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Cyberpunk Librarian @cyberpunklibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

I've a systems librarian nerd level paper here co-authored by a friend and colleague. They discuss AI bots scraping the online catalogue, bringing it down by creating thousands of complex faceted searches.

AI takes and takes and does so multiple times per second

journal.code4lib.org/articles/18489

The Code4Lib Journal – Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries

journal.code4lib.org

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 15h

@umichlawlib.bsky.social can you help?

Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 17h

Any lawyers with FOIA experience know the answer to this one?

Sandra Parks @sleeparks.bsky.social · 18h

I’m in Virginia is and keep getting denied with the “working papers” excuse. Any way around this?

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Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social · 17h

Any lawyers with FOIA experience know the answer to this one?

Sandra Parks @sleeparks.bsky.social · 18h

I’m in Virginia is and keep getting denied with the “working papers” excuse. Any way around this?

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 17h

This is not about left or right, it’s about right and wrong.

Lowering health care costs is the right thing to do for Americans regardless of party.

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Planet Detroit @planetdetroit.org · 19h

Ypsilanti council opposes University of Michigan data center with resolution that draws attention to potential environmental impacts and Los Alamos’ nuclear weapons work. planetdetroit.org/2025/10/ypsi...

Ypsilanti City Council calls for halt to University of Michigan data center project

Concerns over nuclear research and environmental impact lead Ypsilanti City Council to oppose U of M and Los Alamos data center project.

planetdetroit.org

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 1d

There’s religious freedom and then there’s religious freedom apparently

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 1d

I was particularly glad to blue jays at my feeder today. 😉

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago.

She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish."

It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

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ffrf.org @ffrf.org · 1d

Barna’s research reveals a striking gender gap in religious disaffiliation. Among Gen Z adults ages 18–24, 38 percent of women identify as atheist, agnostic or no faith—compared to 32 percent of men in the same age group.

www.barna.com/trends/gen-z...

Gen Z Women Struggle with Christian Faith and Community

Gen Z women are struggling with Christian faith and community. Learn what’s driving the shifts and a path forward for belief and belonging.

www.barna.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"Every week, a fresh crop of you forty-something corporate marauders comes on pilgrimage like I’m your personal Annapurna. I’m a two-mile gravel slope with a play area, Carl."

Your Local Hiking Trail Has Had It with You People

Hey, it’s me, the closest trail to the metropolis, and I’m begging you to take your midlife crisis elsewhere. Every week, a fresh crop of you forty...

buff.ly

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 1d

Hey @umichlibrary.bsky.social

Dr. Paula R. Curtis @paularcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

In the digital lab at the Umich library we had dry erase board paint on the walls and it was the best!

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U-M Library @umichlibrary.bsky.social · 1d

10/22: Learn about using fabric-formed poured earth to create a site-derived, no-carbon-emission construction option. Charlie O'Geen, instructor at U-M's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, presents this month's Material Conversation: https://myumi.ch/n19zx

A section of a textured wall structure in an ecru color.

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 1d

Here's something that's not talked about enough

The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year

1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 2d

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is weaponizing the government to go after his political enemies yet again.

We are not "creeping towards authoritarianism" anymore.

We're living in it.

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Kate Saylor @ksaylor.bsky.social · 2d

Researcher Challenges and Experiences with Data Services sr.ithaka.org/publications... #MDLS25

Researcher Challenges and Experiences with Data Services - Ithaka S+R

While there is general consensus that institutions should provide a coordinated research data services support infrastructure to their researchers, determining the most effective way to do this has pr...

sr.ithaka.org

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 4d

A national treasure for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4d

For those who don't know, only 300,000 people live in the *entire* upper peninsula of Michigan, only 15 municipalities have more than 5,000 residents, and Trump won the UP by 19.1 points last year.

Cindy @allymae.bsky.social · 4d

I'm south of Houghton by a bit, but my small red town had a turnout estimated at 350 or perhaps more according to the police it was the most receptive protest ever so many horns for democracy.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 4d

we got a big boy

Huge banner reading TRUMP, WE ALL HATE YOU

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19thnews @19thnews.org · 4d

Our recent poll found that women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average. Nearly 80 percent of Gen Z women want abortion to be legal and seven in 10 want gender-affirming care to be accessible for trans adults.

Gen Z women are the most liberal group in the country

On issues like abortion and gender-affirming care, women 28 and younger skew substantially more left than the national average.

19thnews.org

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 4d

Make sure your city is counted by submitting through our official website. A final tally is coming soon over 7 million strong and still growing. Events are still happening nationwide show up, stand together, and be counted! Submit here: report.ourparks.org

Our Parks

report.ourparks.org

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 4d

As a Purdue alum this really great to see! Go Exponent!

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 4d

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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ummm digipres @mutanthumb.bsky.social · 4d

When do stop paying federal taxes?!

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 4d

This was my favorite sign in Havertown

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