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@ahemnason.bsky.social
Skullcomms librarian. Poor work-life boundaries. Chronically unprofessional. Maritimer. Worried.
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I don't know who in Canada needs to hear this, but the greatest threat to you is the alignment of state and corporate interests and not anything foreign.
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I don't know who in Canada needs to hear this, but the greatest threat to you is the alignment of state and corporate interests and not anything foreign.
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Oh, so now it’s a crime to bring your whole self to work
So apparently my company can't remove the guy cooking his beets and tuna in the air fryer. People have picked up and moved their desks because of it. One guy said he was at his desk seasoning chicken breasts.
People are livid.
People are livid.
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oh, so now it’s a crime to bring your whole self to work
Bullying people who like it.
What's your favorite AI hack?
@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social chefs @lyconrad.bsky.social, @roohighosh.bsky.social, @irfanullah.bsky.social, @lisalibrarian.bsky.social, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, and Tim Vines share theirs here:
@scholarlykitchen.bsky.social chefs @lyconrad.bsky.social, @roohighosh.bsky.social, @irfanullah.bsky.social, @lisalibrarian.bsky.social, Stephanie Lovegrove Hansen, Dianndra Roberts, and Tim Vines share theirs here:
Ask the Chefs: What’s Your Favorite AI Hack? - The Scholarly Kitchen
We talk a lot about AI in scholarly communications and publishing, but today, we ask the Chefs: What’s your favorite AI hack?
buff.ly
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Bullying people who like it.
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"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Open Source Power
We have to talk about open source licensing.
blog.muni.town
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"That's a problem for me. You see, I wanna make my software freely available to everyone in the world except those guys specifically. That very particular bunch of autocratic corpo-states are actively destroying the world I'm trying to pro-socially enrich as a commoner."
Attn: @jonkimball.bsky.social got a bad boy of the week here.
OMG! I just got off the plane in Asheville and RFK Jr. Was boarding and someone passed by him and said “quack”
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Attn: @jonkimball.bsky.social got a bad boy of the week here.
Uhhh, YEAH guys. They’ve got motorcycles.
An independent candidate, Dave Bushaw, announced he would join the race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District in 2026.
via @iowacapitaldispatch.com
via @iowacapitaldispatch.com
Independent candidate Dave Bushaw joins Iowa 2nd Congressional District race
An independent candidate, Dave Bushaw, announced he would join the race for Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District in 2026.Bushaw, a 31-year-old Hawkeye resident, is campaigning for the seat currently…
www.newsfromthestates.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Uhhh, YEAH guys. They’ve got motorcycles.
Can you imagine caring about beards this much? Like press release level caring about beards?
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Can you imagine caring about beards this much? Like press release level caring about beards?
I love that we’ve managed to have powerful computers in our pockets while people are turning to, like, poultices and other medieval trickery. Just the dumbest fucking society. Totally bewildering. I personally blame mark zuckerberg.
Under-the-weather TikTokers are slicing raw potatoes and placing them in their — and their children’s — socks before bed. The theory is that the potato draws out toxins.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
However, experts warn against relying on folk remedies over medical care.
No, putting a potato in your sock will not cure a cold
TikTokers are placing slices of raw potatoes in their — and their children’s socks — overnight to cure illnesses.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I love that we’ve managed to have powerful computers in our pockets while people are turning to, like, poultices and other medieval trickery. Just the dumbest fucking society. Totally bewildering. I personally blame mark zuckerberg.
One of the things I hate about it is that every time I feel anything, I have to start a little spreadsheet in my mind of which symptoms MIGHT be imaginary. You’re always kind of working backwards.
Health anxiety is hard to deal with in sort of the same way an eating disorder is. You have to confront the source of your fear every waking minute. I have had bouts of terrible hypochondria and more than any other bad brain problem I’ve dealt with I wouldn’t wish it on anyone
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
One of the things I hate about it is that every time I feel anything, I have to start a little spreadsheet in my mind of which symptoms MIGHT be imaginary. You’re always kind of working backwards.
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Stochastic Book Fair
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Stochastic Book Fair
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"My kids know me as this ape"
November 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"My kids know me as this ape"
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Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
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Hundreds of students & faculty members in Canada have faced repression for speaking out Israel's crimes against humanity and genocide. @drsabreena.bsky.social and I and several others lost their jobs. And now this U of T. I don't know what to say anymore.
🐦🔎UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide & Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at UofT from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade
substack.com/home/post/p-...
