Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity https://theonion.com/physical-media-collector-pumped-for-downfall-of-humanity/

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

There are 1500+ objects in our artifact collection and I know almost nothing about any of them so I’m very excited to learn with the ten students doing a semester-long object study (and exhibit!) One student picked the cutest lil scale (it includes weights mapped to international currencies)

My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜

Whenever I see somebody online explaining the ways they know a kid is using ChatGPT to write a paper, I am sincerely glad I'm not a child anymore. Em dashes? Oxford commas? Enumerated lists? Complex contrasting sentences? I am a hyperlexic autistic and began writing like that in fourth grade.

Crying hot salty tears at the suggestion to have Yiddish speakers work as codetalkers in some imagined war where our enemies could not piece together a language whose vocabulary is largely Germanic

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Give folks their flowers No, I mean right now. Go tell someone you loved their work right now. They're on social media just say it, it has never been easier "They know how much people love--" no they don't go say it right now to a composer or artist or game dev or writer or anyone AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

For no particular reason, here's the former chief Australian army officer setting forth his expectations regarding military conduct, and along the way modeling moral clarity, leadership, and strength of character www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRQB...

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June. It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map. We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

We are subsidizing AI usage.

"Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources."

Ive spent so much time working with tech people doing tech things on tech deadlines. In the past few years my practice has turned to analog tools (print making, zines, drawing) in my own personal protest. 1/3

Just noticed that one of the authors of the Stochastic Parrots paper is listed with the name "Shmargaret Shmitchell" and affiliation "The aether." Incredible

If a PDF dared speak to me I would kill it with a big Sword

Putting this question out across the various socials: where do people sit these days on the concept of "Significant Properties"? #digipres

*chanting* Signs of use! Signs of use!

You would think the obvious solution to "the volunteer-powered project we all train our AI models on for free isn't adequately twisting reality to our political views" would be "... and so we stopped training on it" and not "... and so we will force the volunteers to bend to our will"

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

Just noticed that one of the authors of the Stochastic Parrots paper is listed with the name "Shmargaret Shmitchell" and affiliation "The aether." Incredible

WAIT the name "Vanessa" is literally just a cute little nickname that some guy came up with for someone named Esther Vanhomrigh (Van Esther → Van Essa) and then we just started naming girls that for the next three hundred years??

The fact that Canada Post management would rather provide worse service and fire their workers than think about diversifying services is outrageous. Canada Post “costs” tax dollars because that’s what taxes are for. Does anyone rly think using courier services would save individuals money? Come on.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

i made a helpful reference

Got my performance review.

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

When making a ZIP file or the like, be careful not to include images of yogurt-based drinks from South Asia—you'll end up with lassi compression. #Puns #DigiPres #DAM

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

I like how Yiddish will sometimes take a Germanic word like nar (נאַר, “fool”) or a Latinate word like dokter (דאָקטער, “doctor”) but give the Hebrew plural forms like naronim (“fools”) or doktoyrim (“doctors”) to really keep you in your toes

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

Just wrote a ¶ for my MLIS final portfolio about how following other archivists on social media is a good way to stay up-to-date on goings-on in the field… so it's definitely still grad school work if I take a few minutes to scroll my feed, right? 😅

Been reading bits from a book by a 5th century British monk complaining about all the anglo-saxon immigrants ruining 'his' country and it's hilarious. This sort of dickhead never changes lol. The Conquest and Ruin of Britain by Gildas.

for the “limewire still exists?” folks, i have some bad news: www.web3isgoinggreat.com?id=limewire-...

Please don't call it that

manuscripts reading room: do not bring anything in, including yourself. place your internal organs in a clear plastic bag and keep it on the table at all times office at rare books seller: hold manuscript at least 20cm away from your face if eating a hotdog. ashtrays must be kept on the windowsill

Wikipedia article of the day

Trans people can’t safely use public restrooms because of manufactured panics about men impersonating others so they can enact violence against women, meanwhile actual men impersonating others to enact actual violence against women proceeds unabated

For my train weirdos and my food weirdos, here’s the corporate recipe book and serving standards of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad . Please enjoy these elegantly-served aspics. hdl.handle.net/11134/3992510

"LIS students who don’t come from a solidly upper- or upper-middle-class background will either need to take out expensive private loans or will just not be able to attend grad school." Thank you for this, @violetbfox.bsky.social acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

They've lost the 9yos

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

I can’t believe people are “discovering” AI supply chains in 2025. Stop grifting for a minute and read a damn book!

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, September 19, 1984, Former U. S. President Gerald Ford was stuck in an elevator in the Van Pelt Library at UPenn. Was there a medieval manuscript stuck in the elevator with him? Probably not, but we can dream. #medievalsky

In “Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library,” I examine LIS as in need of a values-realignment, asking readers to refuse the technosolutionism we are so often offered in place of human-centered possibilities, like taking racism, climate change, and labor rights seriously doi.org/10.1353/lib....

It's the #AutumnalEquinox today at 18.20 GMT! This 16th-century paper machine, called a volvelle, helps explain how the sun moves through the sky from equinox to solstice throughout the year. Find a full explainer video on our exhibition website: history.rcp.ac.uk/exhibitions/... #BodyofKnowledge