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#BookHistory, #readinghistory, #victodons, @bookhistodons. Writing: NYRB / TLS/ NYTBR/Basic Books. Making: Scarlet Letterpress / Rutgers Book Initiative. #Prosopagnosiac. #LeahPrice when she (her/hers) is at home.

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inquiline, to random
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Billionaires: we have all the money and we also have private armies, extremely sophisticated tracking systems, and lethal weapons

Liberals: But we have this piece of paper

bookish,
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@inquiline The subtlety of this is either Austenian or Austinian.

luis_in_brief, to random
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It is ultimately a small thing, but I am irrationally irritated that this piddling collection (almost certainly fewer books than I have just in my office, much less my house) is labeled a “library”. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/technology/openai-library-office.html

bookish,
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@luis_in_brief The canon: scifi, self-help, and lives of great men (+ of Hedy Lamarr.)

bookish,
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@luis_in_brief Homage to defunct midtown hotel bar inspired by suburban steakhouse inspired by dark (oak veneer) academia.

bookish, to random
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Should the chopping block be used on the owners' necks or the copywriter's? #FoundInanity

CitizenWald, to books
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The Complicated Ethics of : Literary treasures are too often hidden away from the public—but the world of private collecting isn’t all bad. - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/05/rare-book-private-collection-ethics/678254/?utm_campaign=books-briefing&utm_content=20240503&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Books+Briefing

Not sure it's as complicated as all that 😀 (especially compared with other fields), the more so as it's from a collector and in effect answers its own question (attached). But good to put the issues out there. Also nice that features local collector Lisa Baskin

Many rare books, manuscripts, and items in the collections at these institutions are donated by or purchased from private collectors. In other cases, a donor supplies the funds for an institution to make general or specific acquisitions. If you've visited the permanent “Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library’s Treasures,” you might have seen one-of- a-kind items on rotation, such as an early manuscript draft of Oscar Wilde’s 7he Importance of Being Earnest, a lock of Mary Shelley’s hair, and a page from the manuscript of an unpublished chapter of 7he Autobiography of Malcolm X. These pieces were “acquired through the generosity of” a donor or were donated by a collector.
Collectors tend to donate or sell their collections to institutions if they don’t put them back into the marketplace via auction houses or rare-book sellers. “Collecting isn't mere shopping,” Heritage said. “The best collecting requires vision, passion, knowledge, and creativity—and, above all, persistence.” Collecting, for Heritage, has the capacity to be a form of advocacy through the creation of knowledge and the ability to tie together strands of knowledge that otherwise couldn’t be done unless one has a lifelong devotion to a particular subject. Some collectors have honed niche collections that have since been deposited in libraries (either wholly or partially). Walter O. Evans collected Black artwork and literature that now constitute mainstay collections—such as the Walter O. Evans Collection of Frederick Douglass and Douglass Family Papers and the Walter O. Evans collection of James Baldwin—at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. The Douglass papers in Evans’s collection have been digitized so that scholars, students, and the public can access them.

bookish,
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@CitizenWald Interesting -- my concern is more the conflict of interest that provides librarians a motive to confuse wealth with vision, since they depend on monetary AND in-kind donations from people who see themselves as visionaries rather than hoarders.

bookish, to random
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1 hour after submitting grades, LMS notification of student message. Bracing for grade complaint, procrastinated opening app and spent intervening day grumbling about youth of today. Buckled down + opened messages, to discover that student wrote to say what she loved about the course and learnt from fellow students. Friends, I am crying.

bookish, to Rutgers
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We (sort of) won! Hats off to the students who kept the peace despite provocation and the colleagues who negotiated without losing their cool. Wins: will partner with ; 10 scholarships for students from Gaza (OK, drop in the bucket); new MENA program, and more. @inquiline your ex-colleagues came through heroically. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/rutgers-university-of-minnesota-protest-agreement

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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I thought MPs weren't supposed to canvass near polling stations 😎

bookish,
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@TheBreadmonkey Prime content.

bookish, to random
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The office where I get mammograms refuses, year in year out, to respond to my schoolmarmish request for them to add the R missing from their badly-proofread intake form, and I must not be the only patient who's having nightmares about a growth on her left beast.

bookish, to random
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Refaat Alareer, a timeline.

2023 (November 1): Refaat Alareer posts poem “If I must die” for his daughter Shaimaa.

2023 (December 7): Refaat Alareer killed by targeted Israeli airstrike

2024 (April 19): B’nai Brith asks to remove poem. TPL immediately complies.

2024 (April 26): Shaimaa killed. (+ her husband + their 2-month-old baby)

bookish,
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If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale

Polynomial_C, to random Catalan
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Quds News Network:
"Israel's army kills the eldest daughter of professor Refat Al Areer, Shaima'a, along with her husband and newborn baby, in a strike on an apartment in Al Rimal neighbourhood in

The AI-assisted : with the set their objective regardless of casualties, women, children, non-combatants.
They know exactly where and when there are children. They know it.

bookish,
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@aral @Polynomial_C This is the poem that B'Nai Brith bullied the Torontto Public Library into banning: https://mastodon.social/@globalpilgrim/112311940867157841

bookish, to random
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Women attending to male lecturer: perfect stock photo for Title IX training.

gvwilson, to random
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Someone is making you a cup of tea. You see them add milk before taking out the teabag. Do you (a) smile, thank them politely, and drink it anyway, (b) accidentally knock it over and say, "Oh, don't worry, I'll make a fresh one myself," or, (c) wait, what? You're joking, right? Nobody actually does that, do they? Jeez, Greg, c'mon, I know it's April Fool's, but it's also Monday fucking morning and nobody has the energy for your perverse shit right now, OK?

bookish,
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@gvwilson You had me at “the teabag.”

bookish, to random
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How many others OH have used "archival ink" to write their shopping list?

inquiline, to random
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"The charge of antisemitism is intended to have a chilling effect — and indeed, journalists, politicians, academics, even activists, are intimidated into self-censorship out of fear of losing employment and their reputation or of facing other sanctions. Jewish Voice for Peace has documented and condemned this manipulation of antisemitism"

https://truthout.org/articles/israel-has-formed-a-task-force-to-carry-out-covert-campaigns-at-us-universities/

bookish,
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@inquiline It's always about the rankings: “The Foreign Ministry and [Israeli] representatives in the U.S. are in contact with professional unions to recruit them to … exert pressure on university heads…if a university knows that the chances of its students finding employment have decreased, the university administration will act against those antisemitic students to avoid harming the university’s ranking.”

bookish, to random
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Doesn't a poster exhibition by definition include “graphic content"?

bookish,
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To be sold only in an adult bookstore. And @inquiline had better tag it #a**todon.

bookish, to random
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Graphic helps visalize forced removal couched as pseudo-humanitarian "evacuation orders": https://gaza.forensic-architecture.org/displacement

bookish, to random
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How did I not notice that enshittified WorldCat has sold out (among others) to Amaz*n?

bookish, to random
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At a talk where male questioner asks distinguished female presenter what she found difficult about her research and torn between thinking everyone should be asked that question (the interestingness of the answer validates it) and wondering why I've never heard a great man giving a named lecture series be asked that question.

inquiline, (edited ) to random
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"Matter of Trust, an ecologically focused group in San Francisco, has been using hair for more than two decades to clean up oil spills and other pollution from bodies of water"

(Please mute me)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-26/place-your-hair-mat-outdoors-the-bay-area-is-using-them-to-encourage-plant-growth-and-restore-beaches

bookish,
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@inquiline IDK about past participle choice in “hair-infused booms.”

Loukas, to random
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We all need things we are bad at, but which we do anyway. The world is here for clumsy life as well. I'm bad at gardening but here are my three apple trees which have just survived another winter. I've pruned them (badly).

Brown grassy lawn with two young apple trees surrounded by plastic netting

bookish,
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@Loukas Gorgeous and gorgeously put. There is more pleasure in going from being very bad at something to slightly less bad at it than there is in going from doing something almost perfectly to making a slight improvement on that. I think it’s because there you still measure whatever you do as a failure of perfection, whereas doing the things slightly less badly removes the burden of trying to be perfect and inevitably failing.

bookish, to random
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Who needs to be stopped from ironing their socks?

bookish,
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@tkinias No one who irons socks is weakminded enough to let a fabric care tag stop them.

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