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nimisha bhat
@mishiebhat.bsky.social
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librarian. a south dakotan in ohio. she/her (views are my own)
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mishiebhat.bsky.social
I am weeping
shameka23.bsky.social Shameka 🏀 @shameka23.bsky.social · 19h
Remember that little boy who cried uncontrollably because he wanted A’ja Wilson to come to his house??? He got to MEET her and I cannot deal… 🥹😭❤️ #WNBA
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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erinrpineda.bsky.social
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
Two posts asking whether university administrators have thought about the consequences of purchasing and promoting AI for college campuses given a well documented college mental health crisis, and pointing out that university investment and endorsement may signal to students that dangerous technology is safe and beneficial
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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librarian.bsky.social
This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.
derek.bike derek van vliet @derek.bike · 6d
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
you should be allowed to attempt a layup at the hoop if your polling place is in a gym
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
all of these losers have zero information or media literacy skills and now they get to decide the fate of so many people
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 13d
Yes, Lord of the Rings is about how you must trust the “hard men.” Just as Narnia is about an evil lion. And the New Testament tells a tale of a wimp who wouldn’t fight back. Next week on “fascists read classics,” we’ll meet tech visionary George Orwell…
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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kamakru.bsky.social
Here's a way to search all food banks:
www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

After you put in your zip code, if there aren't many results then click on "see nearby pantries" and it'll give you a map with everything on it.
rincewind.run Micah @rincewind.run · 15d
important reminder: food banks usually prefer money to direct food donations because they can buy at discounted rates

check with your local food bank to be sure but now is the time to help out
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17d
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘the greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression’
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
today I learned that there’s an ohio apple variety called ludacrisp
About | Ludacrisp®
Crazy Good!
www.ludacrispapples.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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likechristianb.bsky.social
We must all rally behind America’s Team: the Toronto Blue Jays
October 21, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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aclu.org
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.

Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
October 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
remember when academia and librarians demonized wikipedia for undermining research integrity and now universities are throwing millions of dollars at AI and librarians are twisting themselves into knots to teach students how to use it “ethically”
October 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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wehere.bsky.social
OUT NOW ❤️‍🔥The House Archives Built & Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities by Dorothy Berry is now available: www.weherespace.org. The first 50 copies sold will be signed.
October 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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rebeccanagle.bsky.social
🧵How Native Americans are impacted by the government shutdown…
October 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
zotero's new update has a sleeker dark mode layout, big day for me
October 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
‘tis the season
cc: @bbburgerrr.bsky.social
A tan dog curled up between legs with a white and blue striped sweater on knitting needles in the foreground
October 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
excited to lead this discussion next week!
lispedagogychat.bsky.social LIS Pedagogy Chat @lispedagogychat.bsky.social · Oct 10
What support do library workers need to successfully conduct and publish original research? Join next week’s chat, led by Hailley Fargo, Charissa Powell, Chelsea Heinbach, and Nimisha Bhat from LibParlor! Friday, October 17, 2 pm ET. Learn more at www.lispedagogychat.org/schedule-reg...
Schedule & Registration — LIS Pedagogy Chat
www.lispedagogychat.org
October 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
“Jeffrey Bardzell, the current dean of SILS, has accepted a secondary appointment as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI”

I wonder what it’s like to not feel shame
October 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
I hope they make the homonym show from 30 rock next
October 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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violetbfox.bsky.social
Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚
A flyer for a set of documents "Demonstrating the value of cataloging". Six folders are labeled "talking points for administrators, top 5 reasons why you need a cataloger, annotated bibliography, resources list & acronym cheat sheet, side-by-side comparisons of good administrators bad metadata, and introduction to metadata zine. At the bottom text reads you can find these resources at the link in the post, and they were created by the ALA SAC Devaluation of Cataloging Working Group, 2025.
April 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
mishiebhat.bsky.social
"AI is not just a technology. It is a social problem. There is zero reason to allow it to run us over without a plan to mitigate its completely predictable negative effects. The political coalition for this should be: everyone."
hamiltonnolan.bsky.social Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Oct 7
It takes no special technical expertise to know that
1) AI's main value proposition today is automating labor,
2) AI is going to supercharge economic inequality, and
3) If we do not get out in front of that policy-wise, we are fools.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-o...
Thinking of AI as a Social Problem
No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jacobsberg.bsky.social
Cool cool
📜📚
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
Libraries have shared their collections internationally for decades. Trump’s tariffs are throwing that system into chaos and can ‘hinder academic progress.’
www.404media.co
October 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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bergisjules.bsky.social
Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
A digital poster with information and a link (bit.ly/warc-2026-signup) about signing up to receive reminders and updates for release of the 2026 web archiving school application.
October 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
new york yankees century of humiliation underway
October 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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megrowler.fangraphs.com
We’ve all joked that the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016 opened a vortex to Trump, but have we considered that the Astros missing the playoffs for the first time since 2016 might close it? Much to consider.
September 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM