Breaking news: Found out I have a decent Starmer impression this morning.

Be sure to drop by the Zine Pavillion if you're at ALA this year! I'll be there during setup on Friday and flitting around all weekend.

2003: 'stop all the downloading' 2026: 'stop all the vibe coding' It makes you think.

Now-annual reminder that if you're at ALA and someone you don't know begins asking you weird questions about book bans and censorship...and they're wearing glasses...they may, in fact, be recording you.

What do we think?

I'm cookin

Going through the #alaac26 program and the number of session titles that start with "From ____ to ______: " sure does feel like a possible tell of who used ChatGPT to give them a program name suggestion that they ran with.

Nonzero chance the next Tetsuya Yamagami is a guy trying to build a gaming PC.

I’m doing transcripts through elevenlabs now and they’re a lot better so if there’s an older episode anyone wants me to redo the transcripts for just let me know

166 - Radical Infrastructure feat. Britt Paris We have @hellobrittparis.bsky.social joining us to talk about the Internet as infrastructure and why librarians should care. We talk about communalism, Muskism, and all your other favorite isms. We also have better transcripts again!

Ugh I really have to become good at Alma Analytics for my job. Like yesterday.

⚡️ @simonxix.com suggests making small changes to our publishing workflows to use open source software. Shouldn’t we be doing this as #OpenAccess publishers? Simon quotes ‘No open access without open infrastructure’ - @copim.bsky.social

My advice for incoming graduate students is put down the prep reading, get an oil change, and go to the eye doctor. Unless youre phding in a science that examines the impact of engine failure on chronic eye strain, there's probably a grant somewhere

Fascinating: faculty moving away from e-reserves because they want students to use print, so they are less likely to use AI summaries.

More data-broker runarounds of privacy laws. @sarahlamdan.bsky.social

There's just a whole group of librarians asking for CDL tooling from vendors every day and they just respond with "we made a tool for AI cataloging you can deploy for better SEO" fuck you

our panel on critical AI, discussing panelists’ peer-reviewed scholarship in leading academic journals focused on trends in librarianship and ways we can move forward through this climate within LIS, was rejected. so! folks can meet us at Pilsen Community Books instead :)

"[single title license] ProQuest e-book ordering will end June 30th" Clarivate shifting ProQuest to a subscriptions only models remains one of the most offensive things these data analytics vendor-conglomerates have done to libraries, and information access in general, in a while.

They're not even secretive about the plan. So why are so many the left giving them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to regulating the internet?

Brands already know this, which is why there's a growing industry of AI-engine optimization (AEO), which is designed specifically to manipulate LLMs and AI search. Over the last few weeks I have heard from a bunch of people in this industry. Already a big industry / common practice to do this

Before you get warm feelings about this story, keep in mind it was **labour and contract protections** that got these people back. Not some grand realization that Librarianship is necessary. Get unionized people. 1 / 2

Going to ALA annual next week? Want to vent about all the AI we're gonna see? Drop by our show on Saturday! Small cover goes to support IL Coalition on Immigrant & Refugee Rights.

I know this person must exist, but imagine how fun it must be to be the guy who goes around wikipedia just to add [citation needed] to articles. And like, that's all he does.

Someone want to come on the podcast to rant about this?

Praise for Preserving Worlds on @means.tv: "A great program! You're gonna look good, you're gonna feel good!" - 8 Minute Abs "Safe, effective, and fun!" - 8 Minute Buns "You can really feel these!" - 8 Minute Legs "Nice, sexy arms! That's what it's all about." - 8 Minute Arms

For example this "archival confabulation" thing. The confabulist's position is that whatever LLMs hallucinate should be taken to be as true as what is actually present in the archive. But LLMs, by design, can only reproduce hegemonic materials. This is brute force positivism

This is such a perfect example of what I mean by saying we live in a post-information world. A complete dissociation of the idea that information acts as evidence of reality instead of making its own reality that substitutes for the real.

A trillionaire existing is in itself an argument that capitalism is not rational nor desirable.

See also: Inwood, Sunset Park, etc

Anyway, it’s nice to see people quit. I remain annoyed at the nose-holding of researchers who seemingly refuse to govern their own shit and think critically about who takes ownership of their work, rifling through pockets for fabricated fees for bigger profit margins.

Frontiers and MDPI are both just dirty mirrors held up to major publishers. They saw a way into the enormously lucrative publishing market and they went for it. And the big five showed them how easy that can be.

Monday! Join me and @sentencebender.bsky.social at The Twisted Spine in Brooklyn for a very special book launch ❌ Tickets include either a copy of RED X or a $15 Twisted Spine gift card. tinyurl.com/red-x-ny-launch.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

As the eresources person at an R1 it'd be really easy to just start tallying up how much money I save the university and it'd become a huge amount in no time

oh you're getting gains off creatine? I'm getting gains off chuño. the only juicing I'm doing is juicing these tomatoes to make Inca Empire Ripped Fuel

This is happening tomorrow! libraryjuiceconnections.org/events/resis... #libraries 📚 #archives #ai #resistingAI @libjuiceconnect.bsky.social

If I was invited to speak at a leading medical association meeting and the editor-in-chief of their journal wrote this about me, I'd skip my own talk and call the cops. Wouldn't you?

That would be pretty amusing (alas, I think class justice is unlikely to let this happen)

Youtube premium adding auto speed to videos on mobile is a boon to those unauthorized audiobooks i like

I have absolutely no standardized way in how I type ebook while going at full speed. My hands just pick a series of capitalizations and hyphens.

I truly believe that to survive this moment you must believe another world is possible, and also have a long enough memory or deep enough curiosity to know other worlds existed before this one. The way things were felt like the only way they could be until they weren't anymore.

there's going to be a good book at some point about the mass psychosis following Charlie's Bad Day it was like the entire satanic panic played out in warp speed

This is what we’re thinking while you do The Speech

We’re at 28% of our team’s goal!

Reminder: I have a library webinar RSS feed that still seems to be chugging along: tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/libwebi...

Having to become a "you need to read books" guy. Podcasts and summaries and youtube videos are not enough to become a critical thinking person. You have to engage with long form scholarship that you struggle with.

They burn books because books work. Not as a symbol. Not as a statement. They burn them because they are genuinely afraid of what happens when people read.

lets goooooo

Spreading the gospel of this video at work today

Working a new job with the training wheels still on that also involves large amounts of money is fun cause sometimes it's just this: