lafferty.bsky.social
Libraries, STEM (chemistry!), higher ed, MPLS. Pronouns: she/her/hers. 🐦: laffertylib; 🐘: [email protected]
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Hannah Höch saw human beings dismembered into parts in a machine. Walter Benjamin saw the power of art reduced when dismembered from its context. Today we watch as all of human knowledge and creation is fed into MLMs to be chopped up into parts and remixed into filtered, approved summaries.
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How awful!
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A librarian colleague in Arizona who was away from academic libraries for 10 years to raise kids volunteered at her son's school before going back to full-time work. She had to clean up quite a mess in that volunteer-run library.
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🤔
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😮
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The one at my house is now open 9a-5p on weekdays only plus similar lunch time closures. It's really hard to pick up a prescription that's available in those times!
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You should be able to go into your settings to change it if you want
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It's impressive
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Eternal optimism!
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oh no!
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Kennedy is obsessed with these studies. He wrote a book arguing for trials that would withhold vaccines from kids, calling ethical concerns “a sham.” He consistently ignores the many good studies that have been done and relyies on bad and retracted research from anti-vaxxers. tinyurl.com/39taxurf
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And he's a new hire this year!
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Here's a poster version of the DIY Web Archiving zine's front cover, with some added text if you want to print copies for some space where people can take them—you can hang this poster above or nearby:
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😲
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Is that article meant for very old or rich alums?
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#pareidolia