David Stuart Platt, PhD, MLIS

Recently pulled out my (made by own fair hand) German-language flash cards from grad school.

Do any UK peeps remember the author of the Mark’s Gospel commentary that was a set text for the NEA Religious Studies GCSE, c. 1985-1989?

FWIW, there ARE problems with the Windows 10 Extended Support Updates—but I think I have the privacy settings set correctly AND it buys me some time to switch to Linux.

If you, like me, have no desire to upgrade to Windows 11 but Microsoft is rattling their metaphorical "no more protections for YOU!" saber,

Enroll in extended security updates. Took me less than five minutes for both devices.

Do it before October 14!!!!!

windowsforum.com/threads/how-...

Lovely picture of a Modern (yes, the 1980s are still Modern, that whispering wag at the back--at least, relatively speaking) staging of Eumenides: bsky.app/profile/woke...

A middle aged white Woman with an red updo and big glasses holding a large book, title says diversity in visual representations of the past. Representation matters.

Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“
I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.

Do any UK peeps remember the author of the Mark’s Gospel commentary that was a set text for the NEA Religious Studies GCSE, c. 1985-1989?

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

MACHINE YEARNING Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.

Read the long version here. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

It just got worse.

My notetaking app on my iPad now has a Pro version where I can <wait for it> “chat” with my notes.

I wrote my notes. WTAF.

PLEASE sign up for Skype a Scientist:

www.skypeascientist.com

They need more archaeologists! It's fun, answer kids questions on zoom for an hour.

No, Clarivate—I do not want an “AI” assistant in my EndNote.

“FEW dissenting voices”—🙄😳

Jonathan Last on the decline of the fieldwalking as a method in the CBA Fieldwalking conference in Grantham #Archaeology

Oh, that sounds fascinating!

In slightly happier news, I will attending not one but TWO archaeology events in Vermont.

Anyone else going to the Vermont Archaeological Society’s Annual Meeting? www.eventbrite.com/e/vermont-ar...

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable AI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."

“AI Workslop Is Killing Productivity”—in no great surprise, this study describes how people using LLM AI pass the “cognitive load” to colleagues, forcing them to check & correct poor quality / erroneous work “product.” Unsurprisingly, this caused some resentment.
www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Okay. After complaining—only yesterday—that LIS lit had fee dissenting voices on the subject of LLM AI, I am finding more. Thank heavens.

i wrote this so library workers had something to cite that explicitly calls for refusal. technology is not inevitable

back on @librarypunk.bsky.social to chat about critical AI & librarianship!

Today, I will mostly be attempting to untangle the mess produced when someone from tech support turned on MS OneDrive on my laptop.

A useful Point of Information: Microsoft’s VALL-E can clone a voice from a three-second audio sample. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALL-E

I am so sorry, Lorna.

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There’s a real push in archives & libraries to adopt this technology & it is driving me up the wall. Most of the boosterish articles in LIS I see refuse to tackle issues around the materiality of LLM AI. (So, nothing on energy & water consumption, labour conditions, etc. & a firm conviction … (1/2)

Wondering who else has secret alt accounts for their once-less-than-respectable-but
-now-apparently-worthy-of-serious-academic-study hobbies. #MissedMyMoment

Any recs for guidance on managing book collections that's (a) modern (b) for poor wee archivists who don't know books <I don't know her dot gif> tysm! 📜 📚

kuriositäten des #alpinismus, heute: die Sezione Ticino des Schweizer Alpen-Clubs SAC liess (wahrscheinlich) 1922 zur unterstützung ihres projekts einer Adulahütte eine ansichtskarte mit der unterschrift von Pius XI., des papa alpinista drucken.

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Short (& useful) 🧵 regarding Academia.edu.