And it really depends on the day
Jacqueline AntonovichInside you, there are two wolves.
Sitting at the nexus of disability, critical disability justice, accessibility, and libraries. Punk ass book jockey and associate professor, UWO. She/her
Working towards this. At present I only check my email a couple times a day during the week, never on the weekend, and it’s not on my phone so i can only check it when I’m in front of my computer
Tobias Wilson-BatesTo help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the
Sooo according to this there is no ethical use
Jack Phoenix (a comics librarian)ALA has released official guidance on the use of AI in libraries 📚
I've been wondering how long Google Maps would still be useful. I'm guessing not much longer.
Joseph CoxNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Effing love Daniel Boone Regional Library. So proud of y'all! Fight the good fight!
Erin ReedThe Missouri AG threatened Daniel Boone Regional Library in Columbia with total defunding and investigations if they read books with LGBTQ+ themes to kids in a Pride story hour. They did so anyway. Our latest story from s. Baum of one library's defiance against an oppressive Republican regime.
Highly recommend this book to anyone who teaches
Cate DenialAre you gearing up for fall? Thinking about classrooms that are welcoming, just, and kind? Check out -A Pedagogy of Kindness- for ideas about how to be kind to yourself, and how to thread kindness through your syllabus, assignments, and into your classroom. www.oupress.com/978080619385...
"Labor of avoidance" Thanks for putting a name to it @shannonmattern.bsky.social
Shannon MatternOur classes are creating publications that we'll share publicly, and we're exploring layers of GenAI protection: hosting everything behind a web AI firewall, using CAPTCHA + Glaze, managing email requests (rather than posting openly). I RESENT the Labor of Avoidance these assholes have necessitated.
And just like that a new stove has leapt to the top of my must needs list
James Downie"Unlike many others forced to halt their research [due to Trump cuts], Sehgal and his co-authors released their study anyway...with a fraction of the intended sample size. Still, removing the gas stoves relieved the participants’ asthma so much that the results were clear even with only 85 of them."
Human rights only for those with money and expensive lawyers
Jenne (she/her) Go BirdsThis group is useless if they decide who deserves human rights based on who's willing to sue them. They might as well not exist.
The best part of living in Canada is occasionally seeing house hippos. They are timid creatures with poor eyesight and only come out when it's very quiet. Did you know that Canada is the only country that has house hippos?
James McLeodIt's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
Great, my parents will soon be surrounded by data Centers baxtel.com/map
Currently making excited dinosaur sounds
IGNRaccoon City General? No Sweat. Check out the new trailer for Zach Cregger's Resident Evil, coming to theaters September 18, 2026. #SDCC
Used to pay Ms. Pac-Man so much that I developed a callus from the joystick and I was good enough to get to the upper levels where power pellets don’t work
Gail SimoneOkay, my QUESTION OF THE DAY is… What is your weirdest actual accomplishment? Not the biggest necessarily…but the weirdest?