Pondering a Sergeant Jackrum costume for next year. Secondhand marching-band jackets have to be a thing, right?

So @404 Media has a grant to file a ton of sunshine-law requests over library censorship (any type of library, best I can tell). They've been doing the best library news coverage anywhere. I trust them. Let's help them out. All they want is leads -- whom should they request records from?

404 Media

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

Contact via Signal at jason.404; email jason@404media.co. (That's @Jason Koebler, but remember Mastodon isn't private.) #libraries #publiclibraries #academiclibraries #censorship

Obituary for Irwin Rovner:

Irwin Rovner Tribute in Raleigh at Renaissance Funeral Home | Tribute

Funeral is tomorrow.

If I were still working in institutional repositories, I think a business I'd want to get into is "research project websites." Like Project InfoLit. Because we KNOW those have expiration dates. Wouldn't it be hugely cleaner if the outputs were already in the IR and we could just decommission the accompanying website chrome?

IR librarians, web archivists: tell me somebody's grabbing a copy of this for long-term preservation, please. https://projectinfolit.org/

Fuck AI bros. https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

Shot, chaser. (The slide is about eight months old. Our Workday implementation is ten days live.)