Amanda B
@bookcurious.bsky.social
Lurking around the English Department 📚🚲🦫 Once a librarian, always a librarian
I feel like we are on the verge of making information and media literacy on the Internet nearly impossible. People are already very bad at it!
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · last wk.A decade ago, Facebook was so worried about rising misinformation that it paid various news outlets to hire writers specifically tasked with publishing Snopes-like fact-checks. Today, the company is leaping into bed with a purveyor of misinformation to toy with a tool known for getting facts wrong.
Nothing but respect for Laika Studios' borderline maniacal commitment to doing their work by hand.
Trash Mob Minis@trashmobminis.bsky.social · last wk.This is a physical environment we built by hand for Wildwood 🤩
What do you mean before he was Scrooge he was Ebenezer those are just his first and last names lol
DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w agoFirst poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”
We’ve seen this same explosive claim made many times that withers under scrutiny The game is played by making the accusation, having docile media report it, and then the media bury (or not report at all) the eventual resolution
Politico@politico.com · 3w agoDHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states
Ironically, the US DOT website reports that "converting traditional bike lanes to a separated lane with low-cost flexible delineators can reduce bicycle-vehicle crashes by up to 53 percent." I guess saving lives is DEI www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovation/i...
Jess Piper@piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4w agoDEI bike lanes…
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.
The New York Artist Embroidering Knicks Merch on the Street
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This is nonsensical. Libraries buy huge numbers of books you wouldn't otherwise sell. They're a massive discoverability vector for authors. The reasons behind the declining author earnings are not hard to guess. People read less, have less $ to spend, +media is being consolidated by megacorporations
Becky Spratford@raforall.bsky.social · 2mo agoYou all-- I never thought I'd see the day, but library peeps, strap in for a fight. The Author's Guild is going after us as the reason why authors are making less money. I don't think they understand who they are dealing with: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
No joke, a great piece of persuasive writing. Give the horse some cake.
The Onion@theonion.com · 2mo agoCommentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake
The other day I saw one car pass another car - another moving car! Like how you pass someone on the highway! - in a grocery store parking lot directly in front of the store's doors. No one should be driving fast enough to pass or kill someone in a parking lot ffs
WBUR@wbur.org · 2mo agoWood died Sunday at age 92 after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island, according to police. Wood wrote many prize-winning books and was a longtime professor at Brown University.
Explaining microfiche to my coworker because I’m 95 years old
FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/
One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
"bikes can be useful for some people" one of the most controversial things you can say in the social media space.
I feel like there is a market for writing or artist residencies in remote cabins where the Internet is not available and you can certify that a work created there couldn't have been made with AI.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 3mo agoFolks, it’s a real mess out there:
With the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu, we are going to see a big uptick in adoptions. As someone who works in Grogu rescue, I will remind you: when you adopt a Baby Yoda, you are committing to its 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘯. Grogus can live up to 900 years. They can also move shit around your apartment.
If the school board doesn't reverse the decision, the public library should arrange a venue and make this concert a library program.
loving the strategy of the right defunding education so they can funnel that money into the pockets of already-wealthy private citizens, who can then donate a tiny sliver of the money they stole back to universities on the condition that they become more conservative and more reliant on scam tech
Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 3mo agoIt seems worth noting that the donor made his fortune via Nvidia. The story does not mention that until three-quarters of the way through. Strikes me as kind of important to know. U.S.C. Will Infuse A.I. Across University With $200 Million Donation
Like the vast majority of spiders (certain Australian psychopaths excepted) the Brown Recluse does not seek confrontation and will only bite if threatened or trapped. To use words Kyle Rittenhouse will understand, Brown Recluses have a Castle Doctrine and abide by strict Stand Your Ground laws.
The thing about it is i was definitely under the assumption that we all hated the Nazis … That’s my fault
I thought this was going to be about biking or busses or something lol
“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.
One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss
Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.
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Something we don’t address enough is how many people, especially adults, do not have a working imagination.