I’ve said it before & will again: wasting editor & reviewer time by submitting egregiously plagiaristic uses of genAI w/o even fact-checking should be grounds for being barred from submitting articles to that journal for a period of time (1-2y for first offense?)

looking at you, folks who scoff at wearing masks in, at the very least, indoor public spaces even as we watch the wanton destruction of our public health system & collapse of healthcare infrastructure.

Reminder: you should absolutely start wearing the best mask you can find in public spaces, even if you stopped before. We have no public health at the top level & repeat infections have ravaged immune systems. If someone gives you a hassle, say "even if it's just a cold, I DON'T WANT THAT EITHER!"

Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS librarytechnology.org/pr/31973

Via a friend: the recipient of the first successful neonatal heart transplant celebrated his 40th birthday a few days ago, still with the same donor heart transplanted into him when he was just days old: news.llu.edu/patient-care...

Every 8 minutes another name is added to the transplant waiting list. Yesterday was another anniversary of my 2nd transplant and I am grateful every day for this blessed gift of life - consider becoming an organ donor and learn more at unos.org/register-to-...

1. They are eugenicists. 2. Viruses don't care about your daily step count.

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

Read this thread! 🧵 It’s been clarifying to witness just how fast workplaces went from “we’re all in this together” to “forced infection is a condition of employment”. No discussion about making in-person work safer. CBC’s COVID coverage leaves much to be desired and sadly, this experience tracks.

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

but under no circumstances should we expect any common-sense mitigation practices beyond annual boosters for a vaccine the government is openly discouraging/preventing people from getting wouldn’t want to seem ✨unreasonable✨

No one I know wants "universal masking." We want people to wear masks at the grocery store, in hospitals and other healthcare settings like pharmacies, and on public transit. Places where people like me *sometimes have to be.* We're asking for the bare minimum and y'all still think we want too much!

Ignoring COVID-19, after all the research findings about it’s full body damage, is plain and simply another form of for profit collectively normalized self-harm.

Today is a great day to start masking in public again 💜

I haven't seen one single study that shows it's harmless to keep getting Covid again & again. But there are thousands of peer-reviewed studies that document long-term harms

Generally speaking, I have found that people who work in medicine and high profile public health do not follow Covid anywhere nearly as closely as those of us directly impacted by mass government abandonment do. And this is what happens.

Every time I attend an n95-required event, I cry afterward. We can have accessible, justice-oriented spaces. We can create new ways of organizing & connecting. We can enact disability justice. We can educate & protect each other. We can get free, if we do it together. A better world is possible.

Masking EVERYWHERE INDOORS that isn’t your home is an act of resistance. No one is coming to save us. We need to save each other by masking, getting vaxxed, and advocating for clean air 1 way masking is great, but 2 way masking (when EVERYONE PRESENT is masking) is best.

I wish my transplant doctors would mask without me asking. Shameful behavior from healthcare providers.

So by your inaction (or selfish decision) not to wear a mask, you’ve actually indirectly (maybe unknowingly) made a statement on who deserves to live and who doesn’t This is #eugenics This is #ableism 🧵 2/3

Most people don’t realize this, but every time you enter a public space without wearing a mask, what that shows to an #immunocompromised person is: Their life doesn’t matter to you You don’t care if you spread COVID to them, which could 💀 them or cause further disability (LongCOVID) 🧵 1/3

Former CDC leaders hand-wringing about the death of public health and how bad RFK Jr is like some of them in recent years did not pave and polish the way for this to happen by clinging to the nonsense of droplet dogma, going full anti-mask, and prioritizing profit at the expense of public health

COVID is a labor issue, it has always been a labor issue - no one should get sick at work! No one should be exposed to pathogens at work without adequate PPE. COVID hurts workers in the workplace and it does not have to be this way.

Drug company that sells my transplant drugs decided to take away copay cards for everyone starting Sept 1. Got the notice in the mail on Aug, 29, Friday of a holiday weekend. No time to make plans for accessing my transplant meds next month, which I've taken without fail for 29+ years. Heartless.

