jennie rose halperin

A little boy next to me who went with his mom to vote asked if she was going to vote for steak for dinner. She said yes.

Our own @littlewow.online is talking about AI policy this Thursday at the 2026 Open Education Conference! opened26.sched.com/event/2RCT0/...

I love this so much

I got my bootleg Christmas Tree Shops tshirt just in time for @flaminghydra.com New England week

Election heating up here in NC

Such a pleasure to be on @404media.co podcast talking about the past, present, and future of libraries! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Just watched Network for the first time, holy shit

Phenomenal news. @littlewow.online has a great piece at @flaminghydra.com on the backstory flaminghydra.com/wiki-workers...

What is going on with hotels in NYC? It’s always expensive in the nice months but I can’t find anything under $600/night in either Manhattan or Brooklyn in mid September, which feels extreme?

The potential acquisition of HF by NVIDIA really reminds me how extraordinary it is when open source companies, projects, and nonprofits are able to maintain their independence over time.

Dolly Parton was an incredible advocate for literacy, a library innovator, and a brilliant musician. She gave away over 300 million (!) books in her lifetime, fought the increasing censorship of her Imagination Libraries, and wrote one of the greatest feminist anthems of all time. Love you, Dolly!

TODAY: @littlewow.online in conversation with labor lawyer and union organizer Jeremy Bernick on U.S. Wikipedia workers' union drive. "What we’re asking for ... are basic social and political rights that our own employees in other countries are already entitled to." flaminghydra.com/wiki-workers...

Our comms manager is on a much deserved vacation so it's me, @littlewow.online, staffing Bluesky this week. (Not gonna tag her so I don't bother her) AMA about libraries and digital rights, it'll be fun. 😈

The Bartz case reconfirmed that we have to look out for each other

There's still time to register for Tools for Intellectual Freedom Training (Monday 8/17). Learn some stuff AND play a bit of the Pickle of the Persistent Press Hound with our own @librariansreed.bsky.social, @littlewow.online, and @samhelmick.bsky.social! elearning.ala.org/local/catalo...

Wrote about capitalist realism, academia, and the radical monopolies inherent in innovation tied to capital.

Library advocates in multiple states and major advocacy organizations wouldn’t be fighting back if corporate greed didn’t dictate their collections over their community’s needs. Supporting a library’s right to fair terms in digital is what brave, forward-thinking, and informed authors do.

I’m exhibiting @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social conference this year and was surprised to see that an org that says they care about privacy selling participant data to vendors, particularly at a time when a lot of people are taking a risk in attending the conference at all.

“Moreover, campus surveys suggest that many students feel compelled to self-censor. Out of fear for their grades, they often respond to exam questions by drawing on what their professors have taught them, thereby reproducing expert opinion.” www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

“No one goes to Pilates thinking ‘I’m going to be a fascist today’”

How Things Work is three years old this week. It's not the most important thing in the world but it is nice to know that it is possible to build sustainable independent media in 2026. If you're a subscriber, thank you for keeping hope alive. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/three-year...

I have never used another browser unless I was forced to, so I was surprised to see that Firefox has less than 5% market share! It’s not even that ideological, I just like it.

Wrote about why we need a strong consumer protection movement to fight digital contract abuses over @techdirt.com. Thanks for the opportunity @masnick.com ! www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/y...

“We’ve been signing away our rights one click at a time…. If we want to take them back, libraries are the most powerful place we can start.” Our ED @littlewow.online in @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy www.techdirt.com/2026/04/21/y...

Thanks to @bookriot.bsky.social @heykellyjensen.bsky.social for featuring our new Imagine IF game! Play as a librarian as you CYOA and fend off Intellectual Freedom challenges! bookriot.com/library-futu...

I read through a ton of Seder supplements and made my own Haggadah! you can download it here! 👇

You: basic, hate the internet because of AI or social media brainrot or whatever. Me: wise, has always hated the internet, for killing off CD-ROMs

This from @masnick.com was thought provoking— as an old school “learn to code” type with humanities background, I am interested in the role of expertise in tech. Agentic code bots transform the gatekeeping of code, and I’m much more here for it than I thought I’d be www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/a...

damn this card for reporters is such a flex