Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

The students mention there not being classes in media literacy for middle and elementary students, and that's likely because schools are less likely to have a professional librarian in those schools than in the high schools. Because guess what's first cut during budget issues? Media specialists.

I do not love every damn login requiring me to use my phone. I don't love the extra 'security' that makes life more complicated for average folks while data companies are out there leaking our info like it's stored in colanders. Am I safer now? Less at risk for having my identity stolen? HELL NO.

I think it’s really important when you get something wrong that you fix it. We are in an age of parasocial journalism where everyone is talking into tiny microphones. People have their faves and they trust what those faves say. If you get something wrong, fix it. It makes you more credible.

I do not understand why the A.I. people do not get it. We do NOT want something that does our work for us. We want TOOLS that allow us to do our work. If you can't understand the difference, you shouldn't be pushing this shit on us.

OKAY I am going to go on a side tangent rant here about the "luxury grocery store" thing (see below thread up and down, very excellent comments). In-store delis (with the little meals, the trays, sometimes family meals that you bake at home) REDUCE STORE LEVEL FOOD WASTE. A rant thread incoming

We *only* watch old school Sesame Street in our house, for this exact reason. They deliberately cast it to have white cast members in the minority. The Mr. Hooper actor did time on the McCarthy blacklist. The racial integration was so in your face, Mississippi stations initially refused to air it

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

🚨 WA and other vote-by-mail states: The post office changed its postmark policy and no longer guarantees a postmark will be given on the date mail is received. For deadline sensitive mail, like ballots, this means that you need to mail far in advance (10+ days before) or use a drop box. #waelex

IF YOU ARE READING SOMETHING AND IT IS HARD BUT YOU HAVE TO READ IT 1. use a thing that will sit right under the line you're reading, so you know where you are in the text 2. read it out loud because your active participation will help 3. get a definition of a weird word and WRITE IT DOWN

A fucking LLM trained on the collective insanity that is the internet cannot do useful things without going off the rails in weird and unpredictable ways that make it a HAZARD for anything even semi-serious. They’re a goddamn toy and I will die on this hill

Yes hello, former senior dev here: Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

@flowerhorne.com hope it’s ok to ask directly - couldn’t reply to your comment about passkeys (prob so the other person wouldn’t get tagged). I'm pretty good w computers but have not found a good explanation for how passkeys work. How to use w accounts where you need to log on with 2+ devices? Halp!

Good and cogent piece about who owns food culture

This is an excellent thread, and if I might add, with care, that I think our academic staff are also all exhausted as well, by so many things that were not always a part of their role, as well as the pressure and precariousness of academia. Students feel that, too - the whole environment is fraught.

Kate makes an excellent argument here. Also trauma plays heck with your memory formation and recall and these kids have been through a lot without adult resources to help.

I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/

it is absolutely the tech companies fault that people now assume they’re doing something evil and sneaky even when they actually aren’t (regarding the latest Google kerfuffle) like, no kidding that people have zero willingness to cut big tech the benefit of the doubt anymore

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

I’ve always found it interesting how much microblogging character limits streamline language use. No room for weasel words, purple prose, digression. But I think it’s also part of how extremism ramps up. Because neither is there room for nuance, citation, qualifiers, any softening or mitigation.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Stretch every couple of hours. Exercise regularly. Eat better. Drink less booze. Stop using your phone in bed. Do the impossible task that you keep putting off and is weighing you down: it'll probably take you under thirty minutes. Touch grass more than your phone.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

I see your, "remove sound description from closed captions that annoy me, a hearing person" and I counter w/ put more details in the CC. I want the sound descriptions. I want the lyrics. I read 4 languages so miss me with the “speaks foreign lang." Give me exhaustive and insufferable deaf-ass CC 😂

have been also learning lately that data centers primarily draw water from public drinking water systems with huge implications for access, infrastructure quality, cost of buildout, and water rates for residential customers who already usually subsidize industrial use, in addition to capex

Doing GOOD historical research is very complex. It’s not gate keeping to say that out loud & expect other scholars to recognize it. It’s not gate keeping to expect epidemiologists to engage in the already existing scholarly conversation about these complexities.

This is NOT good. Disease monitoring and testing and surveillance of food borne diseases are no longer reliably available. Very good article - I recommend reading the whole thing. And source your food carefully and cook it completely. www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

To the person angry we weren't "neutral" in our AI Ethics panel: We absolutely should be saying no to technology that poisons the environment. We absolutely should be making moral choices about who we give money to. There is nothing neutral about librarianship. Never has been, never will be.

"Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought." ~ Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton)

If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: If you want to believe it, check it twice ::clap clap:: Doesn’t matter if it’s awful Doesn’t matter if it’s nice If it confirms your bias, check it twice! ::clap clap::

Assume, like many do, that AI *is* the future. Most advocates, those attempting to act responsibly, still say the key is human interpretation and decision-making. That means we still need to teach students and early careers AS IF they cannot rely on these tools. They still NEED to become experts.

I remember once astonishing a colleague’s husband when he naively asked why we (historians) couldn’t just look something up on the internet and we had to explain that WE are the ones who find the stuff and add it to the internet

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

One of the BEST things about the US undergrad systems was broad and mandatory GE requirements, that made us explore things even if we thought we knew what we wanted to / had to major in.

One thing I hate about AI: It steals the magic. You see a photo or video online and it touches you. It’s moving. Or poignant. But you can’t stop there. Because maybe it’s fake. It steals the magic.

This is so important. And, having spent many years teaching preschool, I'd add that boys have the inclination and the skills for collective care very early, but they're often socialized *out* of these traits. Encouraging boys' caregiving competencies means allowing them access to their full selves.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

Once again pointing to my gigantic sign that says “place descriptions are an element of viewpoint and should be used to reveal character” The lake view a 90-year-old widower whose husband died by drowning sees is not the one a 22-year-old freshly graduated geologist does

A really thoughtful essay on Murderbot: ‘Even If They Are My Favourite Human’: Murderbot Just Explained Boundaries countercurrents.org/2025/07/even...

80% of the global supply and 100% of the US supply of almonds come out of the Central Valley, just to name one crop in particular.

Interesting thread.

This seems like a good lesson for real life too.

More thoughts on #Murderbot, a.k.a "this is why I don't make reaction videos." My best thoughts always come to me after some time has passed... A lot of the humor in the show is not really humor, but MB's point of view. Humans are messy and emotional and ridiculous; this is a wonderful thing.🧵

‘Sinners’ on Max Will Include a Black American Sign Language Version

I think that the failures of the millennial generation's attempts to change this system were necessary in some ways because we're often roundly mocked for losing over and over, but we played by the rules and did everything we were told. Every time we looked like we were winning, the rules changed.

I am not built for this weather. I come from cold weather people. I am made for potatoes and rain.

education standards in Canada and the USA have been enshittified for decades. I don't think people really know how to research beyond typing whatever in Google and they don't know how to examine the results and they fight for their lives when i say "chatbots are not good for research, oh my god"

Any teaching of AI by librarians that isn’t centering its dangers is, frankly, unprofessional. 📚 #PubLibs