Katherine Ahnberg

Now with requisite image of the internet's recent favorite film character:

Allow me to preempt the response from we who grew up in the 90’s: static.wikia.nocookie.net/skydancers/i...

Feeling better now that I see 2025 was actually dominated by Cloud Dancer supremacists.

Void is white now.

All I want for Christmas is a sweet little row home around the corner from where Grace Kelley grew up 😉

Starbucks to Pay $39 Million in Landmark N.Y.C. Labor Law Settlement

Starbucks settles New York City worker scheduling violations. "Fast food employers must give workers regular schedules..., must provide schedules 14 days in advance and cannot reduce hours by more than 15% without ‘just cause or a legitimate business reason’." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/n...

The Last Video Rental Store Is Your Public Library Audio-visual librarians are quietly amassing large physical media collections amid the IP disputes threatening select availability.

“'Librarians out in our branches are seeing a lot of young people who are really excited by these collections,' Langlais told 404 Media. 'Folks who are coming in just for the games are picking up program flyers and coming back for something like that.'"

What Is A “Professional Degree” And Why Does It Matter? Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Dept of Education proposes redefining "professional degrees" to exclude degrees in nursing, NP/PA, Public Health, PT/OT and more

“They now exclude nursing, physician asst, nurse practitioner, physical therapy, occupational therapy, public health, audiology, speech-language pathology, counseling & mental health therapy, social work” & more.

Chiropractic and theology degrees are still included.

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Adjacent: my favorite thing to ask somebody when their phone is on the fritz is,”when was the last time you turned it off?”

We pretty much only do that when the battery gives up the ghost.

Seems like as good a day as any to remember that it was once possible to “log off.”

I'm sure I'm not the only person to say this, but just look at the new org chart ontology here: school funding under the Dept of Labor, conveying that education is solely abt job training; language programs under the State Dept because statecraft is of course why we learn languages...

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

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Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

Now downloading: Yuletide cheer

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”

“What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be.”

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Some models tested transcribed and incorporated harmful content into the metadata, others would skip material that included it, 1 handled the instances appropriately

“Assessing Large Language Models: Architectural Archive Metadata and Transcription”

Researchers at UT Austin found that GPT 4.0 was the overall best scored, still requiring human review

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#ASIS&T

Same (☕️+☕️ cheers!). Looking forward to your panel!

Up early this Sunday to attend the #ASIS&T conference in DC. Going to be chatting about public data in open infrastructure and the @datarescueproject.org
Looking forward to it but need so much coffee.

Further considerations in adopting AI, focusing on risk models and belief/knowledge formation:

AI competencies and the ability to work with “the intelligent intermediary” are recommendations from the literature for LIS. Maintain that human librarians remain superior in analyzing nuance in ‘25.
#ASIST25 #ASIS&T

Adding the hashtags #ASIST25 #ASIS&T

Same and hooray! The hashtag (I’ve been on the hunt)

Post-truth, post integrity, post trust in the bureaucratic process to leverage expertise and policy.

Centering Libraries as arbiters of veracity, this model suggests that investment in information literacy is also an investment in field (and public) relations.

“Artificial Intelligence, Misinformation, and Libraries: A New Frontier for Information Professionals”

Dr. Salubi sets the stage for erosion of civic trust and plausible deniability in journalistic inquiry.

10/10 recommend the 10. It’s my go to very occasional celebration sip. Like drinking a furnace.

Always nice to see old friends ❤️