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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 Russ...

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%...

This week we’re doing a news roundup on book bans. We also cover Gaza protests and radical literature as police propaganda, and what library workers can do to archive and support the current protests.

Media mentioned

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/04/16/library-legislation-restrictions-protections/

https://x.com/librarypunk/status/1786563891893342537 

LFP Vendor Scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedomi...

We’re talking with Ana Valens! Internet culture, learning about yourself, and vtubing. 

https://twitter.com/acvalens 

Readings

Tumblr Porn by Ana Valens (Remember the Internet, Vol. 1): https://instarbooks.itch.io/tumblr-porn-by-ana-valens-remember-the-internet-vol-1 

Trans Women and Smut: The 4 Worst Tropes From Porn Artists | [Sex Ed Video Essay]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jf_aLAuCtE 

Why Don't Games Journalists Cover Adul...

In an ep to coincide with the release of Infra Finder, we’re joined by Chrys and Lauren from Invest in Open Infrastructure to talk about the release, open source challenges, IT supply chains, and more!

https://investinopen.org/

https://infrafinder.investinopen.org

https://investinopen.org/blog/blog-introducing-infra-finder/

 Reasonable Costs projects: https://investinopen.org/blog/the-cost-and-price-of-public-access-to-research-dat...

We’re talking with Quill and RiotDad about the community side of the response to the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and local school board issues surrounding transmisia, book bans in school and public libraries, and how to push back. Salary petition, board email/phone, and template email are in the notes.

Email trustees@fvrl.org (Template email below)

Trustees phone contact: 360-906-5011

Attend meetings through FVRL website fvrl.o...

Movie night. We’re learning about the cutting edge of postmodernist impact from the Internet in 2016. 

Media mentioned

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5275828/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the_Connected_World

https://walkerart.org/magazine/minnesota-declaration-truth-documentary-cinema-1999/ 

https://walkerart.org/magazine/werner-herzog-minnesota-declaration-2017-addendum 

https://www.wired.com/story/mirai-...

This week we’re joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage. Check the notes to see how you can help support them!

https://nwlaborpress.org/2024/03/low-paid-librarians-fed-up-in-vancouver/ 

https://www.thestand.org/2024/02/take-action-raises-for-sw-washington-librarians-overdue/  (article #1)

FVRL Board: Pay your library wo...

We’re talking about Jon’s upcoming book on Bloch and how libraries are or are not models of utopia. 

Pre-order Jon's book: https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/primer-utopian-philosophy-ernst-bloch

Horror Vanguard: https://soundcloud.com/user-317910500 

Media mentioned

https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/

https://www.akpress.org/resist-everything-except-temptation.html

https://www.marx...

We’re talking about how the book sausage gets made! Publishing, publishers, libraries, horror, queerness, and maybe even some literal human sausage making. 

https://twitter.com/david_demchuk

https://bsky.app/profile/daviddemchuk.com

https://hazlitt.net/feature/where-monsters-are-made

Media mentioned

Cruising (1980) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080569/ 

Eric LaRocca, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke https://ericlarocca....

It’s our Valentine’s Day episode!

RFTB https://radiofreetotebag.castos.com/ 

Data Transfer https://open.spotify.com/show/71DUoMdvyGDfWqDx2uvTGC 

Bluesky @Aud

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk 

Media mentioned

• Reddit segment: https://www.reddit.com/r/Library/s/lWgNJFVxif 
• Coyne (2022) “We have to figure it out ourselves”: Transfeminine adolescents’ online ...

We're covering the British Library hack and its fallout.

Media mentioned

https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/1aeq1ek/library_moral_dilemma_from_a_while_ago/ 

https://www.ft.com/content/4be5d468-0cc3-4881-a5fb-b5d0163de93e

https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2010/long-term-access-digital-information.html (Dorothea mentioned)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/rhysida-ransomware-gang-claims-british-library-...

This week we're talking about privacy literacy. Instruction, workshops, and how your data ends up all over the place. 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk

[shorter LOEX conference paper] Transforming Privacy Literacy Instruction: From Surveillance Theory to Teaching Practice

[longer book chapter] The Promise of Theory-Informed Pedagogy: Building a Privacy Literacy Program

[for browsing] Open-licensed privacy literacy cu...

Download some sage jpegs and ponder the AI, we’re talking with Alex about queer Internet histories, LGBTQ2S+ archives, email archiving, feminist restaurants, and technopaganism. Be sure to check out the notes on this one!

https://www.alexketchum.ca 

Register for the Queer Food Conference:  https://www.queerfoodconference.com/p/registration.html

Media mentioned

https://www.lgbtqarchives.com/

Disrupting Disruptions: https://www.femin...

We’re covering the Chuck Tingle thing. Also the damned mouse. Do we need DMCA for Trademarks? Who knows!

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk 

UPDATE on Tingle story at TLA: https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/book-event-disinvites-queer-author-because-his-disability-aid-makes-others-uncomfortable/

Media Mentioned

• https://boxreceiver.medium.com/a-case-for-library-archives-boycott-and-di...

We’re talking about more issues in scholcomm.

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk 

Media mentioned

Hijacked journals:

https://www.science.org/content/article/leading-scholarly-database-listed-hundreds-papers-hijacked-journals

Hbomberguy video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ

Weird MIT report on OA: https://access-to-science.pubpub.org/ 

Zombie journals: what’s left after editorial board leaves like Glossia/ ...

We’re infoshopping. What are they? Justin ponders if they can make leather vests for straight people. 

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/QTr6Tn6YMk

Media mentioned

Street Libraries: Infoshops and Alternative Reading Rooms - Chris Dodge

This City Is An Archive: Squatting History and Urban Authority - Samuel Burgum, 2022 

https://web.archive.org/web/20190323204714/http://lucyparsons.org/history.php 

https://web.archive.org/web/200...

We’re watching a documentary about Palestine! Libraries and museums are implicated in settler-colonialism and we’re gonna talk about it!

Media mentioned

Film: The Great Book Robbery: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/witness/2012/5/24/the-great-book-robbery 

Reddit Question: https://www.reddit.com/r/Libraries/comments/17w0bu8/other_trans_library_directors/

Salvage or Plunder? Israel's "Collection" of Private Palestinian Libraries i...