Apparently people are suddenly shitting on the old sitcom Parks and Recreation (out of boredom?) so here goes: It hurts my feelings that Leslie Knope hates libraries :(

New Australian content quotas are about to be introduced for streaming companies, like Netflix. These will hopefully boost the production of kids' TV - after changes the Coalition gov made in 2020, the amount of children's tv content produced nosedived

We found Jerry to Schrödinger's Tom!

ChatGPT advised a suicidal young woman on how to take her own life, telling her "If you choose death, I'm with you - till the end, without judging."

Companies tend to overestimate "efficiency" savings and underestimate human value

I didn't even *want* to lean on the barrier until I saw this cool guy doing it

LinkedIn is for job ads and stalking your colleagues. Not for posting. Everything went wrong when this social contract was broken.

Newly released Stockholm 𝗦𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 Declaration recommends the following _alternative_ agenda: 1. The current situation is just fine, actually. 2. No changes necessary. 3. We like who's in control and the incentive structure. 4. Thanks for your concern though!

Newly released Stockholm Declaration recommends the following reforms to publishing: 1. Academia resumes control of publishing 2. Incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity 3. Independent fraud detection and prevention 4. Legislation and policies to protect science quality and integrity

Sorry but this is fake news, Wyatt's got this

I'm so happy when a tonne of FUN WORK lands on my desk. Sorry I'm at capacity for boring work until further notice 🥰

You know how the existence of cars and power tools makes it necessary to have “exercise” and “manual crafts” as a deliberately chosen part of a balanced life? We’re probably going to need something like that cognitively, for adults.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

need

standing up too fast just for the thrill

Not many know this but "comptroller" is short for computer controller and it looks like this

kids saying "that's AI" as slang for "that's fake" is cute, but they used to make similar jokes about Wikipedia

Excellent. What I'm getting from this is fridges and filing cabinets could be either archives or databases

New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)

#academicsky #librarysky #libsky #skybrarians #medlibs do u guys like persistent identifier memes?

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias

Thank God that's over! I'm sure that's the last we'll be hearing of New York politics for a very, very long time!

Many people are outsourcing their thinking to this guy these days.

this website is run by the weakest most mewling sickly helpless babies

“Quick, we need interviews with property investors, banks, real estate agents, landlords and young people with rich parents who are buying them a house.” chaser.com.au/general-news...

here is a mockup

Australia's social media age restrictions, what's in and what's out, updated today. www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/ind...

The name Manfred is the human equivalent of Spongebob

You shit out food before you've even eaten it

No jury would convict

Been using this labeller and my favourite accidental feature is the way it humbles big accounts with the "posts a lot" label. You cease to envy their follower count when you realise the cost

Bluesky for the next 48 hours

Write this on my tombstone. Or on second thoughts, don't - because it's just a job!

Librarianship isn't a calling, it's just a job! 📚

I knew things were getting bad, but...

We need to stop using citation counts as a proxy for quality

Today we announce Solar Sharer.  A plan to share the excess solar energy our nation generates to provide every Australia with free power for at least 3 hours during the day.

Having a unique ORCID identifier is one way for academics to distinguish themselves from other researchers with the same name, but a far simpler solution would be for the bigger one to consume the smaller one.

This is shocking… using AI to scrape the internet to feed the regional news broadcast bulletins. Gonna end badly. www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

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I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre" www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...

You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct

Delivering on an election promise by handing over my 2008-2025 election night tie to the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra. When I paid $20 for it in 2008, never thought it would end up in a museum.

Microsoft if I needed your help I would ask for it

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...