Bex, if you can keep it

a man in a red vest is talking to an elf in a store . Alt: Will Farrell's character in Elf tugging the arm of a department store employee and saying "I know him! I know him!"

Literally me.

I WISH we had the Dem party that the GOP thinks we have.

It's a bookclub meeting! This was a poster of all the upcoming bookclub events - I'm not familiar, but it looks like they have a bunch across different subjects, and this is what the History group is reading!

A poster of upcoming book club meetings at Chelmsford, MA library that features the cover of "Oathbreakers" by Perry & Gabriele.

Spotted @lollardfish.bsky.social and @profgabriele.com at my local library!

It’s not the same, but it’s similar to the feigned (or genuine; but, anyway, functionally necessary) ignorance that has characterized a decade and more of (tech- or STEM-originated) claims to answer for the first time questions that have in fact long been both asked and answered by, say, historians.

It’s easy (more easy than accurate) to dismiss academic critics of generative AI as uninformed or emotive, which is often anyway code for “moralizing.” But it’s remarkable how much gen AI boosterism requires feigning ignorance that theft and impersonation are widely seen as wrong, for good reasons.

In my Methods class I used to have them complete the Army Alpha and Beta tests as an example of measurement - what is measured, for what actual purpose, how is it contextualized, etc. The discussion was always fun!

Oh damn, that would've been nice this morning! My meeting was at 9:30 and that's right when the library opened, so I had to delay it a few minutes to get in and get set up.

I used a private study room to take a Zoom call this morning and booked it again for 1-2pm. In between, I'm working at one of the general study carrels so the room is open for other people who might need it. I can come & go as needed. The perfect third space.

My small town's library is saving my WFH ass through this construction. It makes my heart so happy to be here. A librarian is helping an elderly man use a computer ("I don't use a space, right?" "Right."). Another librarian commented to a coworker that their schedule is full of tax prep appointments

Our research study's recruitment flyer. The flyer reads, "Call for Research Participants! Caregivers Challenging Ed-Tech in Schools. Across the United States, caregivers are pushing against educational technologies (ed-tech) in K-12 schools. We want to know why and how caregivers are questioning technology in the classroom. Who can participate? Caregivers with one or more children attending K-12 school in the United States, who...Currently and/or in the past worked to challenge the purposes and roles of ed-tech in your children's K-12 schooling. What is involved? Complete one ~15-minute survey. Participate in one ~60-minute recorded Zoom interview (optional). Questions? Contact our Research Team. Dr. Charles Logan. Northwestern University. charles.logan1@northwestern.edu. Dr. Tony Talbert. Baylor University. Tony_Talbert@baylor.edu. Allie Thrall. Baylor University. Allie_Thrall@baylor.edu. To participate, please complete our survey here: https://tinyurl.com/CaregiversEdTech

Are you a caregiver concerned about ed-tech in K-12 schools in the United States and engaging in work to challenge how your child’s school uses ed-tech?

If so, Tony Talbert, @alliethrall.bsky.social, and I invite you to participate in our new project. Join the study at tinyurl.com/CaregiversEd...

Why doesn’t grammerly have to pay for name and image licensing?

Tech firms could behave less like raptors testing the fences of human decency looking for and remembering the weaknesses

Dear everyone,

As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.

A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

Yes, yes a thousand times yes, also when you work with artists on communicating your science, YOU will get better about describing your work, too! There are so many little benefits you won't even realize you'll get by doing this.

I am slightly biased because it's me, I'm illustrator but it's true!

Rushing to help reduce the pain of an already-unpopular war seems like a gift to the current administration but what do I know.

How about introducing a bill to increase federal spending on a clean energy transition you stupid stupid motherfuckers

This is true, but also, I think what people don't understand is how informing on kids who are trying out a nickname and a pronoun raises the stakes in way that could drive the inappropriate transitions and regret, the thing we're supposed to be so scared of.

Let me explain.

Different families are different. Many kids do come out to their parents before anyone else, especially if they're very young or don't have supportive peer relationships.

But I don't want parents to think they're doing something wrong if their kid came out at school first.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

The current war on Iran is UNIQUELY unpopular by U.S. standards.

A screenshot from the game Pokopia, showing a "slack mouthed, small eyed" girl with purple space buns and a Scorbunny in some sort of kitchen dungeon. We're making salad.

This is who runs this account.

My online craft groups are suddenly full of people complaining their Etsy sales are down & blaming the site. I mean, maybe, but look around, people! Is it Etsy or, you know, the state of the world?

"Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the flyest of them all?
There was a 'sksksksksk', 5 minutes it lasted

the mirror said, 'you are, you conceited bastard'"

If you took your kid to the doctor recently for any reason, there's a one in five chance you walked away with an off-label prescription. Nearly half of all pediatric prescriptions are off-label.

bart simpson is sitting at a table with a glass of milk and a plate of food ALT: bart simpson is sitting at a table with a glass of milk and a plate of food

omg this coffee shop is playing Building A Mystery.

Trying to read & annotate some articles but I've had too much coffee and all my underlines look like EKG readouts. 〽️

@friede.bsky.social is so cool 😍 Such an example of my favorite type of academic: not someone who chases research trends, but someone who identifies something that interests THEM and pursues it until others care about it & recognize it as legit scholarship, too!

LET'S GOOOOOOO!!!

SO many academics have a list of "When I get tenure I'll...." and then by the time they get tenure they're so burned out, cynical, and disciplined by the institution that they are even more subservient than they were pre-tenure.