Sam B. Rambling
@sambramble.cryptoanarchy.network
Disabled itinerant archivist moving into chaplain work. Cascadia made me, Third Coast raised me. MLIS Drexel 2014. Former associate prof in archives at Virginia Tech + ex-doc student at UA ischool. rant.li/sambramble
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A little snapshot of my Google Scholar results while the platform still exists. I'm thinking of doing a zine-companion series where I reflect on the scholarly process and maybe review the papers that have cited my stuff in more than a cursory way.
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Rather than an aberration from societal norms, lynching was an evolution of a European cultural tradition that systematized cruelty towards children. Dr. Stacey Patton makes her unflinching case in STRUNG UP.
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children by Stacey Patton
“Lynching was not just a tool of terror, but a method of socialization” that “groomed white children into cruelty,” according to...
www.publishersweekly.com
September 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Rather than an aberration from societal norms, lynching was an evolution of a European cultural tradition that systematized cruelty towards children. Dr. Stacey Patton makes her unflinching case in STRUNG UP.
Just started an ARC of the audiobook
Brace yourself when Dr. Stacey Patton’s STRUNG UP arrives in October! In their starred review, @publisherswkly.bsky.social calls it “a clear-eyed, tour de force deconstruction of America’s damaged psyche.”
Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children by Stacey Patton
“Lynching was not just a tool of terror, but a method of socialization” that “groomed white children into cruelty,” according to...
www.publishersweekly.com
September 24, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Just started an ARC of the audiobook
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They are trying so hard to silence us. Glad I spoke about Ida B. Wells in my classes today.
well and imagine if a former women’s studies and philosophy student became an investigative journalist who reported on lawmakers abusing the power of their office? better to simply cut all that curriculum
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
www.statesman.com/news/educati...
UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
www.statesman.com
September 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
They are trying so hard to silence us. Glad I spoke about Ida B. Wells in my classes today.
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This sounds less like a "rogue" AI and more like there were next to no guardrails placed in the instructions?
Computers do Exactly What You Tell Them To Do and Computers are very very very dumb at the same time.
Computers do Exactly What You Tell Them To Do and Computers are very very very dumb at the same time.
The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...
OpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)
In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.
www.nytimes.com
September 24, 2026 at 2:44 AM
This sounds less like a "rogue" AI and more like there were next to no guardrails placed in the instructions?
Computers do Exactly What You Tell Them To Do and Computers are very very very dumb at the same time.
Computers do Exactly What You Tell Them To Do and Computers are very very very dumb at the same time.
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"If a derelict landlord allows dozens of units to sit empty for more than six months, that’s fewer units on the market. It’s holding desperately needed housing units away from the very Minneapolis residents this housing is supposed to serve." minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/23/m...
Minneapolis needs a stronger rental housing vacancy fee • Minnesota Reformer
A vacancy fee can begin to repair a usurious housing system that punishes average renter families, saps homeowners of nearby property values, and keeps city government chronically three steps behind a...
minnesotareformer.com
September 23, 2026 at 5:22 PM
"If a derelict landlord allows dozens of units to sit empty for more than six months, that’s fewer units on the market. It’s holding desperately needed housing units away from the very Minneapolis residents this housing is supposed to serve." minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/23/m...
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things are coming together, so the preparation can be done and the lessons can be learned, the cycles can be broken and renewed.
here's to a new season.
here's to a new season.
September 23, 2026 at 4:49 PM
things are coming together, so the preparation can be done and the lessons can be learned, the cycles can be broken and renewed.
here's to a new season.
here's to a new season.
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Time to bring back the old ways. Start moving like our parents/grandparents. Vigilance in regards to one's social circle might hurt a few feelings but it will help keep you alive.
JUST IN: A grand jury investigating the death of Nolan Wells has unanimously decided against making any indictments in his death after issuing 132 subpoenas and hearing from 43 witnesses, Jackson County District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath said in a statement Monday night.
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Nolan Wells Grand Jury Unanimously Decides Against Indictments, Jackson County DA Says
A grand jury investigating the death of Nolan Wells has unanimously decided against making any indictments in his death on Horn Island.
buff.ly
September 22, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Time to bring back the old ways. Start moving like our parents/grandparents. Vigilance in regards to one's social circle might hurt a few feelings but it will help keep you alive.
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And peptides. Dudes in the gym swearing by unregulated, untested shots THEY GIVE THEMSELVES, while terrified of vaccines.
we need to talk more about the afraid of vaccines yet stoked for weight loss injections crowd
September 22, 2026 at 1:31 PM
And peptides. Dudes in the gym swearing by unregulated, untested shots THEY GIVE THEMSELVES, while terrified of vaccines.
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Why the fuck would people pay this when the job listing is ai slop and the hr sorting tool is ai?!
Be so fucking for real for two seconds 😂
Be so fucking for real for two seconds 😂
September 22, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Why the fuck would people pay this when the job listing is ai slop and the hr sorting tool is ai?!
Be so fucking for real for two seconds 😂
Be so fucking for real for two seconds 😂
This speech at the UN General Assembly hall is patently unhinged. Unhinged.
September 22, 2026 at 3:03 PM
This speech at the UN General Assembly hall is patently unhinged. Unhinged.
Trump has just announced at the UN General Assembly that he's rebranding it as "Super Intelligence" lol
September 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Trump has just announced at the UN General Assembly that he's rebranding it as "Super Intelligence" lol
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May his family and loved ones know peace and realize justice one day.
The grand jury reviewing the evidence in the death of Nolan Wells had found that no criminal charges are warranted at this point
No criminal charges in the death of Nolan Wells: Grand jury report
The grand jury reviewing the death of Nolan Wells has found that, based on all the evidence they reviewed, no criminal charges are warranted at this point.
abcnews.com
September 22, 2026 at 11:27 AM
May his family and loved ones know peace and realize justice one day.
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“[The prosecution] was intended to silence speech about Palestine, and for everything that they threw at this case, they have failed.”
quoted: Amy Zhai, one of the five students targeted in the prosecution
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
quoted: Amy Zhai, one of the five students targeted in the prosecution
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Charges dropped against Stanford students over pro-Palestine protest
Students faced prison terms and thousands of dollars in restitution over campus protest against Israel’s war on Gaza
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 12:16 PM
“[The prosecution] was intended to silence speech about Palestine, and for everything that they threw at this case, they have failed.”
quoted: Amy Zhai, one of the five students targeted in the prosecution
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
quoted: Amy Zhai, one of the five students targeted in the prosecution
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Just a reminder, The key point (to not lose track of) within discussions about this so-called "Ai" era is whether this iteration of deeply faulty human puppeteered tech can legitimately replace experienced, educated, accountable, and emotionally responsible humans.
The answer is clearly NO.
The answer is clearly NO.
Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.
ALT: Michael Jordan: Stop It. Get Some Help.
static.klipy.com
September 22, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Just a reminder, The key point (to not lose track of) within discussions about this so-called "Ai" era is whether this iteration of deeply faulty human puppeteered tech can legitimately replace experienced, educated, accountable, and emotionally responsible humans.
The answer is clearly NO.
The answer is clearly NO.
Tuned into the UN General Assembly today on Al Jazeera just in time for some bronzed gasbag to vomit words all over the podium.
September 22, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Tuned into the UN General Assembly today on Al Jazeera just in time for some bronzed gasbag to vomit words all over the podium.
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Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
September 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote.
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Axon cameras.
More like, ax me before you turn on those cameras, am I right??
More like, ax me before you turn on those cameras, am I right??
With the backlash to Flock, cities are moving to Axon cameras. But what exactly are they doing with them? 404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs, @josephcox.bsky.social explains.
You can too: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
You can too: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
September 22, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Axon cameras.
More like, ax me before you turn on those cameras, am I right??
More like, ax me before you turn on those cameras, am I right??
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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
www.wired.com
September 21, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
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Many of us need to step away from screens and the perpetual frontlines —and seriously invest in our mental, spiritual, and relational well-being.
Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.
Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.
September 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Many of us need to step away from screens and the perpetual frontlines —and seriously invest in our mental, spiritual, and relational well-being.
Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.
Or we won't get through what's sure to come next.
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🗣️You gotta shake ya ass.
Tambourine
Eve · Tambourine · Song · 2007
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September 21, 2026 at 2:52 PM
🗣️You gotta shake ya ass.
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Here is what will "fix" public schools in low income communities.
1. Money
2. Ability to attract high quality professionals + Money
3. Reduce food insecurity + money
4. Address social emotional and mental health issues + Money
5. HEALTHCARE: More clinics + Money
6. Finally, eliminate racism
1. Money
2. Ability to attract high quality professionals + Money
3. Reduce food insecurity + money
4. Address social emotional and mental health issues + Money
5. HEALTHCARE: More clinics + Money
6. Finally, eliminate racism
September 21, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Here is what will "fix" public schools in low income communities.
1. Money
2. Ability to attract high quality professionals + Money
3. Reduce food insecurity + money
4. Address social emotional and mental health issues + Money
5. HEALTHCARE: More clinics + Money
6. Finally, eliminate racism
1. Money
2. Ability to attract high quality professionals + Money
3. Reduce food insecurity + money
4. Address social emotional and mental health issues + Money
5. HEALTHCARE: More clinics + Money
6. Finally, eliminate racism
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i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them.
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
plenty of 20th century examples by my 19th century-pilled mind goes immediately to the railroads, which were HUGELY DISRUPTIVE and deeply enmeshed in politics in ways quite analogous to silicon valley and AI
September 21, 2026 at 4:12 PM
i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them.
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
"The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."
Sometime I feel like the whitest hotep, because tbh there's something to the notion that white men were bred and raised to be a danger to others.
I'm eagerly awaiting the broader release of Haile Gerima's Black Lions - Roman wolves.
I'm eagerly awaiting the broader release of Haile Gerima's Black Lions - Roman wolves.
September 21, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Sometime I feel like the whitest hotep, because tbh there's something to the notion that white men were bred and raised to be a danger to others.
I'm eagerly awaiting the broader release of Haile Gerima's Black Lions - Roman wolves.
I'm eagerly awaiting the broader release of Haile Gerima's Black Lions - Roman wolves.
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We already have it:
September 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
We already have it: