Jess Schomberg
@schomj.bsky.social
Librarian, disability, union member 🏳️🌈
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Contact info and various socials: https://linktr.ee/schomj
(they/them)
Contact info and various socials: https://linktr.ee/schomj
You know things are getting bad out there when Amz is promoting face masks as a popular order
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
You know things are getting bad out there when Amz is promoting face masks as a popular order
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Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses.
Rejoice! Carmakers Are Embracing Physical Buttons Again
Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its…
wrd.cm
December 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.
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where my mind goes whenever people complain that a bike lane is a waste of space because it’s underused
December 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
where my mind goes whenever people complain that a bike lane is a waste of space because it’s underused
Wondering if I want to read this?
The Feast of the Goat
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptines…
www.goodreads.com
December 31, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Wondering if I want to read this?
@jesbattis.bsky.social I think theres's a chance you've already read this, but if not I wanted to share it with you. A lot of the stories are about poetry (writing it and teaching it)
December 31, 2025 at 12:20 AM
@jesbattis.bsky.social I think theres's a chance you've already read this, but if not I wanted to share it with you. A lot of the stories are about poetry (writing it and teaching it)
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I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have to admit, I also always had kinda the wrong idea about Norman Rockwell until I saw the piece "Murder in Mississippi" as a teen in art history class
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generally, I think most of us are more likely to lose our jobs because the trustees decided to “reimagine the university” (eliminate 1/3 of departments) in “the face of fiscal constraints” (blew the endowment on real estate schemes) than due to a student debuting for americas next top reactionary
December 24, 2025 at 11:02 PM
generally, I think most of us are more likely to lose our jobs because the trustees decided to “reimagine the university” (eliminate 1/3 of departments) in “the face of fiscal constraints” (blew the endowment on real estate schemes) than due to a student debuting for americas next top reactionary
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if i’m walking hauntingly out on the moor and there isn’t a swirling mist behind me i swear to god
July 16, 2024 at 11:11 PM
if i’m walking hauntingly out on the moor and there isn’t a swirling mist behind me i swear to god
I've actually bought books because I saw the name of the translator on the cover (Anton Hur, Megan McDowell, among others). I know they do high quality work, so I take a chance on a new-to-me author.
Meanwhile I canceled my Crunchroll sub because the translation quality has gone downhill so much.
Meanwhile I canceled my Crunchroll sub because the translation quality has gone downhill so much.
Remember how I said I have it written into my foreign-language contracts that my work has to be translated by an actual human? This shit is why.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
Those book translations are gonna suck. They'll save money putting out books that are going to be painful to read. That's not a great long-term strategy.
French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations.
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin
December 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I've actually bought books because I saw the name of the translator on the cover (Anton Hur, Megan McDowell, among others). I know they do high quality work, so I take a chance on a new-to-me author.
Meanwhile I canceled my Crunchroll sub because the translation quality has gone downhill so much.
Meanwhile I canceled my Crunchroll sub because the translation quality has gone downhill so much.
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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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Because we can't tell people shit, "golden" use cases like the one OP is responding to become immediately suspect.
Put simply, the cost of AI hype is not just in terms of deskilling and disinformation, it is in terms of the very applications that enable us to do GOOD science like climate modelling.
Put simply, the cost of AI hype is not just in terms of deskilling and disinformation, it is in terms of the very applications that enable us to do GOOD science like climate modelling.
December 18, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Because we can't tell people shit, "golden" use cases like the one OP is responding to become immediately suspect.
Put simply, the cost of AI hype is not just in terms of deskilling and disinformation, it is in terms of the very applications that enable us to do GOOD science like climate modelling.
Put simply, the cost of AI hype is not just in terms of deskilling and disinformation, it is in terms of the very applications that enable us to do GOOD science like climate modelling.
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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I sympathize with our students not knowing what to do about genAI, given that some parts of the university are busy telling them to use it and get certificates in it and demanding they apply it and some of us are begging them to stop destroying themselves and the planet and our minds.
December 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I sympathize with our students not knowing what to do about genAI, given that some parts of the university are busy telling them to use it and get certificates in it and demanding they apply it and some of us are begging them to stop destroying themselves and the planet and our minds.
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C-15, a beneficial fatty acid is found in milk fat. The highest levels are found in cheese made from from sheep's milk.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
December 17, 2025 at 10:26 PM
C-15, a beneficial fatty acid is found in milk fat. The highest levels are found in cheese made from from sheep's milk.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Sometimes I think I know what I'm doing only to find out no, in fact I do not know what I'm doing.
December 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Sometimes I think I know what I'm doing only to find out no, in fact I do not know what I'm doing.
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Also lmao... the vendor Bluesky "partnered" with for age verification has that classic TOS where they can change their privacy policy, at any time, for any reason, without having to notify you, and do whatever they want with your data. Sure, why not, kids? www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/privac...
Privacy Policy
Free parent verification, enabling rich, COPPA-compliant digital experiences for young audiences.
www.kidswebservices.com
December 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Also lmao... the vendor Bluesky "partnered" with for age verification has that classic TOS where they can change their privacy policy, at any time, for any reason, without having to notify you, and do whatever they want with your data. Sure, why not, kids? www.kidswebservices.com/en-US/privac...
Youtube isn't allowing boosts on this, so doing it the old-fashioned way
Borders and Immigration
YouTube video by The Leftist Cooks
youtu.be
December 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Youtube isn't allowing boosts on this, so doing it the old-fashioned way
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the proposed $5000 tax credit for adopters would, in the words of too many birth mothers, have made the difference between relinquishing and keeping their own children.
December 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the proposed $5000 tax credit for adopters would, in the words of too many birth mothers, have made the difference between relinquishing and keeping their own children.
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Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
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one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
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Fuck YouTube. I would rather my videos stay removed than edit them to cut out the word gambling. For years, my work was about how loot boxes were gambling, and I used the word because companies didn’t want the word used.
I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them.
Fuck. YouTube.
I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them.
Fuck. YouTube.
December 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Fuck YouTube. I would rather my videos stay removed than edit them to cut out the word gambling. For years, my work was about how loot boxes were gambling, and I used the word because companies didn’t want the word used.
I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them.
Fuck. YouTube.
I’d sooner lose every video than destroy the point of them.
Fuck. YouTube.
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
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we knew that the Google Scholar enshittification was coming...
telling students to not cite papers, chapters, books, etc they haven't read has always been ab ensuring references' accuracy & appropriateness - now, apparently, there's another reason: to make sure references exist in the first place
telling students to not cite papers, chapters, books, etc they haven't read has always been ab ensuring references' accuracy & appropriateness - now, apparently, there's another reason: to make sure references exist in the first place
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
we knew that the Google Scholar enshittification was coming...
telling students to not cite papers, chapters, books, etc they haven't read has always been ab ensuring references' accuracy & appropriateness - now, apparently, there's another reason: to make sure references exist in the first place
telling students to not cite papers, chapters, books, etc they haven't read has always been ab ensuring references' accuracy & appropriateness - now, apparently, there's another reason: to make sure references exist in the first place
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No, you do not need "AI skills." "AI skills" refers to prompt engineering - being able to 'prompt the model correctly' to get anything approaching what you need. It is quite literally gaslighting you into doing the "intelligence" work for a so-called "AI."
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
December 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
No, you do not need "AI skills." "AI skills" refers to prompt engineering - being able to 'prompt the model correctly' to get anything approaching what you need. It is quite literally gaslighting you into doing the "intelligence" work for a so-called "AI."
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...
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This has begun to change and not for the better. Trump‘s overt hatred for disabled people forces Republicans to reject him, which they mostly don’t do, ignore him, which is hard, or follow him into his hatred.
It is notable that disabled rights are not as cleanly left/right split as other kinds of inclusion
Two things:
*They are only cutting these funds in seven states that lean Democratic
*Support for people with disabilities was a relatively bipartisan position. Trump has repeatedly made clear he does not see them as people worthy of support or dignity.
*They are only cutting these funds in seven states that lean Democratic
*Support for people with disabilities was a relatively bipartisan position. Trump has repeatedly made clear he does not see them as people worthy of support or dignity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This has begun to change and not for the better. Trump‘s overt hatred for disabled people forces Republicans to reject him, which they mostly don’t do, ignore him, which is hard, or follow him into his hatred.