Jessica LaBrie 😷 (she/her)
@labrierian.bsky.social
Wear a respirator. Demand clean indoor air. 🦠 Librarian in Boston-ish
See also that one mega library vendor that is dropping all perpetual-access sales and going subscription-only
(1/5) Someone asked about if people favored an imaginary steam game pass yesterday and I just want to stress:
Subscription-based media libraries go hand in hand with large conglomerate centralization. They are a major component to the current environment seeing heavy churn and layoffs in media.
Subscription-based media libraries go hand in hand with large conglomerate centralization. They are a major component to the current environment seeing heavy churn and layoffs in media.
May 26, 2025 at 11:22 AM
See also that one mega library vendor that is dropping all perpetual-access sales and going subscription-only
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(5/5) media offerings as disposable space fillers; people aren't buying products, they're paying for access to a library and a library's value is directly connected to offering *new* content. Once each property is sufficiently "juiced," finding a way to jettison it to recover resources saves costs.
May 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
(5/5) media offerings as disposable space fillers; people aren't buying products, they're paying for access to a library and a library's value is directly connected to offering *new* content. Once each property is sufficiently "juiced," finding a way to jettison it to recover resources saves costs.
ChatGPT was asked to compare terms "generative AI" & "LLMs". Can't stop thinking abt the output:
"Generative AI is the chatterbox at the cocktail party who keeps the conversation flowing with wild anecdotes, while LLMs are the meticulous librarians cataloging every word ever spoken at every party."
"Generative AI is the chatterbox at the cocktail party who keeps the conversation flowing with wild anecdotes, while LLMs are the meticulous librarians cataloging every word ever spoken at every party."
May 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
ChatGPT was asked to compare terms "generative AI" & "LLMs". Can't stop thinking abt the output:
"Generative AI is the chatterbox at the cocktail party who keeps the conversation flowing with wild anecdotes, while LLMs are the meticulous librarians cataloging every word ever spoken at every party."
"Generative AI is the chatterbox at the cocktail party who keeps the conversation flowing with wild anecdotes, while LLMs are the meticulous librarians cataloging every word ever spoken at every party."
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people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
May 18, 2025 at 3:31 AM
people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future
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If you’re a leftist, you need to be discussing disability rights because it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time. People are becoming more and more disabled in a society that has been allowing high risk people to die. Eugenics is happening RIGHT NOW!!
May 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
If you’re a leftist, you need to be discussing disability rights because it’s one of the most pressing issues of our time. People are becoming more and more disabled in a society that has been allowing high risk people to die. Eugenics is happening RIGHT NOW!!
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Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
Statement against Carla Hayden's Firing May 14 2025.docx
docs.google.com
May 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Interested individuals (library workers or librarians), please sign by midnight on May 17, 2025.
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
docs.google.com/document/d/e...
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this is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. Never speak to the cops. NEVER SPEAK TO THE COPS .
He has nothing to hide. You can tell the cops your life story when you haven't done anything illegal and you have the money for a good attorney.
May 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
this is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE. Never speak to the cops. NEVER SPEAK TO THE COPS .
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Only kids who get measles die from measles.
RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”
No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.
Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!
May 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Only kids who get measles die from measles.
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George W. Bush was the worst President of the last few generations and it's really not close. what we in the US are (rightly!) up in arms about is that Trump is the worst President for us, specifically - which is a different thing
(Me, a genius) I see no through line with how George W Bush, who legalized torture through illegal means and illegally invaded a country and killed millions of people, is connected to the current moment
May 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
George W. Bush was the worst President of the last few generations and it's really not close. what we in the US are (rightly!) up in arms about is that Trump is the worst President for us, specifically - which is a different thing
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Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.
arstechnica.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Basically traps AI crawlers and sends them down an "infinite maze" of static files with no exit links, where they get stuck and thrash around for months. Once trapped, the crawlers can be fed gibberish data, aka Markov babble, which is designed to poison AI models arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Yup, and it's so hard to get liberals/leftists to see how their embrace of Covid denialism is directly connected to things like losing cancer therapies. Reminder that Covid/the pandemic never ended, Biden lied to the public to force ppl back to work. Mask up and fight for public health!
May 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Yup, and it's so hard to get liberals/leftists to see how their embrace of Covid denialism is directly connected to things like losing cancer therapies. Reminder that Covid/the pandemic never ended, Biden lied to the public to force ppl back to work. Mask up and fight for public health!
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Exasperatingly frequently necessary reminder that the weaponization of ableism and fatphobia and homophobia and transphobia against your political enemies still works to NORMALIZE those things, thus SYSTEMICALLY HARMING your supposed allies.
July 28, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Exasperatingly frequently necessary reminder that the weaponization of ableism and fatphobia and homophobia and transphobia against your political enemies still works to NORMALIZE those things, thus SYSTEMICALLY HARMING your supposed allies.
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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
April 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down
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This is an *active* current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.
“The new charge would be a class B misdemeanor and apply if someone wears a mask or covers their face with the intent of concealing their identity while committing a class A misdemeanor or felony or immediately fleeing the scene”
They’re, of course, hanging this on Jews (WHO DO NOT WANT THIS)
They’re, of course, hanging this on Jews (WHO DO NOT WANT THIS)
Gov. Hochul, lawmakers strike deal on new crime of wearing mask while evading arrest
The deal between Hochul and the Legislature’s Democratic majorities clears a major hurdle to a final budget deal.
gothamist.com
April 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
This is an *active* current example of democrats helping to pass a law that will actively hurt people fighting civil rights and civil liberties in our current crisis moment. Either help the movement, get out of the way, or admit what side you’re on.
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i would not under any circumstances take their word for it and it is entirely likely that they will do it now without publicizing it because, after all, there is no fucking oversight anymore
Breaking: HHS says there will NOT be an autism registry after all, walking back earlier claims from the NIH director www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/n...
No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
www.statnews.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
i would not under any circumstances take their word for it and it is entirely likely that they will do it now without publicizing it because, after all, there is no fucking oversight anymore
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179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message:
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
April 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
179 experts. 28 countries. 1 message:
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
Long COVID is real, multi-systemic, and devastating. It affects over 400 million people. And we're not prepared.
New global consensus just dropped.
link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…
🧵
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Whoever taught white dudes that skepticism in the face of evidence makes them smart needs to be destroyed.
April 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Whoever taught white dudes that skepticism in the face of evidence makes them smart needs to be destroyed.
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Another story of
1. Admin sends fascist order
2. Media reports on it
3. People are outraged, say no
4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake”
Lesson is defy fascist orders
kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...
1. Admin sends fascist order
2. Media reports on it
3. People are outraged, say no
4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake”
Lesson is defy fascist orders
kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...
BYU student's visa reinstated after unexpected revocation
A Japanese doctorate student at BYU will now be able to stay in the U.S. after his visa was revoked earlier this month.
kslnewsradio.com
April 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Another story of
1. Admin sends fascist order
2. Media reports on it
3. People are outraged, say no
4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake”
Lesson is defy fascist orders
kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...
1. Admin sends fascist order
2. Media reports on it
3. People are outraged, say no
4. Admin says “actually that order was a mistake”
Lesson is defy fascist orders
kslnewsradio.com/shows-podcas...
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If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
April 20, 2025 at 2:08 AM
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
April 18, 2025 at 5:20 AM
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
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The truth is, we never, in any systematic way, made classrooms safe, like ensuring upgraded ventilation and air purification in schools.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
April 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The truth is, we never, in any systematic way, made classrooms safe, like ensuring upgraded ventilation and air purification in schools.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
And COVID ripped through classrooms. Kids fueled household spread and hundreds of thousands of them lost caregivers to the virus.
But we don’t talk about THAT.
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The Novavax shot produced one day of mild fatigue for my wife. The mRNA shots caused dysautonomia and POTS flares that knocked her out for several days. Please support this. The deadline is 11:59 PM EST on 4/11/25.
April 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
The Novavax shot produced one day of mild fatigue for my wife. The mRNA shots caused dysautonomia and POTS flares that knocked her out for several days. Please support this. The deadline is 11:59 PM EST on 4/11/25.
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Literally three minutes. You can comment anonymously. Losing Novavax would be a huge step backward. We need to let them know we’re watching.
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Literally three minutes. You can comment anonymously. Losing Novavax would be a huge step backward. We need to let them know we’re watching.
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If you’d like a script for the public comment, here’s one:
Please approve the 2025 version of Novavax for patients who are contraindicated for mRNA vaccines. Patients who cannot tolerate mRNAs deserve protection and another effective option.
Please approve the 2025 version of Novavax for patients who are contraindicated for mRNA vaccines. Patients who cannot tolerate mRNAs deserve protection and another effective option.
April 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
If you’d like a script for the public comment, here’s one:
Please approve the 2025 version of Novavax for patients who are contraindicated for mRNA vaccines. Patients who cannot tolerate mRNAs deserve protection and another effective option.
Please approve the 2025 version of Novavax for patients who are contraindicated for mRNA vaccines. Patients who cannot tolerate mRNAs deserve protection and another effective option.