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Alexander Justice 🇺🇦

@alexanderjustice.bsky.social

Doing my little part to build up student and faculty information literacy for 25 years. Theological studies librarian. 🎓Crafton Hills [Community] College, LMU, UCLA. 🏳️‍🌈 ☸️ ☕️

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Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · yesterday

Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · yesterday

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

Laprofmme@laprofmme.bsky.social · 2d ago

This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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Laprofmme@laprofmme.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thank you to @cjdenial.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social @liznorell.bsky.social for a fantastic webinar on Resisting AI in Education. Should be required of everyone involved in education. So many excellent ideas & resources from almost 700 attendees!!!!

hello@twotimesjohnny.bsky.social · 6d ago

they’re also getting pr & marketing value out of it. From us. As we type and post have you heard about the marketing campaign that created the concept ‘jaywalking is bad’ ? when cars were new and people objected to being run over? this ‘ai morality’ schtick isn’t trivial

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 6d ago

It would really be great if folks not affiliated with the Trump Administration could stop using "Department of War." The Department of Defense is a statutory creation, and the name is statutorily given--the administration cannot unilaterally change it.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 7d ago

NEW: The head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement firmly condemning plans to livestream the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan. Archbishop Paul Coakley calls the decision “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered.” www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops READINGS WASHINGTON - Yesterday, the U.S. Department of War announced that the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the man convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in 2009, would be publicly livestreamed. Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued the following statement sharply condemning the decision of the U.S. government: "It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people.United States Conference of Catholic Bishops READINGS "It is with shock and great sorrow that I have learned of the Department of War's decision to publicly livestream the execution of Nidal Hassan. Our God is the God of life. In no way can Hassan's actions be condoned but this decision is a barbaric promotion of a culture of death and must be reconsidered. The word of God exhorts us: 'do not repay anyone evil for evil' (Romans 12:17). The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people. "I pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Good Counsel that we as a nation may always choose life even in the most trying times and circumstances."
NPR@npr.org · 7d ago

The Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution would be "public. n.pr/4hNSlSu

Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last wk.

Using surveillance software is also very much a sign that management has no appreciation for the actual work their employees are doing. Books don't get made like widgets get made. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

S&S Staff Balk at AI Performance-Tracking Software Talks

Employees at Simon & Schuster are circulating an open letter objecting to the potential use of AI software to track their work. In a memo, CEO Greg Greeley said there is currently “no company-wide rol...

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James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · 2w ago

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

g.h. kirsch@gh-kirsch.bsky.social · 2w ago

Let me see if I've got this right. The team of lawyers who stole an election in Florida, and gave W the presidency, are now the Scotus team at the center of the GOP theft of our democracy.