* "When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons' borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
* We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason."
#Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist
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Peaceful rallies to stop the Musk coup at the OPM in DC every day this week!
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Not sure that Signal really counts as being part of the Fediverse.
Matrix would be a better fit in those slots IMHO.
Pass it on!
#uspol #USPolitics #politics #immigration #daywithoutimmigrants2025 #diasinimmigranted2025
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Odin Halvorson
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •* "We figured, what's the fun in just telling them there's nothing? What the feds always forget is that librarians LOVE weaponizing bureaucracy for a good cause.
* We developed a compliance policy just for the Patriot Act."
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in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."
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in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •"The library where I worked at the time did not successfully fulfill a single Patriot Act request.
Not that this is relevant to the current situation. I assure you this is a random memory that popped into my head with zero prompting. "
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in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •::stands up::
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •A lot of people forget how Republicans used the hysteria of 9/11 to gain powers that they later used against domestic political opponents, dissidents, advocates, & journalists
arstechnica.com/information-teβ¦
gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oraβ¦
fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-β¦
sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oraβ¦
nyclu.org/commentary/ubiquitouβ¦
Ubiquitous surveillance being its most enduring legacy
newsweek.com/death-western-valβ¦
pewresearch.org/politics/2021/β¦
nyclu.org/report/repression-suβ¦
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_β¦
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidingβ¦
Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11
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vruz
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •This is all cool and dandy but you've never met Nazis willing to burn down the library.
These stories were cool to deal with something that resembled a government.
That world is gone, the US as a democratic state with a stable system of governance is dead.
The US is being managed by Nazis now.
If the library doesn't comply, the Nazis will burn it down, this is the new reality.
Wake up.
Elaine Coates
in reply to vruz • • •Logan
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •Book
in reply to Logan • • •@Logan you should be proud of being a librarian regardless. This is just the cherry on the icing on the cake.
You rock. 'Nuff said.
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in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •AccordionBruce
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •@RussSharek
Where is now so many #libraries have gotten trapped using #ebook systems based on either Amazonβs Palace or Libby/Overdrive apps (owned by the one of the worst vulture capital companies in the world KKR
Both of whom will gladly sell our personal data to the highest bidder, much less give it over to any government official who comes asking with or without a warrant
I fear the populationβs vast e-book usage may be out of local librarians control
The Animal and the Machine
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •You are a local hero.
stephen
in reply to Odin Halvorson • • •Sara Joy
Unknown parent • • •@20002ist Oooh I just found an online copy of this - it's near the bottom of section 5, "SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE"
en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Simplβ¦
sabotage book published by OSS in 1944 (at the end of WWII) and used later by CIA, US intelligence services, compiling techniques used by anarchists and communists against Nazis
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Unknown parent • • •@vruz @elaine1helen
catvalente.substack.com/p/keepβ¦
It was about the election, but it's still relevant now.
Stop dumping your hopelessness on the people who are working to fix this.
Will what they're doing here be enough? No, but no one thing will solve this and incremental progress is a win. Others will do things on other fronts.
There will be no hero, because no one fixes this alone - it'll be the sum total of a *LOT* of little things that makes the difference.
Keep Calm and F***ing Stop This S***
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in reply to Stryder Notavi • • •We Don't Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.
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