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2026 47

  1. Plague Poems – The Three Hundred-and-Forty-Sixth Week
  2. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Fifth Week
  3. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Fourth Week
  4. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Third Week
  5. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Forty-Second Week
  6. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Forty-First Week
  7. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Fortieth Week
  8. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Ninth Week
  9. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Eighth Week
  10. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Seventh Week
  11. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Sixth Week
  12. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Fifth Week
  13. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Fourth Week
  14. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Third Week
  15. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Second Week
  16. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-First Week
  17. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirtieth Week
  18. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Ninth Week
  19. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Eighth Week
  20. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seventh Week
  21. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Sixth Week
  22. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth Week
  23. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fourth Week
  24. New Initials, Old Issues: How Remembering Y2K Can Help Us Think about AI
  25. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Third Week
  26. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-Second Week
  27. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twenty-First Week
  28. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twentieth Week
  29. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Nineteenth-Week
  30. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Eighteenth Week
  31. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Seventeenth Week
  32. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Sixteenth Week
  33. You can’t spell “machinery hurtful to commonality” without AI
  34. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Fifteenth Week
  35. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Fourteenth Week
  36. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Thirteenth Week
  37. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Twelfth Week
  38. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Eleventh Week
  39. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Tenth Week
  40. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Ninth-Week
  41. Apocalypse When – Y2K and the end of the world as we knew it
  42. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Eighth Week
  43. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Seventh Week
  44. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Sixth Week
  45. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Fifth Week
  46. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Fourth Week
  47. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Third Week

2025 60

  1. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-Second Week
  2. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundred-and-First Week
  3. Plague Poems – The Three-Hundredth Week
  4. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Ninth Week
  5. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Eighth Week
  6. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Seventh Week
  7. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Sixth Week
  8. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Fifth Week
  9. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Fourth Week
  10. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Third Week
  11. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Week
  12. An open letter to students considering submitting AI generated work
  13. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninety-First Week
  14. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninetieth Week
  15. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Ninth Week
  16. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Eighth Week
  17. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Seventh Week
  18. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Sixth Week
  19. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Fifth Week
  20. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Fourth Week
  21. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Third Week
  22. If the work seems fake, does that mean the crisis is too? – A Review of Leigh Claire La Berge’s “Fake Work”
  23. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-Second Week
  24. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighty-First Week
  25. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eightieth Week
  26. Digital Technology Will Not Set You Free – A Review of David Golumbia’s “Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology”
  27. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Ninth Week
  28. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Eighth Week
  29. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Seventh Week
  30. Do Draugveil’s roses have AI thorns? – What the debate about a black metal album says about AI and art
  31. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Sixth Week
  32. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Fifth Week
  33. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Fourth Week
  34. No, university students aren’t all using AI (and the idea that they are just helps AI’s advocates)
  35. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Third Week
  36. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-Second Week
  37. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventy-First Week
  38. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventieth Week
  39. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Ninth Week
  40. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Eighth Week
  41. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Seventh Week
  42. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Sixth Week
  43. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Fifth Week
  44. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Fourth Week
  45. Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories : Libraries as Sites of Oppression and Resistance
  46. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Third Week
  47. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-First Week
  48. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixtieth Week
  49. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Ninth Week
  50. “The bargain we are being asked to ratify” – AI as technological bribery
  51. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Eighth Week
  52. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Seventh Week
  53. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Sixth Week
  54. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Fifth Week
  55. A Few Eggs of Advice in These Trying Times
  56. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Fourth Week
  57. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Third Week
  58. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Second Week
  59. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-First Week
  60. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fiftieth Week

2024 59

  1. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Ninth Week
  2. What to Know About Y2K, Before You Watch Kyle Mooney’s Y2K Movie
  3. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Eighth Week
  4. Mix CDs, instant messenger, and the end of the world – a review of Kyle Mooney’s Y2K (the movie)
  5. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Seventh Week
  6. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Sixth Week
  7. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Fifth Week
  8. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Fourth Week
  9. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Third Week
  10. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-Second Week
  11. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Forty-First Week
  12. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fortieth Week
  13. In the Shadow of Future Catastrophe – A review of Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s “How to Think About Catastrophe”
  14. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Ninth Week
  15. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Eighth Week
  16. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Seventh Week
  17. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Sixth Week
  18. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Fifth Week
  19. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Fourth Week
  20. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Third Week
  21. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-Second Week
  22. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirty-First Week
  23. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirtieth Week
  24. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Ninth Week
  25. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Eighth Week
  26. Y2K Sent A Warning. The CrowdStrike Outage Shows We Failed to Heed It
  27. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seventh Week
  28. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Sixth Week
  29. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth Week
  30. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fourth Week
  31. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Third Week
  32. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-Second Week
  33. “the ultimate religion of our seemingly rational age” – Revisiting Mumford’s “megamachine”
  34. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twenty-First Week
  35. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twentieth Week
  36. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Nineteenth Week
  37. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighteenth Week
  38. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventeenth Week
  39. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixteenth Week
  40. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifteenth Week
  41. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fourteenth Week
  42. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Thirteenth Week
  43. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Twelfth Week
  44. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eleventh Week
  45. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Tenth Week
  46. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Ninth Week
  47. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Eighth Week
  48. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Seventh Week
  49. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Sixth Week
  50. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fifth Week
  51. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Fourth Week
  52. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Third Week
  53. Who are you calling a Luddite? – A review of Blood in the Machine
  54. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-Second Week
  55. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundred-and-First Week
  56. Plague Poems – The Two-Hundredth Week
  57. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Ninth Week
  58. “Y2K was a very real threat indeed” – a review of the HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K
  59. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Eighth Week

