Devin Savage

A Google search uses ai to spit out a different channel number for "spectrum nickelodeon" than for "spectrum Nickelodeon channel" than "spectrum Nickelodeon Hawaii" (none of which are correct. The answer is 446)

A Google search uses ai to spit out a different channel number for "spectrum nickelodeon" than for "spectrum Nickelodeon channel" than "spectrum Nickelodeon Hawaii" (none of which are correct. The answer is 446)

A Google search uses ai to spit out a different channel number for "spectrum nickelodeon" than for "spectrum Nickelodeon channel" than "spectrum Nickelodeon Hawaii" (none of which are correct. The answer is 446)

Google search now uses ai to spit out a different wrong answer to slightly different wordings of the same question. Pure enshitification

I give this to my students for when they need to search reference now. It’s the only way to find anything remotely useable anymore

The US health care industry in one graph.

Co-signing the sentiment here (from a suburban dad, tho). Also - found the frotcast pod due to your guest appearance on Defector. When will they have you back on?

Same - not terrible when we first went, but every after.

Reconnecting with the Twitter homies on Bluesky

Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker - Ithaka S+R In recent months, several publishers have announced that they are licensing their scholarly content for use as training data for LLMs. These deals

Important work from @ithakasr.bsky.social: Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker

"To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, Ithaka S+R has launched a tracker of these licensing deals."

sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

Trump Camp Says State Menstrual Surveillance Programs are A-OK One of the most toxic and politically explosive parts of the current...

Trump camp gives thumbs up to menstrual surveillance programs. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

I'm pretty bad at promoting my own work, but like amplifying others. In addition to writing for this pub, I reviewed two chapters during the development process. They were great! Highly recommend this new publication to get ideas for your own instruction work!
alastore.ala.org/training-lib...

screenshot of a mac desktop with folders labeled "this one" "newest" and "most recent"

project management is my passion

Institutional data repositories are vital As funding agencies and publishers reiterate research data-sharing expectations (1), many higher-education institutions have demonstrated their commitment to the long-term stewardship of research data...

Institutional data repositories are vital

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Hey I see @jonpetters.bsky.social in that byline!! 📚

big night for transgender illegal aliens who eat cats

This on AI: “It is a tool of power that masquerades as a tool of knowledge.”

Adding my voice to encourage everyone to make sure that you are (correctly) registered to vote. One place to start is www.nass.org/can-I-vote

Concrete clickbait: next time you share a spomenik photo, think about what it means Photos of Yugoslav monuments known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context. But now, argues Owen Hatherley, it is…

a friend shared this essay on the decontextualization of communist and anti-fascist monuments for the sake of clickbait, and I think it’s incredibly important. if you’ve ever shared images of the various Spomeniks in Yugoslavia, this is a must read:

www.new-east-archive.org/articles/sho...

Gustave Caillebotte Floor Scrapers 1875 Oil on canvas, 102 x 147 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Gustave Caillebotte Snow-Covered Roofs in Paris 1878 Oil on canvas, 64 x 82 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Gustave Caillebotte Building Painters 1877 oil on canvas without frame H. 89.3 ; W. 116 ; D. 2.5 cm with frame H. 105.8 ; W. 134.5; D. 5.5 cm Private Collection

Gustave Caillebotte The boulevard Seen From Above, 1880 Oil on canvas 25 3/5 × 21 3/10 in | 65 × 54 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid

Seems like a good day for Caillebotte

Behold, at last, a full draft of the schedule for my "How To Read a Book" first-year writing class. Proof positive I am no longer on sabbatical, but I'm excited to see how this goes.

From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’ Amid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.

“I was just a school librarian, but they wanted to silence me, so I thought I would do the exact opposite & become an activist. What we’re seeing now is full-scale attacks on people’s characters if they stand up for books.The hate level & the vitriol is unreal to me.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/03/b...

Social Media in Emergent Brazil Since the birth of the internet, low-income Brazilians have received little government support to help them access it. In response, they have largely self-financed their digital migration, which can b...

I'm late to the game of pandering to Bluesky's two million new Brazilian users, but there's a university press book for that, too!

From anthropologist Juliano Spyer—somehow not yet on Bluesky?—and @uchicagopress.bsky.social (open digital access via UCL Press):

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

i accept this

'"The most common question asked of us involved when police would be sent in to break up the encampment," UWM Chancellor Mark Mone said..."Our consistent answer: UWM leadership prioritized the safety of everyone involved, which meant seeking resolution through dialogue with our students."'

Exclusive | Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures Wiley will announce that it will shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud.

"Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific jrnls, ldg to 1000s of retractions and millions of $ in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-yo publisher,...which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 jrnls, some of which were infected by lg-scale rsch fraud."

US higher ed cuts 8/2023- Sheet1 Cuts at 2-year and 4-year US higher education institutions since August 2023. Please send additions, edits, updates, corrections to watsont@miami.edu. Institution,State,Cuts,Management Rationa...

Please share and use: a spreadsheet documenting the cuts announced by 87 (!) US universities & colleges during the 2023-24 academic year … so far. A long, dispiriting list of college closures, faculty/staff layoffs, academic program eliminations, and significant budget cuts.
 
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So much of the online problem is Google/Meta doing nothing to police scams.

Imagining walking into Wal-Mart and all the shelf space at the front of the store was occupied w fake products that didn’t work and stole your credit card number.

A screenshot of a google search The search bar says, “food names end with um” Al overviews are experimental. Learn more Here are some fruit names that end with "um": Applum, Bananum, Strawberrum, Tomatum, and Coconut.

Love what google is up to these days

Current estimates say that every prompt you give a generative "AI" system— not each session, every PROMPT— is like pouring a 16 oz bottle of water onto the ground.

This is a fact that goes somewhere in every talk i give, now, & i always see audience members looking it up… and then looking horrified

New paper with Jelle van Dijk and Frank Pasquale

Debunking robot rights metaphysically, ethically, and legally https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13628

Restaurant patron: "Waiter, what are the specials?"

Waiter: "They are a brilliant two-tone ska band from Coventry. Very influential."