Michelle Reed
@librariansreed.bsky.social
Works in libraries and digital rights. 📚 Digs plants and birds. 🌱🪶 Would rather be playing in dirt.
This is a fascinating and troubling saga of AI running amuck. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…
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"THE LIBRARIANS” packs a riveting punch on the alarming surge of book banning." - The Utah Review Starting TOMORROW, Feb 9th at 12pm ET, stream THE LIBRARIANS for FREE on the PBS YouTube channel and app!
Extremely excited to kick-off a new webinar series on “AI” with guests Chris Gilliard & Christa Albrecht-Crane. This session won’t be recorded so sign up now & join us for a deep dive into what we’re really talking about. Happening Thursday!!! #edusky #academicsky #skybrarians 📚
Library Futures@libraryfutures.bsky.social · 12mo agoMaybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Artificial systems have "catapulted... into our inboxes, file storage, discovery systems, and nearly every element of our daily lives without our consent." How to resist? Library Futures and friends have tips! www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/tips-fr...
Resistance, Rebellion, Refusal: 7 Tips from Librarians for Navigating “AI” — Civics of Technology
This is a special conference-themed blog contribution from Michelle Reed , Hayley Park , Justin White , and Mike Nason Communal resistance to artificial systems Join the Resistance Today a...
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Exciting job Doing impactful work With a fantastic team What more could you want?
jennie rose halperin@littlewow.online · last yr.Do you care about institutional contracts and norm setting? Have you negotiated contracts on behalf of clients? Do you want to join a library organization that's taking a new approach to digital rights advocacy? (And having a lot of fun doing it?!) Apply! www.libraryfutures.net/apply-to-be-...
Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation
Former Librarian of Congress, fired by Trump, vows to improve public information in new Mellon role
Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost philanthropic supporter of the arts.
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Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow 📚📜 librarytechnology.org/pr/31511
Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow
Press Release: Mellon Foundation announces appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow. The Mellon Foundation announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow. As part of ...
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“When I heard [comments about inappropriate books for children], I was concerned that there might not have been as much of an awareness of what the Library of Congress does." The library's primary function is to fulfil research requests from members of Congress…
CBS News@cbsnews.com · last yr.Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden speaks out on her firing by Trump https://cbsn.ws/3ZiiFf6
Join us online next week! Bring ice cream! 🍦
Library Futures@libraryfutures.bsky.social · last yr.Got misinformation? We've got the antidote. Join Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, @melissa1776.bsky.social, and @ajenningsroche.bsky.social on 5/28 (1 pm ET/10 am PT) for a book talk and all the information you won't want to miss! nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We were all out appreciating the spiderwort today. 🌱
Put this tickseed in the ground yesterday and woke up today to a beheading. 🤬🌱
Good morning, y'all! I am thrilled to share the 4th @civicsoftech.bsky.social online conference and our keynote speakers @audreywatters.bsky.social and @hypervisible.bsky.social. This year's theme is especially urgent: communal resistance to artificial systems. Read more about the free event at:
Join Us for the 4th Civics of Technology Online Conference — Civics of Technology
Next Tech Talk on June 3rd: Join us for our monthly tech talk on Tuesday, June 3 from 8:00-9:00 PM EST (GMT-5). Join an informal conversation about events, issues, articles, problems, and whatever el...
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Happy to report that my strategy for growing lettuce—cutting the tops off of last year’s crop, telling myself I would eventually locate seeds but never doing it, & then burying clumps of dried lettuce parts—has worked just fine. #ChaosGarden 🌱
MAKE ZINES! poster by zine maker / artist Cort Hartle. Download the free high res version (PDF) to print at home: freight.cargo.site/m/W234787385... Printing and distribution encouraged by the artist, so please RT, print it, fly post it, flyer it & spread the word! #zine #zines #fanzine #fanzines
These two planted themselves, and I couldn’t be more delighted. 🌱
