Franklin Sayre

if you want resilient young people who can learn and adapt support them finding a passion. it doesn’t matter if it’s soccer or computer programming or cosplay or knitting or mountain biking. it’s something they can use as a scaffold for every other part of their life.

Doing a side research project during my sabbatical where I’m interviewing students who’ve used the Makerspace about their influences, perceptions, and experiences and I’m so grateful to get to be in my 40s and have a career where I work every day with so many creative curious interested students

We're settling in for @aelang.bsky.social's @scholarslab.bsky.social talk connecting literary studies w/explorations in 3D making to visualize, explore, inspire new approaches to interpreting & appreciating poetry. Lovely to see colleagues from the west coast & UK time zones! Livetweeting 🧵: +

Obviously signing Trump’s compact is the death knell for a university, but the fact that any of them are even *considering* it exposes something deeply rotten at the heart of their leadership. It should disqualify them forever.

If no human at Claivate is double checking the AI generated metadata, what's to indicate it will increase visibility and relevance in any more meaningful way than not having that metadata at all? Hallucinations aren't helpful.

Dear Alex, We are writing to share an important update coming to Ebook Central that will help improve ebook discoverability. At the end of October 2025, Ebook Central Express MARC records will include AI-generated metadata when publisher metadata fields are not available. Why are we introducing AI-generated metadata to Ebook Central records? Most publishers include subject information in their metadata, but there are times when this information is not included, leading to limited search availability in discovery systems. For this reason, we are providing AI-generated Library of Congress subject headings only when not available from the publisher to improve the completeness of our metadata and discoverability of Ebook Central titles.  

Which AI-generated fields are included in Express MARC?  The AI-generated fields will include Library of Congress Subject Heading (LCSH) (6XX); Library of Congress Classification (050); Dewey Decimal (082); Description (520); and Source of Description (588). To learn more, please visit our FAQ page.

What the shit, Clarivate! Anyone using Ebook Central MARC records, be warned. They're jamming those records with AI generated metadata. Auto-enabled but you can disable it.

This is tomorrow! Tuesday, October 7th online. Free and open to the public. Come check out Anouk Lang talking about poetry, #DHMakes, process, and more.

#DHmakes klaxon!

Honestly can’t argue with that

Charlie Kirk’s death has led to unprecedented levels of thirst trapping from men on Christian Reels

If you were writing a novel about a future civil war, this would be the heavy handed block quote in Chapter 1.

The thing that will tip me fully into villain is 2FA for my WORK ACCOUNTS on my PERSONAL phone.

Looking for resources for learning weaving on a rigid heddle loom. After playing last week and making a basic scarf I want to redo some data visualizations I’ve done before, but I’m curious about different weaving techniques

Conservatives won't support Liberal border bill without major changes: Pierre Poilievre | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal Liberals must either heavily amend their border bill or introduce a new piece of proposed legislation if they want support to pass it into law.

The bill, called 'The Strong Borders Act', is explicitly designed to try to appeal to the Trump administration and gives sweeping new powers to intelligence and border officials www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #cdnpoli #cdnnews

Conservatives won't support Liberal border bill without major changes: Pierre Poilievre | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal Liberals must either heavily amend their border bill or introduce a new piece of proposed legislation if they want support to pass it into law.

The proposed bill would let:

* mail be searched without a warrant
* allow intelligence officials to cancel immigration documents
* give access to online activity without a warrant

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association worries it may violate charter rights

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Plants laid out on a home made plant press

A nicely dried sunflower

A Molding flower

Back processing plants, switching out paper. Some things dry after 2 weeks, some things still wet to the touch. I see the benefit of cardboard and a lattice of wood over paper and solid wood for absorption and air flow #bagsabbatical #digitalhumanities

A colour dark room

A colour dark room

These rooms have seen better days but it’s a real tragedy we’re losing them because nobody is going to build something like this again

Because I love a Timelapse. A little over two hours in a minute and fifteen seconds

Thanks!

A finished scarf on a rigid heddle loom

I am done. It took about 2 hours to weave once I had the warp set up. Not perfect but very satisfying!

Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken do...

It’s worth a reminder that noting hypocrisy of the right always misses the point. They want power. They don’t believe in free speech, they hate when their power to dominate you is moderated. There is no hypocrisy because fairness isn’t the objective.

Power over others is.

summer is over, but I'm still reminding people to be cool and not racist about park closures ☺️

In the edtech space, venture capital in new startups has collapsed but the big money is flowing from private equity firms to incumbents like Canvas and Blackboard - data-hungry Big Edtech giants that are now swiftly integrating AI into the core infrastructures of higher education, like it or not.

I have no real goal for weaving right now. At some point I’m going to make a net bag, but I will probably use a circle knitting machine to do that. more likely is that I will sew some fabric from local wool at some point and also try to make them in data visualizations, and that will become a bag

A loom with a sketchy project 70% done

Two hours later. I have about 20 minutes left to finish but my body is very loudly saying that’s it for today. Going to definitely look up how to deal with the ends to make them even. Moving to a standing desk at the end (thanks to makerspace staff who converted one for me) also was very helpful

Thank you!!

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

A heddle rigged loom set up

About two hours into learning how to set up a loom. Absolutely destroyed my back already!

Fired from your FBI trainee job BY THE HEAD OF THE FBI for having hung a Pride flag in your cubicle IN YOUR PREVIOUS JOB

Yesterday I gave a Pecha Kucha talk for Bike Windsor Essex's Community Conversations event where I shared my love and admiration of @aadl.org's The Summer Game.

My talk was entitled "Libraries deliver the freedom that games promise" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/01/l...