wanna bet? We predominantly used Google for so long because the search engine was top tier. That is no longer the case.

there are folks doing some great things out there.

the trans agenda is literally just trans people asking to keep the rights trans people had without much issue until a few years ago, when Republicans started trying to take them away and a frightening amount of Democrats decided some of that was reasonable

Shoutout to the very senior professor in HCI who gave a talk last month about how AI can do qualitative data analysis better than people now.

Author: “These A.I. errors do not, in fact, diminish the larger questions that the book raises about truth, trust and A.I. and its impact on society, democracy and editorial." honey, yes they do. that's exactly what they do.

@chuckwendig.bsky.social I finished Wayward and wow. Tension and horror and community and family and love. Thank you. Also, I've never gotten weepy reading an author`s acknowledgement section before. now off to do a kindness to myself - a physical therapy for creativity to borrow some words.

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"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_. Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?

Another name for this might be 'research fraud'

Re-reading Wanderers, by @chuckwendig.bsky.social because I just scored Wayward and I need the refresher. Chuck, this book is so timely and horrifying and entertaining

Meanwhile we can't even get the city to keep trashcans in the park in the winter. I say winter, but it's May 13th and there is one trashcan available in our huge park. But at least the police have a robust budget.

rewatched the 1995 movie, The Net. It holds up save for one bit where evidence provided to the FBI leads to the arrest and downfall of a billionaire. That felt a little unrealistic

[former Elsevier employee here]

It just seems like a university with a med program would be able to staff the the faculty/staff cinic on campus

"The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary." -Ursula K. Le Guin, *A War Without End*

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

hola! Me too

finished Octavia Butler's Kindred last night and I have not been wrecked by a book like that in a long time.

@harpercollinsca.bsky.social ew, just ew

first time I've been on a terrorism watchlist

Armageddon 2: Asteroid saves Earth from U.S. in Michael Bay sequel

One of the more concise summaries of what this shit ACTUALLY is.

These five librarians are running for state political offices across the country. Here's why they're running, and why librarians make good candidates. bookriot.com/librarians-r...

agreed

libraries and Second Life. So many ridiculous arguments about the importance of this in libraries 20 years ago

a fascinating and informative read

Ashamed Meta Employee Just Tells Everyone He Works As Guard In Private Prison For Disabled Children https://theonion.com/ashamed-meta-employee-just-tells-everyone-he-works-as-g-1851012454/

For earth day my city gives away trees to the community - so cool! But people lined up in their cars which meant a line of cars in my neighbourhood idling for hours -blarg

People sleeping outside on benches and going to the bathroom on the sidewalk are problems of the social safety net failing and it is so much cheaper and easier to just expand the safety net than to punish people who fell through it.

“Today, AI advocates do not merely assume automation is necessary; they aggressively proselytize their faith, thereby paving the way for techno-fascism.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

gosh so much this part: “If you ask tobacco companies to help write your school’s policy on cigarettes,” Garrett quipped, “you’re going to end up with guidance on how to smoke responsibly in school.”

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Get yourself a partner who is just as excited as you are about buying Dolly Parton chip clips.

“AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism …” — @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social et al. (2025) From: zenodo.org/records/1706...

“If you give ppl UBI, everyone’s just going to be making pots or painting or something!” Good!! Good! Can’t express how much more I want to fill my home with pots and paintings than with a stovetop that inexplicably connects to the internet.

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books" www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Eviction, healthcare denial, food scarcity, overwork, imprisonment—all these things are violent.

It's why we talk about genAI as a labor problem. 99% of all problems that genAI "solves" is just "hire more people and pay them a liveable wage."

THIS. Altman deserves to step on a rake. Daily. As do all of the assholes who justify him.

Time to pass the plate Skybrarians 📚📜

In the contexts of the humanities (and the social sciences) the AI is presented as a REPLACEMENT for the scholar and the skills they develop. You can now have GenAI write your essays, provide input via stolen data, correct your grammar, all things cultivated into students by humanities scholars.

I don’t want 99% of the “advancements” being forced on and/or sold to me. I want clean air, clean water, and a stable ecosystem and planet. I want free healthcare and education. I want justice and collective liberation.

this is how most university and many library land convos sound. They seem to presume that if we don't like it, we just need to learn about it. I know how it works and its crap. Please stop trying to make me eat a shit sandwich

So we know what really works, but we just keep pouring money into bigger police budgets

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough. American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

one worked in a steel mill and the other robbed a bank...

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