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Librarian by profession. Curious by nature. Wish I were walking in the woods right now. Blog: sameaimee.com
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Today Milford high school students participated in their graduation and then marched to the town hall in protest of Ice kidnapping their peer. #milfordma

IT’s bad enough that LLMs hallucinate about facts. Imagine how unsettling it is to have it misrepresent what you think! To the world!

For academic conference proposals with public review rubrics—especially w/short word max—do folks know of any that have structured the abstract as just writing short answers in fields tied to each of the rubric's questions, instead of as a paragraph reviewers parse for if/where matches the rubric?

Surprising no one, the science skeptics demonstrate total faith in the confabulation machine.

So many coffee makers. www.juliensauctions.com/en/auctions/...

My friend Julia Weist’s private investigation projects shed light on these technologies and questions around data access! work.deaccession.org/vehicle-sigh... canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/art... canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/art...

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Many libraries now use automated tools to measure diversity in their collections. We examined how these tools work and whether library workers find them useful. A complex case study of libraries navigating automation, DEI, & shrinking public funding. Our new FAccT paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.14890

"Bluesky won't survive unless we let the worst people be platformed here" And "AI can't survive if we have to pay people for their work" Have the same energy

Anytime I posted at a weird time, that was a scammer hacking into my account. I keep acceptable hours. I'm normal

I SAID I LOVED YOU AND I WANTED GENOCIDE TO STOP It is always a good morning for June Jordan.

I've been catching up over the past several weeks, and while I hope Close Readings continues, it feels appropriate to be left considering the poem in this episode for a long time.

Important update. #PeonyWatch

A coworker gave me peonies from among the ones she inherited from her grandfather. Three out of four are budding this first year with me. #PeonyWatch

Starting my third year of quarterly playlists. This one is carrying a shovel and repairing a puncture in the polytunnel.

Periodic reminder that RSS readers are still a thing, and you can choose what to follow. I use mine to keep up with everything from academic journals and music blogs to YouTube channels and my city's Facebook page. www.wired.com/story/best-r...

It first occurred to me many years ago that whenever U.S. media is focused on sex scandals, it's a good idea to pay more attention to what our military is doing around the world.

I'll have to keep this for the next time my account gets labeled "new."

Sharing my feed again after a small update. I enjoy it. Maybe you will, too.

My account isn't new. I delete old posts for privacy.