Emily Higgs Kopin

What a beautiful read.

If y'all are gonna dunk on Grammarly, you should know that they actually recently rebranded to "Superhuman" and are the parent company of a whole suite of AI tools for varying contexts. Ok carry on

Hoping to be able to present at Swat (hi! I'm in the Libraries) about some of my coding use cases and the collapse of resource allocation decisions, data privacy decisions, etc etc that are particularly important to me - and particularly invisible if we're not rigorously trained to investigate them

A lot of my concerns come from the obfuscation of human decision-making in coding.

It really comes down to "this would be great if everyone who used it had an extremely strong grasp of the ethical issues, necessary guardrails, and the content expertise to evaluate branching effects" and uhhhhhh

An "Emily" AI editor would give you aggressive revisions to your work, but only after it ghosts you for 2 years and you see it at a party and ask in person if it's been getting your email nudges

I appreciate you trying to help. Bodleian and the Internet Archive, & others have shared info about why these strategies are outstripped by the current scraping force. IA I believe is working on JA4 + Fingerprinting, they gave an interesting presentation about it a few weeks ago that may be online

Screenshot of phone display of ebook with title “The Lifted Veil.” Highlighted text: “I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.”

George Eliot reaching through time and space to yet again NAIL the vibe

This isn't efficacious as a strategy anymore, as the scale has totally exploded and for every million bots blocked, a hundred million spring up in their place. This is happening across the open internet and it feels very much like an arms race

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.

Extremely pleased to announce 🎉that the new-new @saa-official.bsky.social Selecting and Appraising Archives and Manuscripts is out now, with two crucial chapters by @meau.bsky.social and me

Make it your own: mysaa.archivists.org/productdetai...

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

frankly romantasy is currently footing the bill for the rest of us by keeping a crumbling publishing industry afloat a while longer and you don't have to read the stuff to appreciate that it's bringing in readers who will eventually want to read more things, perhaps even in different points of view

How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis' Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows.

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When I leave a ramshackle used bookshop without having acquired any books, I feel like Galadriel. I have passed the test and may now diminish into the west.

Spending “international women’s day” in a tin can flying over the Atlantic (it’s me, I’m the international woman), but I did force my cinephile husband to watch The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement with me, so I got to celebrate 👍🏼

Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

A large shop window has “girl dinner” painted in white. Through the window, a dozen or two novels in English are displayed, all of which involve cannibalism and unhinged women, a favorite subgenre of OP

I’ve seen a lot of good book displays and “recommended“ shelves but this is one of my favorites (The American Book Center, Amsterdam)

This whole thread about the BBC archive not putting their catalogue online is the absolute opposite of what an archive should be. Apparently one of the objections was that it would increase archive use! Which is the point for why it exists!

Sticky Bronze Ring of Sweating

Not even really sure what year it is tbh

Daylight savings life hack: I’m traveling across six time zones today and have no idea what time it is anyway

Just saw a store advertising with the slogan “wellness is the new luxury,” which really says the quiet part out loud huh

Draw me like one of your Dutch girls (asleep, high-contrast, accompanied by my dog)

in the cars universe the matrix was directed by the kachowski sisters

girlboss, gatekeep, gaslight
#mozzmemes

The same dwarf mongoose from the first image but further in profile

when you say mean things to me, this is who you’re saying them to

A dwarf mongoose, a rodent creature like a mongoose but shorter and like it came out of a cartoon, sits atop a tree trunk

Hey have you guys ever seen a dwarf mongoose? Because I hadn’t and it changed my life

It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.