Michael Dorn PhD MScLIS MSc

AI is failing the test when it comes to factual accuracy; the decline of news and journalism won't help. It serves the financial interest of AI companies—and the mission of the OpenAI nonprofit—to invest in reviving local news, says Rebuild Local News President Steven Waldman.
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Perfect setting for Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death.”

Guess the writer learned his lesson; his latest title, co-written with Mark Sisson, is called “Born to Walk”

Oopsie

Mike Lee * @BasedMikeLee • 1d We're a constitutional republic Chuck Schumer @SenSchu...•2d Today's No Kings rallies are an affirmation of what America is all about. We are a democracy....

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The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 (American Presidential Elections) The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 (American Presidential Elections) [Arrington, Benjamin T.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880 (American Presidential Elections)

Thanks for filling in the gaps. One way to support his scholarship is by purchasing an authorsigned copy of Dr. Arrington’s book on the presidential election of 1880 from the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, alincolnbookshop.com

After Declining to Give Trump a Sword for King Charles, a Museum Leader Is Out

.@JamesAGarfield www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Too bad their parking spot is not taken!

May they survive until the Civil War Bicentennial and beyond

YouTube video by CBS Mornings AI glasses foster independence for visually-impaired people

Boon for folks with non-‘scrip-correctable low vision youtube.com/watch?v=C0Ew... like my son Russell Dorn

I hope Brian wakes up today and asks himself “how did I get to this point.” I didn’t listen to the conversation in real time but it appears something about the moment has pushed him over the edge and his cohosts are giving him a pass.

@kmkeirns.bsky.social

Would this student get passing marks? turning up for small group discussion w/o having completed the assigned reading

I thought that was Trump furtively pressing his inoperable Tariff button

From the man who changes hurricane forecasts 🖊️ Sharpie

CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience This is "CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience" by EDUCAUSE on Vimeo, the home for high…

vimeo.com/1103555091/8... join the movement to save, not denigrate, our public institutions known as libraries & archives

“… many years after Burns’s early death, Nasmyth made another portrait of him, this time showing the poet standing against a view of the Auld Brig o’ Doon at Alloway in his native Ayrshire.” www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Thank you for researching and writing.

What a thankless job, the Transport Minister charged w/ homefront holiday weekend snarled due to credible threats of Ukrainian drone attack

Britain has been struggling w/ the explosive growth of alternative health influencers since the pandemic, a downside of the ubiquity & longevity of divisive English-language social media sources.

Postgrad, subject of this story, under malign influence of her mother. mastodon.social/@mem_somervi...

Wait ‘til you see the appendices

Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95

Space Force indeed www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

Chef’s kiss

Yes, that is a table with a Ouija board painted on it 😂

Thanks for sharing and bully bully bully

Eastern Connecticut State University’s Dean Emily Todd delivering her keynote address, touching on activism to protect funding for humanities research. #NEHASP2025

Dean Todd touching on the need for awareness on and around campus, and activism on all levels on behalf of, humanities research. #NEHASP2025 followed by the paper awards.

Ely Student Center, old time video game parlor Westfield State—if only my son Russell was to make it 🆙here! #NEHASP2025

On landing Lorne. sites.utexas.edu/ransomcenter...

Striking

How about “tased”—as in “Republicans, as well, do not appear tased ….”