Meh I dunno... I don't think taking a list of books, plugging them into a catalogue, and requesting the book is great intellectual labour!
11.03.2026 13:15
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Meh I dunno... I don't think taking a list of books, plugging them into a catalogue, and requesting the book is great intellectual labour!
I know AI is debatable, but I gotta be honest, it's going through and placing library holds for me (after I've signed into my browser), and this is automating the worst, most boring parts of my workflow.
Hah! Honestly, after having woken up at 5:45am (I am not _that_ much of a moring person), I would take the AI summary right now..!
I know people do this commute everyday, and man, I am tired just thinking of it.
On an early morning GO Train for a provincial government AI Summit in Toronto.
Not naturally a morning bird, but taking the train across the countryside as the sun rises is beautiful.
Small #universities matter now more than ever. They provide a model for teaching & learning that resists the convenience of #AI & they are also cost effective. In #Ontario, however, systematic underfunding puts these universities at risk. lfpress.com/opinion/colu... #onpoli #cdnpoli #cdnpse
Good thing governments spent the last decade telling young people they all had to learn how to code and universities that they were useless unless they were churning out IT grads.
The @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social version of "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean" is out today! It includes an audiobook, which I recorded last December at a sound studio here in Washington, DC. Now you can read or listen to the book, even if you live outside of the US and Canada. #History 1/2
Tried to get my AI agents to enage in a Nathan Fielder-esque "Rehearsal" of an upcoming conversation.
Claude is down to play.
Co-Pilot is like that co-worker who refuses to engage in any chicanery or tomfoolery. Come on!
Kinda sad that the main Olympics are over.
This was the first one in a while that I really got into - probably because I have a sports-crazed son - and I genuinely thought the CBC Gem app was great.
Robyn, a three legged brown and black dog, lying on a blue sofa, with green and yellow cushions.
Writing a commissioned/invited book chapter this morning. Been recounting therein debates about print/digital fixity and preservation, from Eisenstein and Johns, through @kfitz.info, up to @ianmilligan1.bsky.social.
Now, though, Robyn is demanding a cuddle. Who am I to say no?
I feel like we could forgo giving the stuffed animals to the hockey players…
(My son is insisting we watch the medal ceremony. Sigh.)
Fuck
My research trip was cancelled last night due to the winter storm - a 1:45am call from Air Canada - but the bright side is that I get to watch the gold medal game with my kids.
The downside… it’s going to overtime and my heart is pounding…!
I can’t believe I have a 3pm meeting, during the third period of the US/Canada gold medal women’s hockey game. Let’s go Canada!!
Wayback Machine director Mark Graham pushes back on unfounded claims from media organizations that the Wayback Machine is a backdoor for AI scraping.
Read more via @techdirt.com 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p...
Searching "longest national anthems" because wouldn't that be a fun Olympics awards ceremony...
(too bad they don't play all 158 stanzas of the Greek national anthem, "Hymn to Liberty")
Unbelievable. OCUFA didn't even mention the deeply regressive raid on student financial aid in their announcement response (it did, however, critique the tiny tuition fee increase, which should have been much larger).
No, you pay a small fraction of the true costs because tuition has been kept artificially low, at what has become a real cost to the quality of education. Cost of living dwarfs tuition as an obstacle to access post-sec ed. www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...
I'll be honest, I thought there'd be more wacky hijinx like this in academia than there are..
I've been asked to chair (and time-keep) two sessions at the @cndhistassoc.bsky.social conference in June. I'm now wondering where I can rent a bear costume in Charlottetown...
Here's my full take on Thursday's funding annoucnement in Ontario. It's a big deal. The money to institutions is good, the way the money being raised is more regressive than it needed to be.
Transit nerd alert, checking out the new Line 5 in Toronto.
(I am not a good photographer, as I always forget to take photos)
I have a "full" MS Co-Pilot license.
I hate to admit that the chat function, for scheduling meetings, is amazing. Presented with a list of meeting times, I say "find me a time there immediately following another MS Teams meeting I am in," and it cooks it up.
Took the Friday off to take my son up to a ski race - now that my feet have defrosted, glad we did!
(Also, it was at a private hill, kept thinking they’d kick us out once they realized we were from Kitchener..)
New on H-Sci-Med-Tech:
Check out @ianmilligan1.bsky.social (@uwaterloo.ca)’s review of @lucipangrazio.bsky.social & @neilselwyn.bsky.social’s book _Critical Data Literacies: Rethinking Data & Everyday Life_, pub 2023 @mitpress.bsky.social
#hstm
Review available @hnetreviews.bsky.social
Oh, when people do that, they get some serious consequences from me!
Look Tom, I'm kinda a big deal, you should all be HONOURED if I go long on my presentation.
It is! Inspired by, anyways…!
Curses! If it’s any consolation, it’s freely available OA via JHU Press, so you can grab a PDF version there…!
(Good luck navigating the chaos!)