UofT Engineering Guest Professor Participated in Gaza Genocide and Illegal Invasion of Lebanon
Dr Shahar Kvatinsky was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto from 2023 to 2025. During this period, he left twice to serve as Lieutenant Colonel in the IOF's Golani Brigade.
substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Hundreds of students & faculty members in Canada have faced repression for speaking out Israel's crimes against humanity and genocide. @drsabreena.bsky.social and I and several others lost their jobs. And now this U of T. I don't know what to say anymore.
This is 100% right but also it’s not impossible to have a coworker for whom a piping hot bag of hot dogshit isn’t an improvement on their normal productivity, though.
The reason not to be empathetic toward genAI users is that if your boss and coworker went "hey check this out, it's a hefty bag full of hot dogshit, it's a valueble part of my workflow now" you would not be expected to be empathetic.
People would fully expect you to go "the fuck is wrong with you?"
People would fully expect you to go "the fuck is wrong with you?"
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is 100% right but also it’s not impossible to have a coworker for whom a piping hot bag of hot dogshit isn’t an improvement on their normal productivity, though.
That the James Baldwin typebot exists only tells me that its creators need to be duct-taped to windmill blades.
If you think James Baldwin would have liked soulless predictive text based on his works, you certainly haven’t read any fucking James Baldwin.
If you think James Baldwin would have liked soulless predictive text based on his works, you certainly haven’t read any fucking James Baldwin.
I understand that literature-as-inspiration is lucrative, but a James Baldwin as spirit guru, a Baldwin whose mission is to equally uplift anyone and everyone — a Baldwin who never challenges you — is not really Baldwin at all any more. (And this distortion goes well beyond this one project.)
Can the James Baldwin Typebot Tell Us the Meaning of Life?
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
That the James Baldwin typebot exists only tells me that its creators need to be duct-taped to windmill blades.
If you think James Baldwin would have liked soulless predictive text based on his works, you certainly haven’t read any fucking James Baldwin.
If you think James Baldwin would have liked soulless predictive text based on his works, you certainly haven’t read any fucking James Baldwin.
Steven Pinker should be forced to listen to his own opinions blasted through megaphones directly at his home and workplace 24/7.
The committee hosted Steven Pinker, who said, "Canada has the reputation now of being more woke than the United State... because of some of these EDI programs and policies that are being put in place, researchers do not feel welcome here."
This fantasy is being deployed to create anti-EDI policy.
This fantasy is being deployed to create anti-EDI policy.
November 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Steven Pinker should be forced to listen to his own opinions blasted through megaphones directly at his home and workplace 24/7.
I’m so fucking tired.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
November 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I’m so fucking tired.
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you might think this is funny but someone out there didn't get their shipment of monkeys today, someone was going to make a big ol' batch of herpes monkey stew for all their friends and now they can't
BREAKING | Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
Truck hauling monkeys carrying hepatitis C, herpes and Covid overturns in Mississippi
www.independent.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
you might think this is funny but someone out there didn't get their shipment of monkeys today, someone was going to make a big ol' batch of herpes monkey stew for all their friends and now they can't
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one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
There should be a Hague just for the people who work for ai companies.
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
There should be a Hague just for the people who work for ai companies.
That didn’t take long.
“The case shows how American law enforcement can use ChatGPT prompts to gather data on users suspected of criminal activity.”
OpenAI Ordered To Unmask ChatGPT User Behind 2 Prompts
First known warrant of its kind reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide identifying information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
www.forbes.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
That didn’t take long.
Let’s check the ol’ pain machine and see what fills be with despair today…
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Let’s check the ol’ pain machine and see what fills be with despair today…
I beg the pundit economy to consider what free speech is supposed to mean and not just this “people get mad when I say it” strawman stuff. Please. You’ve got a president who has said out loud, “so we took away their freedom of speech” wrt flag burning.
Freedom ≠ no consequences.
Freedom ≠ no consequences.
The definition of “viewpoint diversity” that figures like this promote implies *censorship* (the “must” part): curbing some forms of expression to boost others. It’s an invention of orgs who advocate government censorship of teaching/research + restrictions on protected political speech in colleges.
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I beg the pundit economy to consider what free speech is supposed to mean and not just this “people get mad when I say it” strawman stuff. Please. You’ve got a president who has said out loud, “so we took away their freedom of speech” wrt flag burning.
Freedom ≠ no consequences.
Freedom ≠ no consequences.
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LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games
October 15, 2025 at 7:24 PM
LMAOOO WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE NEW XBOX HANDHELD COMES WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS AND ONEDRIVE INSTALLED??? this is the fucking goofiest company in games