2023 60

  1. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Seventh Week
  2. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Sixth Week
  3. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Fifth Week
  4. If Only Beating Climate Change Was This Easy – A review of the boardgame Daybreak
  5. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Fourth Week
  6. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Third Week
  7. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-Second Week
  8. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninety-First Week
  9. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninetieth Week
  10. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Ninth Week
  11. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Eighth Week
  12. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Seventh Week
  13. Okay, what now? – Thoughts in the Aftermath of Students Submitting AI Generated Work
  14. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Sixth Week
  15. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Fifth Week
  16. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Fourth Week
  17. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Third Week
  18. In Memory of David Golumbia
  19. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-Second Week
  20. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighty-First Week
  21. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eightieth Week
  22. “If you don’t have a printing press, you don’t have a movement,” – A Review of Kathy Ferguson’s “Letterpress Revolution”
  23. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Ninth Week
  24. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Eighth Week
  25. “Y2K is real. It’s coming” – On the Righteous Gemstones and Remembering Y2K
  26. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Seventh Week
  27. What I Wish I Had Known About Applying for Academic Jobs
  28. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Sixth Week
  29. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Fifth Week
  30. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Fourth Week
  31. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Third Week
  32. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-Second Week
  33. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventy-First Week
  34. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventieth Week
  35. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Ninth Week
  36. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Eighth Week
  37. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Seventh Week
  38. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Sixth Week
  39. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Fifth Week
  40. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Fourth Week
  41. What I Wish I Had Known Before Writing My Dissertation
  42. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Third Week
  43. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-Second Week
  44. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixty-First Week
  45. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixtieth Week
  46. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Ninth Week
  47. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Eighth Week
  48. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Seventh Week
  49. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Sixth Week
  50. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Fifth Week
  51. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Fourth Week
  52. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Third Week
  53. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-Second Week
  54. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifty-First Week
  55. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fiftieth Week
  56. “Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
  57. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Ninth Week
  58. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Eighth Week
  59. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Seventh Week
  60. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Sixth Week

2022 71

  1. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Fifth Week
  2. No Such Thing as a Free Lunch : Labor in Open Source Systems Implementations
  3. A Luddite Library
  4. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Fourth Week
  5. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Third Week
  6. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-Second Week
  7. Waiting for the Fail Whale – What Y2K can teach us about Twitter
  8. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Forty-First Week
  9. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fortieth Week
  10. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Ninth Week
  11. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Eighth Week
  12. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Seventh Week
  13. Theses on the Techlash
  14. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Sixth Week
  15. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Fifth Week
  16. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Fourth Week
  17. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Third Week
  18. The Internet is Broken. Can We Fix It? – A Review of Ben Tarnoff’s “Internet for the People”
  19. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-Second Week
  20. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirty-First Week
  21. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirtieth Week
  22. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Ninth Week
  23. Life’s a Glitch – what the non-apocalypse of Y2K can teach us
  24. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Eighth Week
  25. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Seventh Week
  26. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Sixth Week
  27. Where We’re Going, We’ll Probably Still Need Roads – a Review of Paris Marx’s “Road to Nowhere”
  28. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Fifth Week
  29. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Fourth Week
  30. Singing About the Dark Times – Theses on Doomerism
  31. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Third Week
  32. All [White Supremacist Capitalist Patriarchy] is Local
  33. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-Second Week
  34. Jonah, Cassandra, and the Doom-Sayers — Reading Lewis Mumford During the Pandemic
  35. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twenty-First Week
  36. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twentieth Week
  37. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Nineteenth Week
  38. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighteenth Week
  39. Is Big Data the Message? a Review of Natasha Lushetich’s “Big Data–A new Medium?”
  40. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventeenth Week
  41. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixteenth Week
  42. How to Pick a Book for the Beach
  43. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifteenth Week
  44. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fourteenth Week
  45. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Thirteenth Week
  46. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Twelfth Week
  47. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eleventh Week
  48. “Technology in the Present Tense” – Notes from a Weary Luddite
  49. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Tenth Week
  50. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Ninth Week
  51. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Eighth Week
  52. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Seventh Week
  53. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Sixth Week
  54. Balance of Terrors – on Günther Anders
  55. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fifth Week
  56. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Fourth Week
  57. Emily Drabinski for ALA President
  58. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Third Week
  59. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-Second Week
  60. “I’m so sick of Y2K!” – A review of Y2K: The Movie
  61. Plague Poems – The Hundred-and-First Week
  62. Plague Poems – The Hundredth Week
  63. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Ninth Week
  64. “Things Just Go On” – More Theses on Doomscrolling
  65. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Eighth Week
  66. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Seventh Week
  67. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Sixth Week
  68. Look Around – Yet Another Piece about “Don’t Look Up”
  69. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Fifth Week
  70. Inventing the Shipwreck
  71. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Fourth Week

