Jeremy Dibbell
@jbd1.bsky.social
Librarian, historian of early America, biblio-human, birder. Upstate NY. Opinions here my own.
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Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
Wheatley Census
www.wheatleycensus.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Pleased to announce the Wheatley Census is ready for 1.0 public release! As detailed a census as possible (right now) of the first six editions - those printed in the 18th century - of Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects, is available here: www.wheatleycensus.org.
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I am so grateful @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social unpacked this phrase, which shows up everywhere re AI these days and is such UTTER NONSENSE. Honestly, whenever I hear or read it I want to shout "did AI tell you to say that?!?" but Dr. Drimmer is much more persuasive than my incoherent table-pounding.
Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
November 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I am so grateful @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social unpacked this phrase, which shows up everywhere re AI these days and is such UTTER NONSENSE. Honestly, whenever I hear or read it I want to shout "did AI tell you to say that?!?" but Dr. Drimmer is much more persuasive than my incoherent table-pounding.
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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I think this an important point. The shutdown was hurting millions of people. In a normal political world, the party in power would first, not want that, and second, care about being blamed for it, which is leverage for negotiation. Neither applies here.
It's also virtually certain that Dem's efforts to restore ACA subsidies were not going to work. They had no leverage to negotiate because the opposite side doesn't care how much or how long Americans in either group were hurting.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I think this an important point. The shutdown was hurting millions of people. In a normal political world, the party in power would first, not want that, and second, care about being blamed for it, which is leverage for negotiation. Neither applies here.
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The whole thread.
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The whole thread.
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He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
Speaker Johnson is officially keeping the House in recess again next week. This will be the eighth consecutive week the House has been out of session. The chamber hasn't met since Sept. 19. Adelita Grijalva, who was elected on Sept. 23, has not been sworn in.
November 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.
@librarything.com @librarythingtim.bsky.social All ok over there? Site just seems to say "HERE" now ...
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 AM
@librarything.com @librarythingtim.bsky.social All ok over there? Site just seems to say "HERE" now ...
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“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Resolves Ownership of Works by Enslaved Artist David Drake
BOSTON (October 29, 2025)—The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also k
www.mfa.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
“The [MFA] has reached a historic agreement with the known descendants of David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter) regarding two monumental stoneware vessels in the MFA’s collection that were made by the enslaved potter and poet…”
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They steal our data. Their whole thing is consume all the data and spit it back mosaic plagiarism stylie while pretending it's "generated" something "new"
Adobe, canva, zoom… all these products are expensive per month.
So why is gen ai mostly free? Added to your work or education software as a nice little bonus?
Because we are developing the product for them, creating resources and process flows they will then sell to bosses to replace/pay us less
So why is gen ai mostly free? Added to your work or education software as a nice little bonus?
Because we are developing the product for them, creating resources and process flows they will then sell to bosses to replace/pay us less
October 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
They steal our data. Their whole thing is consume all the data and spit it back mosaic plagiarism stylie while pretending it's "generated" something "new"
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The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it
October 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The East Wing is totally gone. I can’t believe it
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
October 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
There are laws about how to interdict suspected criminals on the high seas.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
There are laws about how to renovate federal buildings.
There are laws about how not to monetize the presidency.
There are laws. We should enforce them. And not normalize the flagrant violation of them in the newspapers.
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From something I’ve been working with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues regarding the threat posed by agentic AI and outsourced proprietary ed tech:
October 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
From something I’ve been working with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues regarding the threat posed by agentic AI and outsourced proprietary ed tech:
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"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests." www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... (archive: archive.ph/Y6855)
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A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
October 18, 2025 at 1:55 PM
A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.
You are not using AI; AI is using you.
Stop it.
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Hey mainstream political media! When a tyrant causes parts of the government he doesn't like to stop functioning, while amping up the parts he likes, it is not a "shutdown." It is something else.
October 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Hey mainstream political media! When a tyrant causes parts of the government he doesn't like to stop functioning, while amping up the parts he likes, it is not a "shutdown." It is something else.
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The executive committee of the University Faculty Senate for the SUNY system issued a strong statement this week urging university leaders to reject the Trump compact. It's worth a read.
dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...
dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
The executive committee of the University Faculty Senate for the SUNY system issued a strong statement this week urging university leaders to reject the Trump compact. It's worth a read.
dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...
dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...
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May 31, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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"In America the Law is King." It's only Common Sense.
October 18, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"In America the Law is King." It's only Common Sense.
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"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.
I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.
CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.
CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
September 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
"There's no ethical use case for AI in the classroom" has become my personal Carthago delenda est.
I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.
CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
I even take time to explain to my students how we won't use it in class because it's dehumanizing. To their credit, they seem to get it.
CETERUM AUTEM CENSEO INTELLIGENTIA ARTIFICIALIS ESSE DELENDAM
If you haven't, give a listen to her wonderful interview with @ttbook.bsky.social www.ttbook.org/people/jane-...
October 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you haven't, give a listen to her wonderful interview with @ttbook.bsky.social www.ttbook.org/people/jane-...
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Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
Name of the day, Truth-Shall-Prevail Starr (sibling of Comfort, Constant, Suretrust, Moregift, and Jephosephat) - some of these and their parents came to New England in the 1630s
September 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Name of the day, Truth-Shall-Prevail Starr (sibling of Comfort, Constant, Suretrust, Moregift, and Jephosephat) - some of these and their parents came to New England in the 1630s