Adding immediately www.wired.com/story/chrome...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

“You can print it cheaply, copy it, and make it into something, then you can give them out by the thousands to people in your community. There’s no barrier to entry, and that makes a difference.”

I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary. www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

IMLS announces "upon further review" that it is reinstating all federal grants to libraries. It leaves out that it's doing this because a federal court told them a few weeks ago that the Trump admin's decision to destroy libraries was not legal. www.imls.gov/news/stateme...

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books. But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

super cool video

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

I am dead

San Fernando de Etchohuaquila, ruega por nosotros.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Sotheby’s has announced it will auction a solid gold toilet, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan called “America.”

Kiké just flew in from Miami with a kilo of blow in 1979

the 2017 cheating astros are the whiniest group of people on earth jfc. booing is all the punishment they got yet they keep crying about it. FUCK OFF.

Yikes www.infodocket.com/2025/10/10/r...

I knew they’d come for the archivists and librarians but honestly I assumed it would be for a reason better than “Our Special Boy wants to give his friend a sword! Give him a sword!”

An old military maxim often attributed to Napoleon is “an army marches on its stomach” and I feel the same way that a university thinks via its library. The slow and steady financial diminution of research libraries and the librarians who staff them is, to me, a slow-rolling higher Ed catastrophe.

Monty Python responses to the troops patrolling our streets are the best responses to the troops patrolling our streets

The University of the Arts’ archive will now live on at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 📜 www.inquirer.com/arts/univers...

Please tell me that Treinen got raptured

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

The Minotaur

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI. 🔗 www.404media.co/librarians-a...

In 2022 Texas A&M reorganized their libraries (over faculty protests) and pulled all librarians out of faculty status.

A significant thing here: El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz, chair of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee on migration, tells @alejacorazonhm.bsky.social he is questioning whether Catholics can, in good conscience, join ICE. religionnews.com/2025/09/12/c...

LOL

Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with 📚 dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Paint a Vulgar Picture...

This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

Shared with me by a friend: New Zealand libraries are beginning to suspend international ILL to/from the United States due to the Trump administration tariffs. 📚

"This represents two simultaneous threats to library infrastructure: AI cataloging systems that require extensive human oversight while promising to eliminate catalogers, and AI discovery interfaces that replace structured metadata searching with chatbot interactions that can silently censor..."

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

I have gotten permission to clarify: no books from special collections were stolen. These were books that were still in circulation (but 17th century wood block editions). No manuscripts, all print obviously.

*Academics in early August

For anyone else who knew her: My former boss, Margery Sly, recently passed away. www.schetterfh.com/obituaries/M...

Emil Bove's confirmation was only possible because Democrats caved to a vile right-wing smear campaign of Adeel Mangi, who would have been the first Muslim appeals court judge, when Biden nominated him for the same seat last year. Absolutely disgraceful. Bove's confirmation is on them, too.