I'm the world's leading expert on keeping the Voyager library system running. LC has me on speed dial. I work for Clarivate, but I don't speak for them. Anybody hiring a weird generalist?
Also weird old computers and cats.
Lots of cats
I should have probably mentioned the cats first
As seen on 'The Trout'
US leadership appears to have gotten to the point where "The USA might not be able to control the course of events" counts as an Outside Context Problem.
I don't think any of our legislators realize how the next couple years are going to go, nor that their only chance to affect that was 3 weeks ago. They seem to believe they can observe events and if, in the future, things will go too far, they'll be able to call it all off at that point.
I'm pretty sure this came to my attention from someone here on fedi, because I have people for whom this is catnip: "Refusal As Instruction," Hannah Cyrus, Information Technology and Libraries, March 2026.
https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17653/11960
Six pages of an excellent sermon about how public libraries especially need to think about privacy more, and possibly put some friction between a user and their goal, if the frictionless option goes to privacy-intrusive companies.
(Now, if IT would just *listen*...)
Kathmandu
Cam, Ph.D.
Scott Small 🇨🇦
Alex