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It is wild to me how much GenAI is being pushed in #medlibs land considering half my colleagues can't use Google, can't open blog websites, and are working in places that still use old operating systems for security reasons.

IT won't let you collab on a Google doc but somehow ChatGPT is safe?

I like to repost this every couple of months as a reminder. Tressie is being proven more and more right with each passing day.

I don’t think you should post your subversive activities on the internet. I do think you should post opportunities for folks to take action and show solidarity with community based initiatives that are actually doing necessary work.

I am a) extremely skeptical of this claim that a “coding error” just so happened to erase the exact parts of the constitution that Trump is fighting against & b) unhappy this obvious lie is being laundered through LoC socials.

The argument that critics of GenAI are just in a moral panic, and that this is just the new calculator, Wikipedia, etc just sort of falls apart when you see stories about the bots as sycophantic therapists and caregivers in LTC homes, no?? Just me?

People keep saying ‘these people aren’t criminals’ which leads to conclusion that if they were ‘criminals’ these sort of conditions would be ok.

So now they’re just quietly editing the constitution and…hoping we won’t NOTICE?? I am beyond boggled. Not so much that Trump would do this, but that nobody seems to care. Every new Thing is worse, & we just continue on like nothing is happening.

Doo de doo, just blocking AI developer accounts that try to follow me. I’m sorry there is no “progressive” way to use AI until you eliminate the low wage labor and environmental costs.

FINALLY EXCUSED FROM JURY SERVICE for this round. It only took 3 fucking tries over 3 different calls for them to accept I couldn’t do it due to disability. Two separate drs notes (same Dr). Good grief. I’m only excused for a year & then back in the regular roulette wheel, but still. #NeISVoid

Did not have spending the afternoon/evening in the ER on today’s Bingo card. wtf heart, get it together. #NEISVoid

Hello I am a librarian in a film. My only purpose is to provide a sexy body to do background exposition at the protagonist. I am universally young, white, and thin, and almost always a woman.

Ugh definitely feel that “i have no options because no one else specializes in this”. Good luck. 🍀

B’Tselem, a large Israeli human rights organization, is out with a report today concluding that the Israeli govt is committing genocide in Gaza. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty came to the same conclusion, but B’Tselem is the first major Israeli group to say so: www.btselem.org/press_releas...

Yea that makes sense. I take IB not advil for stuff but don’t bother for my chronic pain b/c it doesn’t help at all. I hope you can find some folks who have experience treating this kind of pain then. I’m assuming drs have been little help. :/

I don't know how many people know this:

If you ever see a story coming out of the USA, about people getting in trouble with the law for feeding the homeless, many of those laws were in direct retaliation to the Black Panthers setting up food banks and community centers for children and the poor.

Never been in that situation but I’ve been told with pain management that if NsAIDs aren’t touching your pain then it’s not inflammation & you should go with Tylenol instead b/c it affects the pain receptors themselves. Waiting for my next pain spike to try it myself, so hearsay, but…

This letter is already at over 1000 signatures, showing the level of support in UK academia for these students - and hopefully increasing pressure on the Home Office and FCDO. Still open to sign.

A stained glass piece about 2 ft tall and 1 ft wide, depicting a medium haired white cat sitting on top of a stack of large hardcover books, two off white candles glowing nearby. In the background you see tall, arched church windows with a round window above them. The glass set in the windows is a mellow dark blue like the night sky. That in combination with the candles gives the scene a feeling of cozy nighttime.

My friend @stonkers.bsky.social is an incredibly talented artist and crafter! She made this beautiful Pangur Bán stained glass piece that I'm proud to own, and she sells hilarious and accurate knitted dissected animals, too! Check out her shop: www.aknitomy.com/shop

Boy it sure does!!

Pretzels and orange juice sounds lovely! I hope lessening the med helps too!

Hrm I wonder if Dysautonomia is why I sweat so much more these days. Part of it is HRT, but it started before I started that. Every day I am finding another thing about my body that Dysautonomia is fucking up…

Zotero (or similar) is honestly a must and I don’t see anybody but librarians pushing it towards students. Like. What are we doing? I tell any student I encounter “download Zotero you will not regret it”.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Looked @ 3 condos with mom this afternoon & briefly shopped with a scooter & now I feel like death. 1 of the condos is nice and a friend lives in the same complex, so a strong contender. 3 more to see next week. Visible is telling me to chill tf out now tho! #pots #ChronicIllness

That sounds awful. 😞

yandere-angela i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion butch-snorlax How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that. yandere-angela 1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout 2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method 3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini 4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying and the transaction is complete

Japan is in no way perfect, it has many flaws, but this sort of thing is fucking phenomenal and I so desperately wish we had an approximate of it becuase fuck man it sucks that so much of our lives get dictated by corporate morality

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One lil shrimps for your consideration

The president calling for the prosecution of individuals & companies he doesn't like should immediately end a presidency like it would have for anyone before this One Special Boy

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.”

We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words.

➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...