Skeptibrarian

Open AI CEO Sam Altman is either disingenuous or as dumb as a rock For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings have successfully raised children without help from algorithms, venture capital, or predictive text.

boingboing.net/2025/12/09/o...

Word.

Documenting Deportation Flights at MSP Airport - UNICORN RIOT Over the past several months, an "aviation geek" in Minnesota who goes by ottergoose on reddit has been tracking, photographing, and posting his documentation of deportation flights online.

“ICE agents would disembark from the airplane and unload bags of shackles from the cargo hold … seeing the chains that would soon be confining my neighbors, binding their hands together at their waist and then down between their ankles.”

unicornriot.ninja/2025/documen...

Great piece from another faculty member in the Cal State system and an alum of MPOW. Sums what we know and why we’re concerned quite well.

Head of a liver-and-white springer spaniel cuddling on a light green quilt.

And this is why they’re called “clinger spaniels”

Everyone saying ”giving that essay a zero was probably too harsh, I would have given it like a 70% to avoid conflict” are perfectly demonstrating how the us education system has been successfully dismantled.

Librarians: “Does anybody read anymore?” Or: “Why do we need libraries when there’s the internet?”

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Anyone familiar with this? (US specific)

#NEISVoid #MedSky

Oooh, this looks useful.

When I see statements like that, I just...

The real divide is going to be that rich kids will be taught by humans to think and poor kids will be taught to feed prompts to the machine and passively accept whatever it spits out.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism.

Got it.

Fantastic turnout in small city WV

Of surprise to absolutely no one.

#qfmft

Do I detect some dirt on those schnoops as well?

If you’re upset with the government shutting down or dissatisfied with government in general, don’t blame “Washington, DC.” The people of DC, all 700k of us, have no voting representation in Congress. This falls on the 535 chuckleheads the American voters sent to Congress. #DCStatehood #FreeDC

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I have taken
the Tylenol
that was in
the medicine cabinet

and which
they think probably
is the reason
you like trains

forgive me
but that’s bullshit
you got autism
from your dad

Such amazing work!

4Chan tries to block Indians from returning to the US - MAGAReport 9/20/25 4Chan and MAGA are trying to book up the flights to H1-B visa holders cannot return, calling it "Operation CLOG THE TOILET"

On Friday, Trump signed a proclamation raising fees for H1B visas to $100K. It takes effect tomorrow. H1B workers who are out of the country have been told to return to the US immediately lest they be denied entry. 4Chan & MAGA is trying to block them🧵 magareport.news/p/4chan-trie...

"I'm not telling you to shoot heroin. But if you want to try it, we recommend just snorting it first."

Looks like LinkedIn is updating its policies again.

Great time to make sure "Data for Generative AI Improvement" is set to off if you're into that kind of thing.

I was reliably informed by a (white male) colleague that this sort of thing would never happen in California. 🙄

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

They are going after teachers and professors. THEY ARE GOING AFTER TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS. You all see what's happening right?

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

While I'm not a big fan of the patronizing attitude toward librarians here or the idea that disciplinary faculty should get to decide library functions, I am well familiar with the sense of instability created when you find out a colleague is no longer there by a bounced-back email.