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

ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."

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#ShowMeYourKnits this week is about what’s on our needles. I just visited my mom and brought each of us a skein of handspun by @paisleydefender.bsky.social to play with. We’re following the vortex recipe from the shawl book by @kateatherley.bsky.social and @indigodragonfly.bsky.social + stripes!

I'm back from vacation to good news: my article with @hedgielib.bsky.social was published in IASSIST Quarterly: doi.org/10.29173/iq1... There are an overwhelming 32 books on data management/data services for librarians. This article is your guide to pick the right one for you.

‘We will never back down’: Mi’kmaq Warriors Society opposes plans for power plant [video] District chief cautions that project could spark confrontation similar to 2013 movement against shale gas exploration

‘We will never back down’: Mi’kmaq Warriors Society opposes plans for power plant [video]

The Mi’kmaq Warriors Society opposes plans for a fossil fuel-burning plant in Tantramar, says district war chief Jason Augustine of

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For those interested in critical AI literacy, a hopeful thread: This past semester, for their final project, I asked my @uoe-llc.bsky.social Digital Humanities students to make "AI literacy objects" (AILOs): multimedia digital artefacts intended to foster critical literacy around generative AI +

Thanks for asking the question, @alwaystheself.bsky.social I was in the room where this happened. I’m a digital services librarian, not a humanist. By the middle of the talk, my notes say “Will the full text be posted online later? Confused, maybe interested? Need to start at beginning again.”

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

@knitty.com publishing model is great for designers and knitters. Amy has been publishing Knitty since 2002! As a librarian who supports digital projects, I have the utmost respect for the work that goes into Knitty. And yep, I'm part of Knittyguild: knitty.com/patreonFAQ.php for an FAQ

knitty® | editor, Amy Sadler@knitty.com · 2mo ago

We keep Knitty free so everyone can access all the patterns. It's important to remind folk that we pay designers for their work (thanks to the support of our Knittyguild, our Patrons), and that designers always keep their copyright! Woo! 🏆

New knitting design from me: High Marsh Road in @knitty.com It’s free because Knitty is a rad publication! Gently waving brioche columns with garter sections to give your eyes and hands a place to rest. It’s warm and lightweight. 🧶 : @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social Fuzz knitty.com/ISSUEff26/PA...

Brand new First Fall 2026 Knitty is live for the whole world!⁠ A fully online magazine full of tech-edited FREE PATTERNS for you to enjoy! Go to knitty.com, and find your next knit! 🧶 #ShareAndEnjoy #GladToBeOfService

It’s years since I’ve been in a lecture hall this big! A very different world from the 15-person class I teach at Mount Allison. This week I’m learning how to build digital collections with CollectionBuilder at #DHSI2026

Knitting in public is the theme for #ShowMeYourKnits organized by @livrunsfast.bsky.social Perfect timing! I’m at the Moncton airport, on my way to #DHSI2026 in Montréal. My travel knitting project is Fairwind Shawl by @kateatherley.bsky.social in @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social Finn Cross.

“Show us your stripes” week for #ShowMeYourKnits by @livrunsfast.bsky.social - gotta start with this epic Pride shawl! This is the Anthology Throw by Helen Stewart. A pi shawl is the perfect canvas to centre intersex, trans, and Black folks. Yarn by @gobsmackedyarn.bsky.social

I know a conference program is excellent when not even an exciting delivery at my wife’s yarn store can tempt me away! Well programmed, #IASSIST2026

New Brunswick Auditor General Paul Martin issued a report yesterday accusing NB Power of pushing ahead with its proposed gas/diesel generating plant near Centre Village without fully weighing the costs and risks to its customers or considering possible alternatives. nbmediacoop.org/2026/06/02/a...

Auditor General questions NB Power’s $3.55-billion gas plant deal

New Brunswick Auditor-General Paul Martin. Photo: Auditor-General's report New Brunswick Auditor General Paul Martin issued a report today accusing NB

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DataNB is looking for a bilingual Qualitative Research Analyst to join our team in Fredericton. This hybrid role will support qualitative and mixed methods research projects focused on health, education and social policy in NB: jobs.careerbeacon.co...

Conference accessibility practice: collaborative note-taking on sessions! Shared access to links and tips from all the sessions in one document is such a great reference later. @rdapassociation.bsky.social did it for their summit, and I’m delighted to see it at @iassistdata.bsky.social as well.

