heyrling
@heyrling.bsky.social
📚 Librarian | 🎨 Art Lover | 📸 Amateur Photographer
Exploring the world through books, art, and photography, capturing stories in words and images.
Exploring the world through books, art, and photography, capturing stories in words and images.
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📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
December 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
📣🎬 Calling all filmmakers & artists! Celebrate Public Domain Day in January 2026 by making a 2–3 min short film using public domain works from 1930 & earlier.
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#contest #filmmaking #publicdomain
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
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November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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Starving American men, women, and children is just leverage to Republicans to get rid of subsidies on American's healthcare insurance cost so they can use the rising cost they allowed to happen as an excuse that Obamacare is failing.
Republicans will either hurt you, or hurt you worse, your choice
Republicans will either hurt you, or hurt you worse, your choice
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Starving American men, women, and children is just leverage to Republicans to get rid of subsidies on American's healthcare insurance cost so they can use the rising cost they allowed to happen as an excuse that Obamacare is failing.
Republicans will either hurt you, or hurt you worse, your choice
Republicans will either hurt you, or hurt you worse, your choice
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One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
One of the largest distributors of print books for libraries is shutting down causing major issues for libraries.
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
🔗 www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
I wasn't aware of this company until we were told that we would be using it. It has been a disaster for employees. Now this and Workday is trying to hide its data breach notification from search engines. Why?
techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/h...
techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/h...
HR giant Workday says hackers stole personal data in recent breach | TechCrunch
The HR tech giant said it had no indication of any unauthorized access to customer systems, but has not ruled out a breach affecting customers' personal information.
techcrunch.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I wasn't aware of this company until we were told that we would be using it. It has been a disaster for employees. Now this and Workday is trying to hide its data breach notification from search engines. Why?
techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/h...
techcrunch.com/2025/08/18/h...
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Brandi was one of the greats and we will miss her dearly. www.freepress.net/blog/remembe...
Remembering Brandi Collins-Dexter
Brandi Collins-Dexter was a force of nature who spent her entire career serving others.
www.freepress.net
July 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Brandi was one of the greats and we will miss her dearly. www.freepress.net/blog/remembe...
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me on my way to the psybrary
July 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
me on my way to the psybrary
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Amplifying the voice of our friend and colleague, @brandicd.bsky.social tonight, in case you don’t know her work and contributions ♥️
3) "Marginalized communities bear the brunt of [tech's] potential to do harm. And those harms often come through the commercialization of the product or design decisions. And some of the decisions that assess potential impacts on marginalized communities often go unchecked." -Brandi Collins-Dexter
Exploring the Intersection of Information Integrity, Race, and US Elections | TechPolicy.Press
A conversation with Spencer Overton, Brandi Collins-Dexter, Danielle Brown, and Kathryn Peters.
www.techpolicy.press
June 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Amplifying the voice of our friend and colleague, @brandicd.bsky.social tonight, in case you don’t know her work and contributions ♥️
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This is significant.
🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
Bartz
www.documentcloud.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is significant.
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Despite my avatar, I keep saying (and have been blocked for it), that useful AI applications DO exist. There are ways it can be used to enhance things. But those are all entirely lost in the oracular slop of "ChatGPT will explain all mysteries and give you amazing life shortcuts!"
June 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Despite my avatar, I keep saying (and have been blocked for it), that useful AI applications DO exist. There are ways it can be used to enhance things. But those are all entirely lost in the oracular slop of "ChatGPT will explain all mysteries and give you amazing life shortcuts!"
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We’re proud to have contributed to the development of partnershipai.bsky.social’s new Guidance for Inclusive AI, a resource built to help product and engineering teams better engage with the communities most impacted by their AI systems. https://partnershiponai.org/guidance-for-inclusive-ai/
https://partnershipai.bsky.social’s
May 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We’re proud to have contributed to the development of partnershipai.bsky.social’s new Guidance for Inclusive AI, a resource built to help product and engineering teams better engage with the communities most impacted by their AI systems. https://partnershiponai.org/guidance-for-inclusive-ai/
No one told me that being a librarian was going to involve activism! I'm slowly realizing that it comes with the profession.
March 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
No one told me that being a librarian was going to involve activism! I'm slowly realizing that it comes with the profession.
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Just a reminder that I'm running a free webinar Weds March 19th, "Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking," through the Media Education. Looking forward to a great discussion! ✂️ mediaeducationlab.com/events/quest...
Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking | Media Education Lab
Read here about our full webinar series on Leading from the Library.
mediaeducationlab.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Just a reminder that I'm running a free webinar Weds March 19th, "Questioning Generative AI Through Zinemaking," through the Media Education. Looking forward to a great discussion! ✂️ mediaeducationlab.com/events/quest...
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“Human flourishing” has long been on my list of bullshit terms wrt AI - some memed Aristotle and it became the bullshit term of AI ethics - but now it’s a right wing dog whistle.
Keep an eye on how the AISI will be weaponized as the Trump/Musk AI Act is written. 1/
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
Keep an eye on how the AISI will be weaponized as the Trump/Musk AI Act is written. 1/
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
www.wired.com
March 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“Human flourishing” has long been on my list of bullshit terms wrt AI - some memed Aristotle and it became the bullshit term of AI ethics - but now it’s a right wing dog whistle.
Keep an eye on how the AISI will be weaponized as the Trump/Musk AI Act is written. 1/
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
Keep an eye on how the AISI will be weaponized as the Trump/Musk AI Act is written. 1/
www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
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Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
February 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Black Studies and the Fight Against Fascism on March 4 @ 6pm ET, register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...
I'm glad he was "counseled" to not show up at tonight's Mayoral Forum!
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Mayor Adams backs out of campaign forum hosted by key NYC union
The District Council 37 forum was the first Adams had agreed to do ahead of the June primary.
gothamist.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I'm glad he was "counseled" to not show up at tonight's Mayoral Forum!
gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...
gothamist.com/news/mayor-a...
Making the transition over. Still figuring out how this platform works. 😬
February 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Making the transition over. Still figuring out how this platform works. 😬