[#]Libraries #Librarians #Rwsist #Politics #Anarchist
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"We added a Patriot Act compliance officer to our org chart. This person was a real employee."
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"Well, WAS. The office of Patriot Act compliance would be assigned to whichever employee had just left our library. And gosh, it's just such a mess around here, you know."
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Unfortunately nobody can remember the password to the system that has those records. So we have to get IT involved, which means running through more detailed security resets to make sure other systems aren't compromised. It should take a couple weeks.
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"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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@indubitablyodin ::stands up::
::applauds::
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@indubitablyodin this is why I’m proud to be a librarian.
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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
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/
https://gizmodo.com/larry-ellisons-oracle-started-as-a-cia-project-1636592238
https://fortune.com/2024/09/17/oracle-larry-ellison-surveillance-state-police-ai/
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oracle-s-coziness-with-government-goes-back-to-2820370.php
https://www.nyclu.org/commentary/ubiquitous-surveillance-and-civil-rights-infringements-tragic-legacy-911
Ubiquitous surveillance being its most enduring legacy
https://www.newsweek.com/death-western-valuessurveillance-conformity-post-9-11-state-opinion-1906892
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/09/02/two-decades-later-the-enduring-legacy-of-9-11/
https://www.nyclu.org/report/repression-surveillance-and-resistance-20-years-after-911
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiding_in_Plain_Sight_(Kendzior_book)
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@Npars01 @indubitablyodin Yup #RepublicansHateTheUSA
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@Npars01 Absolutely. And it's terrifying to think about how (relatively) easily they did it. And how impotent all efforts to remove those powers proved to be. Powers that hook-line-and sinkered us right into the current climate. Wheeeee.
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@Npars01 @indubitablyodin
Dear Larry:
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@indubitablyodin I am taping a torn page in a library book in her honor
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@indubitablyodin 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.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin But they still won’t have anybody’s browsing history.
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@elaine1helen @indubitablyodin
Oh great. That's so bright, isn't it.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin @elaine1helen it prevents them from using that to go after people, which is really important. I don’t get why you’re so cynical about this (assuming the comment I replied to was sarcasm)
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@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/keep-calm-and-fing-stop-this-s
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.
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@vruz @elaine1helen @indubitablyodin Also worth reading - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/we-dont-need-more-cynics-we-need-more-builders/
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@vruz @indubitablyodin Nothing is helped by dumping your failure to cope on others.
Maybe some things they do won't be enough, but better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Meanwhile, I suggest you stop giving up before you start.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin that was a response for the situation at the time, not a tutorial for how to survive a totalitarian state, take the same thinking, and apply it to the current situation.
The general idea, is that sabotage can take many forms, some extremely effective, despite a high degree of plausible deniability, and relatively low risk for the people committing it.
I saw a post sometime ago about a guy painting small rocks in pink and dropping them randomly to keep the stasis on edge.
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@vruz @indubitablyodin “Wake up” meaning what exactly? That the library should comply out of fear? Do you have any idea how many people owe their lives to small acts of resistance like these during WWII? What is your goal in replying with this smug defeatism?
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@indubitablyodin That's how you do it.
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@indubitablyodin Evergreen sabotage advice:
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@20002ist @indubitablyodin Oooh I just found an online copy of this - it's near the bottom of section 5, "SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS FOR SIMPLE SABOTAGE"
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual
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@indubitablyodin "The Captain shall be the last person to leave the sinking ship. If the Captain leaves the ship before you, congratulations, you are now Captain."
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@indubitablyodin @blogdiva Heroes, all.
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@indubitablyodin
You are REQUIRED to only record and/or keep the personal-identifiable data that is absolutely NECESSARY ONLY - and delete that as soon as the purpose has ceased, as put in law by EU's GDPR.
Any chance that one of your library users might have an EU citizenship? Thus better be safe than sorry, and comply and delete...
😁
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@indubitablyodin LibraryJenn is hard-core anitfa.
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@dmaonR @indubitablyodin Librarians in general are... there is this beautiful story by Alix E Harrow that so captures this ❤️❤️❤️
https://www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-magazine/post/a-witchs-guide-to-escape-a-practical-compendium-of-portal-fantasies
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@martinvermeer @dmaonR I love this, thanks for sharing!
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@martinvermeer @dmaonR @indubitablyodin That is beautiful.
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@dmaonR @indubitablyodin
and you can follow her bridged account from Masto! @libraryjenn.bsky.social
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I didn't realize she was bridged, yay!
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@indubitablyodin I love hearing stories of librarians being fucking based as hell
I feel like this is just an actual thing where like almost all librarians are based
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@solonovamax I'd like to think we are 😉 Jennifer Goodland especially, though.
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@indubitablyodin @RussSharek
Where is now so many #libraries have gotten trapped using #ebook systems based on either Amazon’s 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
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While you're absolutely right, I prefer to focus on the fact that this is a story about librarians helping.
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@RussSharek @indubitablyodin
It’s a good point. We need positive action news
Not things without suggested response 🙏🏼
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@indubitablyodin I recall some libraries posting notices that they hadn’t received any requests that day. So that patrons would know they got a request when that wasn’t posted.
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@maccruiskeen Also known as warrant canaries. The idea, of course, being that while someone can be prevented from saying that some event took place, compelled speech is a whole different can of worms.
It only works as long as that is true and patrons know to look for the warrant canary in the first place. So for best effect, it needs to be displayed very prominently.
It also needs to show proof of when it was last updated. Current events headlines is one way.
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You are a local hero.
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If this is a worry, people may want to make sure they turn off history in any digital library sources. Library won’t control those.
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@krparadis @Af_Redelius
Well, there are significant data concerns with a lot of the modern library systems, actually. Not only are most libraries equipped to properly assess data security, librarians are not receiving the training they need in data security. It doesn't help that librarians, much like public teachers, are underpaid and over-relied on as a vital part of America's failing social safety net.
For instance, services like Hoopla might track user information and retain/share it in ways not covered by library policy. The same goes for database systems upon which modern libraries rely.
This is why I keep advocating for locally-controlled, independent tech infrastructure for libraries... but c'est la vie, that's a hill I'm likely to die on.
That said: you're generally right. Good data practices on the user-end help a TON. It's just that it's difficult to educate and train people to take even mild precautions.
[#]Libraries #Fascism #Tech #Technology #Librarian
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Agreed. While history in Libby & Hoopla would be convenient. I have it turned off everywhere I can. Do not let it connect to other Bluetooth devices on network, etc.
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@indubitablyodin @krparadis @Af_Redelius our library system (Toronto) was hacked for ransom & we lost use of the library system for a few months. We lost other computer access things incl. printing, it seems permanently. These serve the poor & immigrants the most.
Also libraries & librarians are the best. Protect them.
What Trump is doing is equivalent of arson to the entire body of knowledge gathered since before the founding of America.
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When I went to school in the 1980'es, we learned that it was illegal for libraries to keep such records, because they could deter people from reading, snd without the freedom to read, you can't have freedom of speech. But of course we had ghe nazis up close.
Sometimes it's easy to think that the US has never heard of freedom of speech, and no US soldier has ever been to a country where nazis had power, so there was never anyone to tell US politicians just how nasty those fuckers were.
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@indubitablyodin real-life @arnesemsrott style Dienstnachvorschriftantifa
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@indubitablyodin wow, strong "seeing like a state" vibe.
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@indubitablyodin i hope you all can improve this situation soon, i mean it's well known fact that anyone visiting the library is doing so to plan the next 9/11! perhaps all books could be replaced with Reading Mastery: Rainbow Edition, Level 2, Storybook 1 as a measure against them gaining too much knowledge!
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@indubitablyodin source if anyone wants it https://bsky.app/profile/libraryjenn.bsky.social/post/3lgvlord4622p
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