cudjoe
@cudjoe.bsky.social
Artist • Librarian • Latine/x • Struggling for the wretched of the earth
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🚨 “A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from musicians to train its language models”
A landmark European ruling!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A landmark European ruling!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 PM
🚨 “A court in Munich has ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT violated German copyright laws by using hits from musicians to train its language models”
A landmark European ruling!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
A landmark European ruling!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Libraries have been moving to rely more on networks to fill the gaps of austerity, and now they are unraveling.
“ALL of Florida lost its [interlibrary loan] services as of October 1. This, of course, most harms those in rural communities. That means those with the most to lose and with the weakest access to education and entertainment materials are now wholly dependent on what their own library owns…”
The Current State of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (October 2025 Edition)
Grant money that should be going to library projects is going to state-sponsored propaganda, among other IMLS updates.
buttondown.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Libraries have been moving to rely more on networks to fill the gaps of austerity, and now they are unraveling.
Reds is still my favorite Diane Keaton movie. RIP 💔
Reds got robbed for best pic BTW.
Reds got robbed for best pic BTW.
October 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Reds is still my favorite Diane Keaton movie. RIP 💔
Reds got robbed for best pic BTW.
Reds got robbed for best pic BTW.
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Michigan Avenue right now.
October 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Michigan Avenue right now.
So on point. I can't remember exactly what year it was but when Taylor Swift used a Grammy win to drop more merch, it was the jumped shark moment for her that she rather just dive into money than creativity.
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
defector.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
So on point. I can't remember exactly what year it was but when Taylor Swift used a Grammy win to drop more merch, it was the jumped shark moment for her that she rather just dive into money than creativity.
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"I can’t think of anything more chilling to First Amendment activity, or more designed to prevent coverage of high-profile, newsworthy events, than to criminally charge reporters for being present on the scene,” he said. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...
On trial for journalism in Kentucky.
Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
www.cjr.org
September 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"I can’t think of anything more chilling to First Amendment activity, or more designed to prevent coverage of high-profile, newsworthy events, than to criminally charge reporters for being present on the scene,” he said. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
For the love of humanity:
If attending an online meeting and you need to talk, please use a microphone or anything with a mic on it please. Your crappy computer catches room echo and distorts your voice.
That's all.
If attending an online meeting and you need to talk, please use a microphone or anything with a mic on it please. Your crappy computer catches room echo and distorts your voice.
That's all.
September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
For the love of humanity:
If attending an online meeting and you need to talk, please use a microphone or anything with a mic on it please. Your crappy computer catches room echo and distorts your voice.
That's all.
If attending an online meeting and you need to talk, please use a microphone or anything with a mic on it please. Your crappy computer catches room echo and distorts your voice.
That's all.
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Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.
September 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.
I for one would love to see Ras Baraka primary @corybooker.com Booker's style of performative politics while doing the bidding of corporate interests has run its course.
#rasbaraka #coreybooker @rasjbaraka.bsky.social #njpolitics #newjersey #newjerseypolitics #USSenate
#rasbaraka #coreybooker @rasjbaraka.bsky.social #njpolitics #newjersey #newjerseypolitics #USSenate
August 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I for one would love to see Ras Baraka primary @corybooker.com Booker's style of performative politics while doing the bidding of corporate interests has run its course.
#rasbaraka #coreybooker @rasjbaraka.bsky.social #njpolitics #newjersey #newjerseypolitics #USSenate
#rasbaraka #coreybooker @rasjbaraka.bsky.social #njpolitics #newjersey #newjerseypolitics #USSenate
AI for research or writing? Could be damaging your thinking.
July 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
AI for research or writing? Could be damaging your thinking.
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Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
What DOGE has perfectly demonstrated is that innovation for innovation (or disruption) sake costs human lives.
June 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What DOGE has perfectly demonstrated is that innovation for innovation (or disruption) sake costs human lives.
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A spokesperson for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen confirmed to NJ Spotlight News that there will be a strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
NJ Transit engineers strike, raising commuter fears | NJ Spotlight News
NJ Transit rail engineers said they were going on strike, ending months of negotiations and beginning a job action poised to disrupt New Jersey’s public
www.njspotlightnews.org
May 16, 2025 at 3:37 AM
A spokesperson for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen confirmed to NJ Spotlight News that there will be a strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday.
NJ Transit's line about NJTransit workers don't deserve the same wage as NY workers is the biggest BS line ever. The cost of living is basically the same. #strike #njtransitstrike
May 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
NJ Transit's line about NJTransit workers don't deserve the same wage as NY workers is the biggest BS line ever. The cost of living is basically the same. #strike #njtransitstrike
Librarians (or anyone else who use): what's an alternative to Kindle (because you know, the evil empire).
April 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Librarians (or anyone else who use): what's an alternative to Kindle (because you know, the evil empire).
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Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
April 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections.
Use it or lose it!
Exactly what needed to be said at #acrl2025 where too many were uncritical of AI and its effects on society especially our students.
Here's my lightning talk about AI at #acrl2025 this morning. Thanks to @nicoloff.bsky.social for recording.
youtu.be/H2UdS1MqH8w?...
youtu.be/H2UdS1MqH8w?...
Take a Breath. Most Students Don't Need AI Skills
YouTube video by Molly June Roquet
youtu.be
April 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Exactly what needed to be said at #acrl2025 where too many were uncritical of AI and its effects on society especially our students.
The greatness of going to conferences like #acrl2025 is the community we develop from such engagements, and the potential power from our shared experiences to change our communities at home.
April 5, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The greatness of going to conferences like #acrl2025 is the community we develop from such engagements, and the potential power from our shared experiences to change our communities at home.
Ran into a demonstration of indigenous community members outside the Hennepin County Library over the brutality by a private security company on a local man. According to them after George Floyd instead of reforming the police they invested in private "mercenaries".
#acrl2025
#acrl2025
April 4, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Ran into a demonstration of indigenous community members outside the Hennepin County Library over the brutality by a private security company on a local man. According to them after George Floyd instead of reforming the police they invested in private "mercenaries".
#acrl2025
#acrl2025
While obviously our atmosphere in higher right now is a sense of dread and fear, I'm hoping we can find our fight and use our collective imagination, as Ruha Benjamin argued in her keynote, to start creating a new world. #acrl2025
April 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
While obviously our atmosphere in higher right now is a sense of dread and fear, I'm hoping we can find our fight and use our collective imagination, as Ruha Benjamin argued in her keynote, to start creating a new world. #acrl2025
More than packed room for a Librarian panel about Navigating the AI Frontier. I will be paying to attention to how much hype is being used in our discourse about AI. #acrl2025
April 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
More than packed room for a Librarian panel about Navigating the AI Frontier. I will be paying to attention to how much hype is being used in our discourse about AI. #acrl2025
April 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM