Until today I had no idea that the most appalling thing Good Charlotte were responsible for wasn't their music

bart@bartsmith.bsky.social · 18h ago

"The Madden brothers aka Good Charlotte fired almost everyone from REVOLVER Magazine, BrooklynVegan, and Alternative Press"

For the 📜

Violet Fox 🦊@violetbfox.bsky.social · 11h ago

Library friends: I'm planning a blog post about negotiating during a job offer. Will you share with me what you negotiated? Or what you wish you would've negotiated? I'd like to give people a sense of the range of things they can ask for. 📚

@rweingarten.bsky.social, this is a horror. Teachers cited in this article say they're using "A.i." to develop lesson plans for kids with disabilities and imply that they're feeding student data into LLMs. This is using untested, dangerous teach on vulnerable kids AND possibly violating privacy law.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 18h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

So, because I teach information literacy which includes AI literacy, and I am not an AI user, I kinda had to go out of my way to test out the LLM tools my work provides to see howthey work. So far I've found: Running my CV through a couple of LLMs with the request that the software...

"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."

Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

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great thread of suggestions!

Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 13h ago

Can anyone out there recommend a good article for students on how to annotate readings?

I used to play a lot of fantasy sports - baseball, football, hockey, and soccer - but I stopped several years ago and don’t miss it at all.

Not for nothing but you can 100% look at Carville and Piker and say fuck both those guys and their regressive reactionary horseshit … I assure you.

Today is Day 2,618 of the Threadnought Fans of Vic Mignogna – a sexual predator and pedophile colloquially known as the R. Kelly of Anime – are still simping for him in my Twitter mentions

can you send mail to an active fire line? like to the crew? does the USPS deliver to their camp?

Every military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers

a lot of the same info but also mindblowing the increase in yields and lower water use, etc. it's very exciting also the plans to put solar over reservoirs to lower evaporation sounds rad too energiesmedia.com/solar-panels...

American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity

Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.

energiesmedia.com

Abdul Ahad Mohmand died a month ago at the age of 67.

Abdul Ahad Momand, Only Afghan to Fly in Space, Is Dead

A pilot in the Afghan Air Force, he was recruited for the Soviet space program. His 1988 flight took place as the Soviets were fighting a war in his country.

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if you're reading all these articles as they come out and assuming the story is "these models are escaping containment and causing danger" and not "this is a PR campaign by companies desperate to build hype" I think you are very silly.

Alex Hanna@alexhanna.bsky.social · 8h ago

It keeps happening... It'd be great if these companies could spend a little bit more time on network security and a little less time vibe coding.

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

insidehighered.com

A Church of Christ pastor in KS writing to FDR, 1935: "you have awakened the slumbering conscience to the need of social government...critics call it state socialism...But I believe James, the great socialist writer of the New Testament, calls it 'pure & undefiled religion before God & the father.'"

They should have this sorted by now. Which means there are serious stresses and shortages in sustainment capacity, likely owing to the unprogrammed nature of this campaign, as well as the increased op-tempo on this side of the Atlantic.

MS NOW@ms.now · 10h ago

Moldy showers. Food shortages. A lack of toothpaste, deodorant and soap. Military families are sounding the alarm about rapidly worsening conditions on the USS Lincoln. From Priya Sridhar:

I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Beginning to feel like I need to budget a week on the blog for a military primer on 'how the US Navy is the load-bearing pillar of your ability to eat bananas and of folks in developing countries to eat at all.' Not saying that is an optimal situation, merely that it is the situation.

The Megalithic monuments of Neolithic north-west Europe represent one of the oldest fields of archaeological study, but research continues! The latest #NewBookChronicle explores new methods and fresh interpretations of these iconic symbols of prehistory. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

This is worth amplifying (also this podcast is rad), that Roman slavery was, y'know, slavery. In fact, all slavery is horrifying, but the broader 'Mediterranean' slavery tradition (which is also, by the by, the ancestor of Atlantic slavery) is one of the *more extreme* such traditions.

Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · last wk.

Next time someone tries to tell you that Roman slavery was different or better than other forms of slavery, tell them to listen to last week’s episode of @thisguysucked.com and/or buy Emma’s book.

Only a matter of time before Texas forces @kevinmkruse.bsky.social to drink hemlock. www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

what's the best integration of social posts you've seen in a website?

Meta is extremely bad.

Matt Burgess (WIRED)@mattburgess1.bsky.social · 14h ago

NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

I don't actually see any evidence of this? As far as I can tell most academics response to the Wilson piece (those who have seen it at all) was "huh, fair enough - I liked the film tho". I'm guessing this isn't registering because low key calm responses aren't flashy or memorable.

Robert Borden Stan Account@bordenstan.bsky.social · yesterday

If the academy gets pulled into coming out swinging against the biggest adaptation of Homer in probably a couple generations off the back of one prominent scholar deciding to be Reviewer 2 to Nolan's work, it will say, IMO, pretty damning things about academia's ability to foster public engagement.

Oh wow: ESA announces it has a positive detection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage booster impacting the moon! I still haven't seen any images of a flash, but that's not surprising. It was faint. Here, they saw evidence of gas (vaporized material) in the impact plume by taking spectra.

ESO@eso.org · 14h ago

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4

Local barber raised his prices to $18 but gave me the senior rate ($15). I’m not sure how to feel about that.

Oh god ew ew ew ew ew

Cailín Walsh 🍀@cailin.dev · yesterday

I keep getting targeted ads for a UTI treatment for women that suggests that a lot of people are worrying that sex (with a man, presumably) means getting a UTI and I have some concerns that the implication here is that asses aren't the only things they aren't washing...

I've told this story before and I suppose now it's time to do it again. When I was in 9th grade, my English teacher was the elderly sort of man who always wore a gray flannel suit and had a cigarette before class and a cigarette at the end of class every period.

Sarah@sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · yesterday

It seems like assigned reading, especially summer reading, should include titles from different genres, with different tones, from different eras. (And as a former sulky Anne Rice-reading teen, I advocate for some over-the-top moodiness in the mix with realistic problem fiction and happier tales.)

#librarians this may be of interest! 📚

Sasha Kim@s-kim.bsky.social · 3d ago

Librarians, Archivists, & Archives that collect/manage popular culture materials-I've started a Discord server to discuss collections, materials, repositories, etc. to share info and build community. Comics, games, movies/tv, etc #popularculture #archives #archivists #librarians discord.gg/xvhWAhhkw