sometime ago about a guy painting small rocks in pink and dropping them randomly to keep the stasis on edge.
@vruz @indubitablyodin If the Nazis burn down the library, it will be a significant damper to their PR. Make them stomach losing the high ground.
@vruz @indubitablyodin It's how the RIAA decided to stop sending mass lawsuits in 2008: they realized they were essentially losing PR every time they did so.
[ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_group_efforts_against_file_sharing ]
@indubitablyodin
Yeah, you Americans don't have mandatory paid maternity leave.
Employees on maternity leave (depending upon where in the EU that can be 2-3 years) are perfect for critical functions. Especially when their temporary substitute does not how to operate the system to create this or that critical report, so sorry.
@indubitablyodin
You are REQUIRED to only record and/or keep the personal-identifiable data that is absolutely NECESSARY ONLY - and delete that as soon as the purpose has ceased, as put in law by EU's GDPR.
Any chance that one of your library users might have an EU citizenship? Thus better be safe than sorry, and comply and delete...
😁
@dmaonR @indubitablyodin Librarians in general are... there is this beautiful story by Alix E Harrow that _so_ captures this ❤️❤️❤️
@martinvermeer @dmaonR @indubitablyodin
I run across this every now and then, when I need it.
It's entirely fictitious, and entirely true.
Thank you for reminding me.
and you can follow her bridged account from Masto! @libraryjenn.bsky.social
@VoiceofDuum @dmaonR @libraryjenn.bsky.social
I didn't realize she was bridged, yay!
@indubitablyodin I love hearing stories of librarians being fucking based as hell
I feel like this is just an actual thing where like almost all librarians are based
@indubitablyodin @RussSharek
Where is now so many #libraries have gotten trapped using #ebook systems based on either Amazon’s Palace or Libby/Overdrive apps (owned by the one of the worst vulture capital companies in the world KKR
Both of whom will gladly sell our personal data to the highest bidder, much less give it over to any government official who comes asking with or without a warrant
I fear the population’s vast e-book usage may be out of local librarians control
@AccordionBruce @indubitablyodin
While you're absolutely right, I prefer to focus on the fact that this is a story about librarians helping.
@RussSharek @indubitablyodin
It’s a good point. We need positive action news
Not things without suggested response 🙏🏼
@AccordionBruce @indubitablyodin @RussSharek
That's why I only use DRM-free ebooks.
On my own devices.
And if that means I have to scan a book myself, there are really nice book scanners at very affordable prices nowadays.
If this is a worry, people may want to make sure they turn off history in any digital library sources. Library won’t control those.
Well, there are significant data concerns with a lot of the modern library systems, actually. Not only are most libraries equipped to properly assess data security, librarians are not receiving the training they need *in* data security. It doesn't help that librarians, much like public teachers, are underpaid and over-relied on as a vital part of America's failing social safety net.
For instance, services like Hoopla might track user information and retain/share it in ways not covered by library policy. The same goes for database systems upon which modern libraries rely.
This is why I keep advocating for locally-controlled, independent tech infrastructure for libraries... but c'est la vie, that's a hill I'm likely to die on.
That said: you're generally right. Good data practices on the user-end help a TON. It's just that it's difficult to educate and train people to take even mild precautions.
@indubitablyodin @krparadis @Af_Redelius our library system (Toronto) was hacked for ransom & we lost use of the library system for a few months. We lost other computer access things incl. printing, it seems permanently. These serve the poor & immigrants the most.
Also libraries & librarians are the best. Protect them.
What Trump is doing is equivalent of arson to the entire body of knowledge gathered since before the founding of America.
@indubitablyodin
When I went to school in the 1980'es, we learned that it was illegal for libraries to keep such records, because they could deter people from reading, snd without the freedom to read, you can't have freedom of speech. But of course we had ghe nazis up close.
Sometimes it's easy to think that the US has never heard of freedom of speech, and no US soldier has ever been to a country where nazis had power, so there was never anyone to tell US politicians just how nasty those fuckers were.
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