🎶the pandemic isn't over just because you're over it🎶

That COVID spike relative to other countries is especially insane. We produced the most effective vaccines in massive numbers and then let ourselves get into a ridiculous fight about whether to use them

From masks & wider public health to virtual meeting options, sure is hard to get square with how fully & fundamentally this society has toddler-screamed "NO!" at everything that made things even marginally more accessible in the early days of this pandemic because thinking about it makes them scared

The Washington Post running this five days after a shooting directly caused by this kind of disinformation is - and I very rarely use this phrase - journalistic malpractice. Meanwhile, what have elected Democrats or public health leaders had to show so far other than literal thoughts and prayers?

Teaching the first-year PhD seminar this coming year and I'm excited. As I finalize my syllabus, what do you wish you had covered in your 1st year PhD seminar? Especially interested in hearing from information and library science faculty.

And we're implementing work requirements for Medicaid at the same time.

Reminded today of this timeless adage

But I was told by the New York Times that marriage equality was a stunning success that succeeded because of its modest political goals. Almost like the last two decades of progress were hollow assimilationism into a collapsing neoliberal order rather than actual liberation.

Something that I have been thinking about with attribution of "PhD level intelligence" or "PhD level expertise" to a machine is that it reflects an increasing trend among these AI bros and their sycophants to want the products of highly skilled training without actually doing any of the work.

I try to pay it forward by sharing this article with every student that now comes through my course. Thank you for making me aware of this opportunity to donate.

If you’ve ever read or discussed Fobazi’s work on vocational awe in librarianship, you know a small bit of what she’s contributed to the world. Help her and her wife make it through this tough time.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

16. ‘Reasonable accommodations’ are only an obligation to qualifying employers if they don’t cost too much (not to mention the many employers who are wholly exempt). That tells you everything: even the ADA is mediated by the profit motive.

9. Disability politics asks: what would an economy look like if keeping each other alive was the highest value? Not GDP, not productivity—but the refusal to abandon anyone. Disability pride is also a revolution in how we define wealth.

The ongoing pandemic shows us how fragile support systems really are. When life gets hard, through illness, disability, housing instability, poverty or abuse, some people walk away. They can’t handle your reality & may even blame you. You’re not alone if that’s happened to you ♥️

People think they have amazing stories about ChatGPT. And they tell them all the time. You just don’t register them as amazing if you are a normal ish adult human being because it’s mid shit like, “it told me to eat brisket!” or “it wrote twenty emails no one wants!”

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

It bothers me that it’s risky for me to go to the grocery store because we no longer require masking. Medical settings fully enrage me with the lack of mask mandates. The places that are unavoidable & filled with sick people. Where medical professionals *should* know better!

Stop thinking of COVID as if it's an acute cold. Think of it as a neuroinvasive virus you can get every year or two that slowly degrades your brain in ways that will harm your abilities and quality of life throughout your life. (2/?)

Sigh. Its like partnering with tobacco companies to figure out how to help students who are addicted to cigarettes or something. "Well its already in our schools!"

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

I still take covid seriously, but I it’s taken *work* for me to hold on to the truth of covid in the face of relentless official messaging that minimizes the risks or provides straight up wrong info. I often feel like a conspiracy theorist when I explain to others why the CDC covid guidance is bad.

The stress that many of us have had to live with due to vaccine restrictions and lack of mitigations from covid is airborne has been profound. This never enters the mental health debate, neither does COVID infections causing neurological damage.

If you needed encouragement to keep masking and cleaning the air where you live/work, here you go. COVID acts as a “neuroinvasive virus that slowly degrades your brain and your ability to function” Every mild infection adds to the damage in your brain. It’s NOT just a cold, even if mild.

do u ever think about how Wikipedia is a modern wonder of the world and abject proof that humanity is good and communal and wants to support each other

the new york crimes, doing what it does