Big cars and road angst are like the canary in the coal mine. We are separating ourselves from our communities, prioritizing absurd tech like huge trucks over our own wellbeing (and that of the earth), so then we feel sick, so then we act out and hurt each other, make worse choices, and repeat.
Squeeee!!! Thank you, as always, Tracy, for the rundown, I am also EXCITED about this new PubType. Totally going to put it in my newsletter to my faculty and cross fingers that even one is half as excited
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Did you look at their website? It *almost seems like they develop the merch before the book even drops...
The rush to hyper-capitalize on romance novels reminds me A LOT of the e-bike boom. I want to be happy that more people are reading/biking, but I mostly I just feel ick. It's ick.
screenshot of a notification box that reads "Confirm your identity with a video selfie. To make sure you're a real person, we need you to record a video selfie. We'll ask you to move your head during the recording to help us capture your face at different angles. Continue"
I decided to get a burner Facebook (many of my community's activities are communicated only on that platform).
It's been over a decade since I had one, but I did not anticipate this degree of nightmare:
to verify your account, they want to video your face.
THANK GOODNESS
@mlisrevenge.bsky.social !!!
I've been wondering about how people make sense of how AI influences their own infoseeking behavior, like diff demographics, like perhaps there are specific "algorithmic imaginaries" we ought to be preparing to respond to?
Also, how AI eats and then controls folks' access to media, but that's huge
THIS. I am lucky enough to have a session with students on the knowledge economy and while we map the systems, what I'm really doing is making space for them to really see the scale at which they've been betrayed, and then feel their feelings about it.
quote is from page 35.
Also, thank you to @womeninaiethics.bsky.social for holding space for these needed discussions with your reading circle! I am excited to take part in the discussion of Marshall's Data Conscience on July 25th!
Yes, tech bros are gaslighting you about AI ethics.
And, surprise, it's probably because it was missing from their computer science curricula:
"...the Computer Science Draft Competencies provided didn’t include any occurrences of “ethics.”
please go read Brandeis Marshall's, "Data Conscience"
Was excited to read this, but using AI hype terminology IS taking a position, & it's the wrong one
the author on AI processing:
"I’ll use “understand” and similar terms throughout this guide but take no position in the larger debate"
the laziness is nauseating
katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
@violetbfox.bsky.social, TY for continuing to refuse, and bringing us all along. I'm working with two OT faculty on a project about student agency within higher-ed AI boosterism, and we want an interdisciplinary framing. These resources help me explain AI in libraries acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...
And also, generally, I want to bend everyone's ears about the impact of AI on our beleaguered planet. But particularly given that my institution is in the same state as the Water Protectors of Standing Rock, I would hope that the relevance would be undeniable.
Oooh! Thank you so much for BOTH of these! Info systems as infrastructure, especially in non-US contexts, is the secret heart of my scholarly communications lectures, and usually a brand-new paradigm for my students. Thank you!
Thank you for this! last semester I struggled to find readings for my students that centered community perspectives on data centers, hopefully this will fill that out a bit!
Screenshot of a DM The National Library of Medicine (NLM) will undergo a “realignment” effective July 1. With 40% of staff positions eliminated, the remaining staff and services will focus on core library functions, including Collection Development and Health Data Standards (formerly Bibliographic Services). NCBI will continue operations but with reduced staff and services. Outreach will no longer be considered a core function. The Branch, which oversees NNLM, will be dissolved. NNLM will continue under the Office of Strategic Operations Traveling Exhibits and History Talks are suspended. Exhibits already on loan or scheduled will proceed, but no new programs or outreach initiatives will be offered. No new website curations will be created. MedlinePlus will be maintained as needed, but no new content will be developed.
Sharing this update provided to me directly about the state of NLM and the future of NNLM, traveling exhibits, and, somehow, MedlinePlus.
I am so worried for friends and colleagues, and I'm stuck on that, but it is hard to not want to scream WTF about a MedlinePlus with no new material.
#medlibs
thank you for sharing. Also, EWWWW, BLERRRRG!!
I like the Grainline Tamarack Jacket for simplicity/adaptability, but the shoulders get a bit large and in charge when the fabric has a lot of body. The merchant and mills September coat pattern is a lot comfier and roomier, the raglan sleeves can be intimidating but turn out really clean.
A mended tear in the body of a chartreuse skirt with very small, messy stitches
The patch on the inside of a mended chartreuse colored skirt, with messy teeny stitches in the middle and the edges of the patch finished with a blanket stitch
I made a little mend!
(after I literally cut a little hole while hemming a skirt 💩)
"Overworking is both a personal choice and a management failure"
BOTH.
Thank you, Meredith. I really appreciate the time and energy you spend calling out these toxic patterns. Hearing from you helps me stay the course on my own boundary-setting, but I think you're also doing a lot of work to keep the profession from sweeping toxicity under the rug. Thank you.
Aww that's so sweet!! And accurate!! 🤣🤣
I feel like I want to make a commemorative quotation needle-point for my wall. But how to choose!? "Stitches form wrong or not at all"?? Or, "Retaining finger in wrong position"?? Perhaps simply, "Lint build up".
@mlisrevenge.bsky.social !! the improper tensions!!
Germany's central medical library, ZBMed, is building an alternative to PubMed. It will be open source, based on MeSH & associated data standards, built to be sustainable in case PubMed becomes unreliable - with APIs & MeSH maintenance. Open meeting called! 1/2 www.heise.de/news/Wegen-T... #MedLibs
Thank you!!
Two bicycles locked to a picnic table under the shelter of a cantilevered roof, while the bike rack is just to the left, unsheltered in the rain
Design fail this morning, but the bicyclist to arrive before me had a great idea
@mlisrevenge.bsky.social 🥹🥹
Bluebells flowering brightly in front of a fence
Note to self: BUY MORE BLUEBELLS
