Robert J Weisberg (aka Museum Human)

How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days Undoing the Shoddy Work of AI Bots

Calling all AI evangelists: please read how AI (and the leaders hiding behind it to cut staff, budgets, and resources) is making this lifesaving research work more difficult: How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days open.substack.com/pub/annehele...

Also worth adding, as @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and @karenhao.bsky.social discuss, that AI doesn't just represent the money behind the powerful companies pushing it; it also represents the personalities of those corporate leaders.

ImperialAI: the empire strikes back An essential conversation with journalist and author, Karen Hao, about OpenAI and its ambition to dominate and conquer all before it

And also this from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's interview with @karenhao.bsky.social Karen's book, an important reminder where the power behind AI is coming from, is in my library hold queue. "ImperialAI: the empire strikes back". open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against Or how I got Hard Forked

@bcmerchant.bsky.social again has to remind AI enthusiasts that the money behind AI has never been about workers. "On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against": www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/on-agi-mas...

The Unlearning Problem: Why AI and Humans Share the Same Dangerous Flaw A closer look at both human psychology and artificial intelligence reveals they share the same dangerous flaw

The Unlearning Problem: Why AI and Humans Share the Same Dangerous Flaw
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Inside the escalating struggle over AI in journalism Politico journalists are taking on management for using AI products that risk damaging their reputation and replacing their work. Their fight is emblematic of an embattled industry.

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I'm just an idea person, I'll let the NBA and the players hash it out in the next collective bargaining agreement negotiations.

What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT “Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...

“Put aside however you feel about generative AI for a second and face one very simple point: it doesn’t do enough, it’s really not cool at all, and we’re being forced to use it.”

Make Fun Of Them
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Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.

Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...

Governing in a Fractured World: Power, Tensions, and the Future of Collective Action Look at the future: unpacking the tensions that shape governance

With a follow up on governance structures here: open.substack.com/pub/scttee/p...

Beyond ROI: Stewarding Wealth for Systemic Change Rethinking Wealth: How Governance and Investment Work Together

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How to Save the NIH - Boston Review Public science too often serves private profits, making it vulnerable to attacks like Trump’s.

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The great horror film that predicted our cultish post-truth predicament Welcome to the first installment of Blood in the Machine's culture studies series.

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Is There a "Joy Division" in Facing the World's Problems? A Review of Hospicing Modernity and What If We Get It Right? Two recent books approach climate and societal collapse from different sides of the apparent doomer/hoptimism divide—with a side question of joyfulness.

After reading two books about climate and societal collapse, Museum Human wonders if our obsession with joy is making the doomer/hoptimist divide more real than it should be. Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/is-there-a-j... #museum #museums #doomer #hoptimism #collapse

Museum Human's End-of-Year Reading Break Rundown You get a lot of reading done when you actually read.

Museum Human set aside the first Links of the Week of 2025 for a rundown of my end-of-year reading binge. What’s on your shelf? How do you take notes on what you read? Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/museum-human... #reading #readinglist

Museum Human Plans—and Plans within Plans—for 2025 When things change, so can we—while also remembering what's important to us.

Museum Human is back for 2025 with a new mission statement and a new attitude. Whether doomer or hoptimist, we have to focus on solutions and broadening horizons in an interconnected world. Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/museum-human... #museum #museums #doomer #hoptimism #2025goals

Agreed!

Who Is Tech Really For? As Silicon Valley chases military tech and funding, it’s losing sight of what inspires its workers.

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against the dark forest The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

Well, good morning, I have thoughts about the internet.

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‘Unprecedented risk’ to life on Earth: Scientists call for halt on ‘mirror life’ microbe research Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections

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a man wearing a fur hat is asking if he is thankful Alt: a man wearing a fur hat asking angrily "do I look thankful to you?"

I won't say "Happy … " … instead, may you have a good day this Thursday.

Okay #musetech peeps, I created a starter pack for you all. Go ahead and hop in if I didn't get to you! go.bsky.app/V7MsiXr

Links of the Week: November 26, 2024: Looking Back to Look Ahead, Post-Election Edition What's keeping us from learning anything from recent events?

Museum Human welcomes new Bluesky folks with our first Links of the Week in a while, asking museum denizens to consider what the results of the recent US election mean for institutions and workers who should be listening and learning. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museums

Do Museums Need to Go Bigger Than Just Minimally Viable? Is there such a thing as too many MVPs?

Museum Human welcomes all our new Bluesky followers with a new post on whether, in an eerie election echo, museums’ focus on minimum viability has kept us from going big in the way that audiences and workers need. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/do-museums-n... #museum #museums #empathy

GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups Democrats are helping give Trump the power to wipe out enemy nonprofits — and there’s already a road map on how to defund clean energy groups.

The House just passed a bill that gives the executive branch sweeping authority to effectively shut down non-profit universities and newsrooms. And a House Committee report quietly reveals a blueprint for just how those powers might be used. Read more @levernews.com www.levernews.com/gop-takes-fi...

Links of the Week: October 25, 2024: All Museums, All the Time (part 2) Here's the second part of Museum Human's largest group yet of museum-focused links.

Museum Human finishes its two-part list of museum-field links with articles about immersive art, leadership, workloads, NFTs, AI, and the (already-here) future. Time to think big. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the.... #museum #museums #immersive #AI #NFTs #futurism #leadership

"This Is a Culture and Team We Want to Create": An Interview with Andrea Ledesma Sometimes asking a lot of questions is more important than always having the answers.

In Museum Human’s latest interview, longtime friend of the site Andrea Ledesma of Monterey Bay Aquarium talks musetech, careers, people management, conferences and so much more. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/this-is-a-cu... #museum #museums #career #musetech #conferences #peoplemanagement

Links of the Week: October 18, 2024: All Museums, All the Time (part 1) We've got the first part of a big pile of museum-related links this week.

Museum Human had so many links about museums that we had to break it into two parts. This week: art-tech incubators, careers, journals, tax laws, museum libraries, trust, and, oh, Taylor Swift. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museum #museums #trust #careers #libraries

Links of the Week: October 4, 2024: Imagining and Building Something New We're having trouble communicating. Is that a feature or fault of modern life?

Museum Human follows up on Tuesday’s post about museum-field conversations in a post-Twitter world with links about all the possible futures we can imagine and make together. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museum #museums #futurism #collective #AI #remote #hybrid