Void in a Cardigan

This is really exciting!!!

Peak #scicomm.

theoatmeal.com/comics/naked...

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

I don’t know how any of us can be expected to normally go about our day

I’m finding it difficult to care about the wording of an email or the content of a libguide while I’m continuously horrified at what is taking place

I can’t stop thinking about it

Nurul Amin Shah Alam crossed oceans to flee unimaginable violence, only to die here — where he should have been safe.

The cruelty is endless.

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washington post headline saying "the power of AI transfixed wall st and washington. recent research suggests it may be a mirage" as if these idiots just crawled out of a cave

oh word???? no shit????? for real????????

The IMLS Propaganda Machine Is In Full Swing The agency overseeing U.S. libraries and museums is now full-on regime propaganda.

Actual story of the propaganda trucks, which stole $14 million of your dollars and funneled it away from national libraries and museums and into the pockets of PragerU.

Yes, PragerU made this thing, not any professional librarians or museum folks.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Oldest known whale song recordings discovered in Cape Cod archives The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.

The discovery trope, but this time the archivist is discovering. 📜
www.wbur.org/news/2026/02...

Third American death linked to ice uncovered by Newsweek While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a federal agent fired the fatal shot.

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”.

Sound familiar?

That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed.

This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year.

They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

😳

This is a gorgeous thread, particularly if you are of the confidence-game inclined.

With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups.

“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.

Screw this. If you need me, I’ll be on IRC.

“Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel” www.pcgamer.com/software/pla...

Idk what is going on with Libby but half the time I do not get a notification when a hold is ready for pickup. I find out when I open the app and I have a lapse notice saying my hold is suspended now.

At least I don’t go to the bottom of the list now I guess.

I sure hope we get to find out what movie this is.

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When I read about ‘Ai anxiety’ it reminds me of when people downplayed folks’ covid precautions by calling them ‘covid anxious’

It might not be used in the same way currently, but I’m sure it will be

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...

"...we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day..."

You don't say?!

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Age verification?

I still have my original FernGully VHS tape.

Actual letter from one of my Reps about wanting to increase penalties for people who “harm” ICE.

Mark Alford is a MO rep not TX.

I know because I write him often. Gonna write him about this too. What a waste of time and resources.

Mark Alford is a MO rep btw

How Libraries Are Standing Up to ICE Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities.

Fandoms are trying to engage with activism that can make a difference, and your library is a great place to find those opportunities. @comicslibrarian.com breaks down all the ways libraries are standing up to ICE.

The Librarians | Book Policies Documentary | Independent Lens The Librarians follows librarians and citizens responding to restrictions on library content across the United States.

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me, librarian: I think information should be organized and structured logically so that searches are high in precision and recall

tech industry, 2000: nope, keyword searching and opaque relevance rankings are what you’ll get

…

tech industry, 2026: now you’ll just get fake hallucinatory text

Somebody get ALA on the phone right now

Monster Hunter: an evolutionary story Christopher Sevin Independent scientific educator, France. Email: c-sevin (at) live (dot) fr Download PDF Monster Hunter is a fantasy-themed video game franchise created by the Japanese company Cap…

New article alert! 🚨
An evolutionary take on the fauna of one of gaming’s most loved worlds!
Read more: jgeekstudies.org/2026/02/05/m...

#GeekStudies #MonsterHunter #scicomm #systematics