2021 73

  1. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Third Week
  2. Plague Poems – The Ninety-Second Week
  3. My Favorite Books from 2021
  4. Plague Poems – The Ninety-First Week
  5. Plague Poems – The Ninetieth Week
  6. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Ninth Week
  7. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Eighth Week
  8. Against Technological Inevitability – On 20th Century Critics of Technology
  9. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Seventh Week
  10. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Sixth Week
  11. The Magnificent Bribe
  12. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Fifth Week
  13. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Fourth Week
  14. Specters of Ludd – A Review of Gavin Mueller’s “Breaking Things at Work”
  15. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Third Week
  16. Plague Poems – The Eighty-Second Week
  17. Imagine the End of Facebook
  18. Plague Poems – The Eighty-First Week
  19. Librarian Was My Occupation – Remembering the Occupy Wall Street People’s Libary
  20. Plague Poems – The Eightieth Week
  21. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Ninth Week
  22. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Eighth Week
  23. Don’t Fall for Facebook’s Trojan Horse
  24. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Seventh Week
  25. The Climate of Despair – Climate Change, COVID-19, and the Feeling of Impending Doom
  26. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Sixth Week
  27. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Fifth Week
  28. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Fourth Week
  29. Mergers, acquisitions, and my tinfoil hat
  30. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Third Week
  31. All our grievances do, in fact, remain connected
  32. Technological Lessons from the Pandemic
  33. Plague Poems – The Seventy-Second Week
  34. Plague Poems – The Seventy-First Week
  35. Plague Poems – The Seventieth Week
  36. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Ninth Week
  37. Theses on Technological Pessimism
  38. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Eighth Week
  39. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Seventh Week
  40. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Sixth Week
  41. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Fifth Week
  42. Theses on Techno-Optimism
  43. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Fourth Week
  44. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Third Week
  45. Burn it All – a Review of “Your Computer is on Fire”
  46. Plague Poems – The Sixty-Second Week
  47. Plague Poems – the Sixty-First Week
  48. Plague Poems – The Sixtieth Week
  49. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Ninth Week
  50. They meant well (or, why it matters who gets to be seen as a “tech critic”)
  51. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Eighth Week
  52. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Seventh Week
  53. Plague Poems – the Fifty Sixth Week
  54. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Fifth Week
  55. Progress for the status quo – on the Chamber of Progress
  56. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Fourth Week
  57. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Third Week
  58. Plague Poems – The Fifty-Second Week
  59. Broom-Scrolling? Assume-Scrolling? Bloom-Scrolling? – what comes after Doom-Scrolling?
  60. Plague Poems – The Fifty-First Week
  61. Plague Poems – The Fiftieth Week
  62. “into the lifeboats” – a review of Nomadland
  63. Plague Poems – The Forty-Ninth Week
  64. Plague Poems – The Forty-Eighth Week
  65. How to keep from getting distracted when you are trying to read
  66. Plague Poems – The Forty-Seventh Week
  67. Plague Poems – The Forty-Sixth Week
  68. The joke was on us – reflections on Trump’s presidency
  69. Plague Poems – The Forty-Fifth Week
  70. Plague Poems – The Forty-Fourth Week
  71. Authoritarian and Democratic Technics, revisited
  72. Plague Poems – The Forty-Third Week
  73. Plague Poems – The Forty-Second Week

2020 62

  1. My Favorite Books from 2020
  2. Plague Poems – The Forty-First Week
  3. A Hell of a Year – Reflections on 2020
  4. Plague Poems – The Fortieth Week
  5. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Ninth Week
  6. “The Tree of Science” an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “L’arbre de la science” [Part 3]
  7. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Eighth Week
  8. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Seventh Week
  9. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Sixth Week
  10. The Cassandra Conundrum
  11. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Fifth Week
  12. “The Tree of Science” an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “L’arbre de la science” [Part 2]
  13. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Fourth Week
  14. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Third Week
  15. “The Tree of Science” an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “L’arbre de la Science” [Part 1]
  16. Plague Poems – The Thirty-Second Week
  17. Plague Poems – The Thirty-First Week
  18. Technology and the society we want to build – a review of the second edition of Langdon Winner’s “The Whale and the Reactor”
  19. Plague Poems – The Thirtieth Week
  20. Theses on Doomscrolling
  21. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Ninth Week
  22. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Eighth Week
  23. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Seventh Week
  24. Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers – a review of “The Social Dilemma”
  25. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Sixth Week
  26. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Fifth Week
  27. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Fourth Week
  28. How to Prepare for This (totally normal) Fall Semester
  29. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Third Week
  30. Plague Poems – The Twenty-Second Week
  31. Plague Poems – The Twenty-First Week
  32. What teaching online taught me
  33. Plague Poems – The Twentieth Week
  34. Plague Poems – The Nineteenth Week
  35. It is later than you think – the COVID-19 catastrophe is already here
  36. Plague Poems – The Eighteenth Week
  37. Plague Poems – The Seventeenth Week
  38. Facing Facebook
  39. Plague Poems – The Sixteenth Week
  40. Plague Poems – The Fifteenth Week
  41. Plague Poems – The Fourteenth Week
  42. TikTok Will Not Save Us
  43. Plague Poems – The Thirteenth Week
  44. How to Move Your Books in the Middle of a Pandemic
  45. Plague Poems – The Eleventh and Twelfth Weeks
  46. Plague Poems – The Tenth Week
  47. Plague Poems – The Ninth Week
  48. Plague Poems – The Eighth Week
  49. A Failure of the Imagination – COVID-19 and Catastrophe
  50. Plague Poems – The Seventh Week
  51. Plague Poems – The Sixth Week
  52. What is Happening In the Libraries While They Are Closed?
  53. Plague Poems – The Fifth Week
  54. Plague Poems – The Fourth Week
  55. Plague Poems – The Third Week
  56. COVID-19, COBOL, and Y2K
  57. Plague Poems – The Second Week
  58. What studying disasters has taught me about COVID-19
  59. Plague Poems – The First Week
  60. How not to get sick at the library
  61. Democracy is too important to trust it to an app
  62. The End of the World?

