Chronicle tried to charge us 15% increase this year cause they implemented AI

Prof. Nicole Holliday@mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 31m ago

This is the part that breaks my heart. "Generative AI has broken the sacred contract between professors & students: that the professors are there to teach and the students are there to learn. The understanding has been broken...That’s a very deep part of the grief” www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

The new broken link reporter is already identifying catalog issues. Score one for me.

the average person could not comprehend what podcasters suffer

Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5h ago

"Hate to tell you" OK so don't tell us

This week's episode, we watch our first Hallmark movie.

Slamming the “send fake death threats to myself” button the moment I’m inconvenienced at work

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

I mean that’s the pitch isn’t it. Somehow, through race magic, things will get better

Terminally von der Leyen@ciaran.operationglad.io · yesterday

"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"

Learning more about Connecticut than I ever thought I would. New England small states are weird. <-person who has only lived in huge states

Fall is right around the corner. If you need someone to come into your LIS course to talk about scholcomm or e-resource librarianship I am available. I am currently making a zine on e-resources for librarians and students.

They want you to forget that you took care of yourselves and others im 2020 because they want you to be helpless and frightened in the face of the violence and robbery theyre doing

Fascinated by the rise of the protestant tech industry moving into wearables. Absolutely cursed fusion ground of mid 2000s accountability apps and fitness trackers.

I think it's time to make a new sci-hub/libgen bookmarklet

Alright guess my next deep dive is gonna be Black libraries

Fugitive Libraries

In what ways do libraries act as ‘instruments of social control,’ and how could they be made into instruments of restoration, reparation, or transformation?

placesjournal.org

When in doubt, make a zine.

Ok now that I'm the e-resources person at a big library, I think we should strip all librarians of libguides access.

I hope more reporting comes out about the AI book scanning stuff cause I guess people are interested, but every article I've seen is just quoting 404 so there doesn't seem to be very many sources of info on it.

Interesting developments all around

404 Media@404media.co · 2w ago

AI companies buying tons of old books as training material because they aren't filled with AI slop. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social breaks down what's going on. Watch the full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xSe...

I'm looking to interview anyone who has worked at an electronics assembly (components or systems) factory, anywhere in the world, before 1990. I can offer $100CAD / hour, though I don't think my questions will run the full hour. If you know anyone who is still able and willing to answer, plz lmk

Need to get more unhinged goblins into the discord to liven things up

A lot of people who can't see beyond quantitative datasets are baffled when relatively wealthy countries are just full of miserable people who think everything is falling apart, there's so much decay and social distrust that doesn't show up in account books.

A very underdiscussed element of quality of life is this kind of psychological bombardment. Being treated like a criminal when you interact with businesses, public spaces being designed for moving through and not being in, everything being cheap, shitty, and flimsy.

Ahhhhh@nerdjpg.com · last wk.

Not only is the baby formula behind lock and key cruel and disgusting it emits psychic damage to all passersbys as they leave the grocery store

Look if AI sickos looking for training data finally gets us good OCR tech I’ll call it a draw

New-Cleckit Dominie@ncdominie.bsky.social · last wk.

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

It’s a blast!! I’m The Amazing Digital Audrey!

the worst of all possible worlds@worstpossible.world · last wk.

THIS WEDNESDAY: we're down to clown in our VR headsets as we join THE AMAZING DIGITAL CIRCUS with @aud.bsky.social and Dono from @rftb.bsky.social

Vendors need to allow us to brand their pages more. You should know who's paying for it. Also libraries need to use the library logo not the university logo to be clear we're the ones doing it and its not just automated.

I would like to make a periodic reminder that cops kill approximately 3 people every day in this country (there are no official statistics but it usually is about 1,000 per year). Imagine all the stories you don't hear about.

Obviously you should never vote for what you want but for what an imaginary, worse person far away wants.

From 2003 to 2024, the number of children 17-years and under killed by US law enforcement each year increased from 8 per year (0.01 per 100 000 person-years) to 37 per year (0.05 per 100 000 person-years), noticeably outpacing the significant increases in all annual deaths caused by law enforcement.

JAMA@jama.com · 4w ago

From 2003 to 2024, deaths caused by law enforcement in the US rose among adults and children, with non-Hispanic Black males aged 18 to 29 years experiencing the highest rates each year. ja.ma/4vjmbCY

As a big fan of libraries, I was thrilled to learn about the work Hannah and @flexlibris.bsky.social are doing to give the public the critical information they’re looking for about the products tech companies are pushing on them. Support your local library (and library workers)!

Tech Won’t Save Us@techwontsave.us · 2w ago

Libraries are still essential in the digital age. Some librarians are even helping patrons ditch AI and get off Big Tech. This week Hannah Cyrus and @flexlibris.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss how libraries address people’s concerns about tech. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/338_...

I think I need to become a big wide monitor guy instead of a two monitor guy

Looks like the field more broadly is catching up to me (and to be fair, California Digital Library) and realizing scholcomm must be integrated into Collections/Acquisitions/E-Resources work because of all the licensing bullshit you can do.

This is a great student-authored short piece about, in my read, how the allure of innovation/problem solving/bragging rights has led a lot of smart people to ignore the work of archivists and historians when developing historical, archive driven tools.

@dhnow.bsky.social · 2w ago

Editors’ Choice: The Archive is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI