🔖 Here’s a project IMLS supported that you won’t see in partisan social media posts about where that 0.003% of the federal budget went: Libraries’ Roles in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery by Denise Lyons (Library Journal)
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🔖🍿 Read Why Minecraft Movie Fans Are Getting Rowdy and Going Viral by Lynn Zubernis Ph.D. (Psychology Today)
Found this via Austin Kleon’s newsletter. I love this explanation of how rowdy theater behavior is developmentally appropriate.
And there’s a whole Science of Fandom Column? I am excite.
🔖 Book Riot’s Literary Activism Newsletter explains: Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now.
🔖 Read The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? by Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian).
I’m trying to find a space where determinism and existentialism co-exist. I just keep coming back to the line from the TV show Angel: “if nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do.”
🔖 Read HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me by Tim Carmody (Wired)
Carmody and I came to HTML within a year of each other, both via Netscape, and I love this love letter to my favorite programming language (yes, I love HTML more than BASIC). Count me in as part of HTML’s posse.
🔖 Read The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup.
Courts are not known for their harm prevention—they’re best used when trying to hold someone accountable for the harm they already caused.
🔖 Read The history of anti-authoritarian struggle is a history worth repeating by Sarah Freeman-Woolpert (Waging Nonviolence).
🔖 Read The Logic of Destruction by Timothy Snyder.
Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.
🔖 Read How to organize under authoritarian creep in a closing civil society.
This is my playbook moving forward.