2019 22

  1. My Favorite Books from 2019
  2. Who Listens to the Listeners?
  3. General Ludd in the Long Seventies – a review of Matt Tierney’s “Dismantlings”
  4. What to do if you Encounter Paranormal Forces at the Library
  5. Facebook ≠ Democracy
  6. In Defense of Jonah
  7. Hashtags Lean to the Right – a Review of Jen Schradie’s “The Revolution that Wasn’t”
  8. The Sky Isn’t Falling – Franzen still has much to learn
  9. You can do this (really) – advice for new graduate students
  10. Be Afraid! But not that afraid? – on Climate Doom
  11. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Machine – a review of Aaron Bastani’s “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”
  12. How to stay cool in a library
  13. Who needs Black Mirror when you have reality? – on Black Mirror’s Fifth Season
  14. “And here we are” – on HBO’s Chernobyl
  15. Stop Using “Google” as a Verb
  16. How to prepare for qualifying exams (or, how to read too many books in seven months)
  17. “Cover Your Tracks!” – A Critique of the Privacy Project from The New York Times
  18. The Whale and the CEO – a Review of “The Inventor Out for Blood in Silicon Valley”
  19. “No one wants to see disaster coming, but those who look, do.” – A Review of “The Uninhabitable Earth”
  20. Between Salvation and Doom – Notes on the Green New Deal
  21. How Many Books Does a Person Need?
  22. Choose Very Carefully: a Review of Black Mirror – Bandersnatch

2018 22

  1. My Favorite Books from 2018
  2. A Disastrous Year – Reflections on 2018
  3. “The End of the World by Science” – an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “La Fin du Monde par la Science.” Part 4
  4. The technology giants didn’t deserve public trust in the first place
  5. “The End of the World by Science” – an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “La Fin du Monde par la Science.” Part 3
  6. How to Reserve a Seat in a Library
  7. “Striving to minimize technical and reputational risks” – Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s guilty conscience
  8. “The End of the World by Science” – an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “La Fin du Monde par la Science.” Part 2
  9. From Megatechnic Bribe to Megatechnic Blackmail: Mumford’s ‘Megamachine’ After the Digital Turn
  10. The Courage to be Afraid – a review of Roy Scranton’s “We’re Doomed. Now What?”
  11. “The End of the World by Science” – an English translation of Eugene Huzar’s “La Fin du Monde par la Science.” Part 1
  12. Challenging the Tech Companies from Within
  13. All watched over by machines – a review of Yasha Levine’s “Surveillance Valley”
  14. “Why don’t you go live in a cave?” – when technophiles cry troglodyte
  15. Techlash! What Techlash?
  16. The Nerd and the Inured
  17. Facebook – to delete, or not to delete?
  18. The Shackles of Digital Freedom – a review of Jack Lichuan Qui’s “Goodbye iSlave”
  19. Be Wary of Silicon Valley’s Guilty Conscience: on The Center for Humane Technology
  20. The Show that Cries Wolf – On Black Mirror’s Fourth Season
  21. Why the Luddites Matter
  22. Technological Resolutions for 2018

2017 30

  1. My Favorite Books from 2017
  2. From Net Neutrality to the Net’s New Reality
  3. Betrayed by the giants
  4. Understanding Fascism – making sense of dark times – a reading list (expanded 10/20/17)
  5. Statues or It Didn’t Happen
  6. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 2.0
  7. The future looks expensive
  8. Living well in the technosocial world – a review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues
  9. “Atomic warfare means universal extermination”
  10. A chip off technology’s block
  11. Against the “anti-technology” strawman
  12. The Apocalyptic Turn
  13. It’s time to fix things – a review of “Move Fast and Break Things”
  14. Amazon is hungry for more
  15. The users and the used
  16. Apple is all ears
  17. “Thinking ad pessimum” – Notes Towards a Productive Pessimism
  18. Who moderates the moderators? On the Facebook Files
  19. It’s ok if you want to cry…
  20. When real life emulates dystopia…it isn’t a good sign…
  21. How to make the most of your trip to the archive
  22. The problem isn’t the robots…it’s the bosses
  23. Is Internet access a choice?
  24. The Internet of Things…that spy on you
  25. Here’s looking at you…
  26. The world according to Facebook
  27. Don’t like what you see? – A review of Season Three of Black Mirror
  28. Well…that happened – reflections on a joke
  29. And the technophiles scramble…
  30. A Pessimistic Resolution

