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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 1d

Alternate title: How I use Mastodon (and Why) 🐘

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 1d

📚 How I use ActivityPub (and Why) ✈️ librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/13/h...

§1 The Why Before the How Yesterday I asked my children (one in high school, one in university) if they had ever heard of Mastodon. They suspected it was a trick question and hesitantly replied tha…

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 1d

📚 How I use ActivityPub (and Why) ✈️ librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/13/h...

How I use ActivityPub (and Why)

§1 The Why Before the How Yesterday I asked my children (one in high school, one in university) if they had ever heard of Mastodon. They suspected it was a trick question and hesitantly replied tha…

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University of Winds @uofwinds.com.web.brid.gy · 3d

UofWinds 422, Week 41 2025: Basic Human Emotion, Trusting your own judgment on ‘AI’ is a huge risk, Detroit Safety Team

Good morning. I'm stretched out on the sofa with a cat sitting on my legs and so my just out of reach coffee is going to be just a little cooler than I would like when I finally get to it. It is the long weekend on account

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · Aug 18

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/...

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation.
https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 4d

Me: "Blogging is dead".

Also me: 📚 Librarian of Things (librarian.aedileworks.com) has had 20K views since 2020 🥳

Librarian of Things All Time Views 20.0K

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to everyone who helped make "intervener" a new #wikidata property!
www.wikidata.org/wiki/Propert...

The timing is right as there is an upcoming SCC case with a record number 38 interveners and groups of interveners montrealgazette.com/news/secular...

intervener

name of a third-party group or person allowed to participate in a legal case

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 7d

Hell YEAH Yukon!

Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 8d

New blog post! 🎉 “Introducing Vote YES Yukon!” sboots.ca/2025/10/06/i... #Yukon #cdnpoli #electoralreform

Introducing Vote YES Yukon!

I’m really stoked to introduce “Vote YES Yukon”, a non-partisan campaign in support of electoral reform during the current Yukon territorial election. This year, the Yukon is having a plebiscite askin...

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 8d

added to vocabulary

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 8d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 9d

I would never upload myself to Sora, so I very much appreciated Casey’s video to explain how different and other worldly it is youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?...

SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity?

YouTube video by CaseyNeistat

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9d

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 9d

As a board member of CJAM, I’m here for this!!!

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 12d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 13d

Yesterday I gave a Pecha Kucha talk for Bike Windsor Essex's Community Conversations event where I shared my love and admiration of @aadl.org's The Summer Game.

My talk was entitled "Libraries deliver the freedom that games promise" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/01/l...

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · Aug 26

At the Game Over Gala we welcomed a new friend and AADL staffer: our new costumed mascot Akako G. Shins!

Akakojiishiins means "Little Groundhog" in Ojibwe, and while they're not exactly little, they'll be making a big impression at AADL festivals and expos!

aadl.org/akakogshins

An enormous furry costumed groundhog mascot wearing glasses, a blue puffer vest, a mustard yellow beanie, hiking boots, and an AADL staff badge, standing in front of an AADL Summer Game banner in the lobby of the Downtown Library with AADL Communications & Marketing Manager Rich Retyi and Library Director Eli!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 15d

We are thrilled to announce that @aadl.org plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer!

Public ownership of local news media is more important than ever, and this acquisition builds on years of partnership and archival work to ensure the future of this priceless community asset.

aadl.org/node/647334

The Ann Arbor District Library Plans to Acquire the Ann Arbor Observer | Ann Arbor District Library

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 14d

Reading hughrundle.net/did-you-mean/ and librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l... and thinking about it (1)

Did you mean..?

Search engines based on embedding vector queries are fundamentally at odds with the goal of enabling multiple ontological mappings across information and cultural works.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 15d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 16d

I devoured this

Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · 18d

We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

Q-UP on Steam

Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 16d

One of the real joys of writing online is when you see someone also find the value in something that you have shared, and runs with farther it in a way new to you.

Hugh Rundle’s insights on Google Search’s adoption of Ai snippets is a good read!

www.hughrundle.net/did-you-mean/

Did you mean..?

Search engines based on embedding vector queries are fundamentally at odds with the goal of enabling multiple ontological mappings across information and cultural works.

www.hughrundle.net

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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 16d

Always excited to check out a @copystar.bsky.social talk! Don’t miss out on this one on libraries and LLMs.

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 24d

Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.

Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"

librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l...

Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power

On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jul 21

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 23d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Mark Swartz @mark-swartz.bsky.social · 23d

Awesome and inspiring stuff from Mita here. My favourite talk out of many great ones at the “Legacy of CCH” conference.

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 24d

Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.

Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"

librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l...

Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power

On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you for the kind words!

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 24d

Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.

Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"

librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l...

Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power

On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.

librarian.aedileworks.com

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 27d

One week left to get your apps in!

irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...

Four (4) Tenure-Track Assistant or Tenured Associate Professor Positions - Faculty of Law

www.uwindsor.ca

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