Library, Technology, & Minecraft Stuff

I'm still trying to determine what this is all about. I'm a new-ish librarian who works at a tiny academic library (with the technology stuff). I enjoy books, baking, and records of all kinds. I spend most of my free time learning about...

[othmeralia]

Caption This Photo!

Photo credit: Beckman Historical Collection, Othmer Library of Chemical History, Science History Institute (accession 2012.022).

P.S. Happy American Archives Month!

[distractful]

10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

[librarygirl13]

A Seemingly Small Change to Chrome Stirs Big Controversy

The latest update to Google's browser has riled privacy advocates by appearing to log people in without their explicit permission.

Small, slow changes are how they get you. 

[pocblog]

[free-range-khajiit-deactivated2]

This is literally the cutest thing I want more of this pure content

[pancakeke]

this covers the hole but it’s really obstructive and ruins the aesthetic of the bowl I’m considering making a decoy bowl now

[introvertsguild]

All cats ruin the aesthetics if it doesn’t revolve around them.

[pancakeke]

related: aesthetic cat bed that has only been used 2 times in the past 2 years. they prefer to sleep in Amazon boxes

[the-cadence-of-yellow]

@pancakeke you should put the amazon box inside the aesthetic cat bed. Maybe they’ll be more inclined to use it that way

[pancakeke]

if this works I will lose my damn mind

[pancakeke]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME

[staff]

🚨This is a Red Alert for net neutrality 🚨

Last December, the FCC voted to to kill net neutrality. If we do not take action, this will kill the free and open internet as we know it. The internet needs you—all of you—to make sure your voices are heard NOW.

We need all hands on deck for this one. It may be our last chance. If you’re feeling under-informed and overwhelmed about why net neutrality is so incredibly important, we have this handy guide just for you.

Here’s what you can do to save the internet:

In mid-May, the Senate will vote on a resolution to overrule the FCC using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). We only need one more vote in the Senate to win. Write or call your Senators or Representatives. You can also text BATTLE to 384-387 to get more information on how to write to your reps. You can do this, Tumblr.

Join us and dozens of your other favorite companies like Etsy, Vimeo, Reddit, and GitHub to raise awareness with the Red Alert campaign being run by Battle for the Net. Just add this small widget to your Tumblr to let your followers know how they can contact their reps. It’s as easy as copying and pasting the small line of code right into the customize theme page on the web.

This is important. This matters. It’s up to you to help. 

[librarygirl13]

Data Privacy Policy Must Empower Users and Innovation

As the details continue to emerge regarding Facebook's failure to protect its users' data from third-party misuse, a growing chorus is calling for new regulations. Mark Zuckerberg will appear in Washington to answer to Congress next week, and we expect lawmakers and others will be asking not only...

[librarygirl13]

To #DeleteFacebook or Not to #DeleteFacebook? That Is Not the Question

Since the Cambridge Analytica news hit headlines, calls for users to ditch the platform have picked up speed. Whether or not it has a critical impact on the company’s user base or bottom line, the message from #DeleteFacebook is clear: users are fed up. EFF is not here to tell you whether or not to...

I agree. It’s not all about deleting or not deleting. It goes deeper. 

[librarygirl13]

One Response to the Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Block Facebook's Tracking With Privacy Badger

With Facebook in a dominant position in hosting a huge portion of the world’s social conversation, we’ve been worried about the incredible power the company has accumulated and the risks that poses to privacy and democratic conversation.Last week’s news about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica...

Has anyone used this add-on thing? 

[poetsandwriters]

“Poetry isn’t a cure, and it isn’t a miracle. It won’t jump your car’s dead battery or fix your leaky roof. It won’t feed your baby or save your dying grandmother. But there are words, phrases, whole poems that—in the grimmest, loneliest, most shattered moments of my life—have offered me a lozenge of light.”

—Anndee Hochman, in “The Poem Chooses You” in the March/April issue of Poets & Writers Magazine (2018)

[justcatposts]

What is it? And why do I love it?

[libraryadvocates]

Librarianship is the understanding that maintaining a library is a shared responsibility. You’re on call to help catalog a book someone requested for a massive paper and then promptly forgot about. You’ll need to sit a stint at the circulation desk because someone else got the flu from working a storytime where half the kids showed up with runny noses and rubbed their hands all over the safety scissors. Libraries are community spaces for patrons as well as for library staff. You perform all the roles, all the time. You learn to love it. I understand now that the job I thought I’d have isn’t the one I wound up with, but guess what? I like it better that way. At the end of the day, librarianship is mostly about trying to understand the needs of people. It is still about knowing. And that’s something I like.

WHAT EXACTLY DOES A LIBRARIAN DO? EVERYTHING. By Kristen Arnett (via archivistic)

[librarygirl13]

A conversation with author, academic and activist Virginia Eubanks (video)

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Looking forward to reading this next!

[librarygirl13]

More HTTPS. Let’s make this happen.

[librarygirl13]

+1 for HTTPS

[librarygirl13]

The FCC’s Net Neutrality Order Was Just Published, Now the Fight Really Begins

Today, the FCC’s so-called “Restoring Internet Freedom Order,” which repealed the net neutrality protections the FCC had previously created with the 2015 Open Internet Order, has been officially published. That means the clock has started ticking on all the ways we can fight back. While the...

Seriously, we need to keep pushing. Net Neutrality is VERY IMPORTANT. 

[foodffs]

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies

Mini Chocolate Chip Cookies are teeny tiny chocolate chip cookies about the size of a quarter! Soft, chewy popable cookies that are perfect for parties.

https://butterwithasideofbread.com/mini-chocolate-chippers-cookies/

Really nice recipes. Every hour.

Show me what you cooked!