Cait

*shakily removing glasses*

Nothing religious Christians hate more than the actual teachings of Christ.

The question to ask all young men is 'how many people have you helped this week? how many have you cared for?"

Not me boldly drinking coffee at 3pm like a 20 year old

Tylenol fights back. Tylenol.com

The person being quoted is shitty but he is not wrong; I did not work in tv for 45 years, but I’ve worked news/mag advertising and/or digital marketing for 25 or so - and if you want to grab a media company’s attention by the short hairs, yes: bitch to their advertisers, not their inboxes.

I met recently with a student who only a few years ago applied to college by submitting materials on paper in an envelope through the mail. Today my university's admission process—and 500 other colleges—runs on the Slate CRM system ("customer relationship management"). 5/

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Do you remember when a university library catalog was on index cards stored in wooden drawers? Now your catalog may well sit on the digital platforms of Ex Libris (part of Clarivate). 4/

People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom.

This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

3/4ths of The Atlantic would love to write this well

Google search screenshot: Al Overview The saying "beer before candy, you're in the clear; beer before candy, hurricane sandy" is a popular rhyme that playfully suggests the order in which one consumes food and alcohol can affect the severity of a hangover. The rhyme implies that consuming beer before candy will lead to

my dad was always saying this

This is a canary in the coal mine. Humanities programs are highly endangered, even the departments with reputations for discipline-defining job placement are treading water. What’s tragic about the University of Chicago case is that cuts are almost certainly elective and ideological.

My dad has one for his ornamental grasses.

counterpoint

Spring Me: Let's just let this little plant grow and see what it is.
Summer Me: Oh crud, it's mint.

A quilt block pieced using foundation paper piecing. It says ‘fuck’ in lowercase black letter font that fades from blue to pink against a magenta background.

My first foray into foundation paper piecing, which it turns out is really challenging for my brain to understand but I’m going to keep trying because I am stubborn and also like to challenge my brain in new ways.

Watching Jacques Cousteau with the 4 year old, and omg this slaps

Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump earlier this week.

Just hours after the Copyright Office released its report on AI training—stating the obvious, that much unlicensed commercial training of AI on copyright-protected material is unlikely to qualify as fair use—President Trump has fired the Register of Copyrights. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tru...

The American Library Association praises servic of Dr. Carla Hayden, decries 'unjust dismissal' of Librarian of Congress. [Image of Dr. Carla Hayden standing in the stacks in a library]

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work.

Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

5+ years ago, my wife was eating a peach and tossed the pit into an old flower pot. She did not care about plants or gardens at all, but declared she would grow a peach tree. OK.

That pit actually grew without her doing a thing, for years, and now has buds on it and ALL I HEAR ABOUT IS HER SKILL.

They are all bad but losing Carla Hayden really hurts because she is inspiring to me. She was a public librarian who worked with teens. She told me how valuable the work of a teen librarian is. I hate he fired her. She is a legend in our field.

Carla Hayden is the Librarian of *Congress.*

He has no such authority. Call your congressional representatives.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Oh that's baaad 😆

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Just cause there is a new slew of "AI doesn't use much water" apologisms around. True if you massage the numbers. But _where_ in the physical world is the water taken and from whom?

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The “inside you there are two wolves” meme, with one wolf labeled “I have the most amazing idea for a new project“ and the other wolf labeled “I need to take a vacation soon or I will literally explode.“

Good morning, Bluesky.

A few people have expressed an interest in seeing the process of an old stained glass window restoration, so this thread is going to be a step=by-step walkthrough with descriptions, photos, and videos! Feel free to ask any questions!

AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?