I had wondered what some teachers/librarians meant when they say you should try to teach ethical use of genAI. Because, to me, it’s all pretty much unethical. Turns out they mean citing the use of it. Disclosing how and what tools were used = ethical 🙃 That’s…ugh

It's Friday night baby

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Every data librarian I know just shuddered in horror.📚

“When the same stories that are targeted ideologically also become the ones flagged algorithmically, the result is not neutrality. It is amplified harm.”

I've been thinking on this for a while, and instead of a holiday season sale, Bonedust Press will instead dedicate 10% of all direct sales to the San Diego Food Bank. Times are tough and since I have to do the marketing song and dance anyway, I'd like to accomplish a little good with it. #booksky

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Guys they promised okay 🥺 They pinky swore They crossed their hearts They would never break a promise

if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

THEYRE CLOSING THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES IN THIS SYSTEM TO BAN BOOKS BECAUSE THE SECRETARY OF STATE TOLD THEM TO. This is a big fucking story. They won't be the only ones.

Hey library folk it is never not a good time to signpost resources for those in our community that may need assistance but not want to ask: 📚📜

“The students are already using AI so we need to use AI too” okay 10 years ago you thought youths were eating Tide Pods and I didn’t see anybody chowing down on those in the break room at work.

😑 anything but holding corporations accountable

Just saw a study where in the references they cited a webpage, they linked not only to a page that doesn’t exist but left the /?utm_source=chatgpt.com bit on it 🤦 this was their final report, archived in the IR So embarrassing for them but also now the whole report is questionable imo 😬

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

When you use a genAI image during your presentation I can’t focus on your work at all - Too irritated about the image - makes me question what other parts of your presentation you built based on exploited/stolen works - do I trust your thought/decision process at all now since it led you to genAI

Current status.

This a million times. Denial never really changes, just shifts to update its language with new discoveries and new terminology. We see the same with evolution and HIV denial. Plus, people were sick of antivaxxers even in the late 1800s.

Comic shop owner charged with felony after allegedly giving comic to a minor at a Halloween event. icv2.com/articles/new...

they're saying zohran mamdani is too handsome to be mayor of new york. they're saying the mayor has to be a weird little freak. it's in the bylaws

Blog: @sarahweinman.com's essay via @literaryhub.bsky.social to help us as we deal with censorship, hungry patrons, and more. Pass it on to your patrons to help us get the support we need. And a plea to follow @heykellyjensen.bsky.social's reporting every day. raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-p...

Almost ever ad I see on TT is genAI. I can’t block them all fast enough.

Dentist to me: “your teeth are perfect. Keep doing what you’re doing and you don’t have anything to worry about” Dentist to hygienist: “put a note down to keep and eye on #2, it’s not a cavity yet, but we’ll compare scans next appt” 🤔🤨

I have made the decision to keep my schedule the same even tho time has fallen back. Getting up at 6 instead of 7 kinda stuff. I’m tired of spring just destroying me when we switch back We’ll see if this lasts. lol

FedEx delivered my package already and then days later I get the bill for the customs duties and tax. I was puzzled when I received my package with no bill beforehand. lol Thought I got lucky but looks like they just did it out of order.

It used to be ~$25 for 4lbs of assorted jelly belly beans. Now it’s like 32$ for 3lbs ☹️

Anyone who thinks that anti-ai sentiments is just “all new technology is scary and bad” doesn’t understand anti-ai sentiments at all and I likely will assume you’re extremely ignorant and wonder how far that ignorance goes

If you donate $5 or more to relief efforts in Western Alaska, I will send you an ebook of The Traitor & The Wretch! First 5 people to donate $20 or more, I'll mail you a signed physical book! (US only) Email proof of donation to [email protected] alaskacf.org www.avcp.org/western-alas...

I have a mil/veteran food pantry in my neighborhood. It was initially started by ppl in the neighborhood but has now been handed over to a non-profit to run. They call it “the essentials market” but it’s a pantry.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

The ACRL Board of Directors recently approved the AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers. www.ala.org/acrl/standar...

The platform my employer uses for our paystubs has a built in AI now, like why????

This might also explain why so many undergrads, so many techbros, and university administrators are so enamored

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

#IGM25 games are arriving at libraries! Make sure you sign up by the end of the week - 10/31/2025 - to receive free games for your collection. airtable.com/appkUqUwgPmZ... GameRT membership is NOT a requirement to sign up (for this year at least.)

Important reminder (From the Dennison's Bogie Book which I found out about through @taipeiqueen on IG)

They’re using AI to make videos of Black women yelling about their EBT cards on Tik Tok. I knew this would be the first way they would use AI to come after us. Please stop using it! Stop feeding the machine!

Man I loved the pivot from “virtual school during the pandemic was amazingly destructive and caused so much learning loss we should have let COVID rip through the schools instead of closing them” to “the wave of the future is your kids’ education being 90% chatbots- sign up or be left behind!”

You gotta be kidding me Netflix “Group 7 only” as a category 💀 (It’s a TikTok thing iykyk)

If this is a new scam trend, they really stepping it up lmao I’m used to the random hellos or “hey this is Jessica we met last weekend” texts, not uplifting “you got this” msgs

Join the round tables of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social (GameRT, GNCRT, FMRT, IRRT, RRT, & IFRT) on 10/24 for a day of interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, and moral panic, as well as conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read: bit.ly/4gLpmh4

Not so fun fact: The most banned book in US prisons is… a cookbook😐 This week is Prison Banned Books Week – the system’s attack on books is sinister, to say the least, and emerging technology, like tablets, is not helping. Here’s what you should know:

Some nice mushrooms from my hike

I'm going to use the zombie analogy again: If you want us to survive the apocalypse - 1) we can't let people in the safe house who WANT to open the door to the zombies 2) the person who arbitrarily says we need to give up some of us to save the others also can't stay in the safehouse.

Dispatches from the Field: AASL 2025, Day 3 https://bit.ly/4719aoH

Sharing for ppl who heard the news about the ALA layoffs but maybe didn’t see this email. This was emailed Saturday. I know there was a connect post about it too, but I haven’t had time to read connect much.

How am I supposed to go about my day if I can’t start it by doing my little word games How come these outages never impact my job 😔

Celebrating the Science of Quilts hyperallergic.com/1049897/cele...