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Library Agency Reinstates Grants Canceled by Trump Administration
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Library Agency Reinstates Grants Canceled by Trump Administration
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December 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Library Agency Reinstates Grants Canceled by Trump Administration
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Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic.
People’s jobs, their brains, their democratic election process, their ability to connect with others emotionally — all of it could be changed by the chatbots that are filling every corner of the internet.
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People’s jobs, their brains, their democratic election process, their ability to connect with others emotionally — all of it could be changed by the chatbots that are filling every corner of the internet.
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It’s their job to keep AI from destroying everything
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic. People’s jobs, their brains, their democratic election process, their ability to connect with others e
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December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Spoiler: the nine-person team works for Anthropic.
People’s jobs, their brains, their democratic election process, their ability to connect with others emotionally — all of it could be changed by the chatbots that are filling every corner of the internet.
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People’s jobs, their brains, their democratic election process, their ability to connect with others emotionally — all of it could be changed by the chatbots that are filling every corner of the internet.
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The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents searchable and readable in transcription.
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At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents searchable and readable in transcription.
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One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents sear
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December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents searchable and readable in transcription.
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At this point, AI tools like Gemini should be able to make most digitized handwritten documents searchable and readable in transcription.
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A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
The bill is set to be discussed in a hearing before a powerful House committee that’s considering the large package of kids online safety bills.
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The bill is set to be discussed in a hearing before a powerful House committee that’s considering the large package of kids online safety bills.
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A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress The bill is set to be discussed in a hearing before a powerful House committee that’s co
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December 2, 2025 at 2:05 PM
A nationwide internet age verification plan is sweeping Congress
The bill is set to be discussed in a hearing before a powerful House committee that’s considering the large package of kids online safety bills.
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The bill is set to be discussed in a hearing before a powerful House committee that’s considering the large package of kids online safety bills.
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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that.
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But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that.
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OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that. They noted that Op
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December 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
OpenAI desperate to avoid explaining why it deleted pirated book datasets
But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that.
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But the authors suspect there’s more to the story than that.
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Requiem for Early Blogging
Early blogging was slower, less beholden to the hourly news cycle, and people were more inclined to talk about personal enthusiasms as well as what was going on in the world because blogs were considered an individual enterprise, not
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Early blogging was slower, less beholden to the hourly news cycle, and people were more inclined to talk about personal enthusiasms as well as what was going on in the world because blogs were considered an individual enterprise, not
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Requiem for Early Blogging
Requiem for Early Blogging Early blogging was slower, less beholden to the hourly news cycle, and people were more inclined to talk about personal enthus
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November 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Requiem for Early Blogging
Early blogging was slower, less beholden to the hourly news cycle, and people were more inclined to talk about personal enthusiasms as well as what was going on in the world because blogs were considered an individual enterprise, not
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Early blogging was slower, less beholden to the hourly news cycle, and people were more inclined to talk about personal enthusiasms as well as what was going on in the world because blogs were considered an individual enterprise, not
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The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don’t appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting.
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I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don’t appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don’t appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting.
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I suspect that many people who take an interest in Internet privacy don’t appreciate how hard it is to resist browser fingerprinting.
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Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a
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Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a
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Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook a
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November 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a
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Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a
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He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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Librarian Ian Linkletter remains one of Proctorio's biggest critics after 5-year legal battle
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became. T
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November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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The more that Linkletter researched Proctorio, the more concerned he became.
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Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem
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November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Looking for Hidden Gems in Scientific Literature
Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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Why do research papers remain in obscurity, does it matter if they do, and what can be done to redeem them?
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The Message in the Medium: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/the-message-in-the-medium
This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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The Message in the Medium: A love story told in books
The Message in the Medium This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andr
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November 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Message in the Medium: https://asteriskmag.com/issues/12-books/the-message-in-the-medium
This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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This essay is my answer — my echo, my reformulation — of Andrew’s question. I asked about the mysterious stickers, and Andrew told me that, actually, they go the other way.
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November 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence.
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Copyright Winter is Coming (to Wikipedia?)
A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence. On October 27, 2025, Judge Sidney Stein o
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November 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A new ruling in Authors Guild v. OpenAI has major implications for copyright law, well beyond artificial intelligence.
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The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fire her in a legal filing Monday urging the Supreme Court to allow her to remain in office.
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Copyright Office head asks Supreme Court to keep her in role
The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fi
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The register of copyrights at the Library of Congress defended a lower court ruling that kept her in office despite President Donald Trump%u2019s attempts to fire her in a legal filing Monday urging the Supreme Court to allow her to remain in office.
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Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump 'gender ideology' order
Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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TN libraries close a week after Trump 'gender ideology' order on books
Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump 'gender ideology' order Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long
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November 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Rutherford County libraries close for week to adhere to Trump 'gender ideology' order
Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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Murfreesboro Daily News JournalLibrary patrons will endure a week-long closure of Smyrna and Murfreesboro branches, following a state response to an executive order from President
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Remember 22 years ago when they were saying there would be a librarian shortage? LISNews remembers
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A Shortage of Academic Librarians
Chronicle.com has another one of those Shortage of Academic Librarians stories. They say Academic libraries, experiencing a wave of retirements, are finding
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November 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Remember 22 years ago when they were saying there would be a librarian shortage? LISNews remembers
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
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Stamos @1:24: It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CIS has no confirmed director. This just adds to kind of a complete surrender at least on the cyber side. We are spectacularly poorly prepared right now for a cyber attack.
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The Big Sleep | TWiT.TV
From AI-powered code generation boosting productivity to adversaries using the same tools to hunt zero-days, the panel exposes the coming wave of AI-fueled cyberattacks—and
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November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Stamos @1:24: It's getting hard to not be conspiracy minded here. They closed CSRB, destroyed CISA. CIS has no confirmed director. This just adds to kind of a complete surrender at least on the cyber side. We are spectacularly poorly prepared right now for a cyber attack.
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Join Meredith Broussard, Brandon Butler, and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries.
Join Meredith Broussard, Brandon Butler, and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries.
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If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better
And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world?
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better And I certainly do not want AI to write my
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October 22, 2025 at 4:05 PM
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better
And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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And I certainly do not want AI to write my books for me, or paint my pictures. Not only would the work be terrible: it wouldn’t even be work.
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