Kate Saylor
@ksaylor.bsky.social
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. | health sciences | informationist | Michigan | she/her | #medlibs
https://uxcaucustips.blogspot.com/
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How to get into nature.
January 20, 2026 at 1:04 PM
How to get into nature.
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD."
People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.
People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.
January 19, 2026 at 5:50 AM
And I fucking hate the caveats especially "NO CRIMINAL RECORD."
People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.
People who have criminal records ALSO deserve dignity. OK.
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Running longitudinal projects with a team of people can quickly lead to confusing folder structures and file names.
Creating a style guide that guides how folders are organized and files are named, can help ensure that files are easier to find and interpret.
datamgmtinedresearch.com/style#style
Creating a style guide that guides how folders are organized and files are named, can help ensure that files are easier to find and interpret.
datamgmtinedresearch.com/style#style
January 19, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Running longitudinal projects with a team of people can quickly lead to confusing folder structures and file names.
Creating a style guide that guides how folders are organized and files are named, can help ensure that files are easier to find and interpret.
datamgmtinedresearch.com/style#style
Creating a style guide that guides how folders are organized and files are named, can help ensure that files are easier to find and interpret.
datamgmtinedresearch.com/style#style
With its physical privacy switch, Sailfish OS 5 and user replaceable battery represents a fundamental shift in how we think about smartphone ownership. It’s not just a device. It’s a statement that you deserve technology that respects you, not exploits you." 👀 techglimmer.io/jolla-phone-...
The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along - techglimmer
The new Jolla Phone brings hardware privacy switches, Sailfish OS 5, and replaceable batteries. Discover why this €579 Linux phone is redefining digital sovereignty in 2026.
techglimmer.io
January 19, 2026 at 4:08 PM
With its physical privacy switch, Sailfish OS 5 and user replaceable battery represents a fundamental shift in how we think about smartphone ownership. It’s not just a device. It’s a statement that you deserve technology that respects you, not exploits you." 👀 techglimmer.io/jolla-phone-...
What is this new-ish MacOS Spotlight search feature called (circled in red)? It's like a suggested list of items that appeared with Tahoe. It's quite annoying as it takes a minute to load and shifts the options down which makes me click on the wrong thing once it pops up. Can I disable it??
January 18, 2026 at 1:31 PM
What is this new-ish MacOS Spotlight search feature called (circled in red)? It's like a suggested list of items that appeared with Tahoe. It's quite annoying as it takes a minute to load and shifts the options down which makes me click on the wrong thing once it pops up. Can I disable it??
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I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
January 9, 2026 at 4:20 AM
I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut.
No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.
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Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Online Tracking is Out of Control—Privacy Badger Can Help You Fight
Every time you browse the web, you're being tracked. That’s why EFF created Privacy Badger, a free, open source browser extension used by millions to fight corporate surveillance and take back
www.eff.org
January 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.
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Who needs medical ethics, or history, or any of those other stupid subjects? #medlibs #canmedlibs
We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol.
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
It’s worse than you thought.
Check it out, first in Inside Medicine…
with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...
Scoop: The leaked protocol of the CDC-funded Hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau. “This is another Tuskegee.”
The protocol reveals that the trial will withhold the Hepatitis B birth dose from thousands—without placebos, without universal maternal screening, and with endpoints critics call indefensible.
insidemedicine.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Who needs medical ethics, or history, or any of those other stupid subjects? #medlibs #canmedlibs
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Every privacy policy update:
We have found new ways to monetize your data !!
We have found new ways to monetize your data !!
January 15, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Every privacy policy update:
We have found new ways to monetize your data !!
We have found new ways to monetize your data !!
#medlibs #MedlibProblems I hold my breath every single time I export from Scopus. 🧎♀️📿🤞#PleaseNoErrors
January 14, 2026 at 8:56 PM
#medlibs #MedlibProblems I hold my breath every single time I export from Scopus. 🧎♀️📿🤞#PleaseNoErrors
Michigan Medicine's Gifts of Arts program is pretty spectacular! ✨🐉✨ "Dragon of Wishes, Hopes & Dreams" The scales of this dragon were created with the drawn and written wishes, hopes, and dreams of 1,700 faculty, staff, patients, guests, and learners
January 14, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Michigan Medicine's Gifts of Arts program is pretty spectacular! ✨🐉✨ "Dragon of Wishes, Hopes & Dreams" The scales of this dragon were created with the drawn and written wishes, hopes, and dreams of 1,700 faculty, staff, patients, guests, and learners
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In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
January 18, 2024 at 4:21 AM
In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
"The end of ownership represents an overturn of a foundation of modern civilization. The fact that the only "people" who can truly own something are..."Limited Liability Corporations" is an absolutely surreal reversal of the normal order of things." pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/s...
Pluralistic: It’s not normal (14 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 14, 2026 at 4:38 PM
"The end of ownership represents an overturn of a foundation of modern civilization. The fact that the only "people" who can truly own something are..."Limited Liability Corporations" is an absolutely surreal reversal of the normal order of things." pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/s...
#medlibs Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
Exclusive: Inaccurate information presented in summaries, Guardian investigation finds
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:26 PM
#medlibs Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
#medlibs ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
Guardian investigation finds AI Overviews provided inaccurate and false information when queried over blood tests
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
#medlibs ‘Dangerous and alarming’: Google removes some of its AI summaries after users’ health put at risk
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I loathe the not-so-subtle use of AI in day-to-day communication. Straightforward emails that could have been a few easy-to-read bullet points are becoming unnecessarily verbose. I do not have time to read all that.
January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
I loathe the not-so-subtle use of AI in day-to-day communication. Straightforward emails that could have been a few easy-to-read bullet points are becoming unnecessarily verbose. I do not have time to read all that.
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Please email your local library and politely complain about Libby's AI "Inspire Me" feature.
Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.
Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.
the thing with Libby is you are not Libby's customer, your library is Libby's customer.
so I guess we should all complain to our libraries!
so I guess we should all complain to our libraries!
January 13, 2026 at 5:25 AM
Please email your local library and politely complain about Libby's AI "Inspire Me" feature.
Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.
Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.
"...there’s a chance that we may be developing technologies that we do not have the cognitive defense mechanisms to resist, and that we are cognitively predisposed to trust." h/t @pfanderson.bsky.social www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/is-ai-a-co...
Is AI a Cognitive Trojan Horse?
Could on-demand, seductively responsive and highly fluent AI models bypass our "epistemic vigilance" mechanisms, and present a novel cognitive risk?
www.futureofbeinghuman.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:27 PM
"...there’s a chance that we may be developing technologies that we do not have the cognitive defense mechanisms to resist, and that we are cognitively predisposed to trust." h/t @pfanderson.bsky.social www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/is-ai-a-co...
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Libby's Fail Statement but with alt text.
Yes this is about serving readers slop, but it's ALSO about the data the app collects but don't worry your reading history on the device that knows where you live and everywhere you go is only sharing "non-identifiable" information about you w/AI systems.
Yes this is about serving readers slop, but it's ALSO about the data the app collects but don't worry your reading history on the device that knows where you live and everywhere you go is only sharing "non-identifiable" information about you w/AI systems.
Libby this is not how you help libraries or our communities are you kidding?! Stop trying to make it sound better than it is. Those lists already exist in there. Librarians already exist in their communities that can give better recs than anything this slop can. Ditch this crap. What a bad idea.
January 13, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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#medlibs #MedlibProblems Muscle memory forcing you to capitalize ANDs AND ORs in your day-to-day (non-search) communication.
January 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
#medlibs #MedlibProblems Muscle memory forcing you to capitalize ANDs AND ORs in your day-to-day (non-search) communication.
#medlibs Show off your database wisdom at the MLA UX and SR Caucus's 2026 Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round! MLA membership required to present, but all are welcome to attend or watch the recording. Learn more at go.brown.edu/database_tip...
CFP: Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round!
Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions Database Tips Lightning Round! A UX & SR Caucus joint event on Thursday, March 5, 1pm-2:30pm Central (2pm Eastern, 12pm Mountain, 11am Pacific) The User Experience...
go.brown.edu
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
#medlibs Show off your database wisdom at the MLA UX and SR Caucus's 2026 Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round! MLA membership required to present, but all are welcome to attend or watch the recording. Learn more at go.brown.edu/database_tip...
CFP: Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round!
Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions Database Tips Lightning Round! A UX & SR Caucus joint event on Thursday, March 5, 1pm-2:30pm Central (2pm Eastern, 12pm Mountain, 11am Pacific) The User Experience...
go.brown.edu
January 8, 2026 at 9:17 PM
#medlibs Show off your database wisdom at the MLA UX and SR Caucus's 2026 Favorite Features & Sneaky Solutions: Database Tips Lightning Round! MLA membership required to present, but all are welcome to attend or watch the recording. Learn more at go.brown.edu/database_tip...
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The Experimental Farm Network launched their annual catalog at midnight; it has been amazing to watch my brother Nate build this organization from a kernel of an idea into an outstanding resource for heirloom, climate-friendly, culturally relevant seeds. 🌱 #plantsky store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org
Experimental Farm Network Seed Store
The Experimental Farm Network sells rare heirloom vegetable, grain, and other useful plant seeds to support our non-profit organizing mission.
store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org
January 6, 2026 at 2:34 PM
The Experimental Farm Network launched their annual catalog at midnight; it has been amazing to watch my brother Nate build this organization from a kernel of an idea into an outstanding resource for heirloom, climate-friendly, culturally relevant seeds. 🌱 #plantsky store.experimentalfarmnetwork.org