2016 33

  1. “I study the end of the world” – some personal reflections on 2016
  2. My Favorite Books from 2016
  3. Prescience and Pessimism
  4. What could go wrong? Another question to ask of new technology
  5. Google unveils more of the same
  6. How to gut a book
  7. Guest post: #LIULockout
  8. Planned obsolescence comes for the headphone jack
  9. Back to school…with much to learn…
  10. Into and out of the woods – a review of Captain Fantastic
  11. How to move a large quantity of books
  12. Things I learned while working as a reference librarian
  13. An island of reason in the cyberstream – on the life and thought of Joseph Weizenbaum
  14. Rocks or ticker-tape? A review of Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff
  15. What Pokémon can you catch at a library?
  16. Mars is still very far away – a review of McKenzie Wark’s book Molecular Red
  17. Things I wish I had known before I applied to PhD programs
  18. AI and Drones and Bio-engineering, oh my! – A Review of A Dangerous Master by Wendell Wallach
  19. What Technology Do We Really Need? – A Critique of the 2016 Personal Democracy Forum
  20. Prefixes in Uncertain Times: Reconfiguring the Human in the Human-Built World
  21. Beyond the Prototype: Libraries as Convivial Tools in Action
  22. You Can’t Spell “Trending Topics” Without Control
  23. Evidently, Democracy Disrupts the Disruptors
  24. How to Grade Assignments in a Library
  25. Broadcasting Resistance – a review of Low Power to the People by Christina Dunbar-Hester
  26. En Garde! How to Defend Yourself With a Book
  27. What to Do When the Internet Stops Working in Your Library
  28. Facebook Reactions Are No Laughing Matter
  29. Apple Is Not the Messiah
  30. Not Ludd, Just Ludicrous – The Luddite Awards are Absurd
  31. How to Keep What You Are Reading Secret
  32. Potential, Power and Enduring Problems – Anarchism and the Critique of Technology
  33. When it Comes to Social Media – Is There No Alternative?

2015 53

  1. My Favorite Books From 2015
  2. Things I Learned During My First Semester of Teaching Undergraduates
  3. What to Get the Luddite on Your List
  4. A Charitable Definition of Charity
  5. I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
  6. Will Return Shortly
  7. The Ground Beneath the Screens – A Review of Jussi Parikka’s A Geology of Media and The Anthrobscene
  8. How to Avoid Being Bothered While Working in a Library
  9. Friends Don’t Let Friends Join Peeple
  10. The Social Construction of Acceleration – A review of Judy Wajcman’s book Pressed for Time
  11. Loving Technology – Regardless of the Era (or Error)
  12. TOR, Libraries, and DHS: fuck that noise
  13. There’s an Apparatus for That – Reflections on Vilém Flusser’s book Post-History
  14. Back to School…
  15. Treat Your Personal Library…Like a Library
  16. The Robots are Coming! – A Review of Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford
  17. Google learns the Alphabet
  18. How to Organize Your Library
  19. What is the Problem to Which the Delivery Drone is the Solution?
  20. Ashley Madison and the Internet’s “Original Accident”
  21. Living in the Exterminable Epoch
  22. Has General Ludd been seen in France?
  23. Blame the Humans
  24. Towards a Bright Mountain: Laudato Si’ as Critique of Technology
  25. Google Wants to Get Into Your Pants
  26. Guest Post: NYC Nurses
  27. A Reality (g)Rift
  28. Now Hear This! – A review of Thus Spoke the Spectacle
  29. To Do: Digital Rights in Libraries
  30. The Illusion of “There’s an App for that”
  31. Laws Expire, Surveillance Remains
  32. “Walking Makes the Road” and the Library
  33. Rechargeable Ideology
  34. But on the other hand…it’s a really nice day
  35. Reference Desk: LIS Employment Resources
  36. We Will Return…Soon(ish)
  37. AK Press Needs Your Support
  38. Where Are They Now? The People’s Library Today
  39. Who Harvests the Apples?
  40. University of Oregon Needs a Records Management Intervention
  41. How to Sleep in a Library
  42. Reference Desk: 50 Sh…ut up, that book is terrible.
  43. Confused about Copyright and Fair Use? That’s Understandable…
  44. Cultivating Reform and Revolution – A Review of The Fragility of Things
  45. A Dark, Warped Reflection – An Analysis of Black Mirror
  46. (Libraries and/or Archives) + fire = bad
  47. Two Years of Steadily Sinking
  48. Pat Skarda, Professor Emerita & Spinster Aunt to Thousands
  49. The Speed of Snow
  50. On Broken Glass
  51. To-do: grants, awards, etc.
  52. How to Read a Large Book on Crowded Public Transit
  53. Warding off General Ludd – The Absurdity of “The Luddite Awards”

