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We have defunded school libraries and eliminated school librarian positions, leaving no one to teach kids information literacy or the ethics of using the Internet. Then we just let people access lie machines like this with essentially no guard rails or tools to make good decisions.

Screenshot of a post on another site: "My intern was born in 2007 I have unread emails older than that"

True

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

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Taylor Swift Is Doing A New Album The Right Way - By Ezra Klein

october 3rd is a pretty huge deal... happy mean girls day! 🩷

It's remarkable to see the dissonance between a call to "make America skilled again" and an AI-generated image used in lieu of contracting anybody with actual skill.

White House fires much of the National Council on the Humanities The White House appeared to fire all but four members of the National Council on the Humanities, an advisory board to the head of the government’s grantmaking agency.

The attacks on the humanities continue
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🥳 Happy National Medical Librarians Month! 

October is here to officially celebrate the unsung heroes of healthcare. This year’s theme says it best: Better Information. Better Decisions. 

Learn how to join the celebration by visiting MLANET: https://bit.ly/4o2eFcp

#medlibs #healthinformation

Not sure it adequately addresses a "move away" per se but some style guides and author instructions have things like "The use of *, **, *** footnotes to mark significance levels (eg, P<.05, P<.01, P<.001) is discouraged" and everything after that at support.jmir.org/hc/en-us/art...

"One more year! One more year!" chants in Pittsburgh as Fleury takes the ice for the third period

It's so confusing! At least to me 😀

I'm unfamiliar but several articles state the Navigation Guide methodology automatically assigns a moderate quality rating to observational studies, if I'm understanding correctly? And is the Navigation Guide methodology only used for environmental science?

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

AOC builds toward a big choice for 2028 Ocasio-Cortez's 2028 decision could shake up the presidential race or the Senate's leadership.

NEW: AOC and her team are positioning her to run for president or the Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation.

Trump floats stripping networks critical of him of their broadcast licenses “They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” the president said.

Trump suggests that networks should lose their broadcast licenses if their on-air talent is critical of him.

Media's MAGA makeover The media landscape of 2016 is unrecognizable.

Trump-friendly billionaires are consolidating control over American media, steering legacy brands and social platforms in a new conservative direction.

When I mentioned Clio & OCLC AE to my (non-librarian) directors, they asked why use those instead of email attachment. I said they won't use as much memory/storage & when I asked #medlibs Discord someone said to mention copyright compliance (they use passwords & purge after a time)--anything else?

“It seems like incivility is winning.”

Only found out about this today (we use it for DOCLINE delivery): "The NNLM will end support for delivery.nnlm.gov on Friday, December 19th 2025. The document delivery site will no longer be available after that date, and it will not be replaced with a similar service." #MedLibs

"Health losses attributed to anthropogenic climate change," a brief communication in the journal Nature Climate Change. There's a map showing regions of the world, and pie charts of relevant studies as they apply to different health impacts like "heat-related deaths" and "maternal and child health"

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conservatives Are Doxxing Innocent People Over Charlie Kirk Right wing influencers are blasting people's names and personal details out to millions before ever verifying their claims.

Thousands of X users have posted about Ali Nasrati, a 30 yr old IT tech for Walmart, claiming he made insensitive comments abt Charlie Kirk.

But Nasrati has never posted about Kirk.

Now, he's been suspended from work and forced into hiding. I wrote about people being falsely targeted by the right

U.S. Department of Education Makes Historic Grant Investments in Programs That Bolster Educational Outcomes Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it is making historic investments in charter schools, American history and civics programs, Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Trib...

“HBCUs and TCCUs will receive an additional $495 million on top of the anticipated FY 2025 investment, an increase of 48.4% percent and 109.3% percent, respectively.” www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Amid AI summaries and misinformation, Pittsburgh-area schools teach students to check their facts Butler Area School District, an hour north of Pittsburgh, and Avonworth School District in Allegheny County were named two of the News Literacy Project’s national fellows last week.

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This has me as confused (as far as where I should "stand") as the Taylor Lorenz dark money article 😆as I know I'm "supposed to" be upset about the change but when I read everything that goes into the selection process it still seems rigorous and a proper way to evaluate a journal's articles?

Remembering All Those That
Perished on 9/11/2001 🫶🙏

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah.

Political violence has no place in our country.

Dietary Guidelines for Americans The Dietary Guidelines for Americans contains the federal government's basic healthy eating advice for its citizens, and forms the basis of many federal, state, and local nutrition policies.

You sharing that PDF prompted me to go to cspi.org and I was confused when I saw the Dietary Guidelines for Americans there at www.cspi.org/advocacy/nut... because I'm certain they don't publish it, and they don't--I guess they "host it" on their site without any direct involvement?

Not chocolate! Useful thread. I'll eventually examine the Asil review - at quick glance it seems to reach for connections, like Table 1 has refs for "nutrients are associated with the causes of criminal behavior" but reads like, eg, diet affects serotonin affects mood affects criminal behavior etc.

Spinal Tap is back. Director Rob Reiner says they're still dialed up to 11 In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."

In 1984, the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap satirized heavy metal bands. Now the characters are back for a sequel, Spinal Tap II. Reiner says "they have grown neither emotionally or musically."

The Job Market Is Hell Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.