Honored to be included!

Carrie is incredible and everyone should watch her talk about the impacts of the politicization of health and science librarianship in the US!

This conversation was a lot of fun. Let me know what you think and go advocate for your local library! <3

Paul T. Jaeger and @ajenningsroche.bsky.social discuss their new article in The Political Librarian, Clarifying Intellectual Freedom, Neutrality, and Professional Expertise to Better Defend Libraries from Books Bans, Disinformation, and Defunding.

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Paul T. Jaeger and Allison Jennings-Roche discuss their new article in The Political Librarian, Clarifying Intellectual Freedom, Neutrality, and Professional Expertise to Better Defend Libraries from Books Bans, Disinformation, and Defunding.

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Check out this Special Issue of The Political Librarian, "The 2024 Election and the Future of Libraries," co-edited by the University of Baltimore's own @ajenningsroche.bsky.social. Congrats and great job, Allison!

It's really extraordinary to get a 1 a.m. order from the U.S. Supreme Court on litigation that didn't even exist until 8 hours ago.

That suggests that (at least 7 of them) are taking this Constitutional threat seriously.

Nothing has changed about the dangers of large language models but that doesn't stop me from enjoying the tech bros meltdowns over DeepSeek. Drinking their own Kool-Aid and then trying to come up with all sorts of explanations for why no "the Chinese aren't innovating."

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they resisted turning over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s staffers. America, please stand with us—we are fighting to defend this country!

Pete Hegseth sometimes sounds like a radicalized alt-right guy from 2017. The reason likely has to do with the way those activists reshaped conservatism.

I wrote about that and where it could lead here:

michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/why-does-p...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

How did we get here? People ask.

1. Corporate PR masquerading as journalism, i.e., journalists doing their marketing and PR for them.

2. Academics who know better joining the hype and grift and misleading the public.

Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see

1. The data it was trained & evaluated on

2. The code

3. Model architecture

4. Model weights.

DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

if the computer tool you use regularly hallucinates lies,
stop
sourcing
stuff
to
it

My friend did a podcast, and holy moly it is good.

YKWFU?? Banned Books!! On Podbean, and soon, wherever you get your podcasts.

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