2014 127

  1. Resolve to Remember 2014
  2. Seeing Each Other in the Candle’s Light
  3. Awaiting the Other Shoe
  4. Holding pattern
  5. The Moral of the Story
  6. #GivingTuesday
  7. Looking for the Best Deals on Black Friday? (try the library!)
  8. Looking Up, With Our Feet Still On the Ground
  9. How to Avoid Ruining a Book
  10. Archiving for Activists: Resources
  11. Accustomed to the Unacceptable – Harassment 2.0
  12. #teamharpy, Ghomeshi, and What We Know
  13. To-Do: The Activist’s Guide to Archiving Ephemera
  14. Facing Reality – Reflections on the IFG’s Techno-Utopianism Teach-In
  15. Between the Scythe & the Reaper Drone – A review of Nicholas Carr’s “The Glass Cage”
  16. Emma, Utah, You, and Me
  17. The Good Life or “the Goods Life” – The Thought of Lewis Mumford
  18. Program and Be Programmed – A Review of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s Programmed Visions
  19. On Telling Time
  20. With Great Technological Powers…What of Responsibility?
  21. Corrupting “The Corruption of Liberalism” – Brooks gets Mumford Wrong
  22. A Question of Priorities
  23. To-Do: Western Mass, NYC, Chicago
  24. Tilting at Windmills
  25. All Hitherto Existing Social Media – a review of Christian Fuchs’s “Social Medial: a Critical Introduction””
  26. Read Banned Books – Support Your Library
  27. “The Courage to Be Afraid”
  28. Books Through Bars Fundraiser
  29. Not all Apples are Biodegradable
  30. Placing Bets and Asking Questions
  31. Speeding Towards a Slowdown
  32. “The attempt to keep conscience alive” – Reflections on the book Burning Conscience
  33. Back to School…With Much to Learn
  34. Who Was Captain Swing?
  35. For Want of an Epiphany
  36. A Mechanical Moses
  37. Hope Comes Pre-Installed
  38. Concerned about Privacy? Consider going Postal!
  39. LIS WTF
  40. Response Ability or Responsibility?
  41. The Laboratory or The Library?
  42. The Luddite Response
  43. Can We Have Our Cake without Soylent Goo?
  44. A HandUp or a Cover Up?
  45. To Do List
  46. Bogus, but not the Bogeyman – The FCC and Net Neutrality
  47. The Faucet Goes Dry in Detroit
  48. If You Want to See the Sharing Economy…Go to the Library
  49. A Threatened Net or a Threatening Net?
  50. Are We Technologically Literate?
  51. Things You Should Sign Up For/CfP
  52. Facebook Gets Emotional
  53. Fall in Line…or else!
  54. “We Still Carry On Thinking…”
  55. Who’s Afraid of General Ludd?
  56. Talking Through Machines about Talking To Machines
  57. The Less Things Change…
  58. Yosemite as an OS? The Planet is the Operating System
  59. To-Do List
  60. Modeling a Different World – The Library and PreFigurative Activism
  61. Who’s Driving? Not You…
  62. A Pyramid of Technological Society
  63. Google Glass in Libraries – Disruption or just Disruptive?
  64. Or is it? – a review of Astra Taylor’s “The People’s Platform”
  65. You Can’t Spell Betrayal Without FCC
  66. NYPL’s “Central Library” Plan goes Not as Planned
  67. Disrupt Everything! (as long as it’s profitable)
  68. Whose Vision of the Future is This?
  69. Radical Resources for May Day (and every day)
  70. Guest Post: The Strange Life of the Collected Works of Marx & Engels
  71. The Flawed “Frames” of Google Glass
  72. To-Do List, Volume Next
  73. Make Your Library the Protest
  74. Librarian is Still My Occupation – Another Epilogue
  75. Librarian Is My Occupation: A History of the People’s Library of Occupy Wall Street
  76. The Heartbreak of Heartbleed
  77. Books – Tools for Conviviality
  78. Tonight: Informed Agitation at Bluestockings
  79. Introducing the Tiebrary
  80. Money for censorship: CIPA, federal funding, and content blockers
  81. It’s a Censorshipwreck!
  82. And Now for Something Completely Similar…
  83. We Apologize, We Will Change – An open letter from the NSA
  84. You’re Caught in the Net! – A review of Julia Angwin’s “Dragnet Nation”
  85. Poster News
  86. A Virtual Reality or A Virtuous Reality? – Facebook buys Oculus
  87. To Do List [updated]
  88. Trading One Myth for Another – Seeing through Google’s Glass
  89. Who Watches the Watch Wearers?
  90. Riddled With Questions: Interrogating Your Technology
  91. Oh, What the Zuck!?
  92. This “Open Future” is Brought to You By…
  93. World’s Oldest Procession
  94. Fighting Fire with Arsonists
  95. Urban Librarians Conference – 2014
  96. It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! No…It’s a Facebook Drone.
  97. Human Rights and Technological Wrongs
  98. The Lucy Parsons Library – Opens Tonight!
  99. And the Bandwidth Plays On…Reconfiguring the Internet on the Titanic
  100. Does Your Phone Care About Privacy? Behold: The Blackphone
  101. Consolidating the “Open” World – Facebook buys WhatsApp
  102. Self Help, Mutual Aid, Reference Services – A Sideways Glance
  103. Informed Agitation
  104. Further Thoughts on the Current Art Market
  105. The Day We Fight Back (should be every single day)
  106. Control and Commodification – Facebook Turns 10
  107. Call for Papers – Archiving Activism and Activist Archiving
  108. Trading Sledgehammers for Pillows: the curious case of Reform Luddism
  109. Happy Birthday! We’ve been sinking for one year (and counting)!
  110. “Continued and endless contempt”: Jerry is Free!
  111. No Longer in Google’s Tentacles…wait, what?
  112. Political Speeches and Protest Songs
  113. This Isn’t Really About Buses…
  114. Libraries – Destruction and Pillage (Canadian Edition)
  115. Grants, calls for things, etc.
  116. Hey! Slow Down! – A review of Doug Hill’s “Not So Fast”
  117. The Banality of NSA Reform
  118. From Net Neutrality to the Net’s New Tragedy
  119. Call for…something
  120. Jeremy Hammond Update
  121. In Google’s Tentacles – Nest!
  122. Technology Does Not Stay New for Long…Another Question for Neil Postman
  123. Today at CES! Tomorrow in the Landfill…
  124. Happy Birthday, Jeremy
  125. It’s the Singularity, My Dear – Technology in the film “Her”
  126. Fake it until you make it: academia’s dirty secret
  127. Towards Which Utopia in 2014?

