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TIME’s 1990 “Twentysomething” article on Generation X

By David M. Gross and Sophfronia Scott[2018 companion podcast interview with Sophfronia Scott online here.]

They have trouble making decisions. They would rather hike in the Himalayas than climb a corporate ladder. They have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own. They crave entertainment, but their attention span is as short as one zap of a TV dial. They hate yuppies, hippies and druggies. They postpone marriage because they dread divorce. They sneer at Range Rovers, Rolexes and red suspenders. What they hold dear are family life, local activism, national parks, penny loafers and mountain bikes. They possess only a hazy sense of their own identity but a monumental preoccupation with all the problems the preceding generation will leave for them to fix.

October 8, 2024 by Internet

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds

Meta smart glasses can be used to dox anyone in seconds, study finds

Opt out of PimEyes now, students warn
For Nguyen and Ardayfio, the point of the project was to persuade people to opt out of invasive search engines to protect their privacy online. An attempt to use I-XRAY to identify 404 Media reporter Joseph Cox, for example, didn’t work because he’d opted out of PimEyes.

But while privacy is clearly important to the students and their demo video strove to remove identifying information, at least one test subject was “easily” identified anyway, 404 Media reported. That test subject couldn’t be reached for comment, 404 Media reported.

October 2, 2024 by Internet Privacy Technology

Libraries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Have Been Detoured From the Information Highway

That should be “Super Highway” shouldn’t it?

Libraries on Maryland’s Eastern Shore Have Been Detoured From the Information Highway

Libraries across Maryland are operating without internet access. An underground fire in Baltimore interrupted service and has sent libraries on the Eastern Shore back to doing things the old-fashioned way.

“It’s almost every Maryland public library that is affected today,” said Talbot Library Director Dana Newman. “I heard Talbot County Government and Talbot County Public Schools are also impacted because they’re on that same network.”

October 1, 2024 by Internet Libraries School Libraries Technology

Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public

It has folders marked ‘Grasping the victim’s head’ and now – after a £15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet – the extraordinary Warburg Institute is letting passersby in to view its ‘books emanating sorcery’

Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public

A mysterious cosmic emblem hangs over the entrance to a building in Bloomsbury, at the heart of London’s university quarter. Depicting concentric circles bound by intertwined arcs, it represents the four elements, seasons and temperaments, as mapped out by Isidore of Seville, a sixth-century bishop and scholar of the ancient world, as well as patron saint of the internet. What lies within is not a masonic lodge, though, or the HQ of the Magic Circle, but the home of one of most important and unusual collections of visual, scientific and occult material in the world. Long off-limits to passersby, the Warburg Institute has now been reborn, after a £14.5m transformation, with a mission to be more public than ever.

September 26, 2024 by Internet Librarians Libraries

Statewide Internet Outage at Delaware Libraries Caused by Hackers

Statewide Internet Outage at Delaware Libraries Caused by Hackers

Delaware`s three dozen libraries, which provide free internet and computer services to residents, were targeted by hackers on Friday, disrupting access to all computers and the internet.

In today’s digital age, technology plays a vital role in library services. Lea Roselle, the Milford Public Library Director, emphasized the significance of technology.

“The technology is what makes our whole business run—I mean, we are an information technology center.”

September 25, 2024 by Internet IT Security in Libraries Legal Issues Libraries Public Libraries

Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America’s libraries

Why a ruling against the Internet Archive threatens the future of America%u2019s librariesThe decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers; interests. Congress must act.

This decision harms libraries. It locks them into an e-book ecosystem designed to extract as much money as possible while harvesting (and reselling) reader data en masse. It leaves local communities’ reading habits at the mercy of curatorial decisions made by four dominant publishing companies thousands of miles away. It steers Americans away from one of the few remaining bastions of privacy protection and funnels them into a surveillance ecosystem that, like Big Tech, becomes more dangerous with each passing data breach. And by increasing the price for access to knowledge, it puts up even more barriers between underserved communities and the American dream.

September 11, 2024 by Archives Books EBooks Internet Legal Issues Libraries Privacy Technology

Seattle Public Library recovers from ransomware attack, makes moves to strengthen tech security

Seattle Public Library recovers from ransomware attack, makes moves to strengthen tech security

“The work to strengthen our systems began prior to the attack, but remaining items in IT’s work plan were expedited after the attack,” said Laura Gentry, head of communications for the library. “Since Memorial Day weekend, the library expedited migration to SharePoint Online, as well as implementation of multi-factor authentication on staff systems — which took place over the course of three days, rather than the weeks-long process we had planned.”

September 6, 2024 by Internet IT Security in Libraries Librarians Libraries Public Libraries

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending

The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in a fight to lend out scanned ebooks without the approval of publishers. In a decision on Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that permitting the Internet Archive’s digital library would “allow for widescale copying that deprives creators of compensation and diminishes the incentive to produce new works.”

September 4, 2024 by Archives Books EBooks Internet Legal Issues Libraries

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