Jill Emery

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.

Meta Built a Data Center Next Door. The Neighbors’ Water Taps Went Dry. - The New York Times share.google/TyMphww2oadY...

US data centers to drive electricity demand to record levels Data centers’ voracious need for power, combined with rising natural gas prices means more power plants are switching from gas back to coal.

Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy.

> US data centers to drive electricity demand to record levels www.semafor.com/article/07/3...

#tech #energy #Internet (c)

Jobs report and economy number suck? Trump fires the Stats person.

Have you found AI vendor slurry in your collections? Report it to @libraryfutures.bsky.social here! nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The Library Innovator Who Made the Card Catalog Obsolete Remembering Ward Shaw, the transformative library leader who died in early July.

Tribute to Ward Shaw in Katina Magazine

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New publishing models will only work if authors embrace them Complaints about the broken academic publishing system have been around for years and are getting louder. A common theme is that with the r...

Here's a quick blogpost about alternative publishing models. You can bring a horse to water, and indeed wave the bucket temptingly under its nose, but it is likely to gallop off elsewhere. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...
@ec.europa.eu @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Update: I offered the amendment. Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office - after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.

This Thorns/Reign 0-0 friendly has been dreadful. Everyone lost. #baonpdx

half time graphic 0-0

HT | first half down ✅

The Atlantic Daily: The Administration Wants Military Women to Know Their Place

MSNBC: 300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It's not a coincidence.

The Trump administration has a pattern of erasing women from public service. Ask yourself why.

SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.

awesome news. Congratulations @archive.org on being designated an FDLP library!! www.kqed.org/news/1204942...

wrote this last month!

1/2 Researchers at Clemson University uncovered a MAGA-aligned AI bot network—over 400 fake accounts auto-praising Trump officials like RFK Jr. & Karoline Leavitt. But cracks are showing.

When Epstein files came up, the bots contradicted themselves, exposing the whole charade.
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I work in a library. When you come in with a faint memory of a cover and a whisper of a plot, I don’t panic—I hunt.
Because library magic is real.
But so is the work behind it. And I take pride in being the kind of wizard who earns it.

#library #booksky #librarymagic

Ebook Availability, Licensing, and Pricing in Canada and the U.S.: A Follow-Up Study by Michael Blackwell, Jennie Rose Halperin, Catherine Mason, and Carmi Parker #libraries #publiclibraries #licensing #ebooks

www.infotoday.com/cilmag/jul25...

An Introduction to Triptych R. David Lankes, the Virginia and Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship at the University of Texas at Austin and co-host of the Libraries Lead podcast, recently published his latest book, Triptych...

From his latest book, Triptych: Death, AI, and Librarianship, R. David Lankes delivers an urgent call to action for the library profession. #libraries

Now many times are we gonna have to dance this dance before these people learn the goddam steps.

"AI" reproduces, exacerbates, and iterates the biases and values it was trained on. Those biases and values are, largely, very bad. There for the reproductions will most often be as bad and worse.

Jfc.

📌ATTENTION MEDIA: Trump and Epstein trafficked and abused CHILDREN not "young women."

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Extremely this. Second of all, they learned quickly under the Articles of Confederation that an inadequate power to tax meant an inherently weak government. The Constitution gave the central government the ability to tax precisely for the purpose of creating a more robust central state.

Opinion | Pregnancy Is Going to Be Even More Dangerous in America

"Even some of the people who ended up voting for this bill know how devastating it is going to be. What a preventable tragedy."

Good piece from @jessgrose.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...

Reporters keep reporting on “investigations” of universities like UVA and GMU. Are there really investigations? Or are government officials just sending letters announcing investigations? What is being investigated? Based on what evidence? I don’t think any of these investigations are real.

The Brazilians have discovered the portal for submitting public comment to the USTR regarding "unfair" trade practices. The results are superb.

University journals: a semi-systematic literature review of trends, challenges and future research directions | Insights

The latest from #UKSGInsights: "University journals: a semi-systematic literature review of trends, challenges and future research directions" Maryna Nazarovets dub.sh/fKKinbV

there are good reasons why no interpretation of the constitution in history has ever claimed the president has anything close to this kind of power, but oh well I guess we're gonna let him do it anyway

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels “There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

L.A.'s DIY Underground Hardcore Scene Raises $10K For L.A.'s Undocumented Families Affected by ICE ~ L.A. TACO "We're in crisis mode," says Victor Campos, the Director of Mosh for Youth. "Immigrants build our communities, and they thrive with immigrants. If we look at who's being taken by the raids, it's hard-...

Hardcore punk bands raised over $10K for families impacted by ICE raids in Southern California. lataco.com/hardcore-sce...

Since 2020 libraries have been active in teaching undergrads how to "fight fake news", verify information, first using CRAAP , and then moving to SIFT to be more inline with fact checkers (lateral reading). The issue I think is this has led to confusion, naive students (even some librarians) (1)

Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas DOGE cut hundreds of jobs at the NWS, but experts who spoke to WIRED say the agency accurately predicted the state's weekend flood risk.

The meteorologists did their job

Local officials did not and are currently shirking responsibility in broad daylight

www.wired.com/story/meteor...