(from M. J. Moroney's "Facts from Figures" 1956 ed.)

Here's the "open secret in your profession that others don't know" Libraries throw away books ALL THE TIME. The mission of a library is not to save every book that comes into their possession, it's to curate a living collection that meets its mission and the information needs of its patrons...

"the university said it did not find evidence of [the dean] consulting with faculty to develop a [weeding] policy." Like... Is that a standard practice? It's not one I know of...? Obvs having a published weeding policy is best practice, but "selecting" is a library/librarian responsibility

I often think discourse about the problems with Professional Librarianship are ungrounded from our history But this, and the silence when the NYPD PR guy started talking about the books at Columbia, make me wonder if it's not all about respectfully simping for authority after all.

I was at least as surprised back that my ideas abt the differences between a lived experience and the data that experience produces, and the purposes of human agency, were treated as unique they were all people working in the broader VR/AR field who'd come to a conference *about XR ethics*

Like, they aren't offering even a discount for me to travel to those places, just reminding me they *could* take me there Which like, why bring that up in a birthday message, bitch?

Really makes me question the reliability of the industrial equipment information I'm getting through these stimulating-content pipes, lol

The audio was computer generated voice, and I guess in 2024 the script probably was too "X is not exactly free, but is cheaper than Y" would have worked for almost any X other than gravity

We used to joke about capitalists charging for air, but they do sell cans of nonmedical oxygen now so I don't want to assume they won't find a way to charge for gravity, but as of now ...?

I just have, you know, issues with labels and meaning, lol