Chris Strauber
@cstrauber.bsky.social
Boston-area academic librarian. Cloud advocate. Fan of marine mammals.
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Anyway everyone who dispossessed themselves of moral agency to try in some part to prevent this – good luck in Hell.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Anyway everyone who dispossessed themselves of moral agency to try in some part to prevent this – good luck in Hell.
One of my calendars is reminding me it’s Black Friday. What rock could I hide under to need that update?
November 28, 2025 at 1:42 PM
One of my calendars is reminding me it’s Black Friday. What rock could I hide under to need that update?
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By accepting the pardon those turkeys are admitting to culpability
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
By accepting the pardon those turkeys are admitting to culpability
Smart rebrand. My library colleagues are fond of zines, but they were not a native format for me. "Zine" and "incunabula" are both words I know the meaning of but feel like I have to look up every time I see them. Wait. Actually that helps. They're late printed books. Post-printing press.
After about 80 issues of my monthly print zine, I have decided to quit making zines in order to transition to making booklets
This decision is informed by the fact that most people don’t know what a zine is but if I call it a booklet they might be able to figure it out
This decision is informed by the fact that most people don’t know what a zine is but if I call it a booklet they might be able to figure it out
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Smart rebrand. My library colleagues are fond of zines, but they were not a native format for me. "Zine" and "incunabula" are both words I know the meaning of but feel like I have to look up every time I see them. Wait. Actually that helps. They're late printed books. Post-printing press.
The suggestions that aren't flat wrong are mostly dumb, or corporate word slurry. Nuance and subtlety confuse it.
Microsoft Co-Pilot always tries to correct my writing, and when I check its suggestions, they're almost always incorrect. Glad we're destroying our planet, the job market, and the economy for this tech.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The suggestions that aren't flat wrong are mostly dumb, or corporate word slurry. Nuance and subtlety confuse it.
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the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism
Political actors in charge of governments are not treated as equivalent to campus activists anywhere but op ed pages. Fine, bash the parts of the left you don't like. But "flattened a city" and "wrote an open letter" are not the same thing.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Political actors in charge of governments are not treated as equivalent to campus activists anywhere but op ed pages. Fine, bash the parts of the left you don't like. But "flattened a city" and "wrote an open letter" are not the same thing.
If you think a university is a source of labor you don't know what a university is.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor
Is Trump dismantling the Education Department? Not yet. But changes are coming.
The U.S. Education Department is moving management of K-12 and higher education to the Department of Labor and parceling out other core job duties to other agencies. It's the most sweeping effort so f...
www.chalkbeat.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
If you think a university is a source of labor you don't know what a university is.
Early contender for quote of the day:
“The idea of a public square for 300 million people is a BAD IDEA.”
“The idea of a public square for 300 million people is a BAD IDEA.”
The best thing is that at first I couldn't find the image I was thinking of, because yes there's a specific one that my mom bought some years ago. But now I have it. You should maybe subscribe so you can enjoy what I am about to share, which involves "sexy Karl Marx"
www.leahreich.com
www.leahreich.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Early contender for quote of the day:
“The idea of a public square for 300 million people is a BAD IDEA.”
“The idea of a public square for 300 million people is a BAD IDEA.”
Do political scientists who study American politics, like, not study other countries at all? All the things we learn here are on the list of "ways presidential systems fail" everywhere else.
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What Donald Trump Has Taught Us about American Political Institutions
Abstract. Generations of political scientists have viewed the American constitutional system and its surrounding pluralist civil society as stable touchsto
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November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Do political scientists who study American politics, like, not study other countries at all? All the things we learn here are on the list of "ways presidential systems fail" everywhere else.
academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
Adding anything described as a "bite", and anything described by a word for what it's served in or on ("bowl", "small plate").
🚨PEEVE ALERT🚨
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
Outrage/Threat Level: Mildly Irksome
When restaurant menus refer to sandwiches as “handhelds”
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Adding anything described as a "bite", and anything described by a word for what it's served in or on ("bowl", "small plate").
Endorse. The secret librarian question to finding information is "Who the f@$# would care about that?"
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Endorse. The secret librarian question to finding information is "Who the f@$# would care about that?"
Was barely holding on in a meeting until @hayao.lol made a cameo.
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Was barely holding on in a meeting until @hayao.lol made a cameo.
Confirmation bias enforced by goons.
Not really, though. They want a guy who looks Professorial, with maybe a British accent [no offense British people] and a tweed jacket, who will tell them exactly what they already think but with bigger words and maybe a little bit of sexual harassment on the side.
November 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Confirmation bias enforced by goons.
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Bach, you have to stop. Your clavier is too well-tempered. Your concertos too Brandenburg. They’ll kill you
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Bach, you have to stop. Your clavier is too well-tempered. Your concertos too Brandenburg. They’ll kill you
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"I was one of dozens of reporters that knew all about Epstein's pedo empire and didn't say shit as Donald Trump became president" is something you couldn't get me to admit under torture
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"I was one of dozens of reporters that knew all about Epstein's pedo empire and didn't say shit as Donald Trump became president" is something you couldn't get me to admit under torture
"Grab And Go" is an entire nested set of values in three words. It makes commodities of the product, the place, and the people involved. It implies that time is so scarce that sitting still is impossible. And that there are more important Things To Do and People To See.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"Grab And Go" is an entire nested set of values in three words. It makes commodities of the product, the place, and the people involved. It implies that time is so scarce that sitting still is impossible. And that there are more important Things To Do and People To See.
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OK I don't mean to be hyperbolic but this might affect conservatively 65% of my diet
Italian pasta exports to the U.S. could be 'virtually wiped out' by proposed 107% tariffs
The U.S. has hit 13 Italian pasta exporters with an anti-dumping tariff of 92%, which would be added to the Trump administration's 15% blanket E.U. levies.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
OK I don't mean to be hyperbolic but this might affect conservatively 65% of my diet
I'm an old enough nerd that I'm still delighted when someone in a major publication can talk coherently about Dungeons and Dragons at all. But this is fantastic. (and there are some absolutely savage asides)
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I'm an old enough nerd that I'm still delighted when someone in a major publication can talk coherently about Dungeons and Dragons at all. But this is fantastic. (and there are some absolutely savage asides)
Maybe you two could get together on this?
@lopatto.bsky.social @hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
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November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Maybe you two could get together on this?
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So much good thinking here, but this is what I'm taking with me into tomorrow.
"But everything that matters matters, so none of it is a distraction."
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
"But everything that matters matters, so none of it is a distraction."
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
www.the-reframe.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
So much good thinking here, but this is what I'm taking with me into tomorrow.
"But everything that matters matters, so none of it is a distraction."
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
"But everything that matters matters, so none of it is a distraction."
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
WPA travel guides are still great. I would love to write them for my neighborhood.
you ever think about the works progress administration? I sure do. I wish that was a thing now. I would be so glad to contribute my labor to like. A random ass local bridge
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
WPA travel guides are still great. I would love to write them for my neighborhood.