Meredith Kahn
@mkahn.bsky.social
ope we wrote a book: https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
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Meredith Kahn
@mkahn.bsky.social
· Mar 27
an ass that won't quit and also cannot be easily fired due to an ironclad collectively-bargained contract, won by the ass and her union comrades
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Thank you, Canadian taxpayers!
December 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thank you, Canadian taxpayers!
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People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.
December 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.
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This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.
December 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
Resetting the counter on the "days since the AHA did some dumbfuckery" sign to zero...
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Resetting the counter on the "days since the AHA did some dumbfuckery" sign to zero...
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If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
"Men are men. Men can never become women. Women are women. Women can never become men."
December 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.
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Pushing AI onto university students is not about “workforce development”, it’s about creating consumers.
December 15, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Pushing AI onto university students is not about “workforce development”, it’s about creating consumers.
Have a short piece of writing due in January. Started a document and wrote 100 words. Please clap.
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Have a short piece of writing due in January. Started a document and wrote 100 words. Please clap.
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alright i've slept on it after leader training and:
AFT radical caucus when
AFT radical caucus when
December 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
alright i've slept on it after leader training and:
AFT radical caucus when
AFT radical caucus when
Now this is what we call realistic world-building! www.vulture.com/article/heat...
December 7, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Now this is what we call realistic world-building! www.vulture.com/article/heat...
We wrote a book for library workers. Relevant for workers in museums and archives, too. alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We wrote a book for library workers. Relevant for workers in museums and archives, too. alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
We have a long-running tradition of “no boomers allowed” turkey days. Attendees include a bunch of gen x and millennial siblings and cousins and whatnot. The meal is superb and the conversation sparkling!
Actually in the spirit of this conversation, what’s a decision you made about a past Thanksgiving holiday that really paid off? I think people often feel trapped by their lives. Sharing our experiences can liberate us from that sense of claustrophobia.
On the most recent episode of VIBE CHECK, we answer listener questions about Thanksgiving, most importantly “do you go celebrate with the family members you don’t even like?”
November 23, 2025 at 11:05 PM
We have a long-running tradition of “no boomers allowed” turkey days. Attendees include a bunch of gen x and millennial siblings and cousins and whatnot. The meal is superb and the conversation sparkling!
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We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
November 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
Sometimes shenanigans aren't confined to the hotel. In 2009 I interviewed for a librarian job at a SLAC in Ohio. Meeting prospective colleagues in a room with portraits of the college's past presidents, someone sidled up to me and said in a stage whisper "we had a Jewish president once!"
In 2012, I had an interview with two interviewers at an R1 when, halfway through the interview in the hotel room, the toilet flushed and a third person emerged from the bathroom. And then, the three proceeded to debate the semantics of my dissertation... without me.
And that story was nothing.
And that story was nothing.
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Sometimes shenanigans aren't confined to the hotel. In 2009 I interviewed for a librarian job at a SLAC in Ohio. Meeting prospective colleagues in a room with portraits of the college's past presidents, someone sidled up to me and said in a stage whisper "we had a Jewish president once!"
I’m tapping the sign again… lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/...
November 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I’m tapping the sign again… lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/...
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Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Kids these days are so fantastically ignorant that they can't recognize the Grand Nagus himself even when granted a personal audience. The average teenager can barely name 5 or 10 of the Rules of Acquisition.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This is like listening to my boomer dad who has uncontrolled type 2 diabetes talk about his blood glucose levels.
Reporter: Did you get an MRI?
Trump: I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect. Yeah… nobody has given you reports like I have given you. The doctors said some of the best reports they have ever seen.
Trump: I did. I got an MRI. It was perfect. Yeah… nobody has given you reports like I have given you. The doctors said some of the best reports they have ever seen.
October 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This is like listening to my boomer dad who has uncontrolled type 2 diabetes talk about his blood glucose levels.
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when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...
Tripitaka Koreana - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when I visited korea last year I went to haeinsa temple to see the tripitaka koreana, a set of 80k+ wooden printing blocks for buddhist scriptures, made in the 13th century en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripita...
Trump take cottage cheese?
October 23, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Trump take cottage cheese?
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i don't know who needs to hear this but phlox is easily a top 5 star trek character
October 22, 2025 at 4:11 AM
i don't know who needs to hear this but phlox is easily a top 5 star trek character
Like 20 years ago my spouse accidentally bought banilla yogurt, and to this day we still say “oh no not banilla” every time one of us puts the (correct) yogurt in the fridge when unpacking the groceries.
October 18, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Like 20 years ago my spouse accidentally bought banilla yogurt, and to this day we still say “oh no not banilla” every time one of us puts the (correct) yogurt in the fridge when unpacking the groceries.