CCL
@christianlamb.bsky.social
archivist/archives professor studying memory, ethical documentation, archives & justice. she/her.
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i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all
November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
i love when people use search engines in movies but i love when people use search engines in hallmark movies most of all
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Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Best metaphor I've heard is that using AI is like bringing a forklift to lift the weights at the gym. The point is to build YOUR muscles, not to make the weights go up and down.
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Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Slaveholder ancestry and current net worth of members of the United States Congress
Background Whether and how much past slavery affects contemporary social and economic conditions in the United States is an area of active debate. Newly available data on which members of the United S...
journals.plos.org
August 24, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Think slavery doesn't matter today? Wrong. Current Congress members whose families owned 16+ enslaved people now have 4 million $ more than members who did not own slaves. Slave owning = 2024 money and influence 🧪 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What
October 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage
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remember how much it sucked when a covid vaccine was like 9 to 36 months away and then felt like a fucking miracle when it arrived
September 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
remember how much it sucked when a covid vaccine was like 9 to 36 months away and then felt like a fucking miracle when it arrived
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I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis
August 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis
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huge day for the himbo community
August 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
huge day for the himbo community
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NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
The Professors Who Supported the Student Deportation Frenzy
GoFundMe donations, social media posts, and board memberships reveal how a handful of faculty members are backing Zionist doxxing outfits.
www.dropsitenews.com
July 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
NEW: While many academics worried about danger to free speech in higher ed during Trump admin's arrests of students for pro-Palestine speech, some liberal arts professors were supporting the groups looking to detain students...sometimes on their own campuses.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/documentin...
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"healthy life" what about the emotional toll of never getting to eat a hot dog
“Eating one hot dog and bun results in the loss of 27-36 minutes of healthy life.” www.cnn.com/2021/08/27/h...
July 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"healthy life" what about the emotional toll of never getting to eat a hot dog
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being alive right now is completely incompatible with sanity on every level and every day i feel more and more crazy
July 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
being alive right now is completely incompatible with sanity on every level and every day i feel more and more crazy
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she’s laughing about it because haha interview time, but it’s incredibly bleak!
h/t @/jessicaschiffer from Over There for the video 🎾
h/t @/jessicaschiffer from Over There for the video 🎾
July 23, 2025 at 2:05 AM
she’s laughing about it because haha interview time, but it’s incredibly bleak!
h/t @/jessicaschiffer from Over There for the video 🎾
h/t @/jessicaschiffer from Over There for the video 🎾
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Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
libraryfreedom.org
July 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Excellent ICE response guide for academic library workers from the Library Freedom Project. Includes proactive defense prep as well as rapid response. Please RT, library friends. libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
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I'm just so tired of hearing the AI inevitability narrative, itself a product of AI hype, as the starting place for (re)organizing our work and lives
Imagine* grounding an "AI Guiding Principles" doc in a place of refusal where folks can opt *in* to using AI, rather than rooting it in assumptions of AI proliferation that "recognize" people's decision to opt out
* Pondered while reading the 1st draft of my Library's AI Policy Task Force doc
* Pondered while reading the 1st draft of my Library's AI Policy Task Force doc
July 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I'm just so tired of hearing the AI inevitability narrative, itself a product of AI hype, as the starting place for (re)organizing our work and lives
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.
June 16, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.
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I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.
Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.
To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.
And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.
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ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
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Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Every safety regulation was written in blood, frequently with a body count higher than one, and it’s not political to put the blame on people who want to “move fast and break things” when they start breaking human lives.
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It is becoming increasingly funny to me when I see things like 'AI will be able to do all research!'
Buddy I don't know how to break it to you, but the amount of information that is not in any sort of digital form, let alone machine readable, is massive.
Buddy I don't know how to break it to you, but the amount of information that is not in any sort of digital form, let alone machine readable, is massive.
April 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
It is becoming increasingly funny to me when I see things like 'AI will be able to do all research!'
Buddy I don't know how to break it to you, but the amount of information that is not in any sort of digital form, let alone machine readable, is massive.
Buddy I don't know how to break it to you, but the amount of information that is not in any sort of digital form, let alone machine readable, is massive.
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Lots of amazing details in this, including this story about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reaction to the 2019 film Cats.
April 10, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Lots of amazing details in this, including this story about Andrew Lloyd Webber’s reaction to the 2019 film Cats.