drop Google search. I use DuckDuckGo and Wikipedia. and I search the library, find books, check them out, look at their sources, check out those. I’ve heard Kagi is good. Help everyone else see why this matters. We must not let chatbot owners dictate the terms of our access to information and ideas.

Annalee Newitz@annaleen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

With its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on. Instead of linking people to the web, it will lock users into an "interactive" mode that slorps up data what is rapidly becoming the now-neglected and unvisited web. (1/3)

the only safe data is the kind that's not collected

Teresa Heffernan@tjheffernan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Imagine if governments actually protected their citizens: "The real remedy, EPIC concludes, is not better forms but less collection: rules that bar companies from gathering personal information they never needed in the first place." www.wired.com/story/data-b...

refuse, refuse, refuse

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

rollingstone.com

best trend of 2026. boo all these fuckers.

404 Media@404media.co · 3mo ago

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

Without the library, there is no history, only the stories power wants told.

Internet Archive@archive.org · 3mo ago

As high-profile websites vanish, it’s a reminder that the web has no built-in archival layer. But some publishers are now blocking the Wayback Machine. What’s at stake if the web stops being archived? Our new FAQ explains: preserving the public record matters. 🌐📚 help.archive.org/help/faq-pub...

Last month, Brewster Kahle — digital librarian of the Internet Archive — was honored as a 2026 Fellow by the Computer History Museum, joining past Fellows including Tim Berners-Lee, Katherine Johnson, and Steve Wozniak. More about the award ⤵️ blog.archive.org/2026/03/24/b...

The next James Bond should be Gary Oldman in his Jackson Lamb persona.

Hard to overstate this. We think of the internet as forever. Vast stores of information have already disappeared.

Kate Klonick@klonick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Internet is disappearing before our very eyes and it’s why we should all support that absolutely critical work of @archive.org

“We live in a homophobic society…if you think there are not more gay players in the NFL, Major League Baseball, and the NBA, you’re just stupid” - Charles Barkley saying the quiet part out loud. I fuckin cried. god bless him and Jason Collins.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

"The need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

my friends, local politics matter. wherever you are, pay attention. show up for something. find allies. campaign for the things you and your allies want. celebrate your wins, with cakes and bubbly and glitter and love.

“We must protect and cultivate the ecosystem of human knowledge. AI models can mimic the appearance of scholarly work, but they are (by construction) unconcerned with truth — the result is a torrential outpouring of unchecked but convincing-sounding “information”. — as quoted in Guest et al. (2026)

Against the Uncritical Adoption of ‘AI’ Technologies in Academia — Digital Culture & Education (ISSN: 1836-8301)

Written by: Olivia Guest, Marcela Suarez, Barbara C. N. Müller, Edwin van Meerkerk, Arnoud Oude Groote Beverborg, Ronald de Haan, Andrea Reyes Elizondo, Mark Blokpoel, Natalia Scharfenberg, Annelies ...

digitalcultureandeducation.com

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

In praise of fact-checking and against idiotic valuations.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 4mo ago

The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

How minimum wage hikes and food stamps fit in to suicide prevention

Studies show income, debt and access to basic needs shape mental health outcomes, but U.S. strategies have largely focused on clinical care.

washingtonpost.com

one time i wrote a post about how AI could never replicate the human experience of writing and someone accused me of using AI to write it, like as a bit, and anyway AI is cooking all of our brains and @jasonkoebler.bsky.social says it so well here:

Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain

AI writing is impossible to avoid, is making everything sound the same, and is driving us crazy.

404media.co

This hit me so hard this week.

I just can’t get over how willing the populace is to cede its fundamental right and ability _to_think_. Since when did that become so onerous and burdensome? Why do such large numbers of people find the idea of giving up analytical thinking a plus? Astounding and horrifying.

Events like the Black Zine Fair are INCREDIBLY important in 2026. With every passing day, right wing billionaires seize control of more of our communications infrastructure and publishing and media outlets. We HAVE to support alternate, genuinely independent means of communication.

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

The real Odyssey is to get enough of your prescription meds before you leave on your journey.

I am still absolutely stunned, in the best possible way, by the election results 🥹 Thank you, Brookline, for trusting me and @amynewell.bsky.social w/our library & showing up for our schools Thank you, P6, for re-electing me to TM So much love today ♥️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤎🤍🩷🩵 brookline.news/vanscoyoc-ou...

VanScoyoc ousted from Select Board; Federspiel, Baines-Walsh and Khan win School Committee seats - Brookline.News

VanScoyoc topped the vote count last time he ran for Select Board in 2023.

brookline.news

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Don’t run universities like a business run it as a public good

My name is not "Mom". Stop saying "Mom" as a proper noun. Especially stop saying it as part of a headline about mothers' day "gifts for Mom" and maybe stop hawking mother's day gifts entirely. file under screaming into the void thanks

This is an attack upon the infrastructure of democracy as well as on creativity and critical thinking.

Matthew L Reznicek@drreznicek.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New PEN America report analysed 3,743 unique titles removed from libraries and classrooms and found books about activism and social movements were targeted www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Listening to an activist praising LLMs as kin. It stems from misperceptions of how the tool works; she views it as honest with her because it queries data, despite saying it has bias. AI is designed to hijack belief & we are all susceptible: smart, should know better, AI experts or awesome activists