Katie DT

RIP Twitter. I will truly miss this hellsite but fascism is not the business. If you can tell me who to follow on bluesky, I’d appreciate it.

[Katie DT @katiedt]

The apocalypse is not new. It is plural.

[gloria alamrew, renowned Pisces 🌒 @GloriaAlamrew]

does the process even deserve to be trusted? have we asked that question??

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

Yes, AI requires an absolutely massive amount of energy, but you have to keep this in perspective. It also generates terrible images and the worst writing you’ve ever read.
https://t.co/Mems46MNoy

[No Quarter Will Be Given @chaedria]

Bring back DVDs! And CDs!

[Katie DT @katiedt]

Wow!!!

[CPLFoundation @CPLFoundation]

We partied. We danced. We… raised more than $120,000 for lifelong learning programs at Chicago Public Library! Thank you for showing up for our Chicago Public Library and making #NightintheStacks2024 one to remember. https://t.co/Z2W29wsyKj

[HuffPost Politics @HuffPostPol]

'It's Been Devastating': A Q&A With The Top Librarian Fighting The GOP's Book Bans https://t.co/XUjsTngqc8

[DorothyBGilliamTrailblazer @DorothyBGilliam]

Give light and people will find the way.—Ella Baker, Civil Rights Activist | #motivation

[Urban Libraries Council @UrbanLibCouncil]

Over the last few years, censors have accelerated their attempts to remove or restrict books and programs in schools and public libraries. Today, on #RightToReadDay, we're asking you to take action and raise your voice for the right to read. https://t.co/LhGIXswSdP @UABookBans

[Governor Gretchen Whitmer @GovWhitmer]

After a 35 year ban, I’m proud that Michigan has decriminalized paid surrogacy. With our partners in the legislature, we’re making Michigan a more welcoming place where you can make your own decisions and have full civil rights protections under the law.

https://t.co/OrJOSIN3iC

[Public Library Association @ALA_PLA]

Today’s powerful moment of Black librarianship at the PLA President’s Program: The Black Librarian in America. Thank you to President Sonia Alcántara-Antoine & panelists Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Carla Hayden, and Roosevelt Weeks for this tremendous discussion. #PLA2024 💜

[The New York Times @nytimes]

New York State’s corrections department agreed on Thursday to allow six men who had sued to be able to view Monday’s total solar eclipse to do so at the upstate prison where they are held. https://t.co/TgxBpdiRE3

[KJ @_RevRun]

Everybody that been in jail wake up early.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

There was a time when the maniacal shouting of Israeli spokespeople would be effective in drowning out calm and reasonable debate. Now they are starting to quietly dial down their mics.

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

James Baldwin: "We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble."

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals.

All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses "they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview.

https://t.co/VJ8LlQR77H

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#OnThisDay in 1961, nine Black students from Tougaloo College entered the all-white Jackson Municipal Library and sat down. Police arrived and ordered them to go to the “colored” library, but when they refused, police arrested them.

On the day of their trial, Jackson State University students marched to the lawn outside the jail, where they were joined by Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers and other civil rights activists. Police used tear gas and dogs on the protesters, some of whom were injured by the attack, including an 81-year-old man who suffered a broken arm.

The judge ordered each Tougaloo student to pay a $100 fine and gave them each a 30-day suspended sentence. The sit-in inspired other protests across Mississippi, including at Jackson State University, where students, including Dorie and Joyce Ladner, were expelled for their activism.

The NAACP filed a lawsuit against the library, which a federal court ordered to desegregate. Photos of the Tougaloo Nine now hang in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.
https://t.co/QWspfZ8Ep7

[Librarianshipwreck @libshipwreck]

The problem is that it’s fun and exciting to talk about speculative apocalyptic AI scenarios and not nearly as fun or exciting to talk about stuff like bridge improvements and ship safety.

But the conversations about ships and bridges are the ones we really need.

[Andrew Hilary🇵🇸 @AndrewHilaryUS]

This is just racism. Implying that a guy who won the mayor’s race in 2020 with 70% of the vote was simply a diversity hire?

DEI outrage is nothing but an attempt to be racist with different, socially acceptable words, these people are vile but they’re also so fucking stupid.

[Katie DT @katiedt]

@aaronkfoley @croissantloaf 👀