Jeremy Dibbell

Duffy to announce nuclear reactor on the moon This is the first major agency effort by the interim NASA administrator, who is also the Transportation secretary and a former Fox News host.

How about high-speed rail on earth?

Wilson's Warbler Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology Wilson’s Warblers dance around willow and alder thickets, often near water, to the rapid beat of their chattering song. This bright yellow warbler with a black cap is one of the smallest warblers in t...

I can't quite see the wings but the little toupee looks like Wilson's Warbler to me? www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wilson...

This is like the 3rd academic I've seen this happen to in the last week

Our vendors are outsourcing our students’ access to information to opaque organizations with no accountability.

“This is due to safeguard policies enforced by our AI service provider to support ethical and responsible AI use. It’s not something the Primo or Summon applications control.”

Dublin-based nonprofit lays off 80 central Ohio workers, cites AI and federal cuts DUBLIN, Ohio (WCMH) — A Dublin-based organization that manages the Dewey Decimal System and partners with libraries worldwide has laid off dozens of central Ohio employees, citing the rise of…

OCLC has laid 80 people off, not just because of IMLS cuts but explicitly because they're trying to use AI to do the work of library professionals.

Ready to admit AI is a huge labor problem yet?

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Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97

Farewell to the brilliant Tom Lehrer. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...

Cathleen Baker Talk “John Baskerville’s Virgil (1757) and the Development of the Earliest Western-Made Wove Papers" (Michigan)📜
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The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.

Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

This is your irregular reminder that you can deploy &UDM=14 to make Google searches actually useable again.

udm14.com

It's not actually a search engine – it just adds a modifier to Google searches to strip out rubbish like AI overview.
I use it on desktop & mobile and the difference is amazing.

Your regular reminder that the median voter works in the non-tradable services sector, experiences trade <only> as a consumer, & the illegal, stupid tariffs do nothing but make her poorer by raising prices on everything she buys at Wal-Mart, Target, Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, & everywhere else.

I literally gasped when that bleep bleeped!

We on the AAUP Committee on AI have been connecting with members on their concerns with technology. We’ve been developing recommendations to loosen or even refuse big tech’s hold on higher ed, for better working and learning conditions, and building solidarity around many fights tied to tech.

Anyway, if it helps, any time you’re tempted to say something about “AI,” think about whether you’d say it about your toaster. You programmed your toaster for three minutes to make toast and it burned the bread?

Your toaster didn’t “lie” to you. Your toaster is broken.

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

AI hype “has turned into an religious cult-ish phenomenon and a project of empire building, that is uncompromising in its opposition to any rational critique or discourse…As an IR researcher, I am particularly concerned by the uncritical adoption of these technologies in information access”

"what if emotional responses like “AI anxiety” are in large part deeply intelligent...? What if the cognitive dissonance that many of us experience when reading articles about AI anxiety or the necessity of AI adoption is worth our attention and curiosity?"

Congratulations!

The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.

The Supreme Court derives its power from its legitimacy. It earns its legitimacy by explaining its decisions. The endless stream of wholly unexplained orders in favor of the Trump administration is not just indefensible—it's a threat to the court's own long-term power. This reeks of illegitimacy.

If a Democratic president declared his intention to unilaterally shut down the Department of Homeland Security, then attempted to transfer or shutter its key offices and decimate its workforce, does anyone seriously think this Supreme Court would let him?

The Supreme Court is out of control. To allow the president, without any explanation, to unilaterally dismantle agencies created by an Act of Congress is to endow the president with sovereignty. There is no justification, because they haven’t given one. Our country is in big trouble.

the more i understand cyanide, the more hesitant i am to eat it

this, to me, is a paradox

Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated).

It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings.

It has written majority opinions in only 3.

Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*

Sotomayor’s dissent in the DOE decision is worth reading. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The majority’s written opinion attempting to rationalize its utterly indefensible ruling would be worth reading too, except it doesn’t exist.

“The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before.”

July Fourth—Independence Day—is the original No Kings Day.

Just saying.

Just out/appena uscita! JEMS 14 (OA from Firenze UP), with 12 terrific articles on "The Politics of Book History--Then and Now". A great pleasure to edit this issue with @georginaemw.bsky.social, a brilliant collaborator (whose book, Paper and the Making of Early Modern Literature, is out soon!)

This is excellent, Kate!

Abstract The article explores how the interplay of ideological values and technological capacities have shaped the digital bibliography of British print history. Using a misgendering in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) as a case study, the article explores how information flows through resources like Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), and Early English Books Online (EEBO), library catalogues, WorldCat, and retail outlets like Amazon. The article argues that as data from the ESTC is reproduced through linked data structures, information is ‘authorized’ far beyond what a single resource would do alone or what its original authors imagined or designed. While feminist, queer, and critical race scholarship has discursively created and revised new histories of textual production, in contrast foundational resources like the ESTC perpetuate old assumptions with unfixed errors and editorial practices that render the who and the why of their metadata choices opaque. The article concludes that radical revision is necessary if we are to disrupt centuries of a white and male norm in British print history.

Published now open access ✨️

Scholars have invented men to explain away women's labor in the British print trades. In this ex, a misgendering travels from a catalog to WorldCat and Amazon. It shows how linked data's fragmentation perpetuates old assumptions.

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Sick and tired of Republican Senators coming to me privately saying, “Mark, keep speaking up, you’re our conscience.”

I don’t want to be their damn conscience.

I want them to vote their conscience.