We have known that the monetization of Internet traffic has been incentivizing fictional news for *years* now: www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverm...

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This is weaponized petty and I'm here for it.

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

“Rather than believe the women he had collaborated with, and so be forced to revise his image of the respectable men in his midst, he chose to maintain that respectability by refusing the validity of his own observations.” aworkinglibrary.com/writing/beyo...

You’ll never guess who the article was about

I want to restate something I said in a lot of replies yesterday, which is that this move is not going to reduce replies yelling at the Bsky team—and that should not be the goal. What it does is clarify how moderation works here so that people can assess that and act accordingly.

Some weeks ago, I found on Pinboard's most popular bookmarks, this interactive essay called Build Your Own Database: A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch." www.nan.fyi/database From it I learned that memory management is very important in building a database!

Today I was able to make it into one of the rounds for FIFA World Cup tickets. I was in the queue for a very long time. Once in, I was unable to get any for Toronto except one opportunity to purchase tickets for $2755 *each*. I did not purchase these tickets.

Presumably a mistaken suspension of a journalist who is a very anodyne poster over here, @aaron.bsky.team and co. What's the best way to reach the team who can look into it?

"How I use Signal (and Why)" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/11/11/h... This blog post is part of a larger series that might be of interest: librarian.aedileworks.com/tag/howandwhy/

In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

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.

Meanwhile in Ontario… www.cleanairalliance.org/rates-to-ris...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

I’m quoted in 3 important media stories from last week. All different but share a common theme: how do we push back against surveillance that is undermining dignity, relationships, the possibilities of collective liberation? Not exactly CBCs framing but it’s a noticeable trend in public discussions:

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

As a rabid fan of EEAAO, I both love the fact that you can play a rock in Stone Simulator in multi-player... but I take umbrage that being rocks together is a lesson of *stoicism* www.creativebloq.com/3d/video-gam... Maybe it's absurdism. But maybe it's love ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X1s...

Blue Jay (rotated), by Helen Frankenthaler, 1963, 📸 by @haffeyphoto

The US will soon require entry & exit photos of all Canadians crossing the border for biometric analysis. To me the exit photo in particular signals more widespread & indiscriminate biometric surveillance of *all* people in the US to use this database. CBC story here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-....

I thought this was an exceptional interview by @reckless.bsky.social with Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of Lexis Nexis on how Ai might influence our legal systems youtu.be/g-1A72BGztA?...

How *you* ( 📚librarians and those working in publishing, law, and government) should use ActivityPub and why librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/27/h...

A hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.

📚 "Creating with instead of creating for" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/22/c... Earlier this week, I read an article that I want to celebrate here: “From Notes to Networks: Using Obsidian to Teach Metadata and Linked Data” by by Kara Long and Erin Yunes, code4lib Journal, Issue 61, 2025-10-21.

i physically cannot stop myself from posting this even though no one will care but hands down best book for a hand cameo has gotta be "hand book". exact perfect book for a hand. thanks to this hands on google books employee whoever you are!!! (via wikimedia commons)

#AI #data centres coming to #Canada, with little thought to the huge implications for #water consumption... www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

The Metro NY Library Council is creating an outdoor library in Westchester County. We now own 26 acres — and this wknd we’re hosting a group of international librarians to help us think about what this place can be! It’ll soon be open to the public + usable by all our 100s of member institutions ☺️

I still am posting through it. Avoiding the magical trap of ✨ librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/17/a...

"Cryptographic science, he argued, could not solve Kryptos — 'but library science could.'"

there are two visions of the future of computer interaction: cyborgs and rooms cyborgs = augmented self. AI glasses, brain-computer interfaces... the personal computer paradigm rooms = augmented environment. from smart speakers to dynamicland. ambient computing! interconnected.org/home/2025/10...

Let’s not forsake the humble power of controlled vocabulary annehelen.substack.com/p/how-a-hosp...

it is a short (under 200 pages!) book about the current information crisis that we're living through and comparing it to what happened after the invention of printing and after the invention of writing. tl;dr, it feels like everyone's going bananas! and we lose respect for other humans! #dontburn

Alternate title: How I use Mastodon (and Why) 🐘

📚 How I use ActivityPub (and Why) ✈️ librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/13/h...

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Me: "Blogging is dead". Also me: 📚 Librarian of Things (librarian.aedileworks.com) has had 20K views since 2020 🥳

Thank you to everyone who helped make "intervener" a new #wikidata property! www.wikidata.org/wiki/Propert... The timing is right as there is an upcoming SCC case with a record number 38 interveners and groups of interveners montrealgazette.com/news/secular...

Hell YEAH Yukon!

added to vocabulary

I would never upload myself to Sora, so I very much appreciated Casey’s video to explain how different and other worldly it is youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?...