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librarypunk is a leftist library worker podcast.
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Thursday Dec 08, 2022
Thursday Dec 08, 2022
This week we’re joined by Jessica Sylvia to talk about prisons as places of censorship, parole boards, and archival priorities for stories from the inside.
https://twitter.com/Abolition_Jess
Media Mentioned
https://pen.org/prison-book-bans-protect-mass-incarceration/
https://scalawagmagazine.org/press-in-prison/
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=16574
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Litigation_Reform_Act
https://daily.jstor.org/far-from-folsom-prison-more-to-music-inside/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Rape_Elimination_Act_of_2003
Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
We’re talking with comic artist R.E. Parrish about Jorge Luis Borges and The Library of Babel. On the way we cover a Reddit question, information paradoxes, goth librarianship, and Twitter archiving.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/reparrishcomics
https://twitter.com/reparrishcomics
Media Mentioned
The Library of Babel - Wikipedia
https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html
Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia
https://reparrishcomics.com/post/101029451973/writer-fights-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole_information_paradox
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Friday Dec 02, 2022
Returning guest Dorothea Salo joins us to teach Justin about The Carpentries.
Media Referenced
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
Sunday Nov 13, 2022
We’ve got Sarah Lamdan on to talk about her new book Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information! We talk about government contracting to third party data companies, legal loopholes, the connection to academic publishing and metrics, and the stranglehold the corporate duopoly has over access to US law by lawyers, citizens, and prisoners. Justin also advances his theory that academic journals are just podcasts.
https://twitter.com/greenarchives1
Data Cartels: The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information | Sarah Lamdan
Librarianship at the Crossroads of ICE Surveillance
Media mentioned
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil: 9780553418835 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
https://twitter.com/JailLawSpeak
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Friday Nov 11, 2022
Docudrama time! We’re watching F for Fake (1973), the world’s first breadtube essay. We discuss the nature of art, lies, forgeries, markets, and how bad editing is ableism.
Readings
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
Saturday Nov 05, 2022
We’re talking with Beatrice Adler-Bolton from Death Panel and the author of Health Communism. We talk about accommodations, surplus populations, extraction, and communism.
https://twitter.com/realLandsEnd
https://www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism
Readings
Health Communism (10/20/22) by Death Panel podcast
Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia
Capitalism and Disability - Marta Russell
Histories of the Transgender Child — University of Minnesota Press
Friday Oct 21, 2022
Friday Oct 21, 2022
We’re doing metadata anarchy this week. Come for the creative destruction, stay for the Reddit questions.
Readings
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-on-order
Media mentioned
- Ask Reddit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G56_mQwyBM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliban_and_the_Witch
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/669547
https://litwinbooks.com/books/feminist-pedagogy-for-library-instruction/
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
Thursday Oct 06, 2022
We’re talking anime with Leslie from Fangs for the Memories! Click the link for a long list of all the anime we mentioned!
https://twitter.com/FangsPodcast
https://www.patreon.com/fangscast/posts
https://twitter.com/dangitleslie
Media mentioned
Yaoi Paddle Kickstarter Faces Intellectual Property Dispute
The Crow (1994 film) - Wikipedia
Russian Workout Routine Exercise Training with Bears, Preparing for Ukraine Invasion #Shorts 🐻💤 𝓦𝓞𝓦
HBO Max Controversies Serve As A Reminder Of Why Physical Media Matters
Anam An Amhrain DVD – CartoonSaloon
The Secret of Kells - Wikipedia
Anime Clubs and Licensing : r/Libraries
The Crow Comic Accompaniment by Trust Obey- "Fear And Bullets" (ETR078 | Enjoy The Ride Records
Anime mentioned
Pokémon (TV series) - Wikipedia
Ghost in the Shell - Wikipedia
Millennium Actress - Wikipedia
Space Patrol Luluco - Wikipedia
How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift? - Wikipedia
Space Battleship Yamato - Wikipedia
Bleach (TV series) - Wikipedia
Samurai Pizza Cats - Wikipedia
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
This week Sadie is teaching Jay and Justin about cybersecurity. Phishing, bitcoin, CISA-lords, and more!
Readings
Media mentioned:
Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs
CISA can’t definitively say if ransomware is getting better or worse | Cybersecurity Dive
How the YubiKey Works | Yubico
Just Delete Me | A directory of direct links to delete your account from web services.
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Movie time! We're watching the 2018 heist film American Animals, based on the real theft of rare books from Transylvania University's special collections. We talk about libraries and the carceral state, the worth of library workers versus special collections, and birds.
Media Mentioned
https://www.vulture.com/2018/06/the-real-life-heist-caper-behind-american-animals.html
https://www.audubon.org/news/in-american-animals-audubons-art-source-obsession-greed-and-infamy