Thank you, Canadian taxpayers!

People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.

This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.

Resetting the counter on the "days since the AHA did some dumbfuckery" sign to zero...

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Pushing AI onto university students is not about “workforce development”, it’s about creating consumers.

Have a short piece of writing due in January. Started a document and wrote 100 words. Please clap.

alright i've slept on it after leader training and: AFT radical caucus when

Now this is what we call realistic world-building! www.vulture.com/article/heat...

We wrote a book for library workers. Relevant for workers in museums and archives, too. alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

We have a long-running tradition of “no boomers allowed” turkey days. Attendees include a bunch of gen x and millennial siblings and cousins and whatnot. The meal is superb and the conversation sparkling!

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Sometimes shenanigans aren't confined to the hotel. In 2009 I interviewed for a librarian job at a SLAC in Ohio. Meeting prospective colleagues in a room with portraits of the college's past presidents, someone sidled up to me and said in a stage whisper "we had a Jewish president once!"

I’m tapping the sign again… lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/...

Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.

gregnant*

“Baby is stored in the circle area,” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social said. lol. lmao, even.

This is like listening to my boomer dad who has uncontrolled type 2 diabetes talk about his blood glucose levels.

when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...

Trump take cottage cheese?

i don't know who needs to hear this but phlox is easily a top 5 star trek character

Like 20 years ago my spouse accidentally bought banilla yogurt, and to this day we still say “oh no not banilla” every time one of us puts the (correct) yogurt in the fridge when unpacking the groceries.

Honestly, yes, one of the most personally embarrassing things is how a field so committed to parsing imaginary status distinctions suddenly cannot see that they’re pitching themselves as The University of Phoenix.

"What no one prepared us for, though, was that the logic that we followed—we want the business to succeed; we need our jobs to make money—didn’t apply to ownership." thebaffler.com/latest/a-fai...

Good union job here for an archivist! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

Truly a long shot, but since your audience is basically queer librarians (and this book was written by a few of 'em), any chance @notalawyer.bsky.social & @michaelhobbes.bsky.social wanna tell people to buy our book about how to start a labor union at your library? 🥺https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

2025 is on pace to be Ann Arbor's worst year for pedestrian crashes. We talk with @crashesinannarbor.bsky.social's Peter Houk who complied these data. #a2Council www.damnarbor.com/2025/10/2025...

I mean if you're gonna call this symposium anything, you might as well lean in and name it after the best Trek, right?

In my late 30s/early 40s I was in a monthly wine club where we meticulously tasted a bunch of wines and got hammered (usually by accident). Today at 45, if I drink a single glass with dinner I will die.

We are thrilled to announce that @aadl.org plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer! Public ownership of local news media is more important than ever, and this acquisition builds on years of partnership and archival work to ensure the future of this priceless community asset. aadl.org/node/647334

KATE BUSH HOUNDS OF LOVE WHEN malibumode7.bandcamp.com/album/16-bit...

We're hiring! Or if you like, since this position reports to me: I'm hiring! Great opportunity if you want to help keep academic research preserved, discoverable, reusable, and free.

Hell yeah I'm into evangelism (telling anyone and everyone about the Challengers score). Have you heard the good news? [puts on the Boys Noize remix]

the war on cars is the most important war of our lives

Get in, losers. We're talking about Tim Skubick's outfit.

All my homies hate the Treeline Trail elevated bridge #a2council

What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart

Ann Arbor when? #a2council

the most radical act of feminism? throwing your computer in the ocean

Nice empire of dirt, dude. It would be a shame if I could have it all

Today I remembered this wacky election sign I saw on vacation earlier this summer, and I wondered what happened...

Look at these drunk ass motherfuckers.

the bad politics one develops when one's not wondering about tony, where he could be, who he is with, what he is thinking, whether he's thinking about me, and whether he'll ever return one day