The official reason seems to be that use of printed materials is declining - which even if true doesn’t necessarily mean that one should close libraries and fire staff. MIT has amazing humanities programs; shouldn’t an institution this rich be able to support them? libraries.mit.edu/about/vision...
The MLA AI and Research Working Group's new "AI and the Humanities: A Framework for Language and Literary Scholarship" offers questions and case studies on AI literacy, human-centered expertise, and responsibility and ethics to guide discussion and reflection. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...
So I assume the US can't sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" since that's also "political"?
srsly MIT? srsly?
oh, guess what: MIT's endowment is <checks notes> $27 billion.
That's right: 27 billion dollars.
27 billion USD.
Why, I ask, is MIT closing THREE of its FOUR major libraries?
OB-GYN association, deviating from CDC guidance, issues its own vaccine recommendations
ACOG recommends that pregnant people receive Tdap, RSV, influenza, and Covid shots during pregnancy.
"Making Abraham (and later Felix) the “bad guy” in the story of Fanny’s life does an injustice to the complex nature of existing with intersectionally marginalized identities in an oppressive society."
@titachico.bsky.social @drbibliomane.bsky.social this blogpost made me think of you both.
Talarico got 1.2 million in March compared to Paxton’s 886,000 tops in either primary.
Point is: a lot of Texas Republicans seem to not be voting in the primaries, or switching or something, compared to democratic voters.
November 19, 2025 (updated March 25, 2026) Dear members of the MIT community, I write to share important information about the ways MIT Libraries will reorganize to take account of budget pressures ...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has released a recommended vaccine schedule during pregnancy, one that diverges from CDC guidance.
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery.
Depraved.
amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...
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Have you ever heard this quote from a letter that Fanny’s father sent her as a teenager?
“Music will perhaps become [Felix’s] profession, whilst for you it can and must only be an ornament, never the root of your being and doing.”
Turns out that quote is WRONG and has been for 150 years!
henselpushers
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries.
For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..."
fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
Everyone’s slander of Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy has driven me to writing on my blog and I’ll never forgive any of you for it.
Among people with a passing familiarity with Fanny Hensel, if they know one fact about her father Abraham, it is that he forbade his daughter from pursuing a career in music, telling her that while Fe...
