offered as support for education, the message seems to be that writing has nothing to do with what they actually think or that thinking involves choosing from a menu of pre-existing options. This is a strange gaslighting because at each step, Claude is telling you that you are writing this paper /6

Choosing to go forward with this violence against the wishes and best practice understanding of every other portion of local government and every field expert is shameful and the Mayor should be ashamed.

MPR News@mprnews.org · 8h ago

Kat Donnelly, a nurse with Healthcare for the Homeless, spent Tuesday scrambling to refill medications and make sure patients knew where to find her ahead of the Pig's Eye Park encampment closure Wednesday morning.

If you want to see the whole process, start here and go up the thread

Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 2d ago

Ka-boom! Listed artologica.etsy.com

This thread (which Robin pursues down a couple different, useful forks) is a great overview of the mess that is eBook licenses for libraries, especially 24-month expiring licenses for books in series! (Context: cost per circ = cost per each time it's checked out.)

Robin Bradford@tuphlos.bsky.social · 2d ago

Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs.

So if you discover this author because you saw Book 3 somewhere and you want to go back and try Book 1.....well....you'll have to look elsewhere. The only person this helps is the publisher. Blocking people from discovering doesn't help the author, that's for sure.

Brought to you by my 17-year anniversary at UMN, as of last week. Another banger on this album is "WTF, what are you doing? We already have a policy in place to deal with that!"

N Sims@copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 2d ago

I have become the old-timer that cites a 15-year-old case that newer people in the field didn't realize was relevant. And maybe it isn't! We were pretty sure it was at the time, but maybe it hasn't popped its head up since? (I don't have Wexis access to check.)

I have become the old-timer that cites a 15-year-old case that newer people in the field didn't realize was relevant. And maybe it isn't! We were pretty sure it was at the time, but maybe it hasn't popped its head up since? (I don't have Wexis access to check.)

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

michael veale@michae.lv · 6d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

A thing I'm learning in the last several months: Hearing aids are really just distressingly well designed as cat toys, huh?

Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I know “don’t obey in advance” has become a cliche but it is really appropriate when university leaders are ready to sell out higher ed to appease the Trump administration.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I selected readings that together build a public vocabulary for what AI means. The tech doesn’t have to work as promised for the tech to rework everything that matters. That is a more powerful analysis than what is Musk saying on X or debating water cooling science with sealions.

A lot of people are reaching for a common understanding of what AI means — not what it does — and there is too much money invested in keeping people confused.

Grandma out here yelling at dudes that testimony is evidence 💪

"what can I do?" Call your reps and tell them to vote no on the Online Safety bill package because things will get worse the more censorship laws are allowed to pass. Tell your reps that payment processors must allow legal content. Go yell at youtube for their shitty TOS.

I should add this wasn't a library committee. It's -extremely- rare that guys in libraries can't do this kind of work well. They chose to work in places that are about structuring, preserving, and providing access to information & knowledge after all!

N Sims@copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Supportive anecdata: I co-chaired a governance committee a few years ago, and made notetaking a random draw of members, split about 50/50 men/women. A few men good notes. "Functional" was the floor for women. But a few men took near-pointless notes bc they had no idea what the work even was.

There’s also something to how women are socialized to be suspicious of flattery — it’s how we transfer responsibility for men’s desire onto women’s bodies; we are taught to defend against that in service to our “innocence” or whatever — whereas men accept flattery as their due. Perfect marks.

Supportive anecdata: I co-chaired a governance committee a few years ago, and made notetaking a random draw of members, split about 50/50 men/women. A few men good notes. "Functional" was the floor for women. But a few men took near-pointless notes bc they had no idea what the work even was.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

I put a call out for mural walls yesterday and I got a lot of VERY good walls for projects of a variety of scales. Unfortunately I have only sold enough shirts this summer to cover 2 of those walls. This means more people need to buy shirts. Thems the breaks. More shirts more art. SquidFacts.Net

I have had conversations with similar contents with couple of high-intensity intelligent white guys... I think there's a particularly effective trap here for them in part bc they made it for themselves.

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 5d ago

YouTuber Hank Green Admits He Has Unhealthy Relationship With AI After Facing Backlash Over Recent Video 'The level of dopamine I've been getting from interacting with LLMs is not healthy for me,' said Green

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Believe it or not we have addressed this! Here you go: single gar = gar multiple gars, same species = garrison multiple gars, different species = garmada

Frank Hogan@charleyphogg.bsky.social · 5d ago

A group of Gar can not be called a school it’s not tough enough

he's been "embattled" for years, but the guy who replaced Mary Moriarty after she was forced out of the Hennepin County PD was finally disbarred after being convicted of felony tax evasion and found to have appropriated client funds mncourts.gov/_media/migra...

The important thing is we don't have government death panels like we're told exist everywhere else. We have freedom, which means we get to buy coverage from corporations with a vested financial interest in denying payment. That's what it means to have the best healthcare system in the world, see?

Donating blood and the screening question about whether you've spent more than 72 hours in lockup, jail, or -juvenile detention- really highlights risks to detained people, jesus.

What if KITT were wrong all the time and also gave all its insights about you to the government.

Black bear visiting the garden. ❤️🐻❤️ Water = Life ❤️ #mammals

The Trump Administration has, so far, banned foreign production of: -Drones -Routers (really most home network gear -Power inverters (eg for solar and battery back up) -Advanced robotic devices Want to make this stuff overseas? You need a license from the Pentagon www.wiley.law/alert-FCC-Ad...

FCC Adds Foreign-Produced Power Inverters and Advanced Robotic Devices to the Covered List

wiley.law

If there's been an article anywhere that rounded up all the allegations (and miscellaneous other stuff) about Mayor Her, I'm not finding it, so I'm going to make a thread.

Read this. It's not just what happened at this specific circumstance, it's about the bar exam as a deliberate and discriminatory gatekeeping process.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 6d ago

I wrote about the hotass mess that hundreds of recent law grads in Washington are going through for no good reason! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...