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librarypunk

A leftist library worker podcast.

  1. OCT 14

    138 - Hiring Librarians feat. Emily Weak

    This week we’re talking with Emily Weak from Hiring Librarians and answering listener questions about getting the MLS, job hunting, and more! https://x.com/HiringLib  https://emilyweak.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/hiringlibrarians.com https://livingwage.mit.edu/  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcripts: https://pastecode.io/s/rakyczca

    1h 4m

  2. SEP 27

    137 - Copyright Mythology

    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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/q0qhmqpg

    1h 3m

  3. SEP 16

    136 - The New Flesh feat. Adam Jones

    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.  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG  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

    1h 8m

  4. AUG 28

    135 - The Once and Future Linked Open Data feat. Dorothea and Jonny

    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://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Overview.html https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/RDFnot.html 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 Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG Transcript (plaintext): https://pastecode.io/s/qundkp0n

    1h 56m

  5. AUG 20

    134 - Museum Ethics feat. Brigit

    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  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG

    1h 21m

  6. JUL 8

    133 - Pentiment feat. All Gamers Are Bastards

    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 https://x.com/agabpod https://x.com/kayandskittles https://x.com/laborkyle Kay’s other podcast and YouTube show https://x.com/vgatwtoe  https://www.youtube.com/@KayAndSkittles  Kyle’s other podcasts https://x.com/horrorvanguard  https://x.com/profaneshow 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

    1h 9m

  7. JUL 3

    132 - Death Glitch feat. Tamara Kneese

    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 https://www.wired.com/story/using-generative-ai-to-resurrect-the-dead-will-create-a-burden-for-the-living/ Episode transcript: https://pastebin.com/0RWi1j5R

    46 min

  8. JUN 24

    131 - Close-Up (1990)

    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 https://sabzian.be/text/%E2%80%9Cambient-genocide%E2%80%9D

    44 min
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A leftist library worker podcast.

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    librarypunk
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
  • Episodes
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