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Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

USEFUL: Generative Al License Tracker from Ithaca S+R sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen... Tracking deals publishers have with companies licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLM (Noting the 'their content' aspect of this - read your publishing agreements folks before signing)

Me, explaining copyright as a librarian: In 1976, copyright protection became automatic. Registration was no longer required in order to retain your copyright to the work. Until 2022, when AI decided that copyright is just vibes

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

We’d love to know if people are using rescued data. We have download numbers but it would be helpful to know how people are using them! If you have use cases get in touch!

Freedom of expression!

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

I learned today that Ohio State faculty can’t put a land acknowledgement statement in their syllabus and that we can’t ask students to voluntarily disclose their pronouns. #firstamendment #ohiostate

A generous thread that touches on a lot of the conversations that are obviated when "Gen AI" is presented as a monolith rather than a marketing term whose nuances need to be teased out in order to have curious, productive conversations.

Chalk. That's the big threat here at OSU. I can't think of a more obvious way to say "we're afraid of what you have to say" than to ban chalk.

New @iassistdata.bsky.social #qualitative interest group workshop recording is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Ud... Martin Hájek demonstrated how to use @requal.bsky.social, a free and #opensource tool for #qual data analysis. Slides at: zenodo.org/records/1566...

I absolutely loved yesterday's #IASSIST2025 keynote by Prof. Shawn Sobers people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/Shawn... with art + anthropology + history + data + pianola

Excellent presentation by @lyndamk.bsky.social on @datarescueproject.org and other data rescue efforts, including @SafeguardingResearch.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy out of Germany. Such important work to safeguard our cultural heritage being done through the work of groups across the world. #IASSIST2025

We are presenting on our work and wider data rescue efforts at #IASSIST2025 conference in Bristol, England this week. If you aren't familiar with @iassistdata.bsky.social but you are interested in #data, you should check it out! Great sessions on #data management, preservation, ethics, & more.

I’ve noticed an uptick in dismissals of the concerns of teachers about AI. Some say that it’s *their* job to find a way to evaluate work that AI can’t replicate. I would just ask that you talk to real teachers and really listen. I’d also suggest reading a bit about writing and the brain.

Oh man, what a self-own. A govt lawyer brought up DEI in passing, Judge Young was Not Happy: "If putting these words together, DEI, is somehow offensive... does that mean our policy is homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion? Are you going to stand there and tell me that's now the policy of the NIH?"

Wanna reduce crime? Open more libraries. "we find within the nearby proximity of the library; there is a substantial reduction in frequency of burglaries, vandalism, robberies, fraud, and assaults." link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The Ohio State University Libraries is hiring two super important collections-focused TT faculty positions: Collections Strategist and Acquisitions Librarian. I’m not on either search committee but happy to answer any questions I can. #libraryjobs #lisjobs osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

IMLS! www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Update: Reddit the platform is considering legal action against the researchers, their university has stated that their ethics review did NOT actually tell them that the research was okay, and the researchers are not publishing the work. www.404media.co/reddit-issui...

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

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I have no need for a career anymore. Internet Archive referenced something I wrote. Pensions this, promotions that - who is she, I don't know her. My Maslow's triangle is fulfilled and overflowing, one of the world's coolest orgs have seen a thing I did. What more could I possibly achieve in life.

Invisible Histories is looking for volunteers who can assist with documenting and preserving information from DEIA offices that have been closed or are facing closure. Read more and sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Milchick continually trying and failing to get them to update his PC welcome screen is maybe the most relatable part of Severance.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

Seems like we’re all posting our Intermission at The Brutalist pics tonight so here ya go

Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, “there’s been a massive uptick in social media platforms removing content related to reproductive health care and specifically abortion pills,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told @nytimes.com. "This is an ongoing, increasing problem.”

If you had told me in 2010 that we would soon be living in a time where we are deleting Twitter and Facebook and championing Wikipedia and Reddit I would have laughed at you. What a world.

Now I know how Scheana felt when Ariana got Dancing With The Stars

On the implementation working group for my institution’s new discovery layer. I’m advocating hard for THE Libraries Search but others have suggested “O-H-I-Search.”

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

“What is different about generative AI is the power density it requires. Fundamentally, it is just computing, but a generative AI training cluster might consume seven or eight times more energy than a typical computing workload,”

Today I Learned about this resource www.ala.org/aboutala/aff...

The rulers of a dystopia do not perceive it as such. The dystopian conditions exist for their benefit!

“The thing that makes me worry is how much these people are giving up the very mental tasks that make them human.” chuckpearson.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/t...

Went to see Nosferatu tonight at a theater also screening the 4K restoration of Se7en. Not since the opening night of Killers of the Flower Moon have I seen such a long line for the men’s room.

💔 I can’t handle this, 2025

The Makerspaces for Innovation and Research in Academics (MIRA) Conference Planning Committee seeks proposals for its eighth annual conference which will be held on July 23rd, 2025. #DHMakes laverne.libguides.com/mira/cfp

Jane Austen would like a word

While hydrants in specific places ran dry, the fires are in part the result of another kind of water shortage, a climate-chaos-fueled drought. If you want to hate on climate destroyers, start with the fossil fuel industry here--notably Chevron-- and institutions supporting it, including Wells Fargo.

There are smart critical articles about the Resnicks, esp. Mark Arax's piece for California Sunday Magazine a few years ago. But they have nothing to do with the L.A. fires. story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-ki...

Curiosity, searching behavior, and Wikipedia. m.slashdot.org/story/437465