Episodes
Friday Nov 22, 2024
Friday Nov 22, 2024
What can library workers actually do within their institutional limitations?
Media mentioned
https://www.404media.co/leaked-documents-show-what-phones-secretive-tech-graykey-can-unlock-2/
https://www.blackrosefed.org/anarchists-in-the-labor-movement-4/
https://github.com/rechelon/zine_library
https://www.digitalrightsbytes.org/
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Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/3h472fne
Monday Oct 14, 2024
138 - Hiring Librarians feat. Emily Weak
Monday Oct 14, 2024
Monday Oct 14, 2024
This week we’re talking with Emily Weak from Hiring Librarians and answering listener questions about getting the MLS, job hunting, and more!
https://bsky.app/profile/hiringlibrarians.com
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Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/rakyczca
Friday Sep 27, 2024
137 - Copyright Mythology
Friday Sep 27, 2024
Friday Sep 27, 2024
We’re getting into our favorite copyright myths and some copyright related news.
Media mentioned
Tattoo copyright news: https://apnews.com/article/kat-von-d-tattoo-trial-miles-davis-388d1831c0a065b096fe4f69fe8a224e
Wiley news, sells rights to AI https://www.thebookseller.com/news/wiley-set-to-earn-44m-from-ai-rights-deals-confirms-no-opt-out-for-authors
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_issues_with_fan_fiction
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Disclaimer
https://www.eff.org/pages/eff-screen-lock-images-new-logo
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Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/q0qhmqpg
Monday Sep 16, 2024
136 - The New Flesh feat. Adam Jones
Monday Sep 16, 2024
Monday Sep 16, 2024
We’re joined by Adam Jones from Acid Horizon to talk about cybernetics and systems of control. We talk about how systems of control impact libraries, and how cybernetics can help us see the connections between different systems.
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Media Mentioned
Acid Horizon podcast: https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/
Anti-Oculus https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734147/anti-oculus-by-acid-horizon/
- "Queer Animality", Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect, Mel Y. Chen. https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/1652/chapter-abstract/178668/Queer-Animality?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Trap Door: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262544894/trap-door/
That Particular Flavor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distrust_That_Particular_Flavor
Resisting AI https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
Work Without the Worker https://www.versobooks.com/products/2518-work-without-the-worker
Heike Bauer, ‘Burning Sexual Subjects: Books, Homophobia and the Nazi Destruction of the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin’, in Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary, eds. Partington and Smyth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 17–33. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137367662_2
Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/y926mbqh
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
135 - The Once and Future Linked Open Data feat. Dorothea and Jonny
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
The gang talks about linked open data. What did we learn in library school? What’s the future? Where does it fall off a cliff?
Media mentioned
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/graph-types/
The Ethics of Sustaining Linked Data Infrastructure https://scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/430f30bf-e029-483d-b1c8-d7e9bb430a8e
Aaron Swartz unfinished book https://web.archive.org/web/20220512132144/https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00481ED1V01Y201302WBE005
Tim Berners Lee
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111938123937338008
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111939286501257910
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/111731459659839112
https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/#knowledge-graphs-a-backbone-in-the-surveillance-economy
http://microblogging.infodocs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/publishing_bnb_as_lod.pdf
https://www.oclc.org/en/news/releases/2024/20240507-introducing-oclc-meridian.html
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Transcript (plaintext): https://pastecode.io/s/qundkp0n
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
134 - Museum Ethics feat. Brigit
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
Tuesday Aug 20, 2024
This week we’re talking about museums, ethics, and taxonomy. Probably other stuff too!
Media mentioned
https://www.geocurator.org/images/resources/geocurator/vol7/geocurator_7_6.pdf#page=14
"FRONTIERS TO SCIENCE: FREE TRADE AND MUSEUM ETHICS" by Tristram P. Besterman, 2001
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-69005527
"US curator denies smuggling scorpions and spiders from Istanbul" BBC News, 2024
https://webarchive.unesco.org/web/20230926050719/https://en.unesco.org/cultnatlaws/list
The web archived version of the UNESCO database for national cultural heritage laws, which ....they've taken down from their website for some reason? I was literally working from this list last year so idk what happened
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-history-and-evolution-migratory-bird-treaty-act
The Audubon website's heavily summarised history of the MBTA; pay particular note to the blurbs under 1900 and 1916
https://www.ducks.org/ The Ducks Unlimited website. Note Conservation and Hunting as top two tabs.
https://www.ducks.ca/about/our-partners/ The Ducks Unlimited Canada website page of corporate partners! Count the number of oil pipelines!
https://pridesource.com/article/stomping-spots-queer-feelings-for-a-bad-bug-heading-to-michigan
Episode transcript in HTML (download to view): https://pastecode.io/s/e7ye92tz
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Monday Jul 08, 2024
133 - Pentiment feat. All Gamers Are Bastards
Monday Jul 08, 2024
Monday Jul 08, 2024
We’re joined by All Gamers Are Bastards to talk about Pentiment, a mystery game with an opening similar to the novel/film Name of the Rose (1986) in many ways. Time for the history boys to drop some historiography.
https://soundcloud.com/agabpod
Kay’s other podcast and YouTube show
https://www.youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles
Kyle’s other podcasts
Media mentioned
Kay’s video: Two Games About History (And Why You Should Care) https://youtu.be/A1ibaKebZjo?si=wY_gStTszO9a_Uz3
https://forgottencitygame.com/
Episode transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/xiawczu3
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
132 - Death Glitch feat. Tamara Kneese
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
This week we’re talking about digital remains and death! How do things get into archives? What happens to your social media accounts when you die? Should you be planning now? Mormon transhumanists! All this and more!
Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/
Media mentioned
Tamara’s presentation at the Mormon Transhumanist Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmfjjwmJ1Hc
Anya Bernstein Russian immortalists in the 19th century https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/anya-bernstein
Jacob Boss https://aiandfaith.org/featured-interview-jacob-boss
Episode transcript: https://pastebin.com/0RWi1j5R
Monday Jun 24, 2024
131 - Close-Up (1990)
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Monday Jun 24, 2024
Movie night again! We’re talking about the film Close-Up about a strange case of fraud in Iran surrounding a film director, made by a film director who was part of the events because he wanted to make a movie about it. The layers!
Media Mentioned
https://web.archive.org/web/20120322165628/http://www.projectorhead.in/one/closeup.html
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1492-close-up-prison-and-escape
Monday May 13, 2024
130 - It’s bad news roundup, pardner 4
Monday May 13, 2024
Monday May 13, 2024
This week we’re doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests.
Media mentioned
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/
https://x.com/librarypunk/status/1786563891893342537
LFP Vendor Scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/Library%20Freedom-%20Vendor%20Scorecard-%20110719.pdf
https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/
VandeBurgt, M. M., Rodgers, B. M., & Brown, K. (2021). Testimonies: The rewards and challenges of letting their voices be heard. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 47(5), 102420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2021.102420
Journal of Radical Librarianship https://journal.radicallibrarianship.org/index.php/journal/issue/view/12
Related: http://radicalreference.info/
Baltimore Uprising: A Teen Epistolary: https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/59859/
Youtube Video Downloader Justin Recommends: https://www.4kdownload.com/-54
https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving
https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica/the-problem-with-spotify-w-steve-albini
Zines and Distros
https://haters.noblogs.org/zines/
https://www.sproutdistro.com/catalog/zines/
https://www.autistici.org/fugitivedistro/