Abigail Goben
@hedgielib.bsky.social
Data, Open Scholarship, Libraries, Knitting, Cats. I named Executive Function Theft. The opinions of the Hedgehog Librarian, Professor. Chicago-based. She/her
#knitting #data #executivefunctiontheft
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/
#knitting #data #executivefunctiontheft
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Abigail Goben
@hedgielib.bsky.social
· Aug 14
Executive Function Theft
The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn't believe it wasn't already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not. Of the people...
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New Blog Post: Executive Function Theft
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/
In which I name something that's been bothering me.
https://hedgehoglibrarian.com/2023/08/14/executive-function-theft/
In which I name something that's been bothering me.
KOSA is back again 📚
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package
It removes the duty of care from KOSA.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
KOSA is back again 📚
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
The cat keeps trying to get under my chair wheels and then complaining that I need to roll around.
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The cat keeps trying to get under my chair wheels and then complaining that I need to roll around.
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In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.
Advertising is Coming to AI. It’s Going to Be a Disaster. | TechPolicy.Press
Daniel Barcay sounds the alarm on AI chatbots hiding advertising in conversations—and why this threatens autonomy and demands new rules.
www.techpolicy.press
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I can't find an image from This Old House...
but you know, I feel good about this. They'll just take wherever I'm staying apart piece by piece.
I can't find an image from This Old House...
but you know, I feel good about this. They'll just take wherever I'm staying apart piece by piece.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
Decent chance I survive but especially if we're talking season 1 green arrow... someone else is definitely dead.
Decent chance I survive but especially if we're talking season 1 green arrow... someone else is definitely dead.
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
I can't find an image from This Old House...
but you know, I feel good about this. They'll just take wherever I'm staying apart piece by piece.
I can't find an image from This Old House...
but you know, I feel good about this. They'll just take wherever I'm staying apart piece by piece.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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It's not compensating ... It's just more labor
Women still do most of the housework, even when they are the breadwinners. www.bbc.com/worklife/art...
Women breadwinners: Why high-earners compensate at home
An increasing number of women are taking home bigger cheques than their male partners. Yet breadwinning still causes feelings of insecurity and discomfort for both parties.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's not compensating ... It's just more labor
Reposted by Abigail Goben
Women still do most of the housework, even when they are the breadwinners. www.bbc.com/worklife/art...
Women breadwinners: Why high-earners compensate at home
An increasing number of women are taking home bigger cheques than their male partners. Yet breadwinning still causes feelings of insecurity and discomfort for both parties.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Women still do most of the housework, even when they are the breadwinners. www.bbc.com/worklife/art...
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
I see we are humming #TheReynoldsPamphlet while reading AI company news
November 25, 2025 at 5:01 AM
I see we are humming #TheReynoldsPamphlet while reading AI company news
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Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Also some cat fur and a lot of yarn
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Also some cat fur and a lot of yarn
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Sharon and Andy Longhurst’s kitchen opens onto what they call “the ICU”: a garage filled with heated incubators, microscopes and hedgehogs fighting for their lives.
For the past three years, they have turned their home into a hospital, taking in more than 622 hedgehogs. https://wapo.st/48aTBtV
For the past three years, they have turned their home into a hospital, taking in more than 622 hedgehogs. https://wapo.st/48aTBtV
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sharon and Andy Longhurst’s kitchen opens onto what they call “the ICU”: a garage filled with heated incubators, microscopes and hedgehogs fighting for their lives.
For the past three years, they have turned their home into a hospital, taking in more than 622 hedgehogs. https://wapo.st/48aTBtV
For the past three years, they have turned their home into a hospital, taking in more than 622 hedgehogs. https://wapo.st/48aTBtV
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He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
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The misogynistic fucks in the admin are trying to make it so that grad school certifications in female-dominated professions (nursing, therapy, education) no longer count as “professional degrees” & you can’t get loans to go to grad school.
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The misogynistic fucks in the admin are trying to make it so that grad school certifications in female-dominated professions (nursing, therapy, education) no longer count as “professional degrees” & you can’t get loans to go to grad school.
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Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education - Tuesday 25th Nov, free registration, great panel, big focus on climate justice. Register here: lmula.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Still waiting for those actually critical keynotes 🤪
Hey library peers. If you liked or reshared this, I expect you to invite someone critical to do that keynote/continuing ed on AI that you're planning.
Not just another one of the breathless buzzword "but we MUST ADAPT" blatherings
Not just another one of the breathless buzzword "but we MUST ADAPT" blatherings
So this has been an entertaining 24 hours
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Still waiting for those actually critical keynotes 🤪
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I am having to prove that I didn't get a more expensive flight by flying on Sunday rather than Saturday from the event I went to. This after I was only allowed a Main coach seat.
I had to create a comparison quote. for a trip I've already taken.
I had to create a comparison quote. for a trip I've already taken.
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I am having to prove that I didn't get a more expensive flight by flying on Sunday rather than Saturday from the event I went to. This after I was only allowed a Main coach seat.
I had to create a comparison quote. for a trip I've already taken.
I had to create a comparison quote. for a trip I've already taken.
Between my headphones refusing to find my laptop without a full reser and zoom crashing mid meeting I am just ready to give up
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Between my headphones refusing to find my laptop without a full reser and zoom crashing mid meeting I am just ready to give up
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Less than 2 weeks to apply to the Open Pool Fellowships of the Institute for #Qualitative & #Multi-Method Research (IQMR)
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
web.apsanet.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Less than 2 weeks to apply to the Open Pool Fellowships of the Institute for #Qualitative & #Multi-Method Research (IQMR)
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Details: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
The APSA/IQMR Fellowship for scholar from Arab MENA countries is also open (Dec. 14 deadline): web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...
Does anyone have a favorite reading on the Indus Valley civilization? Book for preference. Asking for a me.
November 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Does anyone have a favorite reading on the Indus Valley civilization? Book for preference. Asking for a me.
For whoever has to take over this coursework the week before Thanksgiving, we offer an extremely stiff drink.
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
For whoever has to take over this coursework the week before Thanksgiving, we offer an extremely stiff drink.
Today my undergrad student asked me about what it was like during the dot com bubble run up
Suddenly remembered being in my college part newsroom interviewing two guys who a huge plan for publishing short stories and poetry and it would lead to.... Profit?. No idea what the business model was.
Suddenly remembered being in my college part newsroom interviewing two guys who a huge plan for publishing short stories and poetry and it would lead to.... Profit?. No idea what the business model was.
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today my undergrad student asked me about what it was like during the dot com bubble run up
Suddenly remembered being in my college part newsroom interviewing two guys who a huge plan for publishing short stories and poetry and it would lead to.... Profit?. No idea what the business model was.
Suddenly remembered being in my college part newsroom interviewing two guys who a huge plan for publishing short stories and poetry and it would lead to.... Profit?. No idea what the business model was.
My institutional gift for 15 years of service.
November 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My institutional gift for 15 years of service.