Taylor
@librarytaylor.bsky.social
Academic librarian in the US 📚🌇
#critcatter and cat lover 🐈⬛
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#critcatter and cat lover 🐈⬛
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How do we preserve lost histories? Swilk’s installation at the Internet Archive made the digital physical. Textiles pulsed & breathed when users accessed archived HIV/AIDS resources, many altered or gone from the live web.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:03 PM
How do we preserve lost histories? Swilk’s installation at the Internet Archive made the digital physical. Textiles pulsed & breathed when users accessed archived HIV/AIDS resources, many altered or gone from the live web.
More ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/27/b...
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"AI can predict words that are likely to appear beside one another. But mistaking these predictions for information carries real risks of amplifying bad data science. AI tools are capable of following orders but incapable of replacing collective decision-making—and cannot be allowed to do so."
Sorry for inflicting this image of the grinning fool on you this morning, but the article is quite good (but overly optimistic for me), tying the hype over gen "AI" to the loss of faith in institutions during COVID.
www.techpolicy.press/future-fatig...
www.techpolicy.press/future-fatig...
Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press
To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
March 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"AI can predict words that are likely to appear beside one another. But mistaking these predictions for information carries real risks of amplifying bad data science. AI tools are capable of following orders but incapable of replacing collective decision-making—and cannot be allowed to do so."
It was a great second day at #CILDC! Glad to see an archival session as well. Maybe next year a cataloging session will sneak in there...
March 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It was a great second day at #CILDC! Glad to see an archival session as well. Maybe next year a cataloging session will sneak in there...
The library conundrum - we have a responsibility to teach people about this new technology [genAI] without selling our souls in the process #cil2025
March 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The library conundrum - we have a responsibility to teach people about this new technology [genAI] without selling our souls in the process #cil2025
Democracy dies in AI-generated summaries
This is fucking insane.
So much of the foundational idea of the internet was permanent easy and cheap archival work, and that's just gone. There's now a war over the past to fund a market boom in a single tech product that's likely important but wildly overvalued.
www.indignity.net/the-washingt...
So much of the foundational idea of the internet was permanent easy and cheap archival work, and that's just gone. There's now a war over the past to fund a market boom in a single tech product that's likely important but wildly overvalued.
www.indignity.net/the-washingt...
The Washington Post burns its own archive
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 216
www.indignity.net
December 12, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Democracy dies in AI-generated summaries
Starting to write something in the vein of “BIBFRAME must die” - thinking about linked (but not always open) data and who owns the rules, sources, and outputs of cataloging. Lots of fun galaxy-brain stuff.
November 16, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Starting to write something in the vein of “BIBFRAME must die” - thinking about linked (but not always open) data and who owns the rules, sources, and outputs of cataloging. Lots of fun galaxy-brain stuff.
First post should always be your cat imo
November 16, 2024 at 9:02 PM
First post should always be your cat imo