librarypunk

Justin and Jay both had to talk about this for work, so why not do an episode? 

Discord: https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan

Media mentioned

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/08/29/appeals-court-rules-against-mandatory-deposit/#:~:text=In%20a%20decision%20handed%20down,violation%20of%20the%20takings%20clause.

The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool | Techdirt

Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon

Introduction to Large Language Models and the Transformer Architecture | by Pradeep Menon 

Google and YouTube are trying to have it both ways with AI and copyright - The Verge

Google and Universal Music working on licensing voices for AI-generated songs | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian 

https://www.altexsoft.com/blog/generative-ai/ 

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/

Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. - Wikipedia.

AI-Generated Art Lacks Copyright Protection, D.C. Court Says (1)

AI-generated art cannot receive copyrights, US court says | Reuters

We’re doing another bad news roundup. And you know we’re Bataille posting!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan 

Media mentioned

Justin

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/publishers-booksellers-sue-texas-over-public-school-book-ban-2023-07-26/ 

Sadie

https://www.thedailybeast.com/crowd-gives-campbell-county-library-board-in-wyoming-the-finger-after-library-director-is-fired 

Jay

https://www.metroweekly.com/2023/07/attempt-to-remove-san-diego-librarys-lgbtq-books-backfires/

The Pornographic Imagination (Sontag) https://www.remittancegirl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/124506505-The-Pornographic-Imagination-by-Susan-Sontag.pdf

https://repeaterbooks.com/product/postcapitalist-desire-the-final-lectures/

Part 2!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan  

Media mentioned

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing)

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/ 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

https://piracy.solutions/

A two parter because we had so much to cover! Jonny joins us to explain Fediverse, ActivityPub, Bluesky, and other mysterious hives of villainy. How do preservation? Also: Microsoft lost the keys to their cloud. Also we started a discord!

https://discord.gg/jY4jaNgan 

Media mentioned

https://jon-e.net/surveillance-graphs/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/17/microsoft-lost-keys-government-hacked/

https://dustycloud.org/blog/on-standards-divisions-collaboration/

https://jon-e.net/infrastructure/#forums--feeds (applicability of AP to publishing)

https://mayfirst.coop/en/

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/65/336347/the-vectoralist-class/ 

https://www.versobooks.com/products/887-capital-is-dead

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/710957/chokepoint-capitalism-by-cory-doctorow-and-rebecca-giblin/

https://piracy.solutions/

We do the closest thing to a bonus episode. We get meta: lifting the veil on how we do the podcast, what we listen to, and the friends we’ve made along the way. Also lots of copyright, AI, and Georges Bataille. 

Media mentioned

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/08/08/the-fear-of-ai-just-killed-a-very-useful-tool/

https://blog.shaxpir.com/taking-down-prosecraft-io-37e189797121 

FSCI event: https://semanticclimate.org/p/en/events/fsci2023_event/

Carl Malamud corpus: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02895-8

https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/wet-tyrant-contest-feat-patrick-wyman/

https://tendersubjectpod.podbean.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_the_Eye

Acid Horizon episodes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623479739

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/georges-bataille-sustainability-and-climate-change/id1512615438?i=1000623904471

Stuart Kindall biography on Bataille https://www.amazon.com/Georges-Bataille-Critical-Stuart-Kendall/dp/1861893272/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingchi

Cargo Cult podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cargo-cult/id1687043930

Good Omens https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869454/

This week we’re joined by Leòn from The Left Page & Here Be Media to talk about Da Netherlands, Mastodon, and tech policy in Europe.

https://shows.acast.com/63bb2e28364f560010c45f46 

https://bsky.app/profile/leftpagemedia.bsky.social

https://twitter.com/leftpagepod 

Media mentioned

https://www.al.com/news/2023/07/lawmaker-calls-for-changes-at-archives-and-history-after-lecture-on-alabamas-lgbtq-history.html 

https://fediversereport.com/dutch-government-officially-launches-mastodon-server/

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/11/22/the-copyright-challenge-with-mastodon/

https://www.copyright.gov/dmca-directory/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5bHLrGBUKo

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/kids-online-safety-act-still-huge-danger-our-rights-online 

https://twitter.com/tender_subject

It’s a bad news roundup pardner! We’re talking public library leases, book ratings, and Montana being a shit to Emily Drabinski.

Open letter in support of Emily: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/preview

Sadie

https://www.kcur.org/news/2023-07-11/a-kansas-town-is-threatening-again-to-kick-out-the-public-library-unless-it-removes-lgbtq-books

Justin

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/texas-sexually-explicit-books-law/index.html

OSTP memo https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AP/AP19/20230714/116251/BILLS-118--AP--CJS-FY24CJSSubcommitteeMark.pdf 

Jay

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/ala-responds-to-montana-state-library-commissions-withdrawal-of-membership/ 

https://dailymontanan.com/2023/06/22/library-commissioners-concerned-about-national-associations-new-marxist-lesbian-president/

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/american-library-association-emily-drabinski-montana-state-library-right-wing-homophobia-anticommunism 

Media mentioned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_the_Matter_with_Kansas%3F_(book)#:~:text=How%20Conservatives%20Won%20the%20Heart,of%20Kansas%2C%20Frank's%20native%20state. 

Idaho copycat of Montana https://twitter.com/annakate_miller/status/1680969944270508032

This week we’re talking about John Rogers, a memorabilia mogul who flew too close to the sun (fueled by cocaine) by buying up newspaper photo collections and promising digital archives in return, while flogging the rarest photos for a profit. A warning to libraries and museums to be careful when a new digitization scheme rides into town!

https://defector.com/he-said-he-was-going-to-save-a-century-of-priceless-sports-photos-he-ended-up-the-madoff-of-memorabilia 

Media mentioned

https://www.cnet.com/tech/openai-sued-by-authors-alleging-chatgpt-trained-on-their-writing/

https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point (Teilhard’s idea)

https://www.polygon.com/23779892/mtg-the-one-ring-found-how-much-price-spain

Miriam is back to talk about her Digital Labor course and how it went teaching undergrad IT students to think critically about tech and logistics. We also cover student anxiety and why Justin could never get a BBL.

https://twitter.com/miriamkp 

https://bsky.app/profile/miriamkp.bsky.social

Course syllabus. https://miriamposner.com/classes/dh150s23/ 

Media mentioned

Zizi Li: influencer labor. https://www.zizili.net/

https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/vtube-nation-ft-j-aubrey/

Acid Horizon: Data is Dead Labor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3tE0D7UhI 

https://baki.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Hanma

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body

We have the wonderful Ben and Matt on to talk about their new comic Justice Warriors, but also about the role of satire, book bans, cops in libraries (e.g. Winnipeg), and cuts to the social safety net in favor of cops where libraries become the service point of last resort. 

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226 

https://twitter.com/benclarkson

https://twitter.com/MattBors 

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https://thenib.com/ 

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/3-mc/index.html

 https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html