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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 20d

155 - AI Refusal feat. Kay

This week we have @kslater.bsky.social back on to talk about AI and what the refusal of AI means in terms of library practice and theory.

155 - AI Refusal feat. Kay | librarypunk

This week we have Kay back on to talk about AI and what the refusal of AI means in terms of library practice and theory. Bsky: @kslater.bsky.social Media mentioned Kay’s article in Library Trends: Ag...

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 8h

Not only did i leave this in, my supervisor was observing me for my annual evaluation

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · Aug 26

maybe I shouldn't have agreed to go talk to history majors about their career prospects

Nonprofit industrial complex: Lots of rich people want their pet projects advocated for. You could be that advocate!

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 9h

My long term career goals is to have random animatics made of stuff we talk about on the podcast

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 13h

That’s a classic Anna May character

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Bobbi L. Newman 🏳️‍🌈 @bobbinewman.bsky.social · 23h

This is an issue in libraries as well. Having your full name on your badge can lead to harassment or stalking.

The Gazette @thegazette.com · 1d

University of Iowa Health Care administrators say they’re “evaluating our badge naming practices based on employee feedback and evolving industry standards” after 500-plus nurses and staff covered their last names with union stickers in protest. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

The main entrance to the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics is shown alongside the University of Iowa Children's Hospital in Iowa City on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. (The Gazette)

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 1d

Our reference section needs so much weeding I’m not even sure how many times we’re going to fill up the dumpster once i start. Getting rid of one stack of indexes filled it twice.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 1d

There really is no other word. For a man who titles himself a historian he truly seems to despise history as a discipline

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve read nexus and homo deus, both of which were so aggressively awful i was almost tempted to read sapiens to see if there was anything there actually interesting. Does he mention Stalin 300 times like in nexus?

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 1d

i think i got something going

a half page of aacr2 section on microform with a cut out of a microform reader and printer from a user manual glued on top of green paper for an outline and then glued to the paper.

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 1d

Really hoping the zine workshop goes well tomorrow. I have no data to work with on what times are most popular, what outreach is best. We're just gonna see!

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 1d

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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All Gamers Are Bastards @agabpod.bsky.social · 2d

59 - Spider-Man 2: So Smart! w/ Justin from @librarypunk.bsky.social
We learn the beautiful lessons of the Disney corporation: it's not a big deal to beat up your girlfriend if she's being crazy, gay people do not have sex, and drones are very cool!
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 3d

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 3d

This is what got me thinking about it: www.carilu.com/p/seo-is-tan...

SEO Is Tanking. How to Win With AEO / GEO

Deep Dive from Profound's Head of Growth Nick Lafferty

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 3d

Kinda fucked up that websites might become more accessible because SEO is being replaced with AEO: writing to AI scrapers. AI scrapers want data that is structured, labeled, and in plain text. It's good, but that this was what led to more accessibility on the web is a bummer.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 4d

Join a union!

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 4d

New: The WGAE, which represents some parts of CBS News including its social team, sent a note to members today advising its members not to respond to Weiss’ request for an email by next week. The union also said it asked CBS for more information about Weiss’ request.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 4d

Having a School of AI sounds equivalent to having a School of Skibidi Studies in terms of lasting power

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 5d

not sure. I just emailed them to ask, and they have a setup available. but it's not through the major vendors

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 5d

I saw this and went "I'm making an executive decision here"

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 5d

if i'm giving it the tacit approval to use, and they're not liable, then who is? probably me.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 5d

"Will you accept liability for what it says". For real though, if they're trying to say to me 'you agree we aren't liable for what our product does' there is no way i'm leaving it turned on.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 5d

Apparently they do have institutional options!

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 5d

I wish 404 media had a version we could subscribe to as a library. They're doing great work. www.404media.co/help-us-inve...

Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America

404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 5d

Absolutely the case. It's a mass media phenomenon, just a different mass media from what everyone else likes (which angers them to no end). The titanic chintz of the megachurch is replicated in books, movies, tv, MLMs, camps, etc. The Bible is more a source of authority than a piece of the program.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 5d

Based on the interviews I've done with conservative Evangelical moms, I'd say--a lot of them aren't engaging with the Bible directly. They're reading Evangelical self-help and parenting books like Your Best Life Now and Growing Kids God's Way that selectively interpret the Bible for them.

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 6d

What's the latin phrase for "while you live on hay" I have a snide remark I want to make to a benedictine

librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 6d

Sometimes I just have to throw things into google to see if my employer is watching my web activity

google search for the phrase "what attachment style is my cat"

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