hell is real billboard (ohio) and I feel like he’d write the most beautiful saddest song about the wall drug parking lot (south dakota)

one reason I see as a librarian is that students aren't always encouraged to explore what they're interested in. I just helped an undergrad find & read nonpopulation census data from 1850 on microfilm - they care, but school admins & gov't have failed them, and they just need a degree to survive

"Republicans are driving up your electricity bills so they can generate AI memes about their war crimes" should be a political layup

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

(at a social function this holiday season) “hey nimisha how’s it going” “THEY FOUND HUNDREDS OF DECAPITATED NEOLITHIC BODIES AND HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THEY CAME FROM OR WHO DID IT OR WHY”

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

it’s always fun when financial officers present at library all staff meetings and make weird analogies to their own heart attacks and bin laden in relation to the university’s budget model

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure

Woke 2 must bring a cleansing bloodshed

I attended a meeting yesterday and it reminded me that every single organizer needs to get training on how to facilitate meetings. Truly. You lose more people through terrible meeting facilitation than I can express.

Mayor Mamdani is coming to liberate the people of Ohio

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

I am weeping

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.

you should be allowed to attempt a layup at the hoop if your polling place is in a gym

all of these losers have zero information or media literacy skills and now they get to decide the fate of so many people

Here's a way to search all food banks: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo... After you put in your zip code, if there aren't many results then click on "see nearby pantries" and it'll give you a map with everything on it.

today I learned that there’s an ohio apple variety called ludacrisp

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

We must all rally behind America’s Team: the Toronto Blue Jays

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

remember when academia and librarians demonized wikipedia for undermining research integrity and now universities are throwing millions of dollars at AI and librarians are twisting themselves into knots to teach students how to use it “ethically”

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🧵How Native Americans are impacted by the government shutdown…

zotero's new update has a sleeker dark mode layout, big day for me

‘tis the season cc: @bbburgerrr.bsky.social

excited to lead this discussion next week!

“Jeffrey Bardzell, the current dean of SILS, has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI” I wonder what it’s like to not feel shame

I hope they make the homonym show from 30 rock next

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects. The political coalition for this should be: everyone."

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new york yankees century of humiliation underway

We’ve all joked that the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 opened a vortex to Trump, but have we considered that the Astros missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016 might close it? Much to consider.

particularly bleak to hear a MF DOOM song used in an AI commercial

everything is garbage but I do get to work with history grad students on cool research about things like black baseball teams during reconstruction and impoverished women targeted by eugenics during the progressive era this semester, and that helps a little

honestly the government doesn’t have to dismantle higher ed, higher ed is doing it voluntarily on its own

it's so cool that almost everyone in this country with a major platform is dumb and cuckoo for cocoa puffs

I autodrafted for the first time since my fantasy league started 13 years ago because I could not fathom staying awake past 7 last night and got possibly the best lineup I’ve ever had

from a large library conference CFP on AI: "at a minimum, we owe it to our students and faculty to be literate on its capabilities, benefits and pitfalls" do we though

you'll be shocked to learn that not only does exlibris profit from the dispossession and theft of palestinian land, its library search platform also sucks butt

sooo brave and honorable to be a white republican

uhhh the ALA president is a republican?

Targeting the Smithsonian makes a helluva lot more sense when you realize that the Smithsonian is overseeing one of the America 250 propaganda projects to bring American history to other museums nationwide. 891khol.org/with-federal...