If all you're willing to do is say "We're cooked" on a social media site, maybe it is all over. If you're willing to struggle alongside your friends and neighbors for democracy, then we've got a chance.

There, we fixed that for you. /7 www.wordsandmoney.com/content/file...

I am so OVER these giant vendors in libraries bending a knee to the AI techno-utopianists that pretend they’re going to save us all with their slop machines. GenAI is a solution to a problem we NEVER HAD.

B-Corps should automatically lose their certification if they start using GenAI You aren't doing good for people or planet

Today's early Spring semester reminder that if your academic library doesn't have an eBook you want and/or tells you they can't provide it, it is most likely not the library staff's fault. We can't buy what vendors refuse to sell.

“A Maryland man is navigating two devastating blows to his family after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested his wife just days before their 15-year-old son’s death from cancer.” www.kkco11news.com/2026/01/12/t...

I wrote a bit about the books I read in 2025, which included The AI Con by Bender & Hanna (obviously) and Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin. acrlog.org/2026/01/09/a...

started 2026 with bronchitis. let’s go. 🫠

And tbh we had better, because this shit at scale is going to introduce so many more harms we can’t even fully comprehend yet.

what I want trans kids, queer kids, and gender nonconforming kids to know: you are loved you are so much more powerful than the ghouls using your healthcare as a political pawn, and you WILL outlive them (they know this, and it is why they're attacking you)

So… evidently my librarian-ness just shines everywhere I go because I was just browsing books in the public library and a teen came up to me to ask where the anime/manga was. I told them, but still. 😂

Why read a 300-word "abstract" summary of a paper written by the actual authors when one can read a 300-word summary produced by an AI prone to hallucinations?

You need to look at the Euphoria Quilt’s new archive of all the blocks and notes. It’s truly amazing. www.euphoriaquilt.com/quilt-archive

I SUBMITTED MY PROMOTION PACKET. The sigh of relief I just let out. I can go on winter break in peace.

I want to repost @fobettarh.bsky.social's fundraiser as she needed to be moved to the ICU a few weeks ago and remains there. Her support network can use more coins from those in a position to donate, or to boost/spread the word. Fobazi is a wonderful human being: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Look everything is awful, but I did get Christmas photos with my dog yesterday if you need some joy.

HOW DO YOU ASSESS WHAT A SPOILER IS, AMAZON An LLM, and I cannot emphasize this enough, cannot discern what a "SPOILER" is

This is one of my fundamental problems with GenAI. Google Scholar Labs is "an AI powered scholar search." After my initial prompt (Find papers that discuss the negative impact on cognitive ability from use of Generative AI.), I asked this. How does a black box with no explanation help anyone?

Horrifying ref desk story from one of my student workers: There was a student doing a project on Christianity in Japan and checked out a book recommended by the professor. the student then immediately returned the book because "I asked AI and it said there wasn't anything on Christianity in it"

Thank you, GOBI, for spotlighting what is very likely an AI-generated book on a community college selection list for college success. Yet another example of GenAI causing more work for everyone.

Helping a student with government research increasingly feels like finding landmines.

Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

People need to reckon with the hypocrisies of governments prepared to suport products that algorithmically fabricate history while stripping funding from the archives and repositories that hold actual historical artifacts. This is far more expansive than the cyberattack on the British Library.

*whispers* also make cool friends who are librarians because I fucking love answering people's weird-ass questions

This was hard to read, but in a good way. It encapsulates many of my feelings about AI.

To search the database of stolen work and file a claim, see: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

ChatGPT is infinitely more dangerous than caffeine But people stepped in to limit Panera, while OpenAI is being allowed to run rampant, not only without any precautions, but with lucrative educational contracts to put it in front of the most vulnerable among us futurism.com/artificial-i...

Today I get to present again with Sarah Appedu and Andrea Baer on GenAI, this time for @loex.bsky.social Fall Focus! We present at 4pm EST on challenging inevitability narratives around AI and centering agency for students and teachers.

I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t

1. Going to the Library in Smyrna or Murfreesboro, TN? You might be greeted by an EMERGENCY CLOSURE sign. Apparently they have detected the presence of "transgender books" and are quarantining them as if they were a dangerous plague. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I find myself just endlessly frustrated that my librarian career has been completely overshadowed by GenAI. There are so many more other things I'd rather think, learn, and talk about.

The Pride crosswalks in Salisbury, Maryland (the first in the state!) are being paved over with no plan for replacement. They were created and maintained by the Shore Pride Alliance at no cost to the city. www.baltimoresun.com/2025/11/10/a...

Hear me out, maybe libraries ... don't need AI for anything? This is a solution in search of a problem.

me when the AI bubble bursts

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Leftists really have to prioritize public libraries in budget fights.

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

To sum up: Gender affirming care: bad Character.AI driving kids into suicide for profit: good Got it.

They made... an AI tool... to make AI... which is already built on actual writing... seem less like slop... JUST DO THE WRITING YOURSELF TO BEGIN WITH JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

New on ACRLog... EBS-No; or, a rant "Overall, this is indicative of a long-running problem in librarianship; we are at the mercy of the vendors whose products we rely on." - Emily Zerrenner t.co/nGXriJJyoQ

Seeing twenty one pilots for the 10th time tonight in Virginia Beach! 🩵 Also used the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel for the first time… Not A Fan 🫣

In which: I crash out a bit about EBSCO's new interface acrlog.org/2025/10/03/e...

Still rolling with this project. We had a person donate an ENTIRE finished quilt this last week. <3

THE WAIT IS OVER – The first episode of We Reads: The Podcast is now available! 🎧 Tune in as hosts dive into their reading journeys, genre preferences, and what to expect from this coming season 🤭 www.wehere.space/we-reads-pod... #WeReadsthePodcast

ebsco is like totally broken on our campus lol. love that. how are YALL doing?????

Can we finish funding this classroom by dinner? Only $125 to go! www.donorschoose.org/project/book...

I opened this kind of assuming it'd be kind of out of touch but 4 out of 5 apply to me 🫢

“We do not advance private interests at the expense of library users, colleagues, or our employing institutions.” what a relevant tenet of our Code of Ethics—so why is the field so intent on making an exception for generative AI? www.ala.org/tools/ethics

AI data scraping is causing major problems for digital archives. Many publishers of cool historical material (free for the public), like @hagleycenter.bsky.social, are being hit w/ bot swarms akin to denial of service attacks. Latest in The Lint Trap linttrapofhistory.substack.com/p/when-ai-da...

Happy twenty one pilots album release day to all who celebrate