This week we’re talking about John Rogers, a memorabilia mogul who flew too close to the sun (fueled by cocaine) by buying up newspaper photo collections and promising digital archives in return, while flogging the rarest photos for a profit. A warning to libraries and museums to be careful when a new digitization scheme rides into town!

https://defector.com/he-said-he-was-going-to-save-a-century-of-priceless-sports-photos-he-ended-up-the-madoff-of-memorabilia

Media mentioned

https://www.cnet.com/tech/openai-sued-by-authors-alleging-chatgpt-trained-on-their-writing/

https://bookriot.com/hoopla-overdrive-libby-now-banned-for-those-under-18-in-mississippi/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_Point (Teilhard’s idea)

https://www.polygon.com/23779892/mtg-the-one-ring-found-how-much-price-spain

Sunday Jul 09, 2023

096 - Digital Labor feat. Miriam Posner

Sunday Jul 09, 2023

Miriam is back to talk about her Digital Labor course and how it went teaching undergrad IT students to think critically about tech and logistics. We also cover student anxiety and why Justin could never get a BBL.

https://twitter.com/miriamkp

https://bsky.app/profile/miriamkp.bsky.social

Course syllabus. https://miriamposner.com/classes/dh150s23/

Media mentioned

Zizi Li: influencer labor. https://www.zizili.net/

https://westernkabuki.podbean.com/e/vtube-nation-ft-j-aubrey/

Acid Horizon: Data is Dead Labor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr3tE0D7UhI

https://baki.fandom.com/wiki/Jack_Hanma

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14549466/

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520383876/resurrecting-the-black-body

Tuesday Jun 27, 2023

095 - Justice Warriors with Ben Clarkson and Matt Bors

Tuesday Jun 27, 2023

We have the wonderful Ben and Matt on to talk about their new comic Justice Warriors, but also about the role of satire, book bans, cops in libraries (e.g. Winnipeg), and cuts to the social safety net in favor of cops where libraries become the service point of last resort.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors/Matt-Bors/9781952090226

https://twitter.com/benclarkson

https://twitter.com/MattBors

Media mentioned

https://thenib.com/

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/1-uc/

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/3-mc/index.html

https://scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html

Thursday Jun 22, 2023

094 - Disability Archives Lab feat. Gracen Brilmyer

Thursday Jun 22, 2023

This week we're joined by Gracen to talk about the Lab, accommodations, death and remembrance, Crip futures, and lots more!

Transcript: https://sonix.ai/share/EshPDeD7BmqS2zUR4V3PoUL4

https://linktr.ee/disabilityarchiveslab

https://twitter.com/DisArchivesLab

http://disabilityarchiveslab.com/blog/

https://litwinbooks.com/books/preserving-disability/#:~:text=Preserving%20Disability%3A%20Disability%20and%20the,approaches%20to%20the%20archival%20profession.

Media mentioned

https://bookriot.com/illinois-has-officially-banned-book-bans/

https://lostinthestacks.libsyn.com/episode-560-what-is-the-disability-archives-lab?tdest_id=157087

https://mukurtu.org/

https://www.dukeupress.edu/work-requirements

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/728

Wednesday Jun 14, 2023

Tender Subject 001 - That’s a rather tender subject

Wednesday Jun 14, 2023

Welcome to the first episode of Tender Subject! This week, we're going over the whats and whys of this podcast. Why cannibalism? Why aren't we talking about True Crime? We also talk a little bit about the current cannibal craze in media and why we always need to justify our enjoyment. Finally, we do a show & tell for each other about something we might not do an entire episode on but wanted to talk about anyway.

Media Discussed:

2022 Was the Year of the Cannibal. What Does That Say About Us?

We the Parasites by A.V. Marraccini

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

Art by Anya R. Hueing

Music by @coffin_flops

Thursday Jun 08, 2023

093 - Desk Set (1957)

Thursday Jun 08, 2023

This week we’re doing the other library school movie, Desk Set. But first, we solve the eternal war between goths and librarians by talking about the Mütter Museum’s changes. Then we get into AI, automation, and sexy library shenanigans.

Media mentioned

Mütter Museum: https://www.inquirer.com/news/mutter-museum-oddities-review-new-plan-20230603.html

Knott Malone, "Imagining information retrieval in the library: Desk Set in historical context," in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 14-22, July-Sept. 2002, doi: 10.1109/MAHC.2002.1024759. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1024759

Desk set revisited: Reference librarians, reality, & research systems' design (1995) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0099133395901450

Thursday May 25, 2023

092 - Preserving Worlds II: Preservinger

Thursday May 25, 2023

We’re talking about the latest season of Preserving Worlds! Video game preservation, indie media, archiving, animation, DIY, the Internet as a bad place! We close talking about the end: our deaths, our multiple digital deaths, and how they won’t coincide with each other.

https://means.tv/programs/preservingworlds

https://twitter.com/DerekLMurphy

https://twitter.com/MitchellZemil

Media Mentioned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrzKT-dFUjE - Lemon Demon video Shawn worked on

https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Yume_Nikki - Yume Nikki

https://rpgmaker.net/games/2430/ - Space Funeral

https://rpgmaker.net/games/6697/ - OFF

https://rpgmaker.fandom.com/wiki/Ib - Ib

https://www.youtube.com/@ToddintheShadows

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/19/1073367/digital-life-isnt-permanent-google-twitter-inactive-accounts/