Like I always say, "the best part of these webinars is the conversations we have in the chat"

Watching people speedrun the full gamut of statistical literacy mistakes they mocked in others and trying to keep my mouth shut

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No prophet is accepted in his own country, 21st century edition

In addition to this just being an excuse for poor UX design, DELIBERATELY creating poor search or info ecosystem conditions for your students is AWFUL PEDAGOGY, and is NOT teaching. We don't need to "add friction." We need to teach them to navigate the friction that is already there.

This is your early warning that Jackson Pollock goes out of copyright on January 1st 2027. Get ready for some horrible duvet covers.

If they are using the book as a prompt attachment then it is UNAVOIDABLY a derivative work. HOWEVER, the fact that it's a recipe is a confounding factor, because recipes AS STEPS are NOT copyrightable. Not protectable. Only the PRESENTATION of recipes is.

This is what ethical and deliberate use of web-enhanced AI looks like. And you can do this. Absolutely. But people don't, because they want IMMEDIATE GRATIFICATION, and they don't realize OR CARE that a derivative work has been created.

No, the thing that is copyright-relevant is the text, not the research. If she wrote all the text herself, there are no issues of copyright. Using "AI" to search and research has big issues due to hallucination, but it's likely to become more difficult to avoid as Google, et al integrate it further.

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I just found out that two of my proposals to the @aect.bsky.social #AECT2026 International Convention were accepted!

This reminds me of my proposal to a conference, that focused on science fiction as a narrative to understand technological and societal shifts of the past and present. I just found it got accepted, with my highest cumulative score EVER. I submitted it half as a joke.

TIL that The Lion King adapted from The Mission's score "Climb" for the redemption motif featured in "This Land" "King of Pride Rock" etc.

Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire. He ended, or I heard no more; for now My earthly by his heavenly overpowered, Which it had long stood under, strained to the highth In that celestial colloquy sublime, VIII, 450-455

how to love a broken girl take care with her pieces the edges are sharp sing to her softly as you fill the cracks with precious gold make her more beautiful than she ever was before with steady hands to hold and a willing heart be the light that reignites her tender, darkened soul #MPPrompt

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care not for thee Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love [lute riff yn honor of Colbert] Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye Ich am yn love

It's not every day that a profession is the target of a blatant coup from an AI company. But apparently, today is one of those days. #skybrary #librarian #skybrarian #librarysky

Archivists USUALLY think of preservation of materials after death as a given (that's how many collections come to us), but what about records that are maintained by a person when they are living, but obviously are not donated in an archival sense to the institution they gave those records to?

Claude's Corner: Librar Labs — The AI Librarian That's Really a Data-Catalog Trojan Horse https://www.startuphub.ai/ai-news/claude's-corner/2026/claudes-corner-librar-labs-yc-w2026

Have read reports that this company is harassing school librarians. Going around librarians to principals. High pressure sales calls. Spoiler alert: they seek $$$, not support of librarians. Beware the ai grifters. www.librarlabs.com/en/about #tlsky #edusky #schoollibrary #librarians

We are implementing a similar policy at @arxiv.bsky.social. If there is incontrovertible evidence of LLM slop in a paper, this means the authors did not take the time to read the LLM output and we can't trust anything else in the paper. Penalty is 1 year ban from arXiv followed by...

This is because the data used to train the AI was taken from the highly-controlled "indexing" process done by lay volunteers for around 20 years. Since the purpose was research, not historical authenticity, all terms for race were coded as "White," "Black," all place names were standardized, etc etc

'English Sacred Choral Music is education, and worship, and a celebration of skill and artisanship. It is sheet music wet with drops of music, smudged and loved. It is notes scrawled with humour and frustration. It is community, and it is friendship.'

We are halfway through Mental Health Awareness Week. In a busy and demanding world, moments of stillness, music and reflection matter deeply. Whether you come to Evensong, a lunchtime concert, to light a candle, or simply to sit quietly for a while, you are always welcome at St Albans Cathedral.

Ever since I have met #Messiaen I can't stop thinking about him as a French #Bach, in that his music has the power to stop any #atheist or sacrilegious thoughts I have. My #organ works playlist on Spotify includes their complete works, plus #Buxtehude and #Cochereau, and it is an exhilarating ride.

The #DMCA is not the enemy. Inaccurate, stingy, and haphazard methods of interpreting and "enforcing" it are the enemy. #copyright

Totally forgot to share this! Got to have a lovely exchange with Paul DeHart and his book, “Unspeakable Cults” over on Syndicate (which holds public scholarly forums). We meditate on the historicity of Christ, the role of faith and understanding, and MONSTERS. Yay! syndicate.network/symposia/the...

What this means is, "we are assuming that you will be able to take advantage of the #ShupeDecision the #USCO made a few years ago, but there are no guarantees." publicrecords.copyright.gov/detailed-rec...

I am willing to read it as “making music that crosses the threshold”—we talk about copyrightable selection, coordination and arrangement all the time.

#Frasier over everything else.

I always wondered why that specific song was chosen, and why " Isn't it Romantic" is included like SIX TIMES in episodes, between FRASIER and CHEERS. And even in WINGS, I want to say.

This is why I bought the series directly. I can watch "Matchmaker" and NOT watch "Slow Tango"

That is incredibly cool.

A word to the wise: don't be an "AI should not be used in education" force on your campus and then share links to your colleagues that end with "utm_source=chatgpt.com" ... >>

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Not a lawyer, but a copyright librarian. Copyright is yours when you make something. Copyright is only ENFORCEABLE (litigation-wise) when you register it with the USCO.

Book rec for you all, that I am going to read after I finish Gagne's Conditions of Learning for the third time: THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY, by #JacquesEllul.

This is why #ephemera folders exist in archival collections, and I am DYING to make an exhibit about "random stuff about people that they liked but have no connection to anything else in their personality, and what they say about society."

As someone who views IL as the CORE of what librarians do, it shocks me that, when I ask other librarians what information literacy is about, they ALWAYS refer to a framework or list made by someone else, as if the ACTIONS or the CHECKLIST were IL. And that's not what it is at all...

If it makes you feel any better, there were FIVE sys revs at a conference I attended last year, and NONE of them followed sys rev recommendations at all, INCLUDING one of them only using one database. Worse, two of them ONLY used LLMs to retrieve articles.

It's about "helping people find resources about what they are looking for," not "show them the *right* answer"

There are AT LEAST two other major conceptualizations of how LLMs work, and nobody cares to know or learn about them. They just repeat the word "stochastic" over and over... kind of like a parrot... without knowing what it means.

This is anecdotal, to be sure, BUT multiple professionals in my network have seriously considered making their students use agentic browsers EXCLUSIVELY in their classes, because "this is how we will browse the internet in the future." #lookingbeyondthemark

Unless institutions provide shared access to high quality agents, discovery advantage may shift from who has database access to who can afford the better search agent. (2)

Aaron, as usual, is light years ahead of my understanding. But this seems analogous to the time in the 2000s when people were "disciples" of just one search engine (if librarians were even engaging with discussions about search engines) above all others.

Yes, sadly there are multiple professionals and faculty who told me, "I can't find this paper at all!" I find it, and then they tell me that they were only using "their field's specialized database," which had a significantly hampered ability to look through more recent results.

Besides the boolean vs ranked retrieval recall/precision issue, theres this assumption these tasks do only one query. True for evidence synthesis maybe but not true for the other 2 particularly narrative review such is iterative. (2)

If you buy it on streaming, then Frasier Solstice Day can be every month.