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I am truly flabbergasted. I have seen a lot of terrible sex ed… but the way this misses the mark is, quite original.

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From an instructor or administrator’s perspective, reworking courses that fulfill key requirements is a lot of work. But I find it unlikely that any 25 year old reading is really the best starter for a class on digital stewardship. 1999… we have a whole song about it.

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My front door now has a storm door… it only took 3.5 hours for my wife and I to get through the “2 hour” install advertised on the box.

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After spending my week getting no answers all week from ICE on exactly where in US my Venezuelan client arrested Tuesday is, I am here to say: this is a righteous cause, and calling your elected reps is not going to get us the justice this moment demands

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This prompt gave me the first example of Primo Research Assistant showing its underwear... I mean, showing a limit on its knowledge: "specific references to hat makers are not directly addressed in the available publications." WAIT FOR IT...

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How would a student know which of the claims the bot is making are contested, if the bot cannot have less than full confidence it cannot signal to you with a "it seems" or a "some have argued" that some of its claims stand on better ground. Much as these rhetorics annoy, they have a social purpose.

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Does using a Primo Research Assistant generated question help ID a question our resources can answer without speculation or a lot of cross-resource synthesis (because it is generated from the resources)?

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Today I am testing the Primo Research Assistant in a sandbox version of our discovery layer. Going to thread up my findings.

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I was explaining to my boyfriend how “time immemorial” can refer to a specific year (1189) in common law and he looked it up and apparently in New Hampshire they defined that as a period of 20 years, which means that 2005 is time immemorial, which would make most numetal bands from time immemorial

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The proposed interpretation of Politics in American Libraries notes that it might be appropriate to place limits on the (political) workplace speech of library staff.

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Join us for our webinar hosted by the SSRC and the Berkley Center at Georgetown Univ: "Notes from the Field: Studying the Nexus of Religion, Gender, and Populism from a Global Perspective". WHEN: Wed, May 14, 2025, 11 AM EDT WHERE: Zoom 🔗 Learn more and register here: tinyurl.com/ssrcberkleyc...

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This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

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What if we went further back and made it great through rematriation/repatriation. Land-back Alcatraz.

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