Jeremy Dibbell

Dr. Jane Goodall's 2025 Earth Day Message - Jane Goodall's Good for All News There is one really important message that I want to share on Earth Day 2025: I urge everyone to treat every day of the year as Earth Day. Planet Earth is the only home we shall ever know yet we are r...

Jane Goodall’s last Earth Day message. She was relentlessly focused on hope and the actions we can take now to prevent further harm to the planet and it’s many forms of life, including us.

news.janegoodall.org/2025/04/22/d...

If you haven't, give a listen to her wonderful interview with @ttbook.bsky.social www.ttbook.org/people/jane-...

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

“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.

Name of the day, Truth-Shall-Prevail Starr (sibling of Comfort, Constant, Suretrust, Moregift, and Jephosephat) - some of these and their parents came to New England in the 1630s

This has also been happening to me lately (3:30-4ish most days, I've been getting so much done!)

File this one away for the inevitable, populist backlash to AI data-centers driving up Americans’ utility bills.

@mikezaccardi.bsky.social

Obliterated as the stronger, I think?

Yeah I'd say "obliterated" or "obscured" maybe, depending on degree?

Name of the day, Waitawhile Makepeace (b. Boston 1642)

Screech owls singing in the backyard this morning - what an absolute treat!

My faves in these sorts of categories: Desert Island Discs, No Such Thing as a Fish, Off Menu, To the Best of Our Knowledge, Beef and Dairy Network, Judge John Hodgman, Handsome, The Rest is Entertainment

Portrait of John Unsworth in a suit, standing in sunlight with a shadowed background.

"I think the advice I would offer is to remember that leadership is a service role. Your job as a leader is to support the people who work for you, to protect them, to listen to them, & prioritize them."

ARL Views with John Unsworth, UVA University Librarian 2016-2025

www.arl.org/blog/john-un...

The most important measure of our work CANNOT be quantitative efficiency.

Quality of work life matters.

The human voice, human hand, human eye on objects of culture, of information, MATTERS.

How many people went into archives or librarianship to be a babysitter for a mathy maths machine?

I know that I sure as hell did not.

From Transcripts to Descriptions: Using Consumer AI Tools for Audio Collection Metadata Ken Axford and Hope Dunbar, University at Buffalo This blog post is based on a presentation at the June 2025 New York Archives Conference. When faced with over 2,000 hours of historical radio recor…

"This hybrid approach—AI generation followed by human verification—proved both efficient and reliable."

Does anyone else find this constant argument - that the speeding up is worth turning us into editors for LLM's - depressing as hell?

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In today's SCOTUS decision, I recommend Justice Sotomayor's dissent (joined by Kagan and Jackson). I don't know if it's her particular gift, or just that the issues are so straightforward, but she always writes with clarity for laypeople.

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

This is why I have a deep suspicion of the "AI literacy" workshops being floated to profs by schools mainlining AI. Ed tech has co-opted "AI literacy" to mean "learn how to use our products" rather than "learn how AI works."

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

A great piece from TCD colleagues advocating resistance to AI. The beauty of learning comes in the process of thinking, the unexpected connections, time spent reading closely; all things that GenAI prevents.

Nobody asked you to change the recipe, Chex Mix. Nobody. Sigh.

I've said it before and will again: AI defenders need to be asked, every time, how they can justify dystopian hell-fodder like this every time they mention any supposed benefits of AI (which I have yet to see any concrete examples of). Do those 'benefits' outweigh this (and the rest)?

As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.

"Be loud for America."

Pritzker says the press should be asking this question, too, and he's right.

Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."

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In Budget Logs It Tried to Hide, White House Wrests More Control Over Spending

Of all the “honestly I never expected” things — Congress absolutely rolling over and abdicating its power to the White House — any White House — is one of the most shockingly unnecessary.

It will not be remembered well in history, by either side, ironically.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...

Once again a court has ruled Trump’s terrible tariffs to be illegal and unconstitutional for they clearly are. They are modern day taxation without representation and Democrats should be fighting them with every patriotic bone in our body.