Did not expect to get teary during the IASSIST Opening Plenary. @lyndamk.bsky.social spoke very movingly about data access and advocacy in the @datarescueproject.org

DHSI-East is amazing! Practical and inspiring workshops, perfect size for getting to know other DH folks, excellent hosts. These workshops also count towards The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques: ccdhhn.ca

StFX Digital Humanities Centre@stfx-dh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

DHSI-East early bird ends 15 March Please share! 3 concurrent workshops: "Project Management in the Humanities" - @jenguiliano.bsky.social "Research Data Management for Humanities Researchers" - Khair & Sawchuck "Digital Publishing in the Humanities Classroom" - @andiesilva.bsky.social & montes

"Holt has claimed to reverse course on the STU-UNB merger plans and Mount Allison privatization scheme, but that may be little more than sleight of hand to distract from the real target: a classic neoliberal transfer of wealth from the public sector to the private." NEW piece on NB Holt debacle.

Proposed higher education cuts will subordinate New Brunswick

As Susan Holt’s Liberal Government announces devastating cuts to the province's post-secondary education sector, universities and colleges across the region

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The Liberal government of NB is proposing to sabotage our thriving higher ed sector. It's hard to tell if this is incompetence, malice, or neoliberal disaster capitalism. Regardless, it's not too late to turn back. @kristiallain.bsky.social and I explain for @canadiandimension.bsky.social.

Higher education on the chopping block in New Brunswick

New Brunswick’s universities are under threat. The province’s Liberal government is eyeing a 10 percent budget cut while freezing tuition, putting thriving institutions like Mount Allison and UNB at r...

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More on New Brunswick's proposals to slash higher ed: “I think the government is grabbing at ideas without any serious study as to how this will work or how viable it will be,” said Geoff Martin, a Mt. A. politics professor who serves as MAFA’s executive director. warktimes.com/2026/02/26/m...

Mt. A faculty union president calls proposed go’vt cuts ‘preposterous’ & ‘ludicrous’

The President of the Mount Allison Faculty Association (MAFA) says she agrees with MLA Megan Mitton that the government’s proposals for cutting university and college budgets are ludicrous. &…

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What a delight to see behind the scenes at @gaspereaupress.bsky.social in Sackville! Congrats and looking forward to your spring releases.

Gaspereau Press@gaspereaupress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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MLA Megan Mitton: "I would almost think that it wasn’t real because some of the things it mentions are so outlandish." The article by Bruce Wark includes a link to the list of ideas from the government: warktimes.com/wp-content/u... warktimes.com/2026/02/24/g...

Green MLA calls government proposals — including privatizing Mt. A. — ‘ridiculous,’ ‘shocking’ and ‘outlandish’

Tantramar MLA Megan Mitton is speaking out against the New Brunswick government’s suggestions for cuts to universities and colleges. “I think the idea of privatizing Mount Allison is ju…

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#ShowMeYourKnits this week is Animals, including animals in knitwear. Our dog, Fennel, definitely wants a sweater this winter. She’s been borrowing our cowls for a bit of warmth. We put her cowl-lar on for walks. She especially likes colourwork and brioche.

Flabbergasted by the higher education budget proposals from the Liberals. Seriously, did they brainstorm with ChatGPT?? Make the #1 ranked undergraduate university a private institution? That is a thing in the US, but in Canada that category is kinda... religious colleges. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Holt Liberals look at merging, privatizing some universities | CBC News

Fredericton’s St. Thomas University could cease to exist and Sackville’s Mount Allison University could be privatized under scenarios the Holt government is considering for cuts to post-secondary educ...

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NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox

Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

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Now more than ever, people have seen the real-world risk of invasive face recognition technology. We won’t lose focus. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

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Just published! 🎉 A new translation of @cosovschi.bsky.social's lesson: doi.org/10.46430/phe... We’re grateful to Silvia Stoyanova for their translation. Thank you to Felix Vanden Borre + Maneesha Sane for their reviews, and to Laura Alice Chapot for editing.

From Sources to Data: Designing a Database for the Humanities and Social Sciences with nodegoat

This lesson teaches you how to use the nodegoat software to build a relational database for research in the humanities.

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Anyone have recommendations for ways to do card-sorting / collection structure activities digitally? We had sticky notes in person, and I need to follow up online. MS Visio seemed like it should work, but it’s so irritating! The canvas keeps expanding and it’s responsive in all the wrong ways.