TheMeriLibrarian
@bemeredith.bsky.social
Librarian, educator, wife, mother, AuDHD. She/Her. #BeInfoLit. Author of "Master of Information: Skills for Lifelong Learning and Resisting Misinformation." On Substack @themerilibrarian
“Fear dims when you learn things.” -Alys, Lois Lowry, Son.
“Fear dims when you learn things.” -Alys, Lois Lowry, Son.
I’ve read so much about how men are isolated, but women hurt from lack of and breaks in relationships, too. We ALL benefit from better human connections.
www.thegirlfriend.com/relationship...
www.thegirlfriend.com/relationship...
How A Major Life Event Changed My Friendships
A big life shift made me rethink who really shows up — and which friendships are worth holding tight.
www.thegirlfriend.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:05 PM
I’ve read so much about how men are isolated, but women hurt from lack of and breaks in relationships, too. We ALL benefit from better human connections.
www.thegirlfriend.com/relationship...
www.thegirlfriend.com/relationship...
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Seriously.
The last stanza.
The last stanza.
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Seriously.
The last stanza.
The last stanza.
Words matter. Language matter. Context matters. Humanity matters.
"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press
We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.
www.techpolicy.press
January 9, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Words matter. Language matter. Context matters. Humanity matters.
Best thing people can do in today’s digital environment- learn how to access settings and turn stuff off.
It won’t stop everything, but it’s an act of resistance that does stop some things. You don’t have to feed the monster. You can do some things without doing everything.
It won’t stop everything, but it’s an act of resistance that does stop some things. You don’t have to feed the monster. You can do some things without doing everything.
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Best thing people can do in today’s digital environment- learn how to access settings and turn stuff off.
It won’t stop everything, but it’s an act of resistance that does stop some things. You don’t have to feed the monster. You can do some things without doing everything.
It won’t stop everything, but it’s an act of resistance that does stop some things. You don’t have to feed the monster. You can do some things without doing everything.
I’d like to enjoy my hobbies without feeling a need to make them a side hustle, but also secretly I’d like it if my hobbies could lead to a side hustle that leads to a full income.
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 6, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I’d like to enjoy my hobbies without feeling a need to make them a side hustle, but also secretly I’d like it if my hobbies could lead to a side hustle that leads to a full income.
Now that I think of it, I was definitely an undiagnosed AuDHD kid: I said yes to things to please my parents and also because whatever it was was new and exciting, but then never followed through because I was too scared to do something new and it was out of my comfort zone.
December 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Now that I think of it, I was definitely an undiagnosed AuDHD kid: I said yes to things to please my parents and also because whatever it was was new and exciting, but then never followed through because I was too scared to do something new and it was out of my comfort zone.
My new favorite Christmas carol
She’s makin a list
Checkin it twice
Because adhd makes it hard to
where’s my phone
Checkin it twice
Because adhd makes it hard to
where’s my phone
December 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My new favorite Christmas carol
The more you know
December 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The more you know
Sometimes I wonder if there’s been a mistake and I’m not really the Au part of AuDHD and then I react in an unreasonably extreme way to a small thing and realize that yeah I totally am. Good times.
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Sometimes I wonder if there’s been a mistake and I’m not really the Au part of AuDHD and then I react in an unreasonably extreme way to a small thing and realize that yeah I totally am. Good times.
Anyone looking at my feed might think I reject any and all AI. I certainly do not. There are benefits. Technology has and always will be as good as the user. But very wealthy folks who have worked hard for their wealth and power telling others not to work as hard because now we have AI is laughable.
December 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Anyone looking at my feed might think I reject any and all AI. I certainly do not. There are benefits. Technology has and always will be as good as the user. But very wealthy folks who have worked hard for their wealth and power telling others not to work as hard because now we have AI is laughable.
“Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken.”
New at PB: @cnygren.bsky.social & @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social offer four frictions to resist the AI takeover of education.
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:04 PM
“Learning is not a problem to be solved; it’s a process to be undertaken.”
“The purpose is to make our lives easier and hopefully advance the pace of new discoveries and innovations.”
1. Easy does not equal better.
2. Advancing discovery and innovation requires effort, not ease.
I like using my brain to think and create. Stopping scam calls would be great though.
1. Easy does not equal better.
2. Advancing discovery and innovation requires effort, not ease.
I like using my brain to think and create. Stopping scam calls would be great though.
NEW: A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot, Claude, on the Discord, despite protests from members.
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
www.404media.co
December 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
“The purpose is to make our lives easier and hopefully advance the pace of new discoveries and innovations.”
