This isn’t even getting to things like “the algo” which thinks I might want to follow the Vice President on social media (I don’t) or thinks I SHOULD follow the Vice President (I won’t) or this stupid feature from the Shaw’s [local grocery store] app that tells me about my all-grain diet after it tried to sell me Sirius-XM and a new credit card while I waited for my groceries in the curbside pick up slot. So they make them difficult to get (so you don’t steal them) and this makes me very conflicted (because I know how to steal them, and I know it’s a lot simpler, but this is the game we are playing and what does it mean to be a librarian in 2025 anyhow) and this is mostly by making the technology difficult. And when I see people in the library who are having trouble getting an ebook, 90% of the time, they think it’s their fault, that they can’t figure out the technology, that they are somehow not tech smart enough, that everyone else knows it and they don’t.
Author: jessamyn
Published at: 2025-07-01 20:48:59
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