Report: #Librarians are Hosting Viral ‘Avoiding #AI’ Workshops For People Who are Fed Up With Big Tech www.infodocket.com/2026/07/25/t... #GenAI #libraries #publiclibraries
Deborah Yun Caldwell
@databrarian.bsky.social
Also databrarian on the birdsite. Libraries, data, etc. Korean-American. She/her.
We Continue to Update Our "Federal #Research #Funding Proposed Rule: Media Coverage, Statements, and Submissions" Roundup Latest Update Includes Comments From: @datarescueproject.org; @aaas.org; @all4ed.org; @pogo.org; & Others www.infodocket.com/2026/06/01/r...
We know that many people are commenting (over 80,000) on the OMB's proposed changes, but there is still time, and every voice matters. APS has created a great tool that you can use to respond to specific portions and customize your comment for submission. www.aps.org/initiatives/...
Comment on OMB proposed rule for federal financial assistance
Make your voice heard on the Office of Management and Budget's proposed federal grant funding changes and defend the scientific community from this existential threat.
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Attacks on #Science Tracker (A New Research Tool From @ucs.org) Tracker app.powerbi.com/view?ucsdf=a... Overview/Blog Post blog.ucs.org/jules-barbat... Background www.ucs.org/resources/at... #attacksonscience
Noise infusion isn't just when people watch TikToks in public without headphones. It is a method for protecting your privacy. Thanks @dataindex.us @hansilowang.bsky.social and others for explaining why this matters. www.datarescueproject.org/differential...
The Government Just Banned Math (only mildly hyperbolic)
Getting people to care about statistical methodologies is a challenge. Hence the hyperbolic title, but give us a few minutes because what is happening matters for you and your privacy. Last night, Ha...
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The Census Bureau has scrubbed working papers that mention differential privacy. But @icpsr.bsky.social has them all! www.datalumos.org/datalumos/pr... Fun project for someone to pull out the diff privacy ones and return them to the public!
Census Working Papers
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Judge Blasts Trump’s 'Censorship' of National #Parks and Museums (via @courthousenews.bsky.social) courthousenews.com/judge-blasts... @datarescueproject.org #saveoursigns #usnationalparks #censorship #legal
New blog post! Check out the Data Literacy for Community Action learning modules! A collaboration between @usflibraries.bsky.social, Foundation for a Healthy St. Petersburg, and City of St. Petersburg, these courses provide accessible #dataliteracy instruction to community members.
Guest Post: Data Literacy for Community Action
Today's guest post is from Emily Zoe Mann, a research and instruction librarian at the University of South Florida Libraries. Read on to learn more about an exciting data literacy initiative she has…
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Great overview of where we were, are, and the fight ahead! Thanks for the shout-out too! 🛟 @dataindex.us @prbdata.bsky.social @apduorg.bsky.social www.prb.org/news/researc...
Researchers Mobilize to Defend America's Public Data Infrastructure - Population Reference Bureau
At the 2026 PAA Annual Meeting, researchers and data advocates warned of mounting threats to federal statistics—and shared practical ways to respond.
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If you are confused about the OMB's proposed uniform guidance revisions, you are not alone! Thanks to @infodocket.bsky.social for creating this roundup of readings. www.infodocket.com/2026/06/01/r...
Roundup: Federal Research Funding Proposed Rule: Media Coverage, Statements, and Submissions - Library Journal infoDOCKET
Ed. Note: Below find with links to media coverage, statements, etc. re: the Office of Management and Budget’s recently published PROPOSED Uniform Guidance Revisions. We will update this roundup on a r...
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I was reading through articles the other day from the early days of Google , where the founders state their aim as having people ‘spend as little time as possible’ on the site because the key purpose was to HELP people do OTHER things …
404 Media@404media.co · 2mo agoAn internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned. www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
I love that anyone ever fell for the multi-agent models. Now that they've moved to token-based billing that's about as smart as letting a 900 number put you on hold so they can look something up.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo agoI don't think Anthropic really meant it this way but what an amazing demonstration of why generative AI's energy consumption is only getting worse, and dirtier. "Improvements" only come from nesting chatbots within chatbots, rather than any fundamental smarter design. It's Bitcoin x 1000
I got a tip that all over the world, people are using a dead-simple hack to manipulate AI behavior. It turns out changing what AI tells other people can be as easy as writing a blog post *on your own website* I didn’t believe it, so I decided to test it myself www.bbc.com/future/artic...
I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes
I found a way to make AI tell you lies – and I'm not the only one.
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Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
jon christian@jonchristian.net · 11mo agoNEW: After numerous tragedies, OpenAI says it's scanning users' conversations, escalating to human readers, and contacting law enforcement where necessary futurism.com/openai-scann...
I feel like workers’ rights and folklore sharing the May Day space really should involve at least one billionaire being put into a wicker man.
Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists. Ann is an author. Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct. Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social · last yr.This is one of the most-shared posts on Bluesky in the past day and it's just completely false. You might think ChatGPT is a *bad* search engine, or prefer another search engine. But it has had integrated web search since last year.
If you want me to accept that LLMs are a general use technology — an unavoidable one at that — you will have to give up your expertise domain when people talk about it colloquially.
I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article
The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country
Willow@rockshrimp.bsky.social · last yr.A Black man won the presidency and they decided to burn the entire country to the ground so it won’t be something worth winning anymore.
of course people won’t need history when the machine god takes its rightful place as humanity’s ruler
Anise K. Strong@anisekstrong.bsky.social · last yr.I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
I'm very excited about the potential for this part of DRP. I hope that it will represent the broader interests as well as the importance of academic research using this data.
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue@datarescueproject.org · last yr.We are all made of stories. Tell us what impact data loss will have on you and your community. #DataRescue www.datarescueproject.org/telling-your...
It isn't hyperbole to say that these firings will cost people's lives. Not just of workers, who will face all the hardships that come with job loss, but of the people their work saves. The GOP is a literal death cult and they aren't pretending to not be anymore.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.
With Meta out there banging on the "snitches get stitches" drum, seemed like a good time to lay out my best guidance for tech industry employees who feel a need to speak up. Below are a few notes: www.theverge.com/labor/621059...
Meta fires 20 employees for leaking
The company announced the firings after a string of leaks about CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s internal comments.
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If you have ever wondered why our safety net is so inadequate and so full of cruelties and indignities, it is because of anti-Black racism.
Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me · last yr.Who could Van Drew mean by “lazy welfare people”? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Democracy never got off the ground at all for Indigenous and Black folks, and has never fully operated for immigrant communities, the disabled, or queer folks
Surviving the Fall — What A Shrink Thinks
Someone emailed me a big question last night. A question too big for me frankly. They asked (paraphrasing): What if democracy falls ? What if extremism takes over? How can we stay grounded, h...
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