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When I was 23 years old, fresh out of my MA I worked as a lowly assistant to a producer at ABC News and had to have interactions with this, the snottiest of the Cuomo Clown Car Dynasty. Even then I knew he was a smarmy, talentless glob.

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“This article shows how interlibrary loan, conceived as a form of academic traffic, played a crucial role in postwar reconstruction efforts, facilitating the xchg of resources + info among libraries… [It] focuses on the elaborate procedures librarians developed to create union catalogs.”

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There's a whole subsection about information literacy and the work of libraries as a method of resistance to AI hype in The AI Con by Emily Bender and Alex Hanna. Let's make sure that the authors' trust in us is warranted, okay? 📚

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Literally every six months my husband will put on a Ben Folds Five album and I ask whether it’s a super band of Ben Folds, Ben Lee, Ben Harper, Ben Kweller and some other Ben whose surname I can’t remember. And every time he tells me we’ve been through this and that it is not a band of five Bens.

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I saw another interview w Lavinglia and what emerged clearly is how drunk software engineers are on efficiency & optimization that they imagine them to be transferable concepts that can easily be ported into labor, service, and knowledge sectors in which they have no experience.

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stares at libraries 📚

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I love how the addition of one or two ingredients can completely change the flavor profile of vegetables. I’m thinking lemongrass and lime leaf. Asofoetida. Instant transformation.

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New Yorkers really love hearing about our city from Californians. Opine more for us, O Glistening Pate of Hate.

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New Joy Division single just dropped.

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When I was a newborn I saved up and bought my own basket. We all did. This generation just wants a handout

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It's always funny to me when "news" orgs show that, when they want, they CAN in fact focus on policy. Generally, they choose not to and instead treat governance as Reality TV, reducing everything to interpersonal spats, each politician "slamming" the other. Anyway, good job Fox? Keep it up!

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"Learn to code" was always bad advice, unless you actually like to code. College students have the best chance of professional success if they major in topics that interest them. Today in @startribune.com. Please tell high school students and parents. www.startribune.com/what-should-...

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Literally the opening vignette to Audrey Watters's brilliant book, _Teaching Machines_ is about how little Khan knows about the history of education and what a grifter he is. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254606...

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What if my microgeneration is just really good at dissociation because we sang the Muppet Babies theme song all the time?

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Exactly, the systemic issues that LLMs create for education are clear from an economic viewpoint: AI integration is fundamentally interested in undercutting the labor cost of educators. It accesses diminishing investments marked for education and moves it into the tech sector.

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No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

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You get a primary, and you get a primary, and everyone gets a primary! #DemocraticVoters

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Literally the opening vignette to Audrey Watters's brilliant book, _Teaching Machines_ is about how little Khan knows about the history of education and what a grifter he is. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254606...

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Every time a progressive candidate succeeds the Dem establishment considers it a fluke; and every time a centrist candidate loses they rush to claim that there’s a lesson to be learned and that that lesson is to be more Republican. I guess we really can never know what voters want.

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Whatever happens the real winner was the ranked choice voting we made along the way.

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It is anno domini tui 2025 and CNN’s goddamn website breaks my mobile browser, how is this a thing?

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*on line

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What the heck is a nondomestic pet and what happened in the past at this campsite that they stipulate a minimum human presence?

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There are two kinds of people in this world: those who chew on cough drops and weirdos.

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hey everyone I made us a pretentious way of saying a broken clock is right twice a day just in case you need it

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I know I live in a city where many feel free to express themselves because all the hair stylists here feel at liberty to give a shag-mullet to everyone whether they want one or not.

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A truly must read essay by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social. Brava Sonja! “Computer vision doesn’t hallucinate because of an inscrutable deus inside the machina. It ‘hallucinates’—such a groovy word for being wrong with confidence—because that’s the ideology with which it was encoded.” 👀 @eryk.bsky.social

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I know I’m supposed to be working BUT LOOK AT MY BEBÉ.

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