AJ Griffith

My boss put something into Gemini to find supporting articles for a statement and it made up 2 entire citations using pieces of real citations. But yeah, definitely should lean all in on these things 😅

I'm so tired of talking about AI but also my entire job hinges on conversations about AI and I'm so demoralized and feel so gaslit and I am just deeply not okay.

I've been teaching at Princeton over the same period and the drop-off in reading stamina has been staggering.

I'm not sure of the cause -- some blame K-12 shifts to "chunk reading" while others pin it on COVID -- but it's undeniable.

Idk why everything is funny to me today. Like im in tears.

Explaining right now to my teenage sons is insane.

Like dude, idk what to tell you. I can’t make egg prices and the other dumb shit make sense for how or why you’re living my 2003 life right now.

16yo got his license today and now my insurance is double what it was yesterday.
I’ll be drinking the rest of the day now and ignoring the fact that in 2 years I have to do this all over again and will have 2 teen boys on my insurance plan. 🍻

I really need to plan my social media mental health breaks better because now I’m going to be stuck catching up for the next month

Sometimes, yielding to the universe is required.
An unexpected mental health day is easier than fighting Murphy’s Law sometimes 😂

RFK Jr orders mifepristone review as anti-abortion groups push for ban Health secretary cites ‘new data’ that emerged from flawed study conservatives are using to pressure US government

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RFK Jr: "Don't take medical advice from me."

Also RFK Jr: Orders the FDA to reconsider access to abortion pills based on junk science from Project 2025.

Which is it, Bobby?

God I love Missouri. We vote for progressive things that will actually help so many people and then vote back in the same people who have consistently, sued, blocked, and repealed said progressive things.

Folks, you’re gonna hafta suck it up and vote for someone else if you want shit to stick.

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

Digging up my grandmas peonies that came from my great grandmothers peonies and moving them to every house I’ve lived in is without a doubt one of the best things I’ve done.
Happy Mother’s Day, folks!

Today I got the joy of watching the first class of students I ever taught graduate as doctors of osteopathic medicine. 7 of them were the first students I ever hired to work in my library. They’re all great, but the first ones are just special.

Loved your immersion session!

Pittsburgh, you were a blast! What a great #MLA25! Made new friends, caught up with others, and had a great time watching my coworker give her 1st presentation. #MedLibs

10/10 the Duquesne Incline in Pittsburgh was a great time with #MLA25 friends.
Gorgeous night, great new friends. Would do again.
#MedLibs

Needed a bell pepper for red beans and rice and figured why not so I plopped some seeds in a cardboard egg carton and anyway, currently at 5 sprouts from a bell pepper I needed anyway.
Also found a sprouted peanut in a planter so guess I’m growing those too.

Weekly phone call with my R voting father.
Yet again another episode of us agreeing on most things, but me pointing out that I actually voted that way and all these things he’s bitching about are the result of his guy’s EOs.
And then he ends the call.
Rinse and repeat for next week.

I just downloaded the pheedloop app and signed in with my work email and MLA conference pulled up

It’s not ominous that the US Gov is requesting lists of databases and journals that military medical students have access to, right?
I need a drink now.

The app is available? Didn’t even know that 😅

There is no greater hell than algebra 1 homework with a 15 yo.

Right?!? I’m so mad and heartbroken for them. This all sucks.

I have been hiring students to work in the library for 4 years now. 2-3 per year say they just want some extra money while in med school.
This year, over half gave feeling anxious about money as their reason for applying. Not spending money, they just want to afford food.

Taking a week off makes the Sunday before going back to work the worst Sunday ever.

My dad just told me “We won’t need doctors in 10 years because of AI”

Meanwhile, I’m drafting a statement to send to my medical students bc they keep using ChatGPT and sending my library staff AI hallucination citations.

Sure dude.

73 yesterday.
Snowing today.
Fucking, Missouri, man.

@schumer.senate.gov being chicken shit is not a surprise. Infuriating, but not surprising.

My course got absorbed into a bigger research specific course this year so we kinda had to fit in where we could and that’s how it worked out. Surprising bonus to see mechanics before question helped them but I’ll take it 😂