Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

Somewhere in here there's probably the seeds of a whole effing dissertation on Althusser, disability studies, the "post-human," becoming, and what Barbrook & Cameron have identified as "the Californian Ideology." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology

But meanwhile I'm slowly grasping that I'm not keeping up my side of a conversation.

On the one hand, I'm not fond of mind-as-computer metaphors since they seem to obscure more about our humanity than they illuminate.

On the other hand, it's handy to be able to tell my partner that, much like Siri or Alexa, I basically don't know that sounds emitted in my vicinity are directed at me to parse unless I've been "hailed" first by name.

What role can movements for #openAccess (#oa) play in redressing the unequal politics of #citation? What are its strengths and limitations?

That's one question #library workers & researchers will discuss in tonight's #critlib chat, starting at 9pm EST / 6pm PST. It's open to all who join in by using the hashtag on Twitter. (I'd recommend using TweetDeck with a column for the hashtag.)

Here's more info & optional readings: http://critlib.org/citation-politics/

Hope to see you there!

How does #citation work as a performative & reproductive technology to support existing power structures?

That's one of the questions #library workers & scholars will discuss in Tuesday's upcoming #critlib chat, 9pm EST, 6pm PST. It's open to anyone who wants to join in using the hashtag on Twitter.

Here's more info & optional background readings: http://critlib.org/citation-politics/

4. It eases her apparent discomfort at exploiting her graduate students labor, yet does nothing to recognize that her students are likely having to go into debt for the privilege of gaining work experience, however exploitative.

I'll stop the list here, but I might end up writing a blog post about this once I've got a little distance on it.

Basically: for [redacted]'s sake, do not do this.

Non-exhaustive list of why this is wrong:
1. It ignored & dismissed the fact that her professional peers in the room likely had enslaved ancestors.
2. It trivializes their ancestors' experiences for laughs & leaves no room for the recognition of any ongoing cultural trauma or the documented structural oppressions that persist.
3. It erases the many profound differences between voluntary if exploitative intern /GA /TA work & actual hereditary enslavement.

At our primary library professional conference earlier today—in New Orleans of all places—I heard a white librarian refer to graduate student labor as "slave labor."

Instead of being challenged, she received her expected laughs from the audience.

We’re airing out our library & it’s fantastic to hear birds chirping from my new office. (Last night we had the carpets cleaned, after the big shift of dismantling the old office cubicles and moving almost everything but the stacks.)

Newest move in the ongoing effort for our nascent makerspace to be as inclusive as possible: repurposing a coworker’s castoff makeup box for small parts instead of getting a toolbox that reads as more masculine. Also, test prints are working!

I really like Amaroq and also find some of the interface less than clear. Am I unknowingly sending repeated requests? Is the interface just slow to respond? General apologies if I’m unintentionally pestering people while I figure it out.

So far the trickiest part of setting up our new $fancy3DPrinter is getting it onto our obnoxiously locked-down network via wifi or ethernet. Feel like I’m throwing a one-person LAN party that roves around the library, mixed with flashing back to the frustrations/excitement of getting directions to a 90s rave. Where’s the next map point?

Also, it’d be interesting to see what kind of battery life that System76 laptop (the Galago Pro) would get if they made an option without a wealth of ports and gave more internal space to batteries, which seems to be what Apple’s done with the Air.