Julie Goldberg
@juliegoldberg.bsky.social
Academic librarian, reader, writer, teacher, mother of grown-ups. One-time NY State Senate candidate. Extremely curious person. Ed.M, MA, MLIS. ADHD. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇮🇪. Tá cúpla focal agam, but don’t quote me on that.
Pinned
Reality has a way of getting the last word.
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It is not a good thing for the world that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Putin for 5 hours today.
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It is not a good thing for the world that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met with Putin for 5 hours today.
Let’s say you woke up in the middle of the night, checked your phone, and saw the news that Trump had died in his sleep. Would you wake your partner up to tell them? Or let them sleep?
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Let’s say you woke up in the middle of the night, checked your phone, and saw the news that Trump had died in his sleep. Would you wake your partner up to tell them? Or let them sleep?
I keep saying that someone can make a fortune manufacturing small, lightweight manual typewriters. Sell them by the class set with a wheeled cart included. Use them for all in-class writing and assessment. Nobody should have to read student handwriting or AI slop.
it'a interesting to me that the TI-84 type calculator's only feature that makes it a profitable product today is that it doesn't have internet. I wonder if we need a writing version: small computer, keyboard, can load pdfs and turn in assignments. would make in class writing assignments a lot easier
December 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
I keep saying that someone can make a fortune manufacturing small, lightweight manual typewriters. Sell them by the class set with a wheeled cart included. Use them for all in-class writing and assessment. Nobody should have to read student handwriting or AI slop.
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It’s insane: the university losing a valued doctor and researcher it has invested in, America losing someone who was doing research to help Americans. Bad faith enforcement of an absurdly overbroad executive order, harming America and Americans more than anyone.
December 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It’s insane: the university losing a valued doctor and researcher it has invested in, America losing someone who was doing research to help Americans. Bad faith enforcement of an absurdly overbroad executive order, harming America and Americans more than anyone.
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Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
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People are paying too much attention to the soap opera aspects of the Olivia Nuzzi saga and not enough to the part where she used her position as a journalist to try to throw the election to RFK and then to Trump. The psychodrama is fun (for certain values of fun), but irrelevant.
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
People are paying too much attention to the soap opera aspects of the Olivia Nuzzi saga and not enough to the part where she used her position as a journalist to try to throw the election to RFK and then to Trump. The psychodrama is fun (for certain values of fun), but irrelevant.
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The war on woke becomes the war on being awake.
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The war on woke becomes the war on being awake.
PowerPoint: Hey, your slide is boring. Mind if I take a stab at it with my AI design feature?
Me: Be my guest. I'm not a great designer or anything.
PowerPoint: (ADDS A RANDOM TACO GRAPHIC TO MY SLIDE ABOUT HOW LIBRARIANS ARE HERE TO HELP YOU). Hah? How 'bout that? THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, BABEEE!!!
Me: Be my guest. I'm not a great designer or anything.
PowerPoint: (ADDS A RANDOM TACO GRAPHIC TO MY SLIDE ABOUT HOW LIBRARIANS ARE HERE TO HELP YOU). Hah? How 'bout that? THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, BABEEE!!!
December 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
PowerPoint: Hey, your slide is boring. Mind if I take a stab at it with my AI design feature?
Me: Be my guest. I'm not a great designer or anything.
PowerPoint: (ADDS A RANDOM TACO GRAPHIC TO MY SLIDE ABOUT HOW LIBRARIANS ARE HERE TO HELP YOU). Hah? How 'bout that? THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, BABEEE!!!
Me: Be my guest. I'm not a great designer or anything.
PowerPoint: (ADDS A RANDOM TACO GRAPHIC TO MY SLIDE ABOUT HOW LIBRARIANS ARE HERE TO HELP YOU). Hah? How 'bout that? THE SINGULARITY IS NEAR, BABEEE!!!
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Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Anyway China is absolutely kicking our ass. It has made a clear-eyed strategic decision to pursue a clean economy & is investing accordingly. We're flailing around like drunken dipshits, suppressing our domestic renewables, shoveling subsidies at coal, & killing random Venezuelan fishermen.
