There is no escape from Windows 11 bloatware!

librarian: please don't reshelve your own books patron: why not? librarian: they're shy around strangers

PODCASTS Altmetric now tracks podcasts mentioning research In 2018 there were roughly 500,000 podcasts in existence. Just 3 years later that number was 2 million. Today it's around 4 million. Amid all the Squarespace ads there's citations to research. Let's go 1/7

I wish just once a reporter would ask some of the men behind these technologies: Does it bother you knowing that you've created an engine to skip the need for their consent after death from women who likely would have never consented while living?

Is the assignment... to identify all the issues with this slop infographic? Because what else are you meant to do with this

Feeling a bit deflated, @absurdcompliments.bsky.social remind me what it's all about

we're understanding Joe Rogan Brain more and more every day

Sora flopping, bleeding cash on pro subscriptions, lawsuits left and right accusing the company of inventing the emotional torment nexus, age verification lobby with a stranglehold on the adult internet... pivoting to porn is masterful gambit www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

Watermelon implies the existence of Earthmelon, Firemelon, Windmelon, and Heartmelon, who by their powers combined summon Captain Melonplanet

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

One of the posts that got me flamed back in the old place was when I said I didn’t fetishise books as objects and wasn’t bothered if their owners wanted to rip them in half to make their baggage lighter or chuck them in the recycling once they’ve read them or whatever. Some people went ballistic

DON'T DONATE YOUR BOOKS TO THE LIBRARY. THEY 100% DON'T WANT THEM AND YOU'RE JUST ANNOYING THE LIBRARY STAFF

"Copyright growing pains" is a weird way of saying "stealing" huh?

By the morals of their times, Slavers were hated by those they enslaved Rapists by those who they raped Murderers by the survivors The morals of the past are the same as today. Assholes are assholes

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

5 million of them are about research

A4 is a human right!

OH, and my best friend from primary school! No idea if her parents still live there or are using the number

This prompt creates unwarranted confidence. You can't eliminate hallucinations. It might flag one thing and confidently invent three others that seem plausible. Dangerous for high stakes data. Human verification is more important than prompting technique when it comes to LLMs and data.

As a shit driver I would appreciate "least stressful route" being a navigation option. Minimise lane changes, merges, right turns without traffic lights, roundabouts with more than one lane, etc

Phone numbers I currently have memorised: My parents landline (been the same since I was a kid) My old boss from over 10 years ago The other library people calling my work for by mistake

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

Our periodic review of the coverage of the major bibliographic databases (October 2025) GS no longer the largest due to the huge increase of OpenAlex. New data for Xueshu

technology is not neutral, it’s good

my early prediction for 2026 is that katy perry writes a sexually explicit song about justin trudeau

While Twitter might still drive policy in the US, it doesn't in Australia. But neither's Bluesky or LinkedIn. We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.

Library conference paper bingo card

Json? You misspelled Jason. Anyway I haven't seen him

H from Steps was incredibly prescient when he dubbed himself "H from Steps".

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur. www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Cleaning tip: to avoid getting overwhelmed, focus on decluttering just one room a week until you die

Love turning on notifications for my favourite posters because it makes it feel like they're posting just for me

Yes I can't wait for millennials-only internet. It's going to consist solely of expired memes, "aesthetic" photos of coffee, and this emoji in particular: 😂

It should be noted that Google has noticed the backlash enough that they quietly published a code that would removed AI results for their searches. An enterprising person built a default site to search without AI, and the results are goddamn refreshing as hell. udm14.org

The Mailbox That Spits Bones At People

Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚 --- UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ www.dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

I see what you did there

"The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information." @felixsimon.bsky.social has written about our recent report, including rapid growth in how many (and how) people use generative AI to get information www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

As of today Claude trains on user data and have also extended their data retention period from 30 days to 5 years, unless you opt out.

Asking residents for permission would 'kill' the burglary industry

My favourite bit

This is the aesthetic of the future

Been down to the tavern?

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

I'm not usually a fan of purely economic justifications for arts funding, but you can't deny it works!

In personal news, I ordered a robot vacuum cleaner today. Which means this week I became the proud owner of two (2!) bots to do my bidding. What do you think of that, @absurdcompliments.bsky.social?

“You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line” lmao