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We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ

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Come to our session this morning if you are at #cnifall25! “4.1 Artificial Intelligence-Related Efforts at Three Libraries: How They Have Fared & Where They Are Headed”

Browser extensions for LSP! (Folio)

I don’t think we humans are necessarily better at performing the zero-tolerance-for-error type of tasks but it is true that our preference is clearly for those tasks being done by humans, not machines. The Q of what that means to us isn’t an ideological one.

+1 to the idea of “scaling down” the computing infrastructure and what that can mean, as long as it is pursued for more sustainability and more responsible computing (not just for the sake of austerity and doming more with less)! #cnifall25

If more humans start speaking AI language, doesn’t that make AI language just another variation of human language? AI slop or kitsch normalized? “A recent study found that A.I. language is increasingly coming out of human mouths.“ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

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It occurred to me that my love for various cleaning tools/agents may signify my unending hope for renewal for everything (including the dirtiest and oldest oven rack)! 😆 (only if my hope led to actual cleaning action more often!!)

It’s like sb was listening to me harping on missing the mix tapes (not so much LPs)! Mix tapes gave us the most wonderful form of practicing/experiencing copy*left* (not in the legal sense) but in the sense of curating and sharing in our most ordinary life, imho. 🙌@jasonclark.bsky.social #copyleft

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Unpause and rewind: Cassette tapes are making a comeback - ABC News share.google/ZE6hHcu6EMH4...

Navigating London subway with a suitcase made me wonder why Google or Apple Map does not provide the public transportation directions *with a step-free/accessibility-friendly option* for large cities. Kudos to city of London providing detailed info: tfl.gov.uk/travel-infor...

What would be some of the concrete and *realistic* terms/features of “responsible AI” practices in your opinion (not of the pie-in-the-sky type)? I would love to hear from folks at #FF2025 if you have thoughts on this topic. Thank you!

Loved hearing about this AI literacy project to support information professionals (as well as the public)! misbehavingmachines.net #FF2025

“What is the next biggest scientific discovery that can be made from a library collection (as a dataset)?” #FF2025

Exploration of AI afterlives: “Synthetic Pasts” & “The Responsible AI Afterlives workbook” - www.syntheticpasts.com & www.syntheticpasts.com/aiafterlives... (which says authenticity is not static.) #FF2025

Synthetic Pasts | digital memory

The Synthetic Pasts project is a critical-creative inquiry exploring how media fragments from the past - photos or audio recordings for example - are remediated/reanimated through algorithmic intermed...

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“AI use to identify & remove redundant, obsolete, trivial (ROT) records to reduce their digital heap.” 🙌 I think information decluttering, info hygiene, selective archiving at scale will become critical given the rising cost (IT and beyond) and energy impact of large data storage & mgmt. #FF2025

Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025

I would say no technology is inherently for austerity (or abundance). Today’s leaning into austerity is driven by the (universalized) desire for “more” rather than “less” imho. Humans don’t have a good track record on “just enough” in anything, but it would be exciting to see that change. #FF2025

“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

Introducing the Careful Consequence Check — Careful Industries

A step-by-step guide to using the Careful Consequence Check canvas.

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New blog post! “What I Think About AI When I Hear About AI: A Slightly Unconventional View” - www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archive... (or read on Substack bohyunkima2.substack.com/p/what-i-thi...) #libraries #AI #ML

Wrote a short post : “About Going All In: The ordinariness of all that is extraordinary” - open.substack.com/pub/bohyunki...

About Going All In

The ordinariness of all that is extraordinary

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A long weekend, so I wrote something. Not about library or technology but hope some find it interesting. open.substack.com/pub/bohyunki...

The Strangeness of Contemporary Art

Tips for how to enjoy it

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Come by to discuss AI in the context of library user needs and goals - today 1pm at PCC 115A! “The Future of Library Services: Innovating with AI, UX, and the Service Design” - RUSA President’s Program cdmcd.co/zEXmAq #alaac25

MASL is well represented at American Library Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia! 📚Shoutout to our very own Governor Gretchen Whitmer for being a keynote speaker at this year’s conference! 🤩 #ALAAC25 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Attending “AILA President's Program: Truth, Identity, and Responsibility: Libraries and the Issue of Pretendians” at #alaac25. A great program (slides at docs.google.com/presentation...)

Woohoo!!! Core 5-Year Anniversary! Come to the Core Gala event if you can; the tickets are still available. : ) 🎉 #alaac25

“Machine access to publisher content, it matters: • Who asks •How you ask • Where you ask from” - #OpenRepos2025

Listening to Heather Joseph’s @hjoseph.bsky.social opening plenary at #OpenRepos2025 and it’s so good!

Slides for my talk “AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Surprise” (part of “AI for Good: Empowering Libraries to Advance Equity, Access, and Innovation“ - a ALA webinar back in May) for those interested! deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/ha... #AI #libraries

For those interested! Webinar this Thursday: AI for Good: Empowering Libraries to Advance Equity, Access, and Innovation - ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Join the American Library Association's IRC United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Subcommittee for a dynamic conversation at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the public good. Bui...

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Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

A good read - cepr.org/voxeu/column...