I think people are treating it like a magic thinking machine, or a friendly art fairy. But it's a massive mouth, slurping up art, creativity, facts and environmental resources to chew them all up into a easily swallowed pap.
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Library podcaster, sourdough baker, too-many-cat haver, pun intender. He/him/his Profile pic: white man with glasses and long hair wearing an orange flannel shirt. Header pic: slice of sourdough bread with a heart shaped air bubble.
It would be nice in my professional organizations were not embracing & monetizing (trainings, books) gAI.
The two types of librarian conflict management as illustrated by Richard Scarry. Which are you?
OMG, ADOBE ACROBAT, please stop telling me that this document is long and that I should save time by reading an AI Assistant summary of the book. IT'S A NOVEL. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE LONG. I WANT TO READ IT. ALL OF IT.
Liza and I discuss why car drivers should care about a robust public transit network, along with Heated Rivalry and Jesuits! In! Space! 📚
Overdueing It: The Rhode Island Library Podcast@overdueingit.org · 7mo agoOn our latest episode, host Dave talks to Liza Birch, founder and board president of @pvdstreets.bsky.social about the group's advocacy for a public transit system that can meet the needs of all Rhode Islanders. Listen in anywhere you get your podcasts!
The best part of a lunar eclipse is knowing how mad it makes Neil deGrasse Tyson that people are enjoying it 🌝
not once have I ever needed a text message or email summarized in my entire fucking life
It's not too late to celebrate Liz's birthday by buying her book! Take it from me, it's amazing! Because she's amazing!! #FUFTBook
Liz Gotauco@cosbrarian.bsky.social · 8mo agoIt's my birthday! Buy my book! That's a gift for us both!
As a school librarian who teaches Dual Credit students, I am teaching how to document every step of their work to prove that they are not plagarizing or using gAI.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 8mo agoI’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.
Who up felling they house of usher
davfred finds out@davebrarian.bsky.social · 8mo agoWho up catching they rye
Idk how to explain this as a former Census office employee but the way the Census has been/ is being tampered with is like. Deep constitutional violations. the Census is its own constitutional thing, people should learn more about it
NPR@npr.org · 8mo agoThe Trump administration proposes to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the 2030 census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps.
There is no ethical use of gAI in public libraries either pass it on.
Bloody Rain--Happy Halloween! 🩸@simplyrain.bsky.social · 8mo agoThere is no ethical use of gAI in preK-12 edu.
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
The original black panther party was one of if not the greatest political party to ever exist in the United States.
Feena van@feenavan2099.bsky.social · last yr."The Panthers then taught the children to help clear their plates and pack their bags, and then walked them to school. In places where the Black Panther Party offered their Free Breakfast for Children Program, attendance rates and overall academic performance increased."
As someone from Massachusetts, who got her library degree in Seattle, I love every part of this story. "We are always on the same team in supporting the freedom to read!" 🥹
KUOW Public Radio@kuow.org · 8mo agoThe Boston Public Library unwisely made a wager with the Seattle Public Library over the results of Super Bowl LX. Now, thanks to the Seahawks’ win over the New England Patriots, Boston readers are getting a dose of Seattle culture.
I was with a panel of people who were all making good arguments about why AI will never replace this or that skill or job, so maybe we'll be okay, and I finally said to one teacher: "you can just say no. you don't have to use it. it steals from people and teaches no skills. it's not a good tool."
Thank you for shining a light on what is happening to our nation’s libraries! @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social @la-cac.org @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social @oif.bsky.social @penamerica.bsky.social
The Advocate@advocate.com · 8mo agoThey weren’t looking for a fight. Then the fight came to their libraries, families, and lives.
Some more shots of the cover and slipcase for this. Since STATION ELEVEN jumps back and forth over the course of twenty years, before/after, I wanted to bring that sense of lapsed time to the packaging. Folio told me they’ve never tried something like this before. I’m thrilled they took a chance!
Zoë van Dijk@creepcaptain.bsky.social · 8mo agoReally excited to announce my second book for Folio Society. STATION ELEVEN came to me many years ago exactly when I needed it the most. A book about the endurance of art, about remembering and forgetting and about forgiveness, I was so honored that Folio asked me to illustrate it. Out on March 3rd!
When I tell you that this book changed my life ❤️ now's your chance to open your life to change and support a good cause at the same time!
Lessons in Magic and Disaster Audiobook on Libro.fm
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The Trandalorian@charliejaneanders.com · 8mo agoBooksellers are total heroes who keep us falling in love with reading. They are vitally important to our communities. So I'm delighted that for the next 2 days sales of the audiobook of Lessons in Magic and Disaster via @libro.fm will benefit BINC, which helps booksellers in need 🥰 libro.fm/binc
Sick of everyone pretending there’s “intelligence” here. We have no idea how intelligence works, we have no concept of how to recreate it, but we know damn well that it doesn’t just come into existence when a typewriter has pounded out enough words in a chain.
