Franklin Sayre
@franklinsayre.bsky.social
Makerspace Librarian & Department Chair at TRU. Focused on hands-on learning, belonging & community. Always up for conversations about learning through doing, critical making, and why your first project should be a gift.
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Devastating. Teen Vogue has been doing excellent work in political journalism the last few years, better than some major newspapers.
So, all the stories about politics are going to be replaced with pieces about... career development?
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Devastating. Teen Vogue has been doing excellent work in political journalism the last few years, better than some major newspapers.
apparently the MRIs in my city run 24/7 which is why, dear reader, I am walking to the medical imaging department for my non-emergency scan scheduled for 1am the night AFTER the time change
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
apparently the MRIs in my city run 24/7 which is why, dear reader, I am walking to the medical imaging department for my non-emergency scan scheduled for 1am the night AFTER the time change
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I wrote a chapter about solidarity, care, and how becoming a mom made me mad about my Indigenous kid not being able to access cultural knowledge that belongs to him. Virtual book launch on Monday! libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I wrote a chapter about solidarity, care, and how becoming a mom made me mad about my Indigenous kid not being able to access cultural knowledge that belongs to him. Virtual book launch on Monday! libraryjuice.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social
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Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL | Riegelman | College & Research Libraries
Seeking More Rigorous Author Guidelines at C&RL
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November 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
New (dare I say spicy?) Guest Editorial just dropped. Co-written with @meganmk.bsky.social
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This is absolutely terrifying.
New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo
“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
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“I’m an American citizen so leave me alone”
“Alright, we just got to verify that”
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship
Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as “pure dystopian creep.”
www.404media.co
October 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This is absolutely terrifying.
I‘m very afraid of snakes & just had to leap over a rattlesnake. I was walking & looked down & less than a foot in front of me laying right across the trail was a fat juicy rattlesnake. Didn’t move but didn’t look injured and it’s a busy trail so i imagine was alive but slow from the cool weather
October 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I‘m very afraid of snakes & just had to leap over a rattlesnake. I was walking & looked down & less than a foot in front of me laying right across the trail was a fat juicy rattlesnake. Didn’t move but didn’t look injured and it’s a busy trail so i imagine was alive but slow from the cool weather
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Gabby had done a lot with NFCs and textiles - she put stories in a quilt that was also a map quiltmap.wordpress.com
QUILT: Queer Intimacies Located in Thread
a queer textile mapping project
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October 21, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Gabby had done a lot with NFCs and textiles - she put stories in a quilt that was also a map quiltmap.wordpress.com
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In the digital lab at the Umich library we had dry erase board paint on the walls and it was the best!
October 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
In the digital lab at the Umich library we had dry erase board paint on the walls and it was the best!
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So not embroidery, but in this project we linked resources and readings to a textile using NFC tokens. We made them the jacket's buttons as a way to interact with the project.
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Pockets of Information
Community Care in a Speculative New York
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October 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
So not embroidery, but in this project we linked resources and readings to a textile using NFC tokens. We made them the jacket's buttons as a way to interact with the project.
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9f1d...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9f1d...
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The Cowichan Tribes debate is quickly becoming an international culture war issue, which means any attempt by someone to try and clarify facts, timelines or arguments by the people materially involved in the actual discussion will not matter in slightest.
But literally none of this is correct.
But literally none of this is correct.
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
The Cowichan Tribes debate is quickly becoming an international culture war issue, which means any attempt by someone to try and clarify facts, timelines or arguments by the people materially involved in the actual discussion will not matter in slightest.
But literally none of this is correct.
But literally none of this is correct.
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Lack of interaction with posts like this is fine. But it reminds me of how inverse my understanding of social media is: I want it to be primarily trading oddities we find, comments on texts, only secondarily necessary but endless churn of same few political articles and points. But churn won.
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Lack of interaction with posts like this is fine. But it reminds me of how inverse my understanding of social media is: I want it to be primarily trading oddities we find, comments on texts, only secondarily necessary but endless churn of same few political articles and points. But churn won.
This is such a nice exploration of how AI image models are trained and sen why transparency and critical exploration is so important knowingmachines.org/models-all-t...
Models All The Way Down
LAION-5B is an open-source foundation dataset. It contains 5.8 billion image and text pairs—a size too large to make sense of. We follow the construction of the dataset to better understand its conten...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is such a nice exploration of how AI image models are trained and sen why transparency and critical exploration is so important knowingmachines.org/models-all-t...
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So many artists do this.
Thinking about Glenn Ligon (quotes on textiles, neon, etc).
Even choreographer Bill T. Jones who created a narrator for one of his pieces, Curriculum II, who quotes text from Sylvia Wynter and other theoriststhat informed the work. Dance piece was about race and tech.
Thinking about Glenn Ligon (quotes on textiles, neon, etc).
Even choreographer Bill T. Jones who created a narrator for one of his pieces, Curriculum II, who quotes text from Sylvia Wynter and other theoriststhat informed the work. Dance piece was about race and tech.
Anyone have any experience with stitching citations onto textiles, or otherwise making citations into physical representations??
October 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So many artists do this.
Thinking about Glenn Ligon (quotes on textiles, neon, etc).
Even choreographer Bill T. Jones who created a narrator for one of his pieces, Curriculum II, who quotes text from Sylvia Wynter and other theoriststhat informed the work. Dance piece was about race and tech.
Thinking about Glenn Ligon (quotes on textiles, neon, etc).
Even choreographer Bill T. Jones who created a narrator for one of his pieces, Curriculum II, who quotes text from Sylvia Wynter and other theoriststhat informed the work. Dance piece was about race and tech.
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On setting boundaries and defining refusal of AI, and the imagination of LLMs as wedding-crashers of the social sphere.
Trespassing into Language
I'm Actually At Capacity Right Now
I have to apologize for nearly any invocation of Slavoj Zizek or Jacques Lacan, so fair warning. But I want to highlight a point made by Yuxuan Zhang in a paper on ...
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October 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
On setting boundaries and defining refusal of AI, and the imagination of LLMs as wedding-crashers of the social sphere.
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Sending out a random request to the universe —
If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.
If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.
October 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Sending out a random request to the universe —
If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.
If there are any Borges scholars in my network, or if anyone has a connection to a Borges scholar and could DM me their name, I would love to find such people.
Anyone have any experience with stitching citations onto textiles, or otherwise making citations into physical representations??
October 18, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Anyone have any experience with stitching citations onto textiles, or otherwise making citations into physical representations??
The long term play here is to use the momentum from age verification laws to make pornography illegal except AI pornography from the frontier AI companies.
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults
ChatGPT is about to get flirty.
buff.ly
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The long term play here is to use the momentum from age verification laws to make pornography illegal except AI pornography from the frontier AI companies.
Apparently my university is recruiting for a research chair in astrobiology and I’m very confused
October 14, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Apparently my university is recruiting for a research chair in astrobiology and I’m very confused
Just a phenomenal couple days to be a mushroom
October 14, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Just a phenomenal couple days to be a mushroom
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I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.
Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.
October 12, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I feel people may not have liked the idea of telling the government what they did with their time.
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Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.
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Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.