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Five years ago I could have asked Google for this kind of information, and I would be able to find the actual info. my kids have no idea how awesome Google used to be. Its so shitty now. the search engines feeds us slop and tell us to enjoy it.

They desperately want it not to be 'what a search engine plus a normal brain can do in 5 minutes that they are trying to make us forget what a search engine is or that a brain has a memory. I love the 'ratings' bit--ratings from where?

Grey's Anatomy would never!

JFC, I've watched enough spy shows to know that this intelligence shouldn't be shared.

Do it like Wikipedia and crowd source the curation. Let's go!

You also call your kitty googly eyes? Here is my Pee Wee, aka Mr. Googly Eyes.

This is so cool and it makes me think about all the un-digitized information out there that wasn't pillaged by AI web scraping bots.

The citation catastrophe: Propagation of AI-generated counterfeit citations in scholarship www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... A+ librarian research. Slop citations having real citation counts in Ggle Scholar is bad. So many use Scholar as their only source of info, but the pool is full of piss.

#Caturday, Sunday edition.

If its going to be cold, at least there is snow.

Incredibly thankful to have been named Distinguished Librarian of the Year Award for the #MWCMLA. I love the chapter and it feels so good to be recognized by my peers.

Hey Copilot, can you remove the background on this picture?

Methodology

Christ, that's a lot of data. Public data, to be sure, but so nicely packaged. How does one give a non-consent to this invasive tracking?

My 15 y/old daughter received a 60+ y/old man's phone number at work, even after she told him she was in high school. This happened last night. Coincidence or gross old men feeling emboldened?

#AI #Copilot question. My institution uses Copilot & Copilot has access to our internal documents & data. The LLM piece of Copilot is creating answers based on what is found during RAG. *Is the LLM being trained on that content, and does that training go outside our environment?*

Brilliant satire that doubles as a primer on the ongoing construction boom of supersized data centers across small town America—promoted as jobs creators even as the AI they enable is…wiping out jobs. By comedian and Emmy Award-winning journalist, Charlie Berens: www.youtube.com/shorts/ILAh2...

And to think once upon a time we taught students that government data was a reliable, reputable option of information. Next we'll use the Walgreens Report to measure health in the US. Fuck. . . #InfoLit #GOP #PartyOfStupid #GovDocs

When toasting things, once you smell it its done. Saved many a pan of almonds w/ this hack. Not ADHD, but I shared this trick with an ADHD friend and she uses it all the time.

Is Pete Rose alive? trends.google.com/trends/explo...

What did we get from trick or treating? Its sweet and spicy and the spoon was wrapped in plastic wrap.

So hallucinations are a thing because ChatGPT was trained to provide confident wrong answers over saying IDK. Tell me there are few women working on this project without telling me there are few women working on this project. openai.com/index/why-la...

my friend, have you learned about **the art of the prompt**?

Acceptable distraction.

Trump's UN speech was an embarrassing shitshow that brought disgrace upon the United States. Congrats, America.

Watching my cat watch a squirrel, I could sit here all day watching these two.

Do any other librarians out there find comfort in reading Marshall Breeding's Library Technology Guides. May the interface never, ever change.

🧵I couldn't quite make myself look at the new MAHA report, so I settled for today's opinion piece in the Washington Post: wapo.st/4mf4Ma7 As a #medlibs and #SystematicReview / #EvidenceSynthesis person, I of course had a look at the links/citations they include. Let's go over them, shall we?

My goodness, this article is bleak as hell. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/26/g...

Primo & Summon support for Research Assistant said that they are working to fix the content filtering from Azure, but they don't seem to be getting rid of it. Which begs the question, what kind of content in this academic database needs to be filtered?

Sure enough, the censorship is explained here. Why do **academic databases** that already utilize **peer review** need this extra filtering? Who is Alma trying to help? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

Heres a post i made a while back about contemt filters. The content filters in your AI product may filter out search results for "high risk" content. IMO, this kind of filtering has no place in academics or research. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

All this and the loss of JoAnns makes it rough for crafters. JoAnns was affordable, close by, and wasn't owned by a person who sued to take birth control away from it's employees.

I think about this Christmas special all the time but it still feels like a fever dream.

Is this on Roblox?

ACADEMIC READING ALREADY COMES WITH A SUMMARY IT IS CALLED THE ABSTRACT

This is my parenting approach in a nutshell.

Once again: LLMs are word-association algorithms. They are incapable of grokking that the words they parse correspond to actual objects & phenomena outside of their own algorithms. To an LLM, its statements depend not on facts but on how often words occur together in the material the're trained on.

Sunday morning reading w/ my dog. Jesus Wept, fantastic book. The things they don't teach you in CCD. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/258603...

I wish guys like this asked themselves questions like, "What if you, a person who has apparently never visited or used a library, were not an expert on the future of libraries?"

Yeah, it's quite the paradox that the people who understand AI aren't impressed by it. A real head scratcher.

Copilot Research, tell me about therapies for children with gender dysphoria. Copilot: start w/ Therapyfirst (a proponent of conversion therapy) then checkout the Cass report. #medlibs this is what our medical professionals are using because it's easier than going to Dynamed or Uptodate.

COPILOT IS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE.

I'm getting super-duper frustrated with the new EBSCO UI for CINAHL. So many functionalities are lacking, I have to wonder if any of the developers bothered trying it out. #medlibs, will it grow on me, or will I just stop wanting to use it?

and he loves Jesus and his boyfriend, too.

Heading out to show my patriotism. #NoKings

Ants are so cool. #peonies

Yes!! There's nothing intelligent about this tech. it makes fancy logical patterns of words.

There is no aborted fetus debris in the MMR vaccine, or in any vaccine at all. It is worth noting that the Catholic Church, one of the most staunch anti-abortion organizations in the world, has a formal policy that encourages all vaccinations.