Christy, Metadata Janktress

Library land, I'll be at Code4Lib! Feel free to say hi if I'm not wearing headphones. I still have a funny haircut. (If I have headphones on, it means I'm out of spoons to socialize and am becoming one with The Goth Source. Thank you for understanding.)

Oh! I have the answer! I talk about it in my electric tits paper. It’s because a very large chunk of transhumanism is about hyperconformity—‘perfecting’ how well they fit existing norms—and not at all about transcending norms.

Link to paper: www.florenceashley.com/uploads/1/2/...

I have still not regained the habit of posting on a site like this. I'm not sure if I actually want to.

Body Map (2016) An outline of a naked woman is embroidered on linen in the same bone white colour as the linen. She stands legs together, her right hand covering her groin, her left hand, palm up, extended slightly to her side. She looks to the right. Her entire body except for her belly is covered in intricate markings representing different neurological sensations. Her face is a mask of green lines, feathery grey lines cover her shoulders and chest. There is a thick band of intricate burgundy stitching around her waist. Her forearms and hands are covered in thick blue undulant lines. Her right leg has bands of burgundy along the muscles, with small dots around them. Her inner left leg has a thick line of blue running up it, with thin branches spreading towards her outer leg.

Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar & #InternationalDisabilitiesDay • I'm a disabled #embroidery artist whose work combines #anatomy and #symptomatology into #SciArt. Here is body map (2016), in which I stitched my neurological #MECFS symptoms freehand as I felt them.

Me, a white woman with blond hair, wearing a t-shirt that has a "Weird Al" Yankovic name logo, a picture of Weird Al from the 1980s-1990s playing the accordion, and the caption "I'll be mellow when I'm dead." (The caption is the title of a song off his first album, but you knew that because you're an exceptional Weird Al fan.)

This is the fancy one that I got off Etsy. Sadly the seller is no longer on.

The fact that I have a "casual" Weird Al t-shirt and a "fancy" Weird Al t-shirt sure says something about me.

She said something similar about the Dresden Dolls, but I can't remember the song (maybe "Delilah"?)

My mom, upon hearing the "O Children" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from my dad's iPod: "I should have known it was taken from your music, it's so depressing."

CFP: the Journal of Library Metadata is looking for articles for a "Metadata in Late Capitalism" special issue. Deadline for proposals has been extended to Dec 6. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #critcat

I remember them too! I hope they are well.

Blocked a "Bluesky update" account that was just pro-Tr*mp garbage. I see that they're missing the attention from the other site.

Could I be added please?

You could add me if you like!

Digital Holocaust Memory and Education – Recommendations THE DIGITAL HOLOCAUST MEMORY PROJECT HAS NOW EVOLVED INTO THE LANDECKER DIGITAL MEMORY LAB. FOLLOW OUR MOST RECENT WORK ON OUR NEW WEBSITE: www.digitalmemorylab.com During 2022 and 2023, we worked …

Incidentally, if you want to read any of the recommendations, you can find them all at this link: reframe.sussex.ac.uk/digitalholoc... (9/9)

And today...that's all we could talk about. Urgently, with great worry.

I'm not sure what the point of this skeet thread is, other than, jeez, generative AI is a Problem with a capital P and one should tell a N*zi to shove it. (8/9)

The reason why I was at the Memory Lab opening was because I was a contributor to the Memory Project's recommendations about digitally recording, recirculating and remixing Holocaust testimonies. This was in 2022-2023. They did create one on AI too, but generative AI wasn't at this level then. (7/9)

AI can be very useful, but everyone has to focus on its truly terrible impact and I resent that so much. I don't actually want to think too fatalistically about AI, but a young technology with ignorant and/or malicious users are forcing us to panic. And it's moving so quickly! (6/9)

Professors have also asked me to provide support for classes where we transcribe them with AI and the corrections are part of the research work they do for their grade. (I will finish writing that paper on the experience one day...) (5/9)

...let's just say I could use them for found poetry projects. Seriously, I keep a text file of the really weird ones.

I've been using speech to text AI long before the wonders of Chat GPT etc (since 2017) and it's helped the archive so much with providing access. (4/9)

I know my pinned skeet mentions AI. This is because the testimonies' transcripts are generated through AI engines like Whisper, Sonix, Trint, etc. My job is to manage their production and corrections-and yes, that's word for word corrections because, whew, what it spits out sometimes... (3/9)

A lot of this is predictable. Everyone is using generative AI, far right actors will exploit it, people who think technology is Always Good will fall for it/"listen to both sides!" it. I'm not going to bother to rehash all the problems with AI, we know them. (2/9)

I attended the Landecker Digital Memory Lab (www.digitalmemorylab.com) opening today over Zoom and it was very gratifying to see the work from the Digital Holocaust Memory Project grow into this. The speeches were moving and thoughtful. They also focused a ton on AI. (1/9)

Wow, that is hella insulting.

Yuck.

I also saw something advertised as a "cable knit throw." It was only garter stitch with a ribbed border. I'm sure anyone in an aisle near me has been amused by my muttering on both topics.

Wtf, Christmas music is already playing at this CVS. NO.

A bowl of chicken and dumplings stew with a fork in it.

The past two weeks have made me grumpy. Here are the chicken and dumplings I've made to combat this.

Me these days:
* I am an AV librarian that thinks about access, description, and AI.
* While it's no longer my primary focus, I still work on Holocaust related materials and think about ethics and vicarious trauma.
* I always want your cute crow pictures.

I forgot to mention:

if you think libraries are going to save you, i got some bad news

Thank you!