The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

Just went to a pretty interesting webinar about designing AI-resistant assignments for meaningful learning, but the instructor mentioned she uses AI for all her communication but doesn't disclose that to students. How can you do that while talking about students being transparent about AI usage?

Concluded Rebel Ready Week by hosting round 2 of my identity exploration with TTRPGs and safety tools workshop; students loved the Katie gif, and they were all so wonderful and lovely! And then a second escape room for a grand finale. I love getting to create spaces where nerds can find each other.

Today’s Rebel Ready Week day was a whirlwind of awesome students! Co-led a silly workshop about podcasts with some amazing colleagues, talked to students about how to incorporate their fandoms into research, and had a jam-packed workshop about using safety tools, identity exploration, and TTRPGs. 💚

Rebel Ready Week is one of my favorite weeks of the year. I get to do the kind of instruction and programming that brings me so much joy (largely bringing nerds together). Today was Locked in the Library, an escape room experience, and Game Changer: Libraries Edition, and it was so wonderful.

I'm putting a panel together for my class, LIS 581, to have a variety of library workers talk about instruction. I have academic 4yr and community college set, looking for a public, school, and/or special librarian to join us. Message me if interested!

It is me, giving a short presentation on a workshop I’m hosting for first-year students this month! At the best conference of the year; can’t wait to return to the Transformative Play Institute Seminar sometime! youtu.be/o2H0FYzxeYA

Weeding is something that gardeners, your neighbors, and even librarians have in common. And we're not talking about crabgrass. This week, we're talking books, getting rid of them, and what happened when one library had to downsize. Full episode 👉 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...

The new TTRPG collection is on the shelves at Oesterle Library! I just put in another order with @ipr.bsky.social on Friday using their library support program, so we'll add to this soon. 💙 We're also starting a new gaming club on campus to support the collection! #GamingInLibraries #PlayIsAValidEnd

Real bad. I have a whole class on this, btw.

My friends are cool and smart and awesome.

The battle is not keeping AI out of Canvas— that’s already been lost. The battle is giving individual faculty (not administrators, not campus IT, not ed tech consultants) the power to turn it off at will. That can happen through governance and advocacy.

In the midst of all the fuckery going on, I’m glad I have finally been reunited with my beloved Wimbledon after so long. I forgot how much I love watching tennis. 🎾

I used em-dashes before ChatGPT crawled out of math's asshole and I'll use them once LLMs join pet rocks and Betamax in the dustbin of history--God willing.

Another successful Annual down! What a great team. 😊

Imagine being so limited in your process as to not know that research is a creative act.

I really hope that every writer who doesn’t use AI is so enraged that you work on your poem or your essay or your novel tonight. I want a whole library of incredible original writing to come out this

No notes.

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

Eyes up for ops

In Visby to listen to a bunch of great folks chat about using games in teaching. And very briefly chatting myself about a workshop I’m doing in the fall.

this is an interesting way to describe piracy and kidnapping

Known fans of violence LAPD says it was a peaceful protest today. Everybody mark this press release.

cats don't obey in advance and no one else should, either

Stop. Buying. Harry. Potter. Products.

Today is the last day!!!! don’t go into tomorrow regretting the fact that you didn’t make your voice heard about the importance of vaccines!!!!

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Up early (not even bright, the sun’s not come out yet) for #FanLIS2025! Excited to hear all the amazing presentations and chat about my own work; it’s one of my fav conferences of the year.

Who has print ready, zine-sized (20-70 pages) games they want to see printed? Plus One Exp and Zine Club are looking for games that are ready for print for us to keep in the pocket for Zine Club releases and to sell at Conventions like #GenCon, #PAXUnplugged, and more! If interested send a DM!

Using AI is basically crossing a digital picket line, and treating authors who use it like scabs feels appropriate. If you care about your rights and the rights of other creatives, you don't use generative AI under any circumstances (marketing, editing, drafting, outlining, artwork, narration, etc.)

I wish editorial boards would allow those of us who submit work to journals to indicate that we categorically deny permission for reviewers AND editors to feed our unpublished hard work into some LLM. For all the good it will do--at least authors can make their wishes clear to editors/reviewers.

This took far too long, and the fact that it happened in the first place is criminal and a national shame. But it's important to recognize that a judge's order was obeyed and did matter. We need to highlight that, because the we're doomed crowd would have you believe we're helpless. We're not.

Judge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight

Dr. Carla Hayden is a people's librarian. Her term goes until 2026 and should remain that way. Don't comply with unjust laws and practices. #FreedomtoRead @librarycongress.bsky.social mag.uchicago.edu/hayden

Introducing C&RL’s Generative AI Policy 1. Authorship of all submitted manuscripts (including all content and data collection/analysis) should be human. 2. Peer reviewers and editors should not use Gen AI tools when evaluating a manuscript or writing a review. 👏 📚 crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr...

Trans men’s insight on this is so fucking valuable in understanding the nuances of what’s going on with men. We need to be amplifying them, and hopefully cis men can realize what is actually the source of their loneliness.

"Use AI or get left behind" ok, leave me behind, I'll be here in the library, doing actual research, citing real publications, writing my own words, not being replaceable by a bullshit artist algorithm that's destroying the environment.

Goddamn, y’all. This season of @gamechangershow.bsky.social is getting me. My cat came up on the couch to check on me because I was laughing too hard.

As we talk about extensively in our book and on the pod, these systems are designed to output patterns from their training data, not output any real truth claim. Any belief that they would become better with larger or "more advanced" models is just wishful thinking.

is it like being told you can’t be fat but you shouldn’t be too thin and you should speak up for yourself but not be bossy and you should be perfectly fit but not butch and you should have ambition but not talk about it and you should wear makeup but also that’s lying and you should

This is why claims of "ethical" AI use bother me so much. They're built on the premise that the technology is neutral, and it's only unethical if you use it unethically. (Especially when this is spouted by people in the library industry, which has its own neutrality problem)

Submissions for the FSNNA 2025 #fanstudies conference are now open! Our theme this year is Reputation: Influence, Power, & Capital. 🤔Pick from: poster OR poster + talk ✍️Due: Abstract, bio, keywords ⏰Deadline: Friday, May 16 Full CFP & form here: fsn-northamerica.org/2025/04/11/g...

Oh we’re gonna DIE, die

Ambiguous Intelligence: Roundtable on the Impact of AI in Academic Libraries Apr 25, 2025 10:00 AM us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Teaching another game design and prototyping session in the MakerSpace!

I never get so many compliments from students than when I wear swords.

Redeploying 2023 AP Survey for folks to re-take (or take for 1st time) We are collecting data about how & why people make & consume (or don’t) #TTRPG Actual Play media. This 10 minute survey is totally anonymous. Aggregated data will be shared with the community! More details: aub.ie/ttrpgsurvey

Come check out one of my favorite conferences! I’ll be talking about an upcoming study on fandom and student researcher confidence.