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Patrick Heemstra
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Librarian between the PhDs. Library Trend Watcher. Editor of the Bieb Letter: debiebletter.beehiiv.com

Groningen/Friesland/Netherlands
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2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, & Successes Over The Year.

Dive into this groundbreaking collaborative piece from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social, @penamerica.bsky.social, @bookriot.bsky.social, @txfreedomread.bsky.social, and @flfreedomread.bsky.social

bookriot.com/book-censors...
2025 Book Censorship Wrapped: Trends, Challenges, and Successes Over The Year
What were the book censorship trends in 2025? Here are the highs and lows, as identified by five organizations doing the work.
bookriot.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Op een koude januarimiddag in 2024 verschijnt rond 12:45 bij het Vredespaleis een kleine drone. Het toestel blijft daar minutenlang hangen. Intussen wordt beneden, in het Vredespaleis, gewerkt aan de genocidezaak die Zuid-Afrika tegen Israël heeft aangespannen. 🧵
December 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me

apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Steeds vaker zien jongeren af van deelname aan de media omdat ze niet met hun naam of gezicht in de krant willen komen. Waar komt die terughoudendheid vandaan?
youtu.be/CQ_SAQeMbxs
Jongeren vaker terughoudend met deelname aan media: ‘Persoonlijke dingen houd ik liever privé’
YouTube video by Folia
youtu.be
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Het nieuws dat Europa negeert: de Amerikaanse agressie baart de inwoners van het Koninkrijk op de ABC-eilanden terecht veel zorgen.

Welke rol gaan wij spelen als de Amerikanen Venezuela binnenvallen? Laten we de eilanden gebruiken als logistieke punten, waardoor we militair doelwit kunnen worden?
Ondertussen in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden... www.curacao.nu/nieuws/lucht...
December 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Ondertussen in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden... www.curacao.nu/nieuws/lucht...
December 17, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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"a coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a ntl moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming AI industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More than 200 environmental groups demand halt to new US datacenters
Exclusive: Congress urged to act against energy-hungry facilities blamed for increasing bills and worsening climate crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Plus if you’re *pushing* your team to use AI and not seeing productivity gains or real impact, that just means you DO NOT NEED IT and could stop using it at any time. You’re just choosing to feed the machine that makes the world worse because fuck everyone else I guess?
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Toch wel bijzonder dat Nederlandse bibliothecarissen The Librarians moeten zien om dan pas te beseffen hoe erg het gesteld is in de VS. Je kunt ook De Bieb Letter lezen. 😏
December 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Mentale kortsluiting...
Appel
Peer
December 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Also amused that the American brands are mostly clustered at the bottom. Lexus is owned by Toyota, so kudos to them for claiming the top spot.
please take a moment to appreciate Tesla's epic accomplishment of coming dead last in the auto industry in reliability, despite making relatively expensive cars with a tiny fraction of the moving parts

www.consumerreports.org/cars/which-b...
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Er is iets mis met hoe Nederlandse media schrijven over DPG. ramaersreport.nl/nienke-venem...
Nienke Venema, Harm Ede Botje en de hersenverweking van serieuze Nederlandse journalisten – Ramaer's Report
ramaersreport.nl
December 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Dit ontroerd me - openbare ruilbibliotheken in Madrid - een stad van booklovers. - ik heb een boek achtergelaten
December 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Hear me out: what if we just hired people — humans —to have subject-area expertise, discretion and empathy and we paid them for those skills.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.

The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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‘A sound archivist told me he and his colleagues could earn more in the private sector but they work here for less pay because “we believe in what we do.”’

Anna Aslanyan on the picket line at the British Library, from the blog.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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"Dumbfounded" isn't the word I'd choose. Frustrated. Irritated. Fucking pissed that I have to keep wasting my time dealing with this shit.
December 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Al vallende sterren gezien?
December 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Wat een goed artikel over laaggeletterd zijn. Want dit gaat over veel meer mensen dan vaak wordt gedacht.

Het laat ook zien hoe belangrijk organisaties als Stichting ABC, Lezen en Schrijven én natuurlijk onze bibliotheken zijn.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Lezen voor laaggeletterden: ‘Ineens vielen de letters samen tot een echt verhaal’
Laaggeletterdheid: Hoe kan lezen aantrekkelijk worden gemaakt voor laaggeletterden? Dat kan met boeken in eenvoudige taal, variërend van speciaal geschreven verhalen tot bewerkingen van bekende romans...
www.nrc.nl
December 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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Goed nieuws!
De vroegste zonsondergang van het jaar was gisteren om 16:27 uur. Nu wordt het geleidelijk elke dag wat later donker! Heerlijk!
De laatste zonsopkomst is op 30-12 om 8:48 uur.
De kortste dag blijft 21 december.
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
How F1 drivers avoid jet lag: Casino lights, sleep coaching and making beds ‘sacred’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/687...
How F1 drivers avoid jet lag: Casino lights, sleep coaching and making beds ‘sacred’
F1 drivers are finding new ways to get ahead - by sleeping better
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Misschien al beginnen bij de scholieren om die op te voeden?
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Terrorisme in Nederland
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM