the effing librarian makes a point

I love the effing librarian

information is not necessarily power…assimilation is power.

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3. If you post something stupid on the Internet, it’s stupid for a long, long time. If you have an argument with some friends and you say something dumb, and your friends say you’re an idiot, you can take it back, say “sorry” and say you heard someone else say that, and you didn’t mean it, and you’re really not stupid, or maybe you are stupid, but you didn’t mean it, and everyone would be cool with that. As long as you didn’t become an ass about it. But posting stupid stuff on the Internet, for as free and open as we think it is, can get you in lots of trouble.