dB Cooper

“And so goes he forth: a clamless shell, as it were—a man of straw—a house untenanted—a futile, motile void."
– George Herriman

Gen X Jewish Midwesterner in exurban Nashville, TN, US

PhD in philosophy
Utopian sewer socialist

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2026-07-13 08:21:46 UTC

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I’m not sure

2026-07-13 03:34:50 UTC

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To be clear—this thread isn’t to get you to stop using library ebooks. The onus isn’t on you.
I have to use ebooks, if I want to read. I have problems reading regular books.
The point is that the situation, like so many others, is unsustainable. Private equity is looting the public. Libraries are no exception.
But the costs are at the front end. The library already paid Libby/overdrive, and you already paid your taxes. So go ahead. You have the right.
It’s KKR that doesn’t have the right.

2026-07-13 01:11:15 UTC

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Incidentally this is why the library’s collection beyond current bestsellers and other high-circulation books will always be unavailable for circulation electronically, unless we come up with a less exploitative model to pay for it.

2026-07-13 01:09:12 UTC

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Should you not use Libby? Go ahead. You already paid for it.
I just don’t use it frivolously. I try not to use Libby to borrow what I might not actually read/listen to/use. I try to make sure I have the time to read what I take out.
I use the preview feature.
The point is, the marginal cost to the library of an additional circulation of an ebook is significant, not trivial, up to (if the library decides not to renew the expensive license) loss of the ebook to other borrowers. So be mindful.

2026-07-13 00:58:40 UTC

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Librarians, being good public servants, will tell you to borrow books without guilt. You’re a taxpayer, or the child of one, and library material is for you; in any case, the library can advocate for realistic budgets based on what the patrons actually use.
I think this is a kindly lie. Library budgets are shrinking, never increasing, and the opportunity cost of these huge ever-growing Libby contracts is severe. They’re strangling everything else the library might do.

2026-07-13 00:58:31 UTC

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My kinda-sorta, back-of-the envelope number is that one borrowing of an ebook costs the library system on the order of five or ten times as much as one borrowing of the physical book.
A common contract for an ebook via Libby is a two-year rental that allows 26 circs, for—depending—something approaching a hundred bucks. That’s a few dollars per circ.
Hardback books cost about a third that much and circulate many more times. Probably tens of cents per circ or better.

2026-07-13 00:37:14 UTC

Public library ebooks are becoming a thing of the past.
Libby is bleeding the libraries to death, sucking tax money straight to private equity. (KKR owns it).
For that cost, you get very little, beyond hockey-playing-vampire romance novels and other dumb bestsellers.
If your experience with Libby is still good:
1) You live in one of the few remaining cities in the US with a well-funded library
2) It won’t last. Libby is a parasite that’s indifferent to its host’s long-term survival 🧵

2026-06-25 17:54:47 UTC

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I grew up on a tree lined street - the boughs practically met above the road. Big, old American elms. I still remember when the city came to cut them all down. Dutch elm disease

2026-06-20 05:43:29 UTC

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And Paraguay! When fucking Almirón did the one fucking thing they told everyone would be a red card. All he had to do was not do it!
The time wasting after that… otherworldly. If a Paraguayan player was so unlucky as to spy a Turkish player out the corner of their eye, they hit the turf like a lawn dart. So many exploded thigh muscles! Apparently! Oh look it’s the stretcher again, that player got Jerusalem Syndrome
#TURPAR
#FediFC #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

2026-06-20 05:36:44 UTC

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Honestly some of the funniest shit I’ve ever seen
Every time Turkey took another pointless shot from out past Fremont or San Mateo, and missed by the same 2 yard margin
Turkey had 62 shots in two games. SIXTY-TWO SHOTS.
zero goals. Nil of goals. None goals
Staggering
#TURPAR
#FediFC #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

2026-06-20 05:11:38 UTC

What in the heck was that
(I don’t know but it was funny as hell)
#TURPAR
#FediFC #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

2026-06-18 08:57:19 UTC

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Mind!

2026-06-17 18:39:40 UTC

Candid closeup shot of Christiano Ronaldo having a brief conversation with God
#PORCOD
#FediFC #WorldCup #WorldCup2026
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2026-03-21 01:08:39 UTC

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Our account? What?

2026-03-21 00:48:14 UTC

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I don’t want to visit the web page. I don’t want to read about it. I don’t want to learn the “easy” actions I must take. I don’t want to think or know about this “tool” in any way. I didn’t ask for it; I don’t even want it to exist. But now I have to. It’s all an unwanted imposition.
So you do it. Opt me out. It’s your job anyway, whoever made this, whoever runs it. I decline to accept the assignment.

