Love a good explanation. If the explanation is good enough, I don’t even need to be all that interested in what’s being explained.

I’m so sorry guys, I’d love to scrap but I just think cursive is not the most efficient means of communication and also a useful literacy. I truly wish I could offer more controversy here

I use AI tools for coding all the time but there are several major problems with doing "vibe coding" where the LLM does everything: 1. Code is fragile/single use 2. Security issues 3. Cost The difference between an engineer who benefits or is harmed by AI is knowing how to deal with these problems

Reader, I had not; now I have Grand Ideas about the future directions of IKEA in an evolving global market

I have no interest in this man’s problems

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Research Tools: 2026 Chatbot #Legislation Tracker ("Nearly 100 Chatbot-Specific Bills Introduced Across States in 2026")(via @futureofprivacy.bsky.social) fpf.org/2026-chatbot... #chatbots #compliance

Please take note that it's not _just_ trans women, it's EVERYONE who tests positive during SRY screening, who either have to consent to further testing for androgen-insensitive development or forfeit eligibility. It's ghastly regardless, but that's what they decided.

What a thing of beauty. 🏳️‍⚧️ #DHmakes

My colleague Liz Hogrefe wrote an excellent post on "Gemini creep" in the Google Slides "Beautify" feature. "The results are alarming for many reasons, but most importantly because the 'beautify' process strips all of the accessibility features from the slide." blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/2026/03/...

Librarians select, acquire, describe, circulate, and preserve information. Selecting books for a school library is a job that people are trained to do. Censorship is a labor issue, an attack on the agency and autonomy of library workers.

oh my god, this is so true. me and Houston and enterprise management software and the US power grid, we're all the same

I just said "Fall Out Boy" to a student and she thought I was referring to Walton Goggins. This isn't a "get off my lawn" skeet this is a "that's amazing" skeet

I don’t want to hear about your first concert, I want to know which aesthetically trendy Christian Bookstore musical group was the last stop on your slippery slope from the evangelical media diet of your youth to fully embracing secular music and all its temptations

well fuck cuneiform then i guess

I think I would be a little less annoying if town crier were still a viable career path

despite being introduced to this story via jokes à la my last post, I think it’s pretty cool in terms of semi-dated standardized vocabulary news (a very cool subset of news)

tag yourself, I’m nutty/toasted

I want the ebook hit clips

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

I maintain that sometimes, fear is wise.

Square Enix's new Final Fantasy IX - House Grooves album is now available digitally worldwide. This album features 12 house-style dance music versions of classic FF9 songs: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19956-final-fantasy-ix-house-grooves-album-download-digital-purchase-cd-square-enix

Smells Like Team Spirit

Great news, we can all read this piece from 2022 right now

Just scrolled down my feed and I have now seen the screenshot of the Pope discovering that you don't wear gloves in special collections exactly 20 times, well done staying on brand everybody.

staff in my doctor's office: oh that's an interesting way to write dates, why do you do it that way? me: .....ok how much time do you have and what is your general familiarity with and/or interest in standards bodies

This is why Molly is not allowed to do tours.

The misinterpretation of Death of the Author will continue until morale improves

BREAKING BOMBADIL NEWS

Man, the thing my brain does where it swaps “Bret Stephens” for “Bret Michaels” makes every one of that guy’s headlines a whole lot funnier

Articles like this always frame taking the keys away as a personal family tragedy. It’s actually a systemic infrastructure failure. We've built a society where losing a driver's license means losing your entire independence and connection to the world. It shouldn't be this way.

Instructure featured Proctorio on their blog and social media. I was a Canvas administrator when I criticized Proctorio in 2020. I was sued by Proctorio for sharing a screenshot from Canvas. Instructure is complicit in vendor abuse of educational technologists, and this should never be forgotten.

The argument that trades are inherently more market-resistant than other types of professional contexts is only true of trades that 1) are extant and 2) are heavily protected by regulation. Lineages are complicated but to conclude “trades are automation-proof” is Pretty Wild

Sora is dead? Disney is out? What madness, my precious son deserves better

<sickos meme>

📚If you are at an academic library in the US, tell us how you are (or are not!) supporting Data Management Plans! We are creating a dataset of current practices before the big changes to DMPs at NIH and NSF (among others) take effect. @ me if you have questions! jh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

do i know any full library professors who would be open to doing an external review? you are a rare breed.

it's called ska

that’s infrastructural politics baby!

"Under Haverford’s gift policy, the school can rename a building if 'the continued use of the name may be deemed detrimental to the college, or if circumstances change regarding the reason for the naming.'" Seems like maybe that should have been invoked by now. www.inquirer.com/education/ha...

You need to go do your art or something

Another exciting—and slightly terrifying—book excerpt on @wired.com today: A chapter from @profferguson.bsky.social’s new book ‘Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance’. Read it here. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

NEW: WebinarTV, a company that bills itself as “a search engine for the best webinars,” is secretly scanning the internet for Zoom meeting links, recording the calls, and turning them into AI-generated podcasts for profit. @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reports:

Thread. But especially:

My office is slowly turning into a gallery of letterpress and other artisan-printed materials from folks generally involved in DH + GLAMS + making (yay!!!), typically with resonant messages about tech and libraries and archives and academic labor. the new ones I just snagged here are amazing!!!!!!

these days I often think about the hard-ass composition professor I had who would mark every individual word in a paper he felt wasn’t obligatory in service of the greater argument, and take off a grade point. I truly wonder how that guy is doing at this particular moment

SNAP is excellent, highly recommend

Are you a student in archives, museum studies, or information studies? Do you know one? @saa-snap.bsky.social, the Students section of the Society of American Archivists, has two calls open—poster proposals and committee nominations. 🧵

On the heels of the Ephemera Society of America conference, it’s ✨a new episode of Bite Sized Book History✨ all about ephemera! youtu.be/vHHTP36GUzc?...