Sojourna
@thenotorioussjc.bsky.social
Trying. Library Work. Aspiring to levels of Maxine Shaw. NJ👉🏾PA👉🏾TN👉🏾VA👉🏾NC
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MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes
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100% the moment i lost it
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
100% the moment i lost it
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LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
LIBRARIES MAKE BOOKS ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE, she shouts, apparently inaudibly
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
WHY DO THESE "YOU'RE A CLASS TRAITOR" PEOPLE KEEP PRETENDING LIBRARIES DON'T EXIST?
ARE THEY CLASS TRAITORS WHO DON'T BELIEVE IN LIBRARIES?
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
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Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
ED Reaches Consensus On Loan Caps
A very limited number of degree programs would have access to the highest level of loans under a new set of regulations that the Department of Education and its negotiating committee signed off on Thu...
www.insidehighered.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Tl;dr Republicans want to cut the list of "professional degrees" so that many fewer are eligible for the highest level of student loans. Fields cut include nursing, PT, public health. They forced this through a committee but it will have to go through regulatory process. Fight is just beginning.
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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“Everyone that I know who works or studies at UNC understands that we have to protect ourselves, because no one in the administration will help with that.”
– Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill AAUP
– Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill AAUP
Nearby ICE Raids Stoke Fear on North Carolina Campuses
As federal immigration enforcement agents descend on North Carolina, campus leaders are rushing to advise fearful staff and students about how to respond.
www.insidehighered.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
“Everyone that I know who works or studies at UNC understands that we have to protect ourselves, because no one in the administration will help with that.”
– Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill AAUP
– Michael Palm, UNC Chapel Hill AAUP
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I’ve never had to ask ChatGPT anything I have a phone full of autistic people with hyperfixations, I can just ask *them* about the Mayerling Incident
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I’ve never had to ask ChatGPT anything I have a phone full of autistic people with hyperfixations, I can just ask *them* about the Mayerling Incident
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I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am also *that person* who mentions that we have lost some trust but it's just aa much about institutions making commitments in 2020 that they walked back within 5 years and colleges who say all your learning can happen in a chatbot which devalues actual cognition.
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NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
As ICE descends on Charlotte, faith leaders draw on other cities' actions to aid immigrants
(RNS) — As many as 500 people, a mix of clergy and other volunteers, have appeared at the training sessions on how to counter ICE.
religionnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews.
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...
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Since these will not be professional degrees they will not be eligible for federal aid or subsidies of any kind. note Education is on this list.
November 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Since these will not be professional degrees they will not be eligible for federal aid or subsidies of any kind. note Education is on this list.
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Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Is there a national organization organizing and supporting faculty at universities cross the US working to resist and fight back against university admin efforts to impose AI into pedagogy and research?
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
It would be supremely helpful to be part of a shared campaign effort across universities.
The triangle has one of the highest concentration of academic libraries in the country. I’m pretty sure all of them have makerspaces🤔
Message me to request whistles, or check out links to get you started on your own whistle operation!
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November 18, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The triangle has one of the highest concentration of academic libraries in the country. I’m pretty sure all of them have makerspaces🤔
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This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This is terrifying.
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
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"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
"[AI agents] can... infer a researcher's latent hypotheses and produce data that artificially confirms them."
...
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people" -@seanjwestwood.bsky.social
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ICE appears to be headed to Raleigh today.
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ICE appears to be headed to Raleigh today.
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
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If you know someone who is feeling
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
Join me on 12/12 for a public online workshop focused on deepening our social change commitments for 2026. Register at www.socialchangemap.com.
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If you know someone who is feeling
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
1) unmoored because they don't know how to be most helpful to their community in this moment and/or
2) overloaded because they say yes to wayyyy too many asks
...great news, this workshop is for them!
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Raleigh city leaders could have deployed RPD to monitor and document the legality of ICE operations, but they didn’t.
They could’ve passed new laws on the use of tear gas and “non lethal” weapons, but they didn’t.
They could’ve passed new laws on the use of tear gas and “non lethal” weapons, but they didn’t.
November 18, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Raleigh city leaders could have deployed RPD to monitor and document the legality of ICE operations, but they didn’t.
They could’ve passed new laws on the use of tear gas and “non lethal” weapons, but they didn’t.
They could’ve passed new laws on the use of tear gas and “non lethal” weapons, but they didn’t.
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White bros have tanked the economy OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. It's a testament to white supremacy that they continue to hold the power to do this.
“People have an incentive to say I’m wrong . . . and I feel, behind [closed] doors, people are more concerned about what I’m saying than they are in public.” www.ft.com/content/61ce...
‘I’m nervous’: Klarna founder challenges trillion-dollar spending on AI
OpenAI backer Sebastian Siemiatkowski says tech industry is committing too much money to huge computing infrastructure
www.ft.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
White bros have tanked the economy OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. It's a testament to white supremacy that they continue to hold the power to do this.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry