Rebekah Kati
@rjkati.bsky.social
Institutional Repository Librarian. Eclectic interests = posts on random topics. she/her. 🏳️🌈 This is a personal account.
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Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts
Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.
They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.
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I’m happy to see the new American Cancer Society report showing that the U.S. has reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship, where 70% of patients live for 5+ years after diagnosis.
But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.
But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.
A new milestone in the cancer fight: 7 in 10 patients now survive five-plus years
Better treatment options have improved survival rates in the U.S., according to a report from the American Cancer Society.
www.nbcnews.com
January 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
I’m happy to see the new American Cancer Society report showing that the U.S. has reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship, where 70% of patients live for 5+ years after diagnosis.
But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.
But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.
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[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
January 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
December 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
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The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
December 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
The ACM Digital Library, where a LOT of computing-related research is published (I'd say at least 75% of my own publications), is now not only providing (without consent of the authors and without opt-in by readers) AI-generated summaries of papers, but they appear as the *default* over abstracts.
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What we should require: students to become “literate“ in AI technology, in terms of its economics, it’s ownership structure, its internal logic, how it interacts w our psychology, & how it has taken over our stock market & infiltrates every industry so that our culture feels pressured to prop it up
December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
What we should require: students to become “literate“ in AI technology, in terms of its economics, it’s ownership structure, its internal logic, how it interacts w our psychology, & how it has taken over our stock market & infiltrates every industry so that our culture feels pressured to prop it up
True love is when your spouse volunteers to go to the HOA meeting so you don’t have to.
December 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
True love is when your spouse volunteers to go to the HOA meeting so you don’t have to.
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Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area.
Let us know what you hear.
Let us know what you hear.
November 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Multiple sources have confirmed that ICE/Border Patrol is headed back to the Raleigh and Durham areas for undefined deportation actions. We've heard 50 ICE agents, charter flights and hotels booked for all of them in the Raleigh area.
Let us know what you hear.
Let us know what you hear.
Looks like we’re driving into a cloud instead of a tunnel under a mountain.
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Looks like we’re driving into a cloud instead of a tunnel under a mountain.
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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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 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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.
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Transformative work of the day:
October 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Transformative work of the day:
Havok has opinions about protest signage
October 18, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Havok has opinions about protest signage
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🧪 October is #BreastCancerAwareness Month.
1920: 5 yr #breastcancer survival rate was: 5%
1960: 25%
1990: 64-80%
2025: 92%
We have come so far!
Sustained NIH funding made this possible- from developments in breast imaging to drugs like Tamoxifen & Herceptin.
Credit: @ajvictorymd on IG
1920: 5 yr #breastcancer survival rate was: 5%
1960: 25%
1990: 64-80%
2025: 92%
We have come so far!
Sustained NIH funding made this possible- from developments in breast imaging to drugs like Tamoxifen & Herceptin.
Credit: @ajvictorymd on IG
October 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🧪 October is #BreastCancerAwareness Month.
1920: 5 yr #breastcancer survival rate was: 5%
1960: 25%
1990: 64-80%
2025: 92%
We have come so far!
Sustained NIH funding made this possible- from developments in breast imaging to drugs like Tamoxifen & Herceptin.
Credit: @ajvictorymd on IG
1920: 5 yr #breastcancer survival rate was: 5%
1960: 25%
1990: 64-80%
2025: 92%
We have come so far!
Sustained NIH funding made this possible- from developments in breast imaging to drugs like Tamoxifen & Herceptin.
Credit: @ajvictorymd on IG
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Perfect image for this moment -- Pete Hegseth wasted millions of dollars flying military leaders from across the globe to hear him blather about gender-neutral physical fitness standards and appearance, and the chryon in the corner notes the government is about to shut down.
September 30, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Perfect image for this moment -- Pete Hegseth wasted millions of dollars flying military leaders from across the globe to hear him blather about gender-neutral physical fitness standards and appearance, and the chryon in the corner notes the government is about to shut down.
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The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.”
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
September 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
You're taking a class, not buying a product.
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Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with 📚
dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with
Thirty-three of the more than 200 full time library staff members accepted voluntary severance packages, prompting their departure from Duke. Their absences leave the future of a key aspect of academi...
dukechronicle.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with 📚
dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
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at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
I’ve seen a lot of cishet allies who are also confused by all the prominent Dem voices suddenly acting like having trans rights means we can’t also have vaccines and schools and national parks, and that’s because some of the “why” is happening at a pitch only queer and trans people can hear
September 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.
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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
April 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense
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If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
August 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages
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Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).
August 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.
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Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
The action comes as high-ranking US officials criticize top journals as ‘woke’ and ‘corrupt’.
www.nature.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Trump team axes contracts with publishing giant Springer Nature
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
At first, NIH told me its contracts with SN were active and that they help “advance scientific discovery”.
Hours later, HHS said the opposite: "Precious taxpayer dollars should not be used on unused subscriptions to junk science.”
Good riddance.
BREAKING: Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won't seek reelection after saying he'll oppose Trump's tax bill.
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina won't seek reelection after opposing Trump's bill
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina says he won't seek reelection. That news Sunday comes one day after he announced his opposition to President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts package because of its reductions to health care programs.
bit.ly
June 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Good riddance.
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
June 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...