Sarah
@essyem.bsky.social
Librarian/research therapist, reposter, map nerd, chapstick femme, helicopter chihuahua mom, radicalized on 2011 Tumblr, nosy. ❤ #critical everything & #OpenEducation. Upper Midwest ➡️ Mid-Atlantic ✨🪩
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Sorry guys, I ordered a Filet-o-Fish meal on the credit card one too many times this month because I’m sad and tired, and I may have skewed our national economic data
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sorry guys, I ordered a Filet-o-Fish meal on the credit card one too many times this month because I’m sad and tired, and I may have skewed our national economic data
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This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 11, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
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If you told them people you was leaving... be out ✌️
New York City's CEOs and other billionaires spent more than $40 million trying to defeat the mayor-elect. Now they have to live with him. n.pr/4qJe29O
Wall Street reckons with life under Zohran Mamdani
New York City's CEOs and other billionaires spent more than $40 million trying to defeat the mayor-elect. Now they have to live with him.
n.pr
November 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
If you told them people you was leaving... be out ✌️
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November 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This checks out journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks
This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...
journals.plos.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This checks out journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
November 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that?
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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AWS outage seemingly takes down Medicare website during open enrollment...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
AWS outage seemingly takes down Medicare website during open enrollment...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Hey idk if anyone has thought of this but maybe we shouldn’t be hosting 40% of the internet on Amazon servers ?
October 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Hey idk if anyone has thought of this but maybe we shouldn’t be hosting 40% of the internet on Amazon servers ?
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I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale!
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart
weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
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Oh this is so good
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Oh this is so good
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Of course there are some things that computers can calculate faster and more reliably than human minds, but that does not mean that computers are superior to our minds. We don’t even know all the things our brains are doing! They are weird and miraculous! And mostly unconscious! A grand mystery!
September 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Of course there are some things that computers can calculate faster and more reliably than human minds, but that does not mean that computers are superior to our minds. We don’t even know all the things our brains are doing! They are weird and miraculous! And mostly unconscious! A grand mystery!
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meanwhile...
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
www.theverge.com
September 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM
meanwhile...
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⚠️ AI has some legitimate uses, however...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media.
This can't go on unchecked.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪
zenodo.org/records/1706...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media.
This can't go on unchecked.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪
zenodo.org/records/1706...
September 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
⚠️ AI has some legitimate uses, however...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media.
This can't go on unchecked.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪
zenodo.org/records/1706...
Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media.
This can't go on unchecked.
Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪
zenodo.org/records/1706...
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or the millions upon millions of people who have died, and will die, from merciless attacks on consumer protection, labor rights, environmental law, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
Thinking about the phrase "political violence" and the number of people who've died on Rikers Island in just the last month.
September 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
or the millions upon millions of people who have died, and will die, from merciless attacks on consumer protection, labor rights, environmental law, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
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Like bell hooks said, “I think that we have to restore feminism as a political movement. The challenge to patriarchy is political, and not a lifestyle or identity... we have to return to very basic education for critical consciousness, around what visionary feminist politics really is about.“
September 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Like bell hooks said, “I think that we have to restore feminism as a political movement. The challenge to patriarchy is political, and not a lifestyle or identity... we have to return to very basic education for critical consciousness, around what visionary feminist politics really is about.“
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kinda feels like this might explain everything
September 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
kinda feels like this might explain everything
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Please do not post pictures of protesters unless you have their consent. Take photos from behind them. Showing faces even with masks on just adds to palantir’s database that it gives to the police.
Solidarity with protests isn’t taking social media pics. This is serious stuff now
Solidarity with protests isn’t taking social media pics. This is serious stuff now
August 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Please do not post pictures of protesters unless you have their consent. Take photos from behind them. Showing faces even with masks on just adds to palantir’s database that it gives to the police.
Solidarity with protests isn’t taking social media pics. This is serious stuff now
Solidarity with protests isn’t taking social media pics. This is serious stuff now
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librarians everywhere
August 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
librarians everywhere
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The more we make humans machine-readable, the closer capitalism comes to its end goal of fully treating humans like machines
“Our ultimate goal is to build an AI system that can tell in real time whether a viewer is understanding or not understanding what they are seeing in an educational video…” 🫠
Tech can tell exactly when in videos students are learning
A new study combines eye tracking and artificial intelligence to identify the exact moments in an educational video that matter for learning in children.The study could also predict how much children ...
news.osu.edu
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The more we make humans machine-readable, the closer capitalism comes to its end goal of fully treating humans like machines
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If you’ve ever read or discussed Fobazi’s work on vocational awe in librarianship, you know a small bit of what she’s contributed to the world. Help her and her wife make it through this tough time.
Our friend Fobazi could use our help. And all of our good energy for a complete recovery. gofund.me/11eb33bb
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
gofund.me
August 7, 2025 at 9:20 PM
If you’ve ever read or discussed Fobazi’s work on vocational awe in librarianship, you know a small bit of what she’s contributed to the world. Help her and her wife make it through this tough time.
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say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...
The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
August 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage