Lisa

Black and white Lacy cat (mask/mantle cow pattern) looking at camera, on light gray knitted blanket. Glow from light in other room on white door in background.

Lacy is here to help you with your Sunday Scaries….

Me taking forever to watch a streaming show because I get anxious when the characters are in a situation in which they might get caught (“you shouldn’t be in there…”) and have to turn it off and calm down.

Finishing my Sophie scarf, looking for a similar pattern skinny scarf with flare/bevel ends (increases at either angled end with a narrower middle)

Books Click on each title to learn more   Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire   Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life   Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories …

The world is a little darker today. Rest in Power Alice Wong, you changed the world for the better and helped so many disabled people find their voice while challenging the ableism we all grew up with.

Read her books if you haven't: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book/

Rufus Sewell is so good at what he does (I’ve thought so since ‘93, am filling in some watching gaps….)

Fifth, this idea of “inevitability” has captured much of the discourse. The idea of “adapt or die” is toxic, and is aligned with the white supremacist notions of “binary thinking, perfectionism, and worship of the written word.” Instead, I ask, can we imagine and work towards other futures besides one escribed by capital?

To attempt to encapsulate all of what I’ve discussed today, and more discussion in the article regarding facial recognition, environmental harms, and researchers to keep an eye on: I think that we “should refuse generative AI because it is a ‘destructive force’ that is infrastructurally racist, marketed as a solution to increasing socioeconomic disparity while gleefully scraping all possible traces of digital and digitized labor…[it] does not magically produce information with integrity without requiring further human scrutinization, and creates an unnecessary excess of energy emissions that is detrimental to our ecosystem” (p. 601).

new blog post: transcript from my talk on “Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library” @ Library Trends on 11/12

online-roleplay.ghost.io/against-ai-l...

Searching for a professional to help with <thing> and coming up mostly with "but I could be your mom" - I need some crone power.

Goofy institutional purchasing systems can bite my bubble.

Picture of the newly announced iPhone Pocket, a random sling of fabric for holding iPhones…or, as the good doctor once put it, “A-fine-something-that-all-people-need”

Dr Seuss: In my book The Lorax I invented the Thneed as a cautionary tale.
Apple: At long last, we have created the Thneed from the classic picture book The Lorax.

I see what you did there.

happy colon, happy life

using that site:edu limiter widgy in the G-search - that comes in handy to sort through the internet sea (it me, lkg at yr libguides)

What a terrible day to know how to read

How much of California rolls….

doing the projects that I have all those tabs open for, closing loops

Twin cities friends: I'll be speaking tomorrow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science on how AI disrupts the sometimes precarious balance of scientific incentives.

COCTEAU TWINS TREASURE

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STYLE COUNCIL A SOLID BOND IN YOUR HEART

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Unbundling Profiles - SPARC

Check out our stories on 8 libraries that have unbundled from a journal package or cancelled a Big Deal altogether. The profiles describe the context of the decision, preparation, how continuing access to materials was secured, campus response, next steps & advice. sparcopen.org/our-work/big...

Tentative agreement on UC contract reached—UPTE strike canceled! — UPTE-CWA 9119 UPTE and the University of California have reached a Tentative Agreement (TA) after the mediator brought&nbsp;us back into communications following days of mediation. This is a major victory for UP...

Our tentative agreement is a major victory for UPTE members across the University of California system and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. #UC #ResetUCPriorities #LBNL #BerkeleyLab

Tout à fait

I couldn't even get my avatar to fly. Poor trapped Dorcas.

"You may be wondering how I got here...."

I just broke this, but at least I did it and not the robot.

"Our unis may have some of the same collection strengths and be considered peer institutions, but we are not the same."

UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands

Dear UC Regents, As faculty members of University of California law schools, we urge you to reject the draft agreement with the Trump administration that you made public on October 24. This draft agreement would strike a grave blow to the autonomy of the University of California and the freedom of its faculty and students to pursue knowledge and exercise their First Amendment rights. It would require UCLA to discriminate against some of its own students in violation of California law; to cease its legal and genuinely important efforts to build a university community open to all Californians including those from disadvantaged backgrounds; and to curtail the rights of students, faculty, and staff to speak freely, teach, and learn. It would require UCLA— or more accurately, the state of California to pay the federal government an enormous sum in disregard of the procedures required by law. Such funds could be better spent on funding research directly and building a foundation for greater financial security for the UC System that includes more protection from illegal federal conduct. In contrast, by acceding to illegal threats, the university would become complicit in the Trump Administration's efforts to undermine the rule of law and the values of liberty, equality, and democracy enshrined in the Constitution. And all this for what? The federal government promises nothing in return. To restore canceled grants that have already been restored by federal court order. To release all spurious claims against UCLA, but with no promise whatsoever that the federal government will not try again to penalize UCLA— for instance by once again unlawfully cancelling federal grants that UCLA researchers have earned on the academic merits-the next time the Trump administration decides to do so. Instead, the draft agreement contains novel and highly intrusive monitoring and surveillance provisions that appear designed to give the federal government new pretexts for continuing oversight a…

🚨 Over 160 faculty of University of California Law schools have signed this open letter to the Regents urging them not to agree to any terms of the Trump demand letter that the Regents were compelled to release under court order. sites.google.com/view/uclawfa...

possessive before a gerund... POSSESSIVE BEFORE A GERUND!!!

"Évidemment c'était l'ouver-ture exceptionnelle."

Earworm of late millennial/Gen Z song with just a bit of melody and vocal tone...but no lyrics to hook into. Intractable...ineffable.

Day 2 - Jobs Creator~! / -a ZM-related skeet