TimFeetTall
@daylightpoetry.bsky.social
Library Director. Poet. AWP Writer to Writer Alum.
Upstate NY and SoCal.
Upstate NY and SoCal.
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There have been at least 4 bomb threats at college and university libraries this week.
October 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There have been at least 4 bomb threats at college and university libraries this week.
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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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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Last year, @governor.ca.gov vetoed Big Pharma’s giveaway bill. Now they’re back with SB 41—the same scam in a new package. Californians pay more, drug companies cash in. Time to veto it again. #StopSB41
Click here NOW to learn more: bit.ly/4plkwuK
Click here NOW to learn more: bit.ly/4plkwuK
Increasing health care costs is the last thing lawmakers should pursue - Capitol Weekly
OPINION - At the start of California’s 2025 legislative session, lawmakers in Sacramento emphasized that making the state a more affordable place to live would be a top priority. One of the most impac...
bit.ly
September 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Last year, @governor.ca.gov vetoed Big Pharma’s giveaway bill. Now they’re back with SB 41—the same scam in a new package. Californians pay more, drug companies cash in. Time to veto it again. #StopSB41
Click here NOW to learn more: bit.ly/4plkwuK
Click here NOW to learn more: bit.ly/4plkwuK
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” - Thucydides
Idiots committing war crimes, cowards letting fascists dismantle democracy. Here we are.
Idiots committing war crimes, cowards letting fascists dismantle democracy. Here we are.
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.” - Thucydides
Idiots committing war crimes, cowards letting fascists dismantle democracy. Here we are.
Idiots committing war crimes, cowards letting fascists dismantle democracy. Here we are.
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Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs
May 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Social mobility has been declining for decades but that's fine, we don't need the talents of 340 million people as long as we have the several dozen children of our stupidest oligarchs
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A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
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Russians have likely caused a new environmental disaster in the Black Sea: a massive oil slick is currently drifting toward Crimea following a Russian tanker accident and an oil spill near Novorossiysk. According to the latest data, the slick covers approximately 350 square kilometers.
September 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Russians have likely caused a new environmental disaster in the Black Sea: a massive oil slick is currently drifting toward Crimea following a Russian tanker accident and an oil spill near Novorossiysk. According to the latest data, the slick covers approximately 350 square kilometers.
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Very happy to read about these young, principled, and interesting librarians working in various places in Philadelphia 📚
www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
For Gen Z, the Library Is Political
People say libraries are dying. Young librarians think they’re just evolving — and expanding their social conscience as they do.
www.phillymag.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Very happy to read about these young, principled, and interesting librarians working in various places in Philadelphia 📚
www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
www.phillymag.com/news/2025/08...
What poetry journals should I apply to? It’s been a minute.
September 2, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What poetry journals should I apply to? It’s been a minute.
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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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Also particularly excited to spread the word about a new Kurdish publishing house, Henar Press, henarpress.org, which also has this Kurdish Literary Database (henarpress.org/database) of Kurdish works in English translated from Sorani Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Kurmanji, German, Farsi, & more.
August 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Also particularly excited to spread the word about a new Kurdish publishing house, Henar Press, henarpress.org, which also has this Kurdish Literary Database (henarpress.org/database) of Kurdish works in English translated from Sorani Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Kurmanji, German, Farsi, & more.
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#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators.
“There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
“There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
NYC youth baseball coach confronts ICE: ‘I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids'
A New York City baseball coach said he confronted immigration agents who questioned minors at a park: "I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids."
www.wcpo.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
#NYC baseball coach confronts ICE child predators.
“There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
“There's only one way to get into the cage, so my whole thing was I can control that. I was in front of the entrance and that's when I just said, you know, I may die here, but they will not take one of these kids." www.wcpo.com/politics/imm...
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My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
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DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
August 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
DOGE wasn’t a cost-cutting venture. It was a data mining operation for private interests. Trump opened the gates to the castle from inside for invaders with bad and greedy intent to plunder and exploit.
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AI is a continuation of slavery in that, it is the desire for free labor and in the white imagination free labor is always Black. Always.
Let’s start with the fact that dude is doing Digital Blackface and calling it his “sidekick”
A ‘world first’: New AI teaching ‘sidekick’ to debut at this Canadian university in the fall
An upcoming course at Simon Fraser University is setting a precedent by helping students learn using a live, 3D artificial intelligence tool named Kia.
www.thestar.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AI is a continuation of slavery in that, it is the desire for free labor and in the white imagination free labor is always Black. Always.
In other library desecration news today
I am a simpleton, but it does not make much sense to me to hang a picture of a literal traitor in the halls of your military learning institution www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/u...
Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In other library desecration news today
Every fucking time lol. I remember the article where an economics professor was upset he was paying $5000 in library taxes on his $5,000,000 property.
August 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Every fucking time lol. I remember the article where an economics professor was upset he was paying $5000 in library taxes on his $5,000,000 property.
It’s a very humbling thing to be the caretaker of two 100+ year old libraries. I will bring this art gallery back.
August 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It’s a very humbling thing to be the caretaker of two 100+ year old libraries. I will bring this art gallery back.
Come visit the library though!
all these gilded age girlies like “oooooo I wanna go to newport let’s go to newport to see the mansions!!” what about troy, ny? what about TROY????? are we all running to troy to see the gorgeous, intact victorian streetscapes??? HUH??
August 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Come visit the library though!
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Something to read to the "but the library should just offer microcredentials " crowd.
New research from Burning Glass concludes that only one in eight nondegree credentials yielded meaningful gains in earnings a year later. Given that returns to short-term certificates typically fade over time, this is not a great outcome. (gift link)
More Workers Are Getting Job-Skill Certificates. They Often Don’t Pay Off.
Many of the thousands of online courses and other credentials employees pursue to boost careers fall short in delivering, a new study finds.
www.wsj.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Something to read to the "but the library should just offer microcredentials " crowd.
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"John Donne fucked, and he made sure everyone knew it. He could make a poem about a flea the horniest piece of literature in the English canon."
Major English Poets, Evaluated By Whether or Not They Fucked
1. Shakespeare fucked. 2. It’s cliché to say that Byron fucked, but what can you do? He did fuck. Dude’s middle name was “Gordon” and not even tha...
buff.ly
August 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"John Donne fucked, and he made sure everyone knew it. He could make a poem about a flea the horniest piece of literature in the English canon."
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What are they teaching in schools these days. Are they still saying that the government has three branches and all that
August 13, 2025 at 2:52 AM
What are they teaching in schools these days. Are they still saying that the government has three branches and all that
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Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
August 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Fascism is here. We are not “getting closer” or “in danger of.”
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
This matters because it frames our discussion: We aren’t trying to prevent it, we’re trying to defeat it. It’s not taking over our institutions, it’s taken them over.
Otherwise, we’re always behind, fighting a past we’ve already lost.
On sight, every time.
If we don't make it dangerous to be a Nazi we will get to a point where it's dangerous not to be a Nazi.
August 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
On sight, every time.