Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

The existence of microfiche implies the existence of megafiche.

…but what of giga, tera, or petafiche? 🤔

Just watched a fantastic " #Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools" panel, with Dr. Bettina Love, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, & Dr. Dena Simmons.

Initially thought it might be mostly about k-12—turns out it's all very relevant to college, too. Very much worth your time!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJZ3RPJ2rNc

It's Juneteenth!

Beauty Pill is an amazing band whose primary songwriter is the son of the general counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1960s.

Today, all revenue from Bandcamp purchases go to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, so it's a particularly good day to consider purchasing their music.

"Describes Things As they Are" and "The Unsustainable Lifestyle" are my personal favorite places to start:
https://beautypill.bandcamp.com

And here's a link to Scholars for Social Justice itself:

http://scholarsforsocialjustice.com/about-us/

That webinar will be moderated by Adom Getachew, University of Chicago

And feature the panelists:
- Michelle Yang and Kosi Achife, UChicago #CareNotCops Student Activists
- Robin D. G. Kelley, University of California Los Angeles
- Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Davarian Baldwin, Trinity College

It's Juneteenth!

Have you signed up for the "Defund the Police: A Webinar on Police, Race, & Universities" organized by Scholars for Social Justice?

It'll be held 2020-06-20 at 12pm Central Time (US & Can) as part of the #M4BL Juneteenth Weekend of Action. You can still register for free at https://bit.ly/SSJDefundthePolice

If it exceeds capacity on Zoom, it'll also be live-streamed and recorded elsewhere. Details are on the above link.

It's Juneteenth!

If you haven't already seen Academics for Black Survival and Wellness, please check out their site:

https://www.academics4blacklives.com

"Academics for Black Survival and Wellness was organized by a group of Black counseling psychologists and their colleagues who practice Black allyship. Guided by a Black feminist frame, we hope to foster accountability and growth for non-Black people and enhance healing and wellness for Black people."

I reached out to the person making this great map of #BlackLivesMatter protests suggesting that they consider GH/GL for sharing the map data. They said they'd like to know more… I'm under the impression that they're a student.

https://www.creosotemaps.com/blm2020/index.html

I'm not a GIS data use "insider" & couldn't find any obviously great intros online. So after 15 minutes of searching, I thought maybe someone here has suggestions?

Be gay, donate bail!

If you don't know of a local community bail fund, consider The Bail Project. Here's how and where they work: https://bailproject.org/our-work/#locations

If you don't have the funds now to donate, boost the message and consider donating when you can.

Credit: these images are by Tw!tter user @sksninja. More flag versions available here: https://twitter.com/sksninja/status/1267817326474194947

Peace
Lysol
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Respect social distancing / stay-at-home guidelines

Does anyone know of a website like XKCD's "Simple Writer" (https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/)
—but in French?

I'm helping professors make an Open Education Resource textbook with readings that focus on the most commonly-used words in French. They'd like a simple tool to check the readings against.

(Yes, I've already suggested making a custom dictionary in a word processor, but they'd like to know if a tool like this already exists.) #oer #oa

I'm making a "How to Online Student 101" guide for my community college's students—both because it can be helpful and because I think we in the library will do a more empathetic version than our non-library colleagues who initially said it should happen.

We've got a very distinct digital divide here in Idaho, serving some very rural areas as well as the state's biggest cities.

Anyone have favorite #OER guides or top other suggestions?

New in this version:

* infophage

Deprecated:

* consumer of information

🎤I go: hey, just give me a measure, please
all I want is a measure
And they couldn't give it to me!

OPERATIONALIZED!!

Two awesome-sounding funded positions for Ph.D. candidates in Norway to study contemporary non-Anglophone science fictions, each apparently fully-funded for 3 years.

Latin American futurisms: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/183138/doctoral-research-fellowship-on-contemporary-latin-american-futurisms-and-science-fiction

Chinese futurisms: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/183134/doctoral-research-fellowship-on-contemporary-chinese-futurisms-and-chinese-science-fiction

The CoFutures project overall sounds great, too! https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/cofutures/about-the-project/index.html

I'm fortunate that I only work in this open office (basically a cubicle/ carrel farm) about once a week. It's usually supremely distracting, even when I have earbuds in & music on, ie shields up.

But today, one of my colleagues in here is verbalizing her thoughts just barely above a whisper, and it's incredibly, surprisingly charming.

She's at least a generation older than me & a Comp/Rhet instructor. I often wonder if folks like this are part of our large undiagnosed ADHD squad.