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He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement Librarian vows to stop invasive ed tech after ending lawsuit with Proctorio.

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The Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives team has released Viewfinder: A toolkit for values-driven AI in libraries and archives that was created by librarians and tech ethicists at four universities.

Print-at-home PDF: osf.io/yue9s
Interactive website: www.lib.montana.edu/responsible-...

Text Shot: The real solution, according to digital literacy expert Mike Caulfield, is for us all to start thinking differently about what we see online. Looking for the clues AI leaves behind isn't "durable" advice because those clues keep changing, he says. Instead, Caulfield says we have to abandon the idea that videos or images mean anything whatsoever out of context.  "My perspective is that largely video is going to become somewhat like text, long term, where provenance [the origin of the video], not surface features, will be most key, and we might as well prepare for that," Caulfield says.

The number one sign you're watching an AI video www.bbc.com/future/article… #AI #videos #context

What Would Dinosaur Meat Taste Like? (And Could We Safely Eat It?) "Depending on the species, probably quite delicious."

Could we eat dinosaur meat?

And I don't mean chicken or turkey. But T. rex or Brontosaurus!

My friends @iflscience.com asked me this fun question, and here's what I think:

www.iflscience.com/could-we-eat...

Caption: Despite his status in the mathematics community, Torus never stopped feeling inferior to his more delicious relatives, Doughnut and Bagel. Image: A wireframe torus with arms and legs waves awkwardly to a donut and bagel. From 'Physics for Cats' by Tom Gauld - order it at www.tomgauld.com

One of the cartoons from my new book 'Physics for Cats'. In good bookshops now and online in English, French, German and Spanish editions. I am in Spain this week launching the book - come along! www.tomgauld.com

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost “We survived, but it wiped out the library,” Internet Archive’s founder says.

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“We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation I might be exaggerating slightly, but if you look at the few new evaluation matrices for AI-powered search circulating, “relevancy” is often just one of several categories, evaluated in a highly subje...

[blogged] “We’re Good at Search”… Just Not the Kind That the AI era Demands - a Provocation aarontay.substack.com/p/were-good-...

After Mom’s Cancer Diagnosis, Daughter Is Finding New Homes for Her 400 Paintings. She Just Has 1 Request (Exclusive) After her 90-year-old mother was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, her daughter has made it her mission to find new homes for the 400 paintings her mom made after her retirement.

people.com/after-moms-c... I'm using my librarian skillz to help with this. Please get in touch if you would like a painting.

A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.

So this #SHOT2025 panel has nearly wrapped up. But if you want to read more about historical issues surrounding multimedia and the preservation of born-digital collections, check out this piece on #DigiPres at @theul.bsky.social.

(Thanks for bringing this to my attention, @rhiggitt.bsky.social!)

Rosa Parks "featherlite" pancakes recipe. Sift together 1 C flour, 2 T B. Powder, 1/2 t salt, 2 T sugar. Mix 1 egg, 1 1/4 C Milk, 1/3 C peanut butter melted, 1 T shorting or oil. Combine with dry ingredients. Cook at 275° on griddle.

Once more, due to popular demand, we share Rosa Parks’ pancake recipe in honor of 🥞 #NationalPancakeDay. Jotted down on an envelope, it came to the Library with the rest of her papers, a gift made possible by the generosity of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation in 2016. www.loc.gov/collections/...

Hard pass. Cold brew. Dad bod. Merriam-Webster adds over 5,000 words to 'Collegiate' dictionary Merriam-Webster has fully revised its popular “Collegiate” dictionary with over 5,000 new words. They include “petrichor,” “dumbphone” and “ghost kitchen.”

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It has thumb notches! #dictionary #merriam-webster #collegiate

Home | Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit A toolkit for open source researchers

Our new and improved Bellingcat Toolkit is one-year-old today! If you haven't used it yet its a one-stop shop for discovering useful open source tools, maintained by an amazing group of volunteers. You can find use cases, guidance and honest reviews for each tool. bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit

I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Opinion | What the Government Autism Announcement Got So Wrong

Outstanding article by @maiasz.bsky.social on what the govt gets wrong about #autism & what autistic people actually need beyond this witch hunt.

The blaming women and asking them to “tough it out” makes my blood boil. #SoTiredOfThisShit

Love this quote. Alt-text: "Anyone who has time to clean is not reading nearly enough." 😁 #Uplift

John Locke’s Personal Pancake Recipe: “This Is the Right Way” to Make the Classic Breakfast Treat No student of Western political philosophy can ignore John Locke, whose work defined the concepts of governance we now know as liberalism. By the same token, no student of Western cuisine can ignore p...

