David Giles

Currently Brooklyn Public Library. Formerly Center for an Urban Future. @[email protected]

Must We Mean What We Tweet?

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@AmericanGwyn @nkolakowski I found the language extraordinary and def not boring but the treatment of both the wife and disability studies prof icky in a way that reflected on author rather than narrator

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@RajRajRajP Thesis-->Antithesis-->Synthesis

Perhaps it's an argument for both?

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@Lollardfish When We Cease to Understand the World

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@KarrieUrbanist nope, BPL, NYPL, QPL are all completely separate organizations

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@alexanderchee Prem Krishnamurthy's "On Letters" is a double pun. It's an epistolary essay about On Kawara's Date Paintings and typography. https://t.co/wZPUIyFscE

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

Is Brooklyn Public Library the first to launch a line of literary ice cream flavors? Seems like a mission critical innovation to me. https://t.co/b2M8QB3iiJ

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

On my twitter timeline--which i rarely visit now--I see exactly 2 tweets from randos for every 1 tweet from someone I follow. This in addition to the promoted trash. WTF?!

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@KyleNethersole @blgtylr @arosegregory Agreed. I read the reddit response and then clicked over to find a pretty good article. reminded me of Frank Sinatra Has A Cold

[Christopher Mitchell @communitynets]

Shame on @SenJackyRosen, @SenatorTester, @SenatorSinema and Mr corporate monopoly @Sen_JoeManchin who talk about getting better Internet access out to people while refusing to use their power to do anything but advance the interests of AT&T, Comcast, Charter, etc.

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@aliner @dan_sinykin Death by sincerity!!

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@wastemailing I am reading this now as an ebook (a mistake), I took the linear approach first but then got to ch 28 (so amazing) and started dabbling in the other approach. Then I got to ch 36 (maybe the best writing i have every experienced) and ramped up the nonlinear reading

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@jonathanbfine Also, is it any accident Germans sprinkle the word 'mal' everywhere in their speech? Hardly even subliminal. Bad, bad, bad...

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@BrentToderian nonplussed

[John Surico @JohnSurico]

"The idea for the program came from a paper by the Center for an Urban Future, which estimated that nearly 700,000 New Yorkers between the ages of 25 and 64 have taken some college classes but did not make it to graduation." Incredible to see this! https://t.co/LUM7RHpWYI

[Justin Davidson @JDavidsonNYC]

Young Kwon was killed for being too small and walking too slowly. She's one of roughly 125 pedestrians a year whose violent deaths we accept with a shrug and a Whattayagonnado. https://t.co/QAhltYJ3bm

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@_ryanruby_ it's actually incredibly reductive to see non-fiction in this way, as information assimilation, but fiction especially works by going in the other direction: unlearning patterns of thought, undoing certainties, exercising humility, appreciating ambiguity & multivalent meaning

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

@dan_sinykin Labatut, When we cease to understand the world

[David Giles @Urbablurb]

Just did this and can confirm it is easy

[David Alpert @alpert]

Other tips: 1) use https://t.co/hOxYbs7BB6 or https://t.co/VcQtN00myu to find all people you follow here who have mastodon accounts and follow them there

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

$11 billion for NYPD. Per year. Nearly $1 billion in overtime alone. Over $300 million for school police. Over $70 million so far this year to settle police lawsuits.

But not enough for public libraries. A budget is a statement of values.