Natalie J. Ring

Also "resulting in $7 billion in lost revenue and 60,000 fewer jobs."

I think Altman assumes that “PhD-level expert” means someone who speaks confidently on everything as opposed to saying “it’s nuanced,” losing their keys, and getting maniacally fixated on their current topic to the point of seeing it in everything.

LOL. Ghislaine Maxwell also said Jeffrey Epstein never did anything disturbing around her! That's how she caught two perjury charges.

Matzo ball soup in a white bowl on a white plate on a white doily with a side of bagel chips. The matzo ball is large and fluffy and sitting in broth with chunks of carrots, pieces of chicken, and a few noodles.

Factors Deli in LA - my absolute favorite. Dallas has zero edible delis.

Do they realize South Park keeps rewriting almost up to air time some weeks? Feels like they're asking for it.

I have definitely asked for unlimited use in an ebook textbook before. And I asked them to purchase the book in question in print.

I am getting ready to rally the troops! This was a book I have used previously online with my library that had page numbers and footnotes (perhaps it was the older platform that allowed this) So now on the AI slop platform without a facsimile PDF it's like losing access to the book.

Such great advice and info. Thank you!

Currently vacationing on the west coast and I forgot what it's like when I lived here to feel 3 hours "behind" many big things going on in the US. And as a night owl all those east coasters are already in bed when you get going. I kind of dig Central Time these days, though.

A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban.

Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care.

“This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.”

#Idiocracy

Two years ago I asked my library to buy print copies of anything published by UNC Press (one I rely on a lot). I need to check and see if they have continued to buy print only.

Thanks for the useful advice! I complained but now that I know the background in terms of how this came about I can make a much more reasoned pitch as to why it's REALLY bad. I will also contact the vendor. And thanks for suggesting that the librarians might not have had much say in the decision.

Wait what, JSTOR has added this? GAH! AI is being forced down our throats. As one poster said, it's the "enshitification" of research/knowledge. I did paper course readers 2 decades ago. You have inspired me to consider going back. I just fear the price for students would be a problem.

With regard to the Ebook Central platform I have been losing my mind over. ‼️‼️‼️

Okay thanks for the tip! I think I just lost my mind when I saw this and had no idea what was going on. But one book definitely said PDF is unavailable, or some such thing. But if course the default is pushing people (students etc) toward AI slop.

Omg!!

Okay thanks for explaining this distinction for me. I'm still trying to make my way through it. I already complained to the librarians. But should I request that my library use EBSCO instead?

Clarivate/ProQuest Announces Subscription-Only Ebook Licensing Model Clarivate, the parent company of ProQuest and its Ebook Central platform, on February 18 announced the launch of a new subscription-based content access strategy for ebooks and digital collections. As...

Here’s an article on it.

Librarian here, and Ebook Central (formerly ebrary, longtime ProQuest platform) is moving away from a model where libraries can directly license individual books, alongside full AI integration. It’s led their top competition EBSCO to double down on… NOT doing that. Very happy to use EBSCO.

(Yes, I do include the no-opt-out inclusion of "AI" as a decrease in platform functionality.)
and 2) supporting and working with justifiably frustrated academics. 2/2

Clarivate/ProQuest Announces Subscription-Only Ebook Licensing Model Clarivate, the parent company of ProQuest and its Ebook Central platform, on February 18 announced the launch of a new subscription-based content access strategy for ebooks and digital collections. As...

As mentioned by @dbcii.bsky.social, these issues are making our jobs very, very difficult for many reasons. Here are two:
1) our own frustration with both the increasing costs for individual purchases (due to end) and decreasing functionality of platforms 1/2
www.libraryjournal.com/story/clariv...

Okay good to know! Maybe I jumped the gun with my complaint. I was just aghast about the AI. Although one book on the platform
didn't provide a pdf version. It said it wasn't available.

Good for the EBSCO speakers! I'm losing my mind over this, but I'm afraid I sounded like a nutcase when I wrote to my library complaining and raising a huge fuss.

It's so bad. See my latest post about it.

Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.

I'm getting ready to complain to the library!

It's absolutely THE worst!

AI rant of the day. My library is using a new ebook platform for Leon Litwack's book "Trouble in Mind." You can no longer see page numbers or footnotes. And there is a running AI summary of the book next to the text. It's USELESS now.

America is a reality TV production company that also has a nuclear arsenal