Franklin Sayre

Starting my sabbatical research

This student has greater moral clarity than all the rich consultants telling Dems to sacrifice trans people for electoral gains.

Some days I wake up and thank God that I’m the only person who’s considered every problem from every angle, measured each implication, and chosen all the correct sides

The answer is abandoning citation styles

Trends are flourishing

Can we just assume our colleagues who are experts do actually know what they’re doing? Pretty, pretty please?

Lots happens in a year! The TRU Library Makerspace Librarian’s Report – 2024-2025 Academic Yearhttps://makerspace.trubox.ca/2025/05/13/tru-library-makerspace-librarians-report-2024-2025-academic-year/

A black sling bag on a cutting board

A black sling bag on a cutting mat featuring a bottle in a stretchy bottle pocket attached to the bottom

The inside of the bag featuring a kobo and several other things for size

Finished my second bag, a chonky sling from LearnMYOG. It has a stretchy bottle holder on the bottom that I love. It was sew much work but I learned a lot.

Get mine next week!

Stats from a dying web A startling statistic from Google’s antitrust trial raises fears that a long-predicted decline has now begun

Google searches in safari dropped for the first time in 22 years www.platformer.news/r/2b457dea?m...

Being really into internet culture is the millennial version of watching WW2 documentaries on the history channel

Very satisfying as basically you make a hole that’s slightly too small and then push these threaded brass nut inserts in with a soldering iron

Needed a book end and also wanted to figure out how to add bolts to 3d prints but I regret not having my head point in towards the books

To survive the Chaoscene, we will need resilient communities | Aeon Essays The climate crisis is here. In order to thrive in these dangerous and precarious times, we must build resilient communities

“whatever you do to rebuild community solidarity is ipso facto an act of climate preparedness. For, when the time comes, it may well be that soccer club or rowing club that saves your life.” aeon.co/essays/to-su...

A profoundly American sense of security

I do understand you think it’s all laughable though and nothing will come of any of it and I do hope you’re right.

There’s a lot eventfully happening that wasn’t supposed to be eventfully and the only time I’ve seen you actually think something was eventful and not a joke was when you thought Bernie was going to win

Every time I hear something like this I spend an hour divesting myself from more American spending

3/ Since February 2025, US embassies around the world have been sending letters to local contractors making similar demands. This seems to be the first time that it's been reported that a similar letter has been sent to a foreign government organisation.
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Holy shit this is crazy balls

For those who celebrate:

A large fabric quilt hanging on whiteboards. The quilt is made up of many small yellow, blue, and purple squares that are each decorated. The center of the quilt has a large space that is blank.

Not sure if I shared this yet?

This year we collaborated with students in a Making Art in Community class to create this vibrant banner for the TRU Library Makerspace. Each square was made by a student or staff member who uses the Makerspace. The centre will eventually have our new Secwépemc name.

Trump Surprises Canada With a New Message: We Love You

A dry-humored, beautifully written account of what sounds like a completely insane meeting between Trump and Carney: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...

Given that U.S. is only country in position to invade Canada, Trump’s “free military protection” sounds a lot like a protection racket. But it’s even less than that, since Canada does, in fact, have a military.

More usefully -- here's a bibliography in Zotero that I pulled from a thread that @benpatrickwill.bsky.social posted

Includes articles as well as books

www.zotero.org/groups/59804...

AI lawsuits: the existential threat to generative AI  - Tech Monitor AI companies use enormous amounts of existing content to train generative AI models – for better or worse.

Lawsuits, with some cases listed.

A student in my partners visual art class made a terrific zine about how she felt about AI and art that is based on this, and I should ask her if I can scan it and share it. I guess I should also read the original hey?

“I have no mouth and I must scream” - Harlan Ellison

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Nearly half of executives say generative AI is increasing their company's emissions, study finds As businesses worldwide increasingly adopt Gen AI to drive innovation and efficiency, a new study by Capgemini uncovers a concerning trend.

The environmental impact would probably violate any sustainability commitments...

The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology A Human History of Education Technology

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The ebook is already in JSTOr and my print copy showed up last night