Kate
@infoartisan.bsky.social
Librarian, bibliophile, cat mom, part time medievalist. Pronouns: she/her. Library-focused second account for @spanishseamstress.bsky.social
This is the face of a house gremlin who has stolen and lost every one of my hair ties, and is now mad because I won't give her the one IN MY HAIR.
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This is the face of a house gremlin who has stolen and lost every one of my hair ties, and is now mad because I won't give her the one IN MY HAIR.
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Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
If Sen. Cory Booker makes it to 7:19 p.m. EST, he will break segregationist Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond's record for his 24 hour 18 minute Senate floor speech against the Civil Rights Act of 1957.
April 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits
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IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
April 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE
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Good point from @puiyin.bsky.social reminding us not to forget the digital divide when it comes to student use of AI. We need to level the playing field and ensure equitable access, but suppliers need to work with us to ensure that this is possible given current financial constraints #THEdigitalUK
April 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Good point from @puiyin.bsky.social reminding us not to forget the digital divide when it comes to student use of AI. We need to level the playing field and ensure equitable access, but suppliers need to work with us to ensure that this is possible given current financial constraints #THEdigitalUK
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Panel on balancing AI innovation and ethics in our classrooms at #THEdigitalUK emphasising the importance of ensuring students understanding the ethical aspects, including around the labour force, and enabling students to choose not to use AI.
April 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Panel on balancing AI innovation and ethics in our classrooms at #THEdigitalUK emphasising the importance of ensuring students understanding the ethical aspects, including around the labour force, and enabling students to choose not to use AI.
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More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially."
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
March 31, 2025 at 10:47 PM
More from ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl: "By cutting off federal support from libraries, the Trump administration is cutting off opportunity for the American people – economically, culturally, professionally and socially."
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
Read our full statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/03...
Take action: ala.org/showup
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I can't believe I have to say this in the year of Audre Lorde 2025, but if you invite a panel of experts, and they're all white, you did a bad job of finding representative experts.
March 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I can't believe I have to say this in the year of Audre Lorde 2025, but if you invite a panel of experts, and they're all white, you did a bad job of finding representative experts.
Breaking my own mini-fast to ask: has anyone out there heard anything about how the destruction of government data will effect GenAI output? I know it's early for studies, so any informed opinion pieces etc. would be helpful. #ai #thegreatdelete
March 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Breaking my own mini-fast to ask: has anyone out there heard anything about how the destruction of government data will effect GenAI output? I know it's early for studies, so any informed opinion pieces etc. would be helpful. #ai #thegreatdelete
Home from #cildc. This year maybe more than most others was a year of big ideas, big concerns, and big worries. There's a lot to process, but I have IRL commitments this weekend so I'll likely not post here until Monday ish.
March 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Home from #cildc. This year maybe more than most others was a year of big ideas, big concerns, and big worries. There's a lot to process, but I have IRL commitments this weekend so I'll likely not post here until Monday ish.
Just between us? I'm really ready to be home without anticipating a 5 am wakeup and a three hour each way drive. I love CIL, but it's a looooong three days.
March 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just between us? I'm really ready to be home without anticipating a 5 am wakeup and a three hour each way drive. I love CIL, but it's a looooong three days.
The Libguides session isn't relevant to me b/c nobody at work wants a Libguides website, but oh man do I love seeing what other people have done and dreaming. Design systems? Yummy. #cildc
March 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The Libguides session isn't relevant to me b/c nobody at work wants a Libguides website, but oh man do I love seeing what other people have done and dreaming. Design systems? Yummy. #cildc
Major takeaway from next to last session re: AI Literate Libraries: Any sort of training program needs to be part of a larger institutional discussion about AI and AI strategy. #cildc
March 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Major takeaway from next to last session re: AI Literate Libraries: Any sort of training program needs to be part of a larger institutional discussion about AI and AI strategy. #cildc
My session went well and people have been complimentary, but here's a pro tip: do not "ask a question" that is actually a list of everything you wanted that the speaker did not provide for you. It is not our fault that the session did not match your assumptions.
March 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My session went well and people have been complimentary, but here's a pro tip: do not "ask a question" that is actually a list of everything you wanted that the speaker did not provide for you. It is not our fault that the session did not match your assumptions.
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We talked about this in our reference meeting this week! How to balance expectations of friction with a constructive learning interaction. I'm curious how others are developing approaches that account for this kindly and productively without overcorrecting/treating younger gens like an alien species
I have a pet theory that two decades of the tech industry trying to make life frictionless messaged to society that friction is bad and anyone that makes you feel it is bad. So we zeroed out a generation’s tolerance for social risk.
On a very different note, you remember how our parents trained us (gen x) to answer the phone?
I don’t know if you know this, but the generations after us don’t know how to do this. Just an introduction. And they’re anxious as hell about it.
I don’t know if you know this, but the generations after us don’t know how to do this. Just an introduction. And they’re anxious as hell about it.
March 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
We talked about this in our reference meeting this week! How to balance expectations of friction with a constructive learning interaction. I'm curious how others are developing approaches that account for this kindly and productively without overcorrecting/treating younger gens like an alien species
I am 100% going to go stress eat a plate of pasta after this. #poorcopingskills #selfcareish
March 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I am 100% going to go stress eat a plate of pasta after this. #poorcopingskills #selfcareish
Ope, there's a surprise: library platform rep doesn't think about ethics in relation to their product. No shit.
March 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ope, there's a surprise: library platform rep doesn't think about ethics in relation to their product. No shit.
AI DOESN'T CREATE ANYTHING. Say it again, @noethematt.bsky.social, I think some folks missed it. #cildc
March 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
AI DOESN'T CREATE ANYTHING. Say it again, @noethematt.bsky.social, I think some folks missed it. #cildc
Fantastic audience observation - we are "scared" because we saw all this tech roll out and then become entirely monetized. Speaker relates this shift in scale as comparable to when American industry shifted from creation-based to service industry. #cildc
March 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Fantastic audience observation - we are "scared" because we saw all this tech roll out and then become entirely monetized. Speaker relates this shift in scale as comparable to when American industry shifted from creation-based to service industry. #cildc
I have concerns that someone thinks laws were passed against texting and driving because of ethical concerns. If by "ethics" we mean "safety," sure.
March 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I have concerns that someone thinks laws were passed against texting and driving because of ethical concerns. If by "ethics" we mean "safety," sure.
@noethematt.bsky.social advocating libraries slow down in their approach to AI, instead of the "move fast, break things" model of the tech industry. #CILDC
March 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
@noethematt.bsky.social advocating libraries slow down in their approach to AI, instead of the "move fast, break things" model of the tech industry. #CILDC