Quickies
Quickies: Librarians teaching about fake news, gaslighting trolls, and how animals use poop
- The nervous civil servants guide to defying an illegal order – “The American system provides you with a choice. You can insist that you were just following orders. Or you can follow the law.”
- Librarians take up arms against fake news – “Hagen said librarians have always helped people sort fact from fiction, reliable sources from deceptive ones. Usually that happened as students worked on research papers, but now those lessons need to cover daily life.”
- What everyone gets wrong about anti-Semitic Twitter trolls – “Internet harassment by racist, misogynist trolls is actually meant to confuse you and make you doubt your reality.”
- Weird and fascinating ways animals use poop – “None of it smells like roses. That’s conventional poop wisdom, but otter dung, called spraint, can sometimes smell like violets…”
There’s kind of a poetic through-line in you headline summery what with fake news, gaslighting, and animals using poop.
A rather ugly one, but appropriate none the less.