2013 210

  1. In 2014…they’re resolved to keep watching…
  2. ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (and the NSA was watching)
  3. (Probably Not You) – A review of Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns the Future?
  4. What Will 2014 Bring for Libraries?
  5. Reading Recommendations, Please
  6. In Google’s Tentacles – Robots!
  7. ALA COA Wants Comments
  8. Welcome home, Migs!
  9. Call for Proposals
  10. Surveillance!? We’re Shocked! Shocked!
  11. Sharing is Caring
  12. To Do List: mostly NYC again, sorry (updated)
  13. A Brief Halt in Production
  14. New Address for Jeremy Hammond
  15. From Ned to Ted to Red – General Ludd on the Blacklist
  16. 10 Years
  17. A win for Google? Yes. A win for you? Maybe…
  18. Jeremy Hammond Sentencing, Tomorrow 11/15
  19. This is Ideology! – A Film Review of The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
  20. Is Privacy Really A Priority?
  21. Woodford County Jail has a problem with books —
  22. They’ll Keep Watching Us…
  23. Tonight (10/24)
  24. How Cheaply We Are Bribed…
  25. Q: Who gets shut out in the shutdown? A: All of us.
  26. Notes on Columbus Day
  27. Coming to an Advertisement Near You…it’s You!
  28. October is Archives Month…and the National Archives are Closed
  29. What I Wish I’d Learned in Library School: Don’t
  30. Jeremy Hammond: We Write Letters
  31. Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You…
  32. Politicians Are Not Dadaists (they just act like they are)
  33. A Government Shutdown Keeps the Power On
  34. Banned Books and Budget Cuts
  35. Picking the Right Target…but Missing the Mythical Mark
  36. These Tablets Won’t Cure What Ails Education
  37. Bow-tie-wearing Russian librarian cat
  38. From Occupy to Preoccupied
  39. Your Phone is Not What’s Lazy…
  40. Rotten to the Core
  41. The Summer of Fatigue and the Angel of History
  42. Shekel’s School for Wayward Librarians
  43. The Plan is Obsolescence – Defining Our Machine Wrought Maladies (3)
  44. Jason Hammond Update
  45. Off Topic
  46. So, you’re going to library school…
  47. A Pale Rider Upon a Gunmetal Steed
  48. Does it Matter Who Leads Microsoft Next?
  49. A More Connected World (to mine for data)
  50. A Prequel to 1984? Just look around…
  51. …And Starring Technology as Itself!
  52. Hypotheticals, Hype, and the Hyperloop
  53. Luddism for These Ludicrous Times
  54. Audiobook/speakwrite
  55. Friday Fluff: You’ll never believe what I just found
  56. Trystero’s e-mail account – Mailpile!
  57. To Do List
  58. Surveillance Fever! The infection spreads…
  59. The Cell is the Phone – Defining Our Machine Wrought Maladies
  60. If the NSA is the Fever, is the Internet the Disease?
  61. To Live Justly in Unjust Times
  62. Will Technological Critique Emerge with Emerging Technology Librarians?
  63. How Not to Heed a Warning
  64. From the Reference Desk: Resources
  65. Falling Under Technology’s Spell – Chromecast
  66. Chicago Public Schools: an Ever Hotter Mess
  67. Cooper Union Update
  68. A RoboCop Statue Amidst the Rubble – Distraction, Dystopia, Detroit
  69. Grifting, Garbage and Graph Search
  70. Jailed Comrades: you’ve got to be fucking kidding edition
  71. Cat Pic
  72. How To Explain Trans Identities To No One, Ever, Especially Not Children.
  73. Living Within Justice is not Living With Injustice
  74. Fucked up & Bullshit, But Completely Predictable
  75. Hammer beats Scissors? Library Cuts and Stack Demolition
  76. One Weekend in the Woods is not an Ideology
  77. Happy Days or Happy Daze? (A permission slip to not care about privacy)
  78. When Tinfoil Hats Become Fashionable…
  79. Reference Desk: Unanswered Questions
  80. Reference Desk: Resources
  81. Red Diaper Review #1: “A is for Activist”
  82. #RestoretheFourth (take action gosh darn it)
  83. A Very Kafkaesque Birthday (because it’s Kafka’s birthday)
  84. “The Machine is Ambivalent” – on “inherent” qualities in technology
  85. The Panoptic Con – Defining Our Machine Wrought Maladies (1)
  86. Politics and Acronyms – DOMA, VRA, NSA, USA
  87. Tonight: friends of the Shipwreck
  88. NYC Libraries Survive Another Round
  89. In Which Country Do You Dream?
  90. The Triumph of Technique – The Logic of the NSA (part 2)
  91. The Triumph of Technique – The Logic of the NSA (Part 1)
  92. Hey, Queers!
  93. “I always preferred them stories without the morals,” he added.
  94. Paranoia is Not a Tactic (so what is?)
  95. More Copyright Ridiculousness
  96. The Left! For…um… (the Left will return as soon as it remembers how to do so)
  97. News roundup: mostly Europe
  98. Protecting Your Privacy – A Resource Guide [Updated 6/26/13]
  99. Did You Remember to Take Your Password This Morning?
  100. “More than machinery we need humanity” – The NSA, Verizon, Prism, and You
  101. Book club!
  102. The NSA puts the “All Seeing Eye” back in Verizon
  103. Does Your Smartphone Sync with Your Values? Behold: The Fairphone!
  104. Occupation Libraries: Gezi Parki Edition
  105. Books everywhere.
  106. The Car is Moving, but Who’s driving?
  107. Can’t Get There From Here
  108. Buycott all you like (as long as you keep buying)…
  109. Advertising Our Ethics – Facebook does the right thing for the wrong reason
  110. Exciting Things Happening Wednesday 5/29
  111. Jeremy Hammond Update
  112. Capitalism vs. the Internet – A review of Digital Disconnect by Robert McChesney
  113. The Technologenie! You Can’t Wish away 3D-printers
  114. What a Tragedy! The Appleonian Drama of Tim Cook and our Dionysian Distraction
  115. So, Did You Hear the One about the Yahoo and the Tumblr?
  116. Get out your pens!
  117. Liberate our education, please.
  118. What Does a Librarian Have to Do to get Sued for One Billion Dollars? Jeffrey Beall Found out!
  119. Upcoming Library Events: Mostly Drinking
  120. It’s a Verb! It’s a Company’s Name! It’s…a country!? Google, the nation state.
  121. “Much Seeing Eyes,” “The All Seeing Eye” and the price tag on privacy
  122. Do Robots Play Solitaire When the Boss Isn’t Looking?
  123. BookExpo America: see your captains in person!
  124. The APPS Act is not an Appendectomy (unfortunately)
  125. You Better Not Cry, but You Better Shout! (Big Data is coming to town)
  126. YouRube! (YouTube has never been free)
  127. Free Cooper Union
  128. “Freedom” and “Technology” are not the same word (two shared letters does not a synonym make)
  129. Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire, or, Copyright Shitfuckery
  130. This is Not what Resistance looks like – Google Glass as Technological Bribery
  131. Hiding in the Pew[s] – technology, class, and libraries in the new Pew study
  132. A Year Without the Internet (but with everything else)
  133. Librarianship quote of the day: kids’ reader’s advisory edition
  134. Tomorrow’s Authoritarian Regime (brought to you by Google)
  135. E-Books, Libraries, Democracy, Groucho
  136. There’s No Such Thing as a Free Library
  137. From the reference desk: Resources
  138. Present Shock – by Douglas Rushkoff – A Book Review
  139. Attn: Bawl’mer
  140. CISPA, SOPA, and the Next Acronym
  141. Library News I Don’t Really Care About
  142. Will Copyright Reform be SOPA in disguise?
  143. The Unblinking Eye of the Proctor
  144. While We Were Distracted…CISPA Passed in the House
  145. We are the 91% (who think libraries are important)
  146. Librarians and Lawsuits – From Persecution to Prosecution, the tale of Edwin Mellen Press
  147. From the Comments
  148. Odds & Ends: mostly about Bluestockings
  149. Cat Pic
  150. Communities Matter – It’s National Library Week in Boston, and in your town too.
  151. What Becomes of Our Books? A Eulogy of Sorts in Four Glances
  152. To Save Everything Click Here — by Evgeny Morozov — A Book Review
  153. Librarianship Quote of the Day
  154. OWS vs. Bloomberg – text of the settlement
  155. #winning
  156. Tonight & Tomorrow: Jeremy Hammond
  157. Book Review/Preview: The Riot Grrrl Collection
  158. Discuss.
  159. #ulcon13 Was Pretty Awesome!
  160. Facebook Home is not Your Home Away from Home
  161. The Artifce, the Artificers, and the Art World
  162. The Elephant Not in the Room – Republicans, Academia and the Illusion of a Debate
  163. Librarians and Lawsuits – Edwin Mellen Press Threatens to Sue Another Librarian
  164. So, Has Your Information Been Sold to Any Huge Companies Lately?
  165. To Do List (Brooklyn Edition)
  166. Hit Print and Pull the Trigger
  167. Other Peoples Libraries
  168. Got $?
  169. The Specter of General Ludd at SXSW
  170. The Library in the High-Rise’s Lobby
  171. Librarians Hit the Streets (and parks)
  172. Ask
  173. No Soda, No Tobacco, No Libraries
  174. Quickie: Chicago & Persepolis
  175. Through the Google Glass
  176. This Sunday: Radical Librarians Book Club at Bluestockings
  177. Facebook knows what you like…because you told it
  178. Ethics and Buying a Smartphone (with help from Simone and Simon)
  179. Rebel
  180. The Public, and The Digital Public Library of America
  181. The Used Book Store in the Cloud (probably isn’t heaven)
  182. Tonight: Librarian Libations
  183. You Have Already Opted-In
  184. Librarians and Lawsuits [update] – Dale Askey
  185. A Couple Quick Notes
  186. Prison & Support
  187. The Name Chiseled Above the Door
  188. Allies
  189. Choosing a New “ism” to Dread
  190. Douglass Rushkoff Quits Facebook (surprising nobody)
  191. Friends of the LibrarianShipwreck
  192. The Stasi Agent in Your Pocket
  193. Today with Big Brother
  194. 7 Questions for New Technology (Part 1)
  195. Cats: Still Jerks, But Also Occasionally Useful
  196. Ladybusiness
  197. From the Testing Trenches
  198. Reference Desk
  199. Cats Have Always Been Jerks
  200. Friends of the Librarian-Shipwreck
  201. Libel and Librarians and Lawsuits (Oh my)!
  202. Copyright: a Hot Mess
  203. Neil Postman’s 6 Questions (+1 from me)
  204. A Non-Radical Argument Against Student Debt
  205. Neoliberalism Can Suck It
  206. An Obituary for the E-Reader
  207. “Why elites” don’t care if you “fear the robot.”
  208. “Demolition by neglect”
  209. Paul Krugman, Robots, Economic Inequality
  210. The Librarian-Shipwreck