"...in a book published a quarter century ago,
Paulina Borsook’s 'Cyberselfish' saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
Paulina Borsook’s 'Cyberselfish' saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"...in a book published a quarter century ago,
Paulina Borsook’s 'Cyberselfish' saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
Paulina Borsook’s 'Cyberselfish' saw the seeds of disaster in the late-1990s dot-com boom, which, she argued, transformed a community that was previously sober, civic-minded and egalitarian into something toxic."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
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Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
December 1, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Flyer by John Giorno published by Visual AIDS in 1993 for Day Without Art.
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I'm told the regional ICE admin is saying they're just doing the equivalent of "ticketing drivers for going 1 mile over the speed limit" by strictly enforcing immigration laws. Except they don't issue tickets, there's no appeal procedure, and they make people disappear forever.
December 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I'm told the regional ICE admin is saying they're just doing the equivalent of "ticketing drivers for going 1 mile over the speed limit" by strictly enforcing immigration laws. Except they don't issue tickets, there's no appeal procedure, and they make people disappear forever.
A security guard at my former job used to tell me she was Megyn Kelly’s godmother and brag in a maternal way about all her girl’s accomplishments. She had much to answer for upon her death if she were truly responsible for Kelly’s spiritual development.
Megyn Kelly on alleged war crimes: "I really do kind of not only wanna see them killed in the water, whether they're on the boat or in the water, but I'd really like to see them suffer. I would like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time so they lose a limb and bleed out."
December 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A security guard at my former job used to tell me she was Megyn Kelly’s godmother and brag in a maternal way about all her girl’s accomplishments. She had much to answer for upon her death if she were truly responsible for Kelly’s spiritual development.
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Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
Think of all the underpaid retail workers who are going to have to deal with this after Christmas.
Saw a few posts about how Google's nano banana can make fake receipts (and other docs) that look pretty real. So tried it out. It added all the details--I just asked for a receipt for two pairs of jeans and a pair of flannel pants.
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Think of all the underpaid retail workers who are going to have to deal with this after Christmas.
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I view so many awesome memes that lack alt text.
Please people, add alt text so everyone can enjoy your snark and creativity.
Please people, add alt text so everyone can enjoy your snark and creativity.
December 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I view so many awesome memes that lack alt text.
Please people, add alt text so everyone can enjoy your snark and creativity.
Please people, add alt text so everyone can enjoy your snark and creativity.
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"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The wannabe fascists never met a hand they couldn’t overplay.
Always an excellent plan, when you are running a corrupt and hated autocracy, to piss off the military and show the highest levels of command you’ll scapegoat them for your ineptitude and moral failings. Has worked out so well for dictators before: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth, with White House help, tries to distance himself from boat strike fallout
As Congress vows accountability, the Trump administration emphasized it was a top military commander — not the defense secretary — who directed the engagement.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The wannabe fascists never met a hand they couldn’t overplay.
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“I’m a grok guy” — Vance futurism.com/future-socie...
Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Elon Musk
Faced with an incredibly lopsided ethical dilemma, Grok prioritizes saving Elon Musk at the expensive of millions of Jews.
futurism.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
“I’m a grok guy” — Vance futurism.com/future-socie...
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(I wonder if a group of activist men who happen to be retired would be called "grandpas" & also if USAToday asked each woman if she was a grandma & I never love it, per se, when people are reduced to their reproductive roles but also I'm exhausted & am just so grateful that 🤷♀️ I'm just grateful.)
December 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
(I wonder if a group of activist men who happen to be retired would be called "grandpas" & also if USAToday asked each woman if she was a grandma & I never love it, per se, when people are reduced to their reproductive roles but also I'm exhausted & am just so grateful that 🤷♀️ I'm just grateful.)
Good lessons for college students, as well.
These research tips for high school students ensure they’re able to find specific, pertinent, and reliable information—a vital skill to build before they graduate! 🔎 📖
#TLSky #EduSky
#TLSky #EduSky
7 Essential Research Hacks to Teach High School Students
Knowing how to find pertinent and reliable resources is an essential skill that will give students confidence as they explore new topics.
edut.to
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Good lessons for college students, as well.
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Amazing. With alt text.
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Amazing. With alt text.