1. Easy does not equal better.
2. Advancing discovery and innovation requires effort, not ease.
I like using my brain to think and create. Stopping scam calls would be great though.
1. Easy does not equal better.
2. Advancing discovery and innovation requires effort, not ease.
I like using my brain to think and create. Stopping scam calls would be great though.
I have a very strong opinions about what makes a good puzzle. There is a humanity to the creation of a puzzle that seeps through as I solve it. I do not want AI art, music, entertainment, any of it. AI is a veneer on a facade. It’s utterly depressing and creepy. Like clowns. I don’t like clowns.
You might think this doesn’t matter, like, isn’t the joy of the puzzle in the assembly? But — aside from the way this cuts human artists out of the profit chain — AI imagery is often just unpleasant to look at over the long time period that you spend doing a puzzle.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I have a very strong opinions about what makes a good puzzle. There is a humanity to the creation of a puzzle that seeps through as I solve it. I do not want AI art, music, entertainment, any of it. AI is a veneer on a facade. It’s utterly depressing and creepy. Like clowns. I don’t like clowns.
This exemplifies much of the damage modern tech has had on society. Humans need the ability to sit in uncomfortable mental spaces where unfamiliarity and uncertainty wrestle with finding (or not) an answer. Sometimes pizza on the floor = call for attention. Other times it’s just pizza on the floor.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
This exemplifies much of the damage modern tech has had on society. Humans need the ability to sit in uncomfortable mental spaces where unfamiliarity and uncertainty wrestle with finding (or not) an answer. Sometimes pizza on the floor = call for attention. Other times it’s just pizza on the floor.
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"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular.
pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...
Just told my kids that the new dishwasher has AI and is listening to them, so they need to speak nicely to it.
December 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Just told my kids that the new dishwasher has AI and is listening to them, so they need to speak nicely to it.
How should I look to boost my income?
A. Pursue 9 grad course credits to move over a column in my salary guide
B. Get my speaking engagements career phase off the ground
C. Finally use all of my yarn to crochet a bunch of stuff and then launch a store.
A. Pursue 9 grad course credits to move over a column in my salary guide
B. Get my speaking engagements career phase off the ground
C. Finally use all of my yarn to crochet a bunch of stuff and then launch a store.
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
How should I look to boost my income?
A. Pursue 9 grad course credits to move over a column in my salary guide
B. Get my speaking engagements career phase off the ground
C. Finally use all of my yarn to crochet a bunch of stuff and then launch a store.
A. Pursue 9 grad course credits to move over a column in my salary guide
B. Get my speaking engagements career phase off the ground
C. Finally use all of my yarn to crochet a bunch of stuff and then launch a store.
I often say words matter but don’t always see how much or when or for whom mine do. We should all be reminded of the impact our words have. I don’t know any greater compliment than this. ❤️. Thank you @simplyrain.bsky.social !
December 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I often say words matter but don’t always see how much or when or for whom mine do. We should all be reminded of the impact our words have. I don’t know any greater compliment than this. ❤️. Thank you @simplyrain.bsky.social !
Good motivation right here to never give up on your big goals and dreams because chances are people way worse are doing them already.
I have had a decent book idea for ten years and a lit agent the entire time. Reading the excerpts from Olivia Nuzzi's book makes me feel bad I thought I couldn't write and report something decent *that entire time* because she published something that rambling and nonsensical with no chapter breaks.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Good motivation right here to never give up on your big goals and dreams because chances are people way worse are doing them already.
Fun thing about owning a very very very old home is when you think you shut off a kitchen water valve and you’ve removed old dishwasher but not yet put the new one in so there’s an unattached hose and someone uses the sink in a bathroom somewhere and water starts spraying out all over the kitchen.
December 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Fun thing about owning a very very very old home is when you think you shut off a kitchen water valve and you’ve removed old dishwasher but not yet put the new one in so there’s an unattached hose and someone uses the sink in a bathroom somewhere and water starts spraying out all over the kitchen.
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Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Meet the new Deputy Chief of Staff at the CDC.
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The fun literally never ends
One of the worst things about late diagnosis autism is the finally vindicated feeling of creeping suspicion that’s dogged you all your life but now you’re finely tuned to listening to quiet whispering instinct because what if there’s something else you missed
a man in a star trek uniform looks up
ALT: a man in a star trek uniform looks up
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
The fun literally never ends
Purchased! Can’t wait to give it to my daughter on Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Purchased! Can’t wait to give it to my daughter on Christmas.
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.