generally, I think most of us are more likely to lose our jobs because the trustees decided to “reimagine the university” (eliminate 1/3 of departments) in “the face of fiscal constraints” (blew the endowment on real estate schemes) than due to a student debuting for americas next top reactionary

if i’m walking hauntingly out on the moor and there isn’t a swirling mist behind me i swear to god

I've actually bought books because I saw the name of the translator on the cover (Anton Hur, Megan McDowell, among others). I know they do high quality work, so I take a chance on a new-to-me author. Meanwhile I canceled my Crunchroll sub because the translation quality has gone downhill so much.

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Because we can't tell people shit, "golden" use cases like the one OP is responding to become immediately suspect. Put simply, the cost of AI hype is not just in terms of deskilling and disinformation, it is in terms of the very applications that enable us to do GOOD science like climate modelling.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

I sympathize with our students not knowing what to do about genAI, given that some parts of the university are busy telling them to use it and get certificates in it and demanding they apply it and some of us are begging them to stop destroying themselves and the planet and our minds.

C-15, a beneficial fatty acid is found in milk fat. The highest levels are found in cheese made from from sheep's milk. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Sometimes I think I know what I'm doing only to find out no, in fact I do not know what I'm doing.

Also lmao... the vendor Bluesky "partnered" with for age verification has that classic TOS where they can change their privacy policy, at any time, for any reason, without having to notify you, and do whatever they want with your data. Sure, why not, kids? www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/privac...

Youtube isn't allowing boosts on this, so doing it the old-fashioned way

the proposed $5000 tax credit for adopters would, in the words of too many birth mothers, have made the difference between relinquishing and keeping their own children.

Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)? Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"

one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true

Fuck YouTube. I would rather my videos stay removed than edit them to cut out the word gambling. For years, my work was about how loot boxes were gambling, and I used the word because companies didn’t want the word used. I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them. Fuck. YouTube.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

we knew that the Google Scholar enshittification was coming... telling students to not cite papers, chapters, books, etc they haven't read has always been ab ensuring references' accuracy & appropriateness - now, apparently, there's another reason: to make sure references exist in the first place

No, you do not need "AI skills." "AI skills" refers to prompt engineering - being able to 'prompt the model correctly' to get anything approaching what you need. It is quite literally gaslighting you into doing the "intelligence" work for a so-called "AI." www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

This has begun to change and not for the better. Trump‘s overt hatred for disabled people forces Republicans to reject him, which they mostly don’t do, ignore him, which is hard, or follow him into his hatred.

Updated AI policy, in effect starting with the January 2026 open submission window www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/ai-policy/

I want to repost @fobettarh.bsky.social's fundraiser as she needed to be moved to the ICU a few weeks ago and remains there. Her support network can use more coins from those in a position to donate, or to boost/spread the word. Fobazi is a wonderful human being: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

I have a bookstore gift card and am on a books-in-translation kick. Any recommendations? (If it helps, I've enjoyed Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang, Yoko Ogawa, Mo Yan, Olga Tokarczuk)

If you only read one thing today, let it be this thread. My mind ENTIRELY changed on "right to die with dignity" laws when I saw the way it's being used in Canada to coercively kill poor, disabled people who WANT TO LIVE.

Noam Chomsky made it very clear that he was a scumbag when he denied the Khmer Rouge genocide back in the 1970s: if you’ve been trying to deny the obvious about him ever since, well, that’s on you.

This whole thread. It is why I don't mind paying $100+ for bras. Every single bra is handmade. Even the cheap Walmart ones. I know how to sew. I know I can't sew a bra. I want the people who know how to be able to live.

A woman in Saskatchewan needs surgery for a parathyroid issue and is being offered MAiD instead. There’s no one in the province who can perform the procedure and the government won’t pay to send her elsewhere. This is why disability advocates warn about assisted dying 🧵

ICE is kidnapping and locking up little kids, denying them medical care, and feeding them contaminated food. They aren’t going after criminals, they are going after Black and brown people, because this isn’t about immigration, it’s about white supremacy.

my evidence-free pet theory is that a lot of current anti-vaxxing is cope, because people don't have enough PTO to take a day off work for planned illness (side effects) and also don't believe they have a future, but that is overwhelming to contemplate, so it's easier to think of vaccines as useless

This Library Trends CFP looks really interesting 📚 " Rethinking the Role of Libraries as Democracies Falter" ischool.illinois.edu/news/publica...

... suddenly tempted to get my dad a biblical tarot deck (a thing I did not know existed until 30 seconds ago)

sometimes i think back to how past-me would put my every thought up on birdsite for the world to see and just boggle; present-me would never.

“A ‘neurodivergent fellowship’ at a corporation like Palantir isn’t meaningful inclusion or representation so much as it’s an exercise in having an often punitively surveilled population be complicit in making platforms of weaponized surveillance." – @wolvendamien.bsky.social

WPA everything but particularly the arts and journalism

Manually cleaning up machine-generated transcriptions for this podcast makes me realize why so many podcasters just release the slop transcripts instead of doing the work to clean them up (even if they are a user-side nightmare)

The Chinese government’s repression of journalists at home is well-known. Less visible is how that machinery now reaches far beyond its borders. Read the accounts from Journalists who faced intimidation for reporting on human rights abuses tied to China’s ventures in African countries.

As a bioethicist, I also feel the need to add that the central issue with eugenics is “it’s evil” not “it’s factually incorrect.” And if we finally learned that, maybe big name bioethicists wouldn’t publish “what if eugenics but hi-tech” every five years.

Just finished going through interview transcripts for this project, and I was struck by a participant's recollection of how their oxygen tank was repossessed when they lost their job and lost their employer-sponsored insurance coverage. Lung cancer, post-op. Inhumane.

I keep seeing people saying things like "I want an app to track emotions/health/etc" and it always takes everything in me not to infodump at them about how that information is not private and is used by data brokers/advertisers/social media platforms to game your behavior and extract value from you

Ok time to get started on my half-decade backlog of short story anthologies

About the halfway mark it becomes painfully clear why duo changed from feeling useful for language learning to feeling like gamified slop around 2021

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Sometimes I think about how gormless I was when I first graduated library school and wish someone had sat me down and told me point-blank basic facts about how money works

I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I have posted before about how my GLP-1 pretty much saved my life after covid, but I also strongly believe that people taking them should have access to mental health support, because these medications & discussion around them & how folks treat you would make it so very very easy to hurt yourself.

Ohhh this is why the auto-suggestions are suddenly so bad today