Sarah

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Of course there are some things that computers can calculate faster and more reliably than human minds, but that does not mean that computers are superior to our minds. We don’t even know all the things our brains are doing! They are weird and miraculous! And mostly unconscious! A grand mystery!

Samsung brings ads to US fridges Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.

meanwhile...

AI tuba blown by any company into my face

⚠️ AI has some legitimate uses, however...

Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media.

This can't go on unchecked.

Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪
zenodo.org/records/1706...

or the millions upon millions of people who have died, and will die, from merciless attacks on consumer protection, labor rights, environmental law, corporate oversight, and the social safety net

Like bell hooks said, “I think that we have to restore feminism as a political movement. The challenge to patriarchy is political, and not a lifestyle or identity... we have to return to very basic education for critical consciousness, around what visionary feminist politics really is about.“

kinda feels like this might explain everything

Please do not post pictures of protesters unless you have their consent. Take photos from behind them. Showing faces even with masks on just adds to palantir’s database that it gives to the police.

Solidarity with protests isn’t taking social media pics. This is serious stuff now

simpsons don't make me tap the sign meme. panel 1 bus driver: don't make me tap the sign. panel 2 bus driver taps sign that reads "asking for help is a positive social skill"

librarians everywhere

The more we make humans machine-readable, the closer capitalism comes to its end goal of fully treating humans like machines

If you’ve ever read or discussed Fobazi’s work on vocational awe in librarianship, you know a small bit of what she’s contributed to the world. Help her and her wife make it through this tough time.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

We are actively, *right now*, living in an AI surveillance state that profits Big Tech companies while plundering your rights and freedoms. These are not future threats, this is our present oppression. If we can't accept the reality of AI surveillance, we can't properly resist & abolish it

I would once again like to take this opportunity to remind you all to support billionaire free, local, and/or worker run news. if you're in the DMV area:

@washingtoninformer.com
@51st.news
@wcp.bsky.social
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@baltimorebeat.bsky.social

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

This is a flexible, relaxed, fully remote service position with a caring, interesting group of people! Consider applying if you're interested in library user experience (UX), even if you feel like you're still developing your knowledge in that area!

malts, not shakes, should be the standard

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered.

Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again.

Their inaction is deadly.

As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.

If you can't attend the rallies today for whatever reasons, something useful you can do is scour your local news outlets for coverage and share the coverage on social media and pump it out to all of your networks. Amplify what's happening locally so others in your communities are aware.

if you set the distribution of harms from pollution (e.g. cancer and asthma rates) next to the distribution of benefits from economic cooperation (e.g. income/wealth gaps) then the narrative that environmentalism is for the rich is the thing we should find surprising!

Since 2008, I've edited Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies, a book series from @libraryjuicepress.bsky.social. Time to pass the baton! Excited to see what Sara Howard, Chloe Raub, & Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz will do.

Read the announcement and learn more here!

litwinbooks.com/new-editors-...

I know I sound ridiculous and extreme saying this, but this reconciliation bill deserves mass civil disobedience from every level of elected official in the country

You won’t find these on the shelf. Newspapers print an AI-generated reading list with fake books. Ah, summer. The perfect time to get lost in a romantasy — or finally pick up Proust or Middlemarch. The Chicago Sun-Times, the city's second-biggest newspaper, recommended some summer books to its re...

"I worked in book publishing for years. Every time I sent out review copies, it felt like I got more and more bouncebacks or word that the book editor got laid off — and no replacement was coming." @sarahscire.com

NEW Journal Article: “#Podcasting as Open Access: A Review and Discussion of Potential Impact on Scholarly Communication and Promotion” www.infodocket.com/2025/05/16/j... #oa #openaccess #scholcomm #libraries #podcasts

My Reminders This is the body. This is the the body. This is the body. T body. This is the body. This This is the body. This is the My Reminders Sorry about those test messages that landed in your inbox! We were updating Teams Reminder with some exciting new features, and our test cards accidentally went public. On the bright side, this gives me a perfect opportunity to share what we've been wor

Thanks Microsoft Teams for that not-at-all-chilling message 😧

Too many people think Medicaid is the “insurance for poor people” program and not the “backbone of thousands of health providers/hospitals” program which props up private insurance through its existence. If we’re going to generate sufficient public backlash, we need to erase the distinction

Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but ea...

In 49 states and at the federal level, police can (unconstitutionally) buy your geolocation data (often harvested from smartphone apps) from advertising data brokers and bypass getting a warrant from a judge for it.

Montana has become the first state to close this loophole.

Photo of a CISCO phone, the kind used in many office settings. The screen displays a mid-call alert, where a person makes a shushing motion next to text which says, “That’s a bit loud! Consider lowering your voice.”

Anyone else know this man?