2026-03-20 22:08:35 UTC

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Opt me out

2026-02-22 03:34:31 UTC

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I thought that was spring
What with May and June weddings being popular

2026-01-19 01:46:36 UTC

It’s tiring being a cat
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2025-09-19 20:53:20 UTC

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I knew about that, but do they play at the Neckarstadion? The thing in the middle didn't resemble the Stuttgart team's logo, and nothing lists them as a co-tenant of the stadium.

2025-09-19 20:22:01 UTC

Was there just an American football game played at the Neckarstadion? #Bundesliga #FediFC

2025-08-24 01:42:56 UTC

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I’ve got to go to udvar hazy

2025-07-28 23:36:11 UTC

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I’m having surprising luck attracti g butterflies to my dill plants that bolted

2025-07-22 21:54:07 UTC

I still don't think they should allow followup kicks on a penalty. You should get the initial shot, and that's it. Two bites at the apple seems exceessive, when you already have an 80% chance.
Though apparently England do not have an 80% chance. Everyone says that England do work on their penalties, but they're still lousy at them. The stress of the moment must be getting to them.
#FediFC #soccer #ENGITA

2025-07-18 03:01:06 UTC

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Canceled

2025-04-28 07:03:55 UTC

Pinned introductory post:
I am a #GenX #Jewish Midwesterner in exurban #Nashville, #Tennessee, USA.
[he/him or they/them]
I have a PhD in #philosophy (history of philosophy & social/political), but I’m not using it.
Politics: #Utopian #socialist.
Brain complaints: #ADHD, Delayed Sleep Phase Symdrome (#DSPS), #Depression, #Dysthymia, and #Anxiety
Subjects favored: #Soccer, #cooking, #gardening, #reading old books, and “the ruthless criticism of everything existing”.
Also, #cats
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2025-03-29 03:39:24 UTC

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okay. I can't do that, though. Haven't ever been able to. It always says there's no version for my architecture past 10.8. (running on a pi 4, raspbian bookworm)

2025-03-29 03:18:39 UTC

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10.8.10

2025-03-29 02:33:21 UTC

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do you know if there is there any way to roll back?

2025-03-29 02:12:28 UTC

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also naturally did a restart on the roku tv, and the server is working fine - flawless through the iphone jellyfin client and the web client.
It's odd because we're not doing anything unusual in our setup afaik

2025-03-29 02:08:01 UTC

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Thanks for checking in. But yeah the update is dead on arrival for me. I get a blank screen with the single exception of the little bug up in the corner that lets me access the account settings. I changed the UI/general/'use webclient home section arrangement' to negative, and this allowed 'next up' to show, but nothing else does. trying to play a next up instantly crashes it.
Roku 14.1

2025-03-29 00:57:11 UTC

lots of new features in the new edition of jellyfin for roku. also, it doesn't work
thanks guys. blank screen
#Jellyfin

2025-03-09 05:04:23 UTC

Portland Timbers are really bad y’all
#MLS #FediFC #MastodonFC

2025-03-02 16:00:14 UTC

New cat Smudge’s favorite place
#Caturday #cats
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2024-10-22 21:18:00 UTC

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1 Behrens hot-dipped galvanized pail
2 Home Depot Homer 5 gallon orange plastic bucket
3 Rubbermaid WaveBrake mop wringer bucket in yellow
4 O’Cedar Easy Pour
5 Rubbermaid Commercial Utility
6 DuraFlex Flatback
7 Tuff Stuff heavy duty small
8 Fortiflex Muck Tub
9 Ettore Compact Super Cleaning Bucket
10 Rubbermaid Double Bucket

2024-09-24 00:56:41 UTC

Wild.
There was, in my opinion, an obvious and egregious handball in the Germany v Spain semifinal at this summer’s Euros. Marc Cucurella blocked a shot from Jamal Musiala with his hand. There had been a diktat to refs that defender’s arms pointing downward and behind their torsos would be deemed “in a natural position.” On that basis the block was ruled not an offense. VAR agreed.
The UEFA Referee’s Committee has now decided this was wrong after all!
#MastodonFC #FediFC #Soccer #Euros
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2024-09-02 20:55:26 UTC

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Like the light cycles in Tron

2024-03-11 14:34:43 UTC

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“Policide.” Okay, that’s straightforward enough. Has several meanings but prof Steven Smith uses it this way: “a systematic project to destroy an entire way of doing and understanding politics and governance.” Example: Chile under the Junta. Can also be “Politicide.”

2024-03-11 14:30:42 UTC

I wonder if there’s a word for the crime of killing the polity as a political body. The people might be left alive but their institutions, their very capacity to govern themselves even somewhat justly, have been destroyed