Interactive IEA tracker shows AI's global energy footprint www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/i...

Solar Report Cards - Solar Alberta solaralberta.ca/support-us/a... These Solar Report Cards, and the additional Assessment Details, were created as part of a larger project completed by University of Calgary Capstone Project student, Yiming (Sebastian) Hu. #UCalgary #RenewableEnergy

Harvard’s Public Health Dean Was Paid $150,000 to Testify Tylenol Causes Autism | News | The Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... “I just think that to take it the next step and say this is causal, is really irresponsible,” she added.

New blog post: Science journalists find ChatGPT is bad at summarizing scientific papers (but are they, really?) – The Distant Librarian distlib.pival.me/science-jour... #distlib #llms

This looks pretty useful!

This looks pretty useful!

See Europe by Train, Hour by Hour googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/09/see-... Very cool #dataviz

WhatsApp adds built-in text translations on iPhone and Android ino.to/1xlWKjX Coulda used this a month ago! But nice to know it'll be there for next time.

Damn, that figure 3! Education at a Glance 2025, Part 1 ino.to/AplMQXH #ABPSE #PSE #CanPSE

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

LinkedIn will soon use your data to train AI. Here's what you can do to opt out. ino.to/8tgYTlv

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

Pretty solid advice here How to Combat Misinformation ino.to/bE7qzYj #misinformation #disinformation #SocialMedia

GregR from Metafilter has shared code to backup #TypePad blogs github.com/greg-randall... #IndieWeb #Blogging

wars, including the Cold War, the Persian Gulf War, the War on Drugs and the War on Terror." How weak you must be to fear these people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/11/peace-vigil-congressman-letter/

One month in 🇨🇦 so it’s time to begin job hunting. If anyone learns of any #library or comics-releted jobs that are remote or here in #ontario give me a shout! 📚 #comicsky #comics #librarian

That's not a bad idea! Guest Post — A Smarter Way to License Research Articles for AI - The Scholarly Kitchen scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/07/g... #scholarship #attribution #citations #llms

A Battle of the Chatbots: An Exploratory Comparison of ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Perplexity and HuggingChat | Practical Academic Librarianship: The International Journal of the SLA Academic Division pal-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/pal/article/... TL;DR: Perplexity wins in this case.

A comprehensive take-down by a colleague. Can ChatGPT replace our Research Assistants? — What Were Comics? www.whatwerecomics.com/blog/2025/9/...

This is fine. 🔥 🐶 Union Warns Professors About Posting In the ‘Current Climate’ www.404media.co/union-warns-... #AAUP #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #SocialMedia

I thought this was an excellent explainer! Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow theconversation.com/why-openais-...

What a sobering read. Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2024 www.adl.org/resources/re... "All the extremist-related murders in 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds..."

We know that girls that play sports in school reap a range of massive benefits. Any policy that reduces or denies this to any girl for some largely imagined problem is unconscionable.

It's The Sprawl's 8th birthday. Help us reach 80! (www.sprawlcalgary.com/sprawl-birth...) One of the subscriptions I happily carry.

I lurves my Hover X1 Pro selfie drone, but this is also seriously impressive!

China's Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-... These are mind-boggling numbers, and essentially invisible here in North America, it seems! "Chinese investments include 60 projects exceeding USD 1 billion."

😎 Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80m upgrades - SFU News - Simon Fraser University "Located in B.C. and powered by clean energy..."

Just announced: Community guidelines for using AI at U of Manitoba

ChatGPT Fails to Flag Retracted and Problematic Articles | The Scientist But now I wonder if any other models might do better. Probably not, but worth testing!

Wait for it. The chart below is actually a video. It will start to scroll, depicting how smoky each day in Calgary has been amid wildfire season, dating back to 1953. (More context & data here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...)

Downloading a TypePad blog www.gyford.com/phil/writing... A comprehensive step-by-step guide using SiteSucker on macOS. I used HTTrack on Windows and didn't pay as much attention to settings, but ended up with the same results. ht @researchbuzz #HowTo #Typepad #WebScraping

A new home for The Distant Librarian distlib.blogs.com/distlib/2025... #distlib #Typepad #WordPress #MovingDay

What's on the horizon for AI and public libraries?

For the students... These Two New Features Cement Google’s NotebookLM As One of My Favorite Study Apps lifehacker.com/tech/googles...

Shaping Responsible AI: Four New Recommendations from the AIDV Working Group - RDA

Breaking News: An appeals court denied President Trump’s attempt to block Lisa Cook from participating in a key Fed meeting.

What the?!!! This would've been useful to know about a couple of weeks ago! LinkedIn QR Code Scanner | To use LinkedIn's free built-in QR scanner, tap the mobile app’s search bar and click the scanner icon on the far right. You can then scan someone else’s LinkedIn QR code or have them scan yours.

I just learned about this important documentary. The Librarians Film | Official Site thelibrariansfilm.com In The Librarians film, librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights.

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources - Ars Technica In my last presentation I dunked on all the lawyers who've gotten caught at this. Sure hope I don't have to start using professional educators as examples, too!

Hello parents. Hello potential students. Thinking maybe UofC might maybe sometime maybe be in your future? Come check us out. Doesn’t have to be next year. You could be 12. It’s never too early to consider your options

New Student-led Open Education Resource Showcases Student Voices on AI leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/n... "...the collection shares authentic stories of how students are using generative AI (GenAI) in their studies."

Six text-to-image prompting tips for Nano Banana x.com/GoogleAIStud... An addition for the grimoire #GenAI #NanoBanana

For anyone who needs respite from the news, I highly recommend Taskmaster, an extremely silly long-running UK show in which five comedians compete at absurd tasks. Low-stress, high-pleasure, lots of laughs, utterly disconnected from reality. As your doctor, I hereby prescribe one episode minimum.

A Special Issue of the IFLA Journal. I *think* they're all available open access... Artificial intelligence in libraries: The emerging research agenda - Andrew M Cox, Xuemao Wang, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Cement really does seem to fly under the radar on this issue... World’s Largest Fossil Fuel and Cement Producers Are Responsible for About Half the Intensity of Recent Heat Waves, New Study Shows - Inside Climate News insideclimatenews.org/news/1009202...

Why is Calgary's Glenmore Velodrome closing?

Job growth revised by -911,000 flowingdata.com/2025/09/09/j... Someone's getting fired!

'I trust AI the way a sailor trusts the sea. It can carry you far, or it can drown you': Poll results reveal majority do not trust AI www.livescience.com/technology/a... There's not much meat to this article, but I do quite like that sailor and the sea analogy :-)

Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (2) news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/anthr... I guess this isn't a fully done deal, though it *sounds* to me like it's not the amount that's being questioned, but the process, so it'll probably go through? #IANAL

The minimum wage in Alberta will soon be the lowest in Canada | News Ah yes, the #AlbertaAdvantage