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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

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all. 🔗 library.saintheron.com

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...

the year in high school where I was listening to this, TV on the radio's debut album, and fiona apple's extraordinary machine on repeat driving to and from my job at the movie theater - a very good year

I would love if anyone creating surveys about using AI in librarianship would include the option "I have never used it and I will never use it" instead of just assuming it is a thing we should be and are using

MCA: when I rock the mic it's such a Beastie Boys: THRILL Ad-Rock: we hate J K Rowling and Beastie Boys: WISH HER ILL

it's that time of year again - happy football season to my favorite college gameday sign

with everything going on in the world, I now have to see taylor swift news too? when will it end

Why I keep yelling about LIS workers eagerly jumping into AI. AI can't do our jobs, but it can replace us. The work won't get done well, patrons won't be satisfied, and it will eventually tank the whole library, but don't think that won't stop admin from trying to save a few bucks out of your wages.

ACRLog has published 1,800 posts over twenty years but I guess I'm the first person to write a post about student debt?? 🤷‍♀️ "On Owing $93,605 in Student Loans; or, A Profession Built on Debt" acrlog.org/2025/07/24/o...

“Parents have withdrawn their children from the public realm because they perceive the public realm as dangerous — and they aren’t wrong.” The danger is from cars and infrastructure built for speed. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc

so many student journalists are braver than most mainstream journalists and anyone in higher ed administration or the government right now

"I help people either find themselves or lose themselves in a great book." --Jarrod “Deuce” Williams The San Quentin library is like any other library--and yet not. Learn about it the workers there in Controlled Chaos, a new zine from our research network. www.libraryfutures.net/post/introdu...

I wish a very happy “fuck you” to everyone who thought throwing trans people under the bus was going to stop these lunatics Their goal has *always* been the eradication of the entire LGBTQ+ community, and they’re not gonna stop at Obergefell either This is why we fight for *everyone*

👏👏🫡 www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

Being a student about to enter the LIS field and start your own research project can be intimidating! But we hope we can provide you with the resources to grow your confidence and get you started on your research journey: libparlor.com/2025/07/30/l...

never opt in to AI tools if you have the option - we're also starting to see them turned on by the vendor without asking us

can't wait to see how this wreaks havoc on our shared metadata and how many people they'll have to hire to fix the AI's fuck ups

absolutely no question in my mind he's married to a chatbot

For decades, the Amistad Research Center in NOLA has served as 1 of America’s largest repositories of artifacts on Black history, featuring a collection of 15 million rare documents dating back to the 1780s, as well as a fine art collection. Its future is uncertain. www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

when you slog through an 18 hour audiobook and waver on whether to quit before the last 20 minutes of bloviating or just get it over with because you’re well past sunken cost fallacy

that's funny, because AI can't crawl things that aren't digitized and online, it often can't tell the difference between primary and secondary sources, and it doesn't know how to parse outdated terms if they're not coming from a person's prompt for retrieval

bret stephens should be taken to the hague along with the israeli government

He helped the families of dying children. Spent all night with them even once the child was taken to the morgue. A former colleague tells us on the record that Ayman Soliman is the reason certain poor families who lost their babies at the hospital didn’t have… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I tested it in Primo Research Assistant, not surprising, I got similar results since Summon Research Assistant is sister product and both work the same by using LLM to generate Boolean search strategy. Gaza war shows no results. Tusla Race riots get a scary error message but does generate answer(1)

at an all-staff meeting, a leader flippantly complained that they were "being accused of killing a dolphin every time they used genAI images" in their presentations so they reluctantly used real ones instead, and I was just stunned at how deeply cynical and uncritical our profession has become

"what if emotional responses like “AI anxiety” are in large part deeply intelligent...? What if the cognitive dissonance that many of us experience when reading articles about AI anxiety or the necessity of AI adoption is worth our attention and curiosity?"

patrick radden keefe hive: we back up

my toxic trait is watching a movie I end up liking and then going on letterboxd to read the most obnoxious takes from “cinephiles” and getting mad at strangers for no reason (I really enjoyed opus, guess I’m a rube)

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

The Israelis want to force all remaining Gazans into concentration camps before forcing them out of the Gaza Strip, and those outside of the concentration camps they'll murder. This isn't hyperbole, this is just the straightforward plan of genocide that Israel is admitting to

willing to reach across the aisle to work with white supremacists and throw poor and queer/trans people under the bus but draws the line at socialists

would love for someone to do a future study on the time and money it takes for universities to discuss, draft policy, and practice withdrawing this garbage from collections to really demonstrate how draining AI is on our resources

One would hope the obvious fact that a crazy racist billionaire can reprogram an AI bot to also be crazy racist in the blink of an eye will make anyone pause just a sec before they open up any other AI tool and treat it as gospel.

the other thing is that no one who fetishizes manual labor actually cares to improve life for people who are in those circumstances! no support for unionization or a generous welfare state! no interest in policies that make life easier for people who work their hands or afford them more autonomy!