John Locke’s Personal Pancake Recipe: “This Is the Right Way” to Make the Classic Breakfast Treat

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co/librarians-a...

New From Johns Hopkins Sheridan #Libraries & Museums: "Becoming a More Confident #AI User" blogs.library.jhu.edu/2025/09/beco... #prompts

National Woman's Party activists watch Alice Paul sew a star onto the NWP Ratification Flag. 1920. Photo by the National Photo Company. National Women's Party Records, Library of Congress.

On this day in 1920, the 19th Amendment was certified, giving women the Constitutional right to vote. After Congress sent the Amendment to the states 15 months earlier, the National Woman’s Party would sew a new star on this flag whenever a new state ratified it. 🧵

Assembly station for the following booklet: Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? By Marc Fischer Public Collectors, Chicago, IL, 2025 Pages: 8 Dimensions: 5.5 in x 8.5 in Cover: Paper Binding: saddle stitched Process: RISO, digital copy, rubber stamping, hand-marking. Paper stocks and colors vary from copy to copy. Color: Various color ink cover, black ink writing, stamping, and interior printing. Edition size: open ISBN: none This publication was prompted by an invitation from Mariame Kaba to join her in a discussion titled: Why Make Zines in 2025: Information Control Under Fascism, which is being held at the space Walls Turned Sideways on 2717 W. Madison street in Chicago on May 22, 2025. Also in conversation are K Reynolds and Lewis Wallace. The booklet includes a 4-page list of answers to the cover question. Some examples: To write words and print images and make creative decisions that a corporate newspaper or publishing imprint would never allow to see the light of day under fascism. Because we know that people have always created, and written, and made art, and even self-published during wars, in prisons, and in concentration camps. Self-publish to produce something in a way that lets you direct its distribution through whatever channels you prefer. To make something that can’t be easily wiped off the web, like a website, blog, or social media account when the web host caves to fascism or obeys in advance. To reconnect with the spirit of samizdat, where Eastern Bloc dissidents reproduced censored materials—sometimes by hand—to evade censors. To attack and humiliate Neo-Nazis and use publications to grow an atmosphere of hostility to their bullshit. Because writing and editing and designing and self-publishing are all life-affirming things. We need you alive, not them.

The 23rd printing of Why Self-Publish Under Fascism? (terrible color in the photo!). I've hand-made over 1,500 copies since May 1st and most have been distributed/sold. Still available and people are teaching the text so there's a discount if you buy 10+. Get it from halfletterpress.com for just $3.

Cover of the book Preserving Government Information: Past Present, and Future, by James A, Jacobs and James R. Jacobs.

Digital decay, disappearing data, broken links: why it matters and what we can do.

📖 Join our upcoming #booktalk on PRESERVING GOVERNMENT INFORMATION. Co-hosted by @authorsalliance.bsky.social

📅 Thurs Aug 28
🕙 10 AM PT /1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1513557303...

#preservation

DO NOT PARK at the Sundial Garage in St Pete! It is a Pay By Phone only lot. The workers are rude and it is impossible to delete your account. 👎Metropolis. I'd rather get a ticket #parking #metropolis #stpete #BadCustomerService #privacy

DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.

DuckDuckGo Now Lets You Hide AI-Generated #Images in Search Results (via @techcrunch.com) techcrunch.com/2025/07/18/d... #websearch

No house vote yet, so I am using the opportunity to show you what I mean when I say libraries are defunded

🔗 to take action: linktr.ee/tomesandtext...

Photo of nine textile art creations made to look like bagels with various toppings such as egg and salmon

Welsh born textile artist and knitwear designer Kate Jenkins creates fun crochet/knit creations #womensart

Reports: “Anthropic Wins on Fair Use For Training Its #LLMs; Loses on Building a ‘Central Library’ of Pirated #Books” www.infodocket.com/2025/06/24/r... #legal #fairuse @authorsalliance.bsky.social

It’s not free. This is what funding libraries pays for! Contact your reps and tell them to fund libraries and preserve the IMLS!

www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jun25...

Where the Wild Things Aren’t—Asterisk We tell our children that weirdness is a blessing in disguise. That’s our fantasy, not theirs.

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A Timeline and Update on the Institute for Museum and Library Services We are a little over two months into the dismantling of the only federal agency dedicated to libraries, and the news has been coming at a pace no one could...

This is fairly accurate and extremely informative update...... buttondown.com/wellsourced/...