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A small dog is dressed in a costume that makes him appear to be playing a ukulele. He is adorable.

Hello! I’m mostly here to lurk, so don’t expect much activity from this account. :) Anyway, here’s my sweet old Henry, who recently passed. I’m missing him today.

10.07.2025 22:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

AI, peer review and the human activity of science When researchers cede their scientific judgement to machines, we lose something important.

A few months ago, Nature published how-to guide for using ChatGPT to write your peer reviews in 30 minutes.

This is, of course, a horrible idea. Here’s my response with @jbakcoleman.bsky.social .

25.06.2025 13:01 — 👍 594    🔁 235    💬 17    📌 26

ALA Denounces unlawful firing of U.S. Register of Copyrights, Dr. Shira Perlmutter. Show up for our libraries. American Library Association.

NEW: ALA denounces yesterday's unlawful firing of Dr. Shira Perlmutter, the Register of Copyrights at the Library of Congress.

Dr. Perlmutter has led the US Copyright Office with integrity, intelligence and an understanding of intellectual property issues. 1/2

12.05.2025 17:43 — 👍 477    🔁 178    💬 9    📌 3

Five Takeaways from the Copyright Office’s Controversial New AI Report The Copyright Office released its AI fair use report a day before its leader was dismissed: the timing, the fallout, and what it all means.

The day before Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was fired, the Copyright Office quickly and quietly dropped a major report on AI and fair use. I break down the timing, the fallout, and my 5 biggest takeaways—up now on Copyright Lately:
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11.05.2025 22:52 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 2

Cover of Country Gentleman magazine - 1925-04-04. "The Easter Bunny has hopped in, and found himself lumbered with a basket of tiny chicks. Artist: Paul Bransom Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast. Restoration by: magscanner" - from Internet Archive

The Surprisingly Controversial Origins of the Easter Bunny

"Hares were once linked to a Germanic Pagan goddess who never even existed."

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Books by the Brothers Grimm at PG

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20.04.2025 12:12 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

Can We Trust Our Government to Safeguard Vital Research Data? Meet the Digital Archivists Battling to Keep Information Accessible! Through clever usage of APIs, the Library Innovation Lab at Harvard Law School has created an archive of Data.gov, home to 311,000 public datasets

How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
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01.04.2025 18:26 — 👍 3057    🔁 763    💬 73    📌 27

Library Futures | New Research Report: Neo-Censorship in U.S. Libraries Championing the right to equitable access to knowledge.

As we watch government information--particularly on "controversial" topics such as DEI--disappear, it's worth remembering that this kind of digital censorship has a long history. Our report on neo-censorship explains. /1

www.libraryfutures.net/post/neo-cen...

19.02.2025 17:18 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 0