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I work in Higher Ed. History PhD; MSLS. Ex-librarylander/resrch admin; you get the idea. I post about baseball, birding, cats, & etc. l still have hope despite everything & am endeavoring to be kind. Opinions strictly my own; she/her/hers. KY
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

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It’s hard to imagine an American home without Chinese products. Smart visual/color-coded story by NYT of all the many essentials in American homes that are imported almost entirely from China — are likely to become more expensive with the new tariffs www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

The mods of r/ChangeMyView shared the sub was the subject of a study to test the persuasiveness of LLMs & that they didn't consent. There’s a lot that went wrong, so here’s a 🧵 unpacking it, along with some ideas for how to do research with online communities ethically. tinyurl.com/59tpt988

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Movie you've watched more than six times using gifs. ("Hard mode" no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

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Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The famous dolphin fresco from the Minoan palace of Knossos, which is now on display in the Archaeological Museum in Heraklion. Dating to around 1600-1450BCE, it was found in a room that was interpreted as the queen’s Megaron (or apartments) by the excavator, Arthur Evans #knossos #crete #minoan

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And here we are at the point of the baseball season where I start to pay attention, and realize the Padres have the best record in baseball. 👀 ⚾️ #baseball

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www.kentucky.com/sports/horse...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

To connect some dots: since at Dept of Energy there’s no DEI grants to be cancelled, they went straight for cancelling all of them. Which is to say, “DEI is a problem” is a pretext in context of science funding. And we should all be clear on that. 🧪⚛️🔭

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

honestly 'my AI girlfriend is the best thing ever' is making me think a lot more charitably of the people who fell for the Cottingley Fairies. At least they'd been through a war.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

ERIC is due to run out of money this Wednesday the 23rd. Librarians, educators, spread the word!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Relish today and ketchup tomorrow.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Looking in the pantry to assess what I might need to stock up on in anticipation of coming tariffs. I am pleased to see that somehow we have 3 jugs of Canadian maple syrup already. (might last us a year, might not)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

20 April 1933 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Sophia Kaatje van Hasselt, was born in Oosterwolde. In February 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz together with her parents Simon and Geertje, and her older sister Hermi. None of them survived.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

I am going to spend the next ten minutes giving USAdians some Actual Advice from a Supply Chain Professional with 20 years experience. 1) It's going to be bad in a way you've never seen, not even during COVID or BREXIT. 2) Don't panic. 2a) Panic leads to bad decisions 1/8

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

ICYMI, back before the election we did a whole show on Fed independence and what happens if it goes away. www.marketplace.org/story/2024/1...

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Overfishing doesn’t make you „the world’s dominant seafood leader“, at least not for long, it’s just a dumb & shortsighted depletion of fish stocks. 🌊

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Just looking at the wiki entry for the history of the Roth IRA, as one does when resuming reporting for Roth contributions for tax purposes after several years of not contributing.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 13 days ago • 171 comments

I got a prompt to translate "My horses went to a new farm" in Duolingo, and I don't think the AI that writes these quite gets the euphemism that goes along with this phrasing.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

2 out of 3. That’s the proportion of students in my course who submitted faked information in their annotated bibliography assignment this week. #EduSky #AcademicSky 1/n

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

I lost track of baseball news last year & have just realized the As are playing in Sacramento for the next 3 seasons? And the Triple A park of the Giants affiliate they're borrowing...is actually probably nicer than the Coliseum, RIP? Jose Iglesias is an outfielder now?? #baseball

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, so in the little cheesy animated "hat" game on all MLB commercials - the ball's always under hat #1, right? #baseball

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The EU is set to announce $28B in counter-tariffs on Monday for U.S. meat, cereals, wine, wood and clothing, chewing gum, dental floss, vacuum cleaners, and toilet paper. The sticking point is over whether to include American bourbon. finance.yahoo.com/news/eu-seek...

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Absolutely. I am actually planning on saving this article and using it to teach the power of comics to humanize those whom we tend to ignore/other, the next time I teach health humanities or Drawing Illness.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments