AI venders speaking to Librarians.

Want to present at ACRLNY'S ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM? Our theme this year: "Staying Present in Times of Crisis and Possibility: Showing Up for Communities" Submit for a panel, poster, lightning talk, or individual presentation. Deadline Extended to June 12th! Full info: acrlny.org/annual-sympo...

Excited to be participating in #lilac2026 at the beautiful campus of the University of Sheffield!

Stuck in waiting room and watching Kelly Rippa and her husband call removing snow and getting paid $45 bucks an hour for a 40 hour week "great exercise". #idiots

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of Fobazi Ettarh's work on a generation of library workers. Sending love to all in her orbit. Join me in supporting her family in this difficult time. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Donate to Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs, organized by Ysabel Gerrard

NEW UPDATE Dear readers, This isn’t the update I was … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Honoring the life of Fobazi Ettarh: Funeral & other costs

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Dear The Beast in Me show runners: fans want to know if Steve was ok in the end after the chaos. Thanks and great show! #thebeastinme #ClaireDaines #MatthewRhys

🚨 “A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from musicians to train its language models” A landmark European ruling! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules

OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission

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Reds is still my favorite Diane Keaton movie. RIP 💔 Reds got robbed for best pic BTW.

Michigan Avenue right now.

So on point. I can't remember exactly what year it was but when Taylor Swift used a Grammy win to drop more merch, it was the jumped shark moment for her that she rather just dive into money than creativity.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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"I can’t think of anything more chilling to First Amendment activity, or more designed to prevent coverage of high-profile, newsworthy events, than to criminally charge reporters for being present on the scene,” he said. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...

On trial for journalism in Kentucky.

Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.

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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

For the love of humanity: If attending an online meeting and you need to talk, please use a microphone or anything with a mic on it please. Your crappy computer catches room echo and distorts your voice. That's all.

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

I for one would love to see Ras Baraka primary @corybooker.com Booker's style of performative politics while doing the bidding of corporate interests has run its course. #rasbaraka #coreybooker @rasjbaraka.bsky.social #njpolitics #newjersey #newjerseypolitics #USSenate

AI for research or writing? Could be damaging your thinking.

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

What DOGE has perfectly demonstrated is that innovation for innovation (or disruption) sake costs human lives.

A spokesperson for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen confirmed to NJ Spotlight News that there will be a strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday.

NJ Transit engineers strike, raising commuter fears | NJ Spotlight News

NJ Transit rail engineers said they were going on strike, ending months of negotiations and beginning a job action poised to disrupt New Jersey’s public

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NJ Transit's line about NJTransit workers don't deserve the same wage as NY workers is the biggest BS line ever. The cost of living is basically the same. #strike #njtransitstrike

Librarians (or anyone else who use): what's an alternative to Kindle (because you know, the evil empire).

Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it! Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections. Use it or lose it!

Exactly what needed to be said at #acrl2025 where too many were uncritical of AI and its effects on society especially our students.

molly the librarian@bigmolly.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here's my lightning talk about AI at #acrl2025 this morning. Thanks to @nicoloff.bsky.social for recording. youtu.be/H2UdS1MqH8w?...

The greatness of going to conferences like #acrl2025 is the community we develop from such engagements, and the potential power from our shared experiences to change our communities at home.

Ran into a demonstration of indigenous community members outside the Hennepin County Library over the brutality by a private security company on a local man. According to them after George Floyd instead of reforming the police they invested in private "mercenaries". #acrl2025

Never forget #acrl2025

While obviously our atmosphere in higher right now is a sense of dread and fear, I'm hoping we can find our fight and use our collective imagination, as Ruha Benjamin argued in her keynote, to start creating a new world. #acrl2025

More than packed room for a Librarian panel about Navigating the AI Frontier. I will be paying to attention to how much hype is being used in our discourse about AI. #acrl2025