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Sorry, "they're creating province wide standards to ensure age appropriate of library material after dozens of books containing explicit sexual content were found in and .

What are the "sexually explicit books" in question? Four about young people "discovering their sexual identity."

https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/extremely-graphic-sexual-content-found-in-books-at-k-9-schools-province-says








Covers for three of four graphic novels found in Edmonton and Calgary schools that dealt with adults "discovering their sexual identity." The four graphic novels have become a casus belli for the Alberta government to begin banning books in public school libraries.

I have realised recently that archiving, keeping local copies of drm free media, and playing them through open source, non-modifying players isn't just about having a copy of that rare show that I loved in the 1980s.

More importantly it is about ensuring that I have access to the "original" content, and not a "special edition" or AI enhanced version. The same with audio, keeping it local may limit my selection to just what I have on the server, but no adverts every few minutes, no drunk DJ AI generated playlist, and the knowledge that real people made every track.

As the age of AI slop media washes over us these collections of curated media public and private will become lighthouses of culture in a dark digital sea of emptiness.

#library #pirarchivist #digitalArchives