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We’re talking with Jonny and Jez about SciOp, a torrent-focused data preservation project that encourages academics to help with the act of making data available. It’s distributed, it’s robust, and SciOp is working on making it easy to do. [email protected]  Contact Jonny:  Fedi: https://elektrine.com/remote/[email protected] Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/jo.nny.rip Media mentioned https://sciop.net/ https://forum.safeguar.de/about https://blog.sciop.net/2025-08-29/webseeds  https://punctumbooks.com/titles/warez-the-infrastructure-and-aesthetics-of-piracy/  Safeguarding/sciop: collecting at-risk data in torrent rss feeds - Codeberg.org - https://codeberg.org/safeguarding/sciop- the scraping code, such as it is: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/sciop-scraping - sciop the blog, such as it is: https://blog.sciop.net/ https://programminghistorian.org/ https://book.the-turing-way.org/  last episodes on federation: https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/101-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-1-feat-jonny-saunders/ https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/102-mastodon-bluesky-and-bullshit-part-2-feat-jonny/  Tools mentioned webrecorder, browser trix https://webrecorder.net/  https://webrecorder.net/browsertrix/ academictorrents - academic data tracker https://academictorrents.com/ aggregor mauve https://agregore.mauve.moe/  DRP - lumos https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/sites/datalumos/home https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table  https://torrentfreak.com/controversy-as-rookie-admin-aspires-to-bittorrent-domination-080730/  ddos secrets https://ddosecrets.org/  Archive Team Warrior https://tracker.archiveteam.org/  How to contribute to sciop  https://sciop.net/docs/quickstart/  Create account. Create a torrent. [find how to link for how to create a torrent] Upload.  Get permission so they are visible to others.  Seed. Transcripts: https://podscripts.co/podcasts/librarypunk  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

This week we’re joined by Hagen to talk about their new book on AI and labor/power/knowledge/eugenics. We also discuss some library Reddit developments.  Media mentioned https://juandavidcampolargo.substack.com/p/naperville-library-spy  https://www.juandavidcampolargo.com/projects/naperlibspy  https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-fear-ai Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/gesekv6i  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

It’s a fun one! We’re talking with Jessamyn about the public domain, new and old technology, blogging at the DNC, and lots of inside baseball. Media mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessamyn_West_(librarian) https://www.librarian.net/stax/5566/the-mining-of-the-public-domain/ https://jessamyn.com/tweets/  https://tararobertson.ca/2016/oob/  Request to Verify Eligibility for Free Ebooks for the Print Disabled https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSBbT17HSQywTm-fQawOK7G4dN-QPbDWNstdfvysoKTXCjKA/viewform  Veii’s music: https://veii.bandcamp.com/ Who Owns this Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs https://fit.princeton.edu/publications/who-owns-sentence-history-copyrights-and-wrongs  Free Whistleshttps://linktr.ee/3DwhistlesMy Justice of the Peace tumblrhttps://vermontjp.tumblr.com/Logan Airport chapelhttps://discovermass.com/church/our-lady-of-the-airways-east-boston-ma/Soul of a New Machinehttps://www.tracykidder.com/the-soul-of-a-new-machine.htmlMatteo Lanehttps://matteolanecomedy.com/My DNC bloghttps://www.librarian.net/dnc/Librarian at Burning Manhttps://www.jessamyn.com/journal/02/burnlib.htmlFlickr Commons Explorerhttps://commons.flickr.org/Without a Net, Librarians Bridging the Digital Dividehttps://www.librarian.net/digitaldivide/Marrakesh Treatyhttps://www.wipo.int/en/web/treaties/ip/marrakesh/indexFlickypediahttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:FlickypediaThat's My Grandma Flickr Galleryhttps://flickr.com/photos/flickrfoundation/galleries/72157722979767596/Murkutuhttps://mukurtu.org/Barnard Zine Libraryhttps://zines.barnard.edu/Cleaning out mom's househttps://www.flickr.com/photos/iamthebestartist/albums/72157719713137030 Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/684xqjj9  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT

We’re back! We’re talking about weeding and library collections as government speech.  Media mentioned https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/is-including-hidden-ai-prompts-in-academic-papers-gaming-the-peer-review-system-or-keeping-it-honest/  https://buttondown.com/wellsourced/archive/CREW-Method-Manual/ https://bookriot.com/little-vs-llano-county-fifth-circuit/  Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/dgpnufmm  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/qWPTurTnkT Companion zine for the episode: https://smazzie.itch.io/the-politics-of-weeding-and-little-v-llano-county-zine 

We’re talking with Kevin again about workers inquiry as an organizing tool and the example of the pamphlet The American Worker from 1947.   Twitter: https://x.com/AmericanWork47  readingstruggles.info notesfrombelow.org    Media mentioned The American Worker on COVER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikphd5bNza4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Ff9eaa73e-0b64-4316-a994-c97369b4e555.usrfiles.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjY “Searching for the American Worker” https://newpol.org/issue_post/searching-for-the-american-worker/ Culbertson, Anna W. “Our Labor, Our Terms: Workers’ Inquiry in Libraries,” in “Assemblage, Inquiry, and Common Work in Library and Information Studies,” eds. Melissa Adler and Andrew Lau. Special issue, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 4; https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/175 (CC BY-NC) In and against the state: discussion notes for socialists. https://libcom.org/book/export/html/31378  Reading Struggles: Working-Class Self-Activity from Detroit to Turin and Back Again. https://www.readingstruggles.info/ Guerillas of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible. https://www.akpress.org/guerrillas-of-desire.html  Transcript: https://pastecode.io/s/bgobg2t9  Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/zzEpV9QEAG