Laura Crossett
@newrambler.bsky.social
"She seems like an interesting character." librarian | writer | Iowa native, Wyoming expatriate, NYC aspirant | comms @libraryfutures.bsky.social
http://newrambler.net
http://newrambler.net
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Learn how to keep your library makerspace legally sound and open to all! @schutton.bsky.social, @kslater.bsky.social, and Tomas A. Lipinski will offer insights and answer questions on all things maker. Read more and register -->
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November 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Love it. Remember Quiz Show? That was the actual oversight folks. When they can’t do it, it’s good to see people step up.
In the absence of any actual congressional oversight hearings, I really like that @publicknowledge.bsky.social is organizing their own next week
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The People’s Oversight Hearing
All Day event
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November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Love it. Remember Quiz Show? That was the actual oversight folks. When they can’t do it, it’s good to see people step up.
Reposted by Laura Crossett
Everyone, change your clock to midnight.
November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Everyone, change your clock to midnight.
You talk single mothers and public transportation? You got me. Tears of joy.
What an excellent, inspiring speech from Mamdani. I haven’t felt chills like this… ever?
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
You talk single mothers and public transportation? You got me. Tears of joy.
Voting is the least you can do. But do it for those who can’t. I was once almost one of them.
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The Psych Ward, Ten Years Out
A few days before Halloween in 1998 my mother hauled me out of the chair I’d been living in and into the car and into the hospital, where I signed a great many pieces of paper, including the …
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November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Voting is the least you can do. But do it for those who can’t. I was once almost one of them.
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Reposted by Laura Crossett
📚 support your public library 📚
October 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
📚 support your public library 📚
TL;DR It does not improve after the headline.
Hey, this sucks. Like... a lot. 📚
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
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UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
TL;DR It does not improve after the headline.
Reposted by Laura Crossett
this exists it is called thinking
September 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
this exists it is called thinking
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Maybe you can't read Ray Carver at work, but you CAN talk about AI, and we've got the webinar series you've been waiting for. Join @hypervisible.blacksky.app, Christa Albrecht-Crane, and Library Futures this Thursday 9/25 for the first installment!
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September 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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A thread on ebooks, their costs, how we got here, and what we can do... 👇🏼🧵
“We’re in the book business,” said Robert Bramlette, a member of the county’s special district library advisory board. “And if we don’t have stuff on our shelves – whether it’s digital or otherwise – then we’re kind of out of business.” /1
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September 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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“Every single company that offers AI-generated material should have some sort of transparency standards put in place so that people know what they’re getting."
Our ED @littlewow.online on AI slop in libraries and our efforts to fight it. /1
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Our ED @littlewow.online on AI slop in libraries and our efforts to fight it. /1
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Books by Bots | American Libraries Magazine
Librarians grapple with AI-generated material in their library collections.
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September 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Do the people in the waiting room understand that I am laughing at a post about datasets and a class action lawsuit @authorsalliance.bsky.social?
"with lots of caveats (we’re dealing with crowdsourced metadata from a pirate website here)" 😂
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"with lots of caveats (we’re dealing with crowdsourced metadata from a pirate website here)" 😂
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Bartz v. Anthropic: A Preliminary Look at What LibGen Books May Be Included in the Class Action
For this post, we relied heavily on the help of Charles Horn, self-described “metadata wrangler,” for data analysis.
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September 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Do the people in the waiting room understand that I am laughing at a post about datasets and a class action lawsuit @authorsalliance.bsky.social?
"with lots of caveats (we’re dealing with crowdsourced metadata from a pirate website here)" 😂
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"with lots of caveats (we’re dealing with crowdsourced metadata from a pirate website here)" 😂
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I am pro-mayonnaise. There. I’ve said it. Fight me.
August 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I am pro-mayonnaise. There. I’ve said it. Fight me.
Recommended reading in any format! 📚
Library Futures here and we're coming in hot with our very first ebook from library internet favorite @aj-boston.bsky.social.
My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.
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My Consumer Autobiography examines what it means to read--and own--a book through the story of the books AJ read in 2024.
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My Consumer Autobiography: Reflections on a Year of Digital Reading
Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.
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August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Recommended reading in any format! 📚
Please share widely with any and all networks--we're on the lookout for AI slop that's wormed its way in to digital library collections and we'd love your eagle eyes! 📚
AI slop spotters--we have a mission for you, should you choose to accept it. Have you found AI slop in a library collection? Report it here!
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August 13, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Please share widely with any and all networks--we're on the lookout for AI slop that's wormed its way in to digital library collections and we'd love your eagle eyes! 📚
“Ask six Ancient Greek professors, get seven different pronunciations.”
"this product is good because it's like having a pocket full of PhDs" just suggests to me you've never actually been in a room with a bunch of experts on a topic.
You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.
You think you're going to come away with a quick, simple, easy-to-digest summary of their expertise? Think again.
August 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
“Ask six Ancient Greek professors, get seven different pronunciations.”
My Substack is now back home on my blog, where you can read, subscribe, unsubscribe, or outright ignore to your heart's content.
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Over in Clay County
Warren Zevon (and me) on nature vs. nuture.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My Substack is now back home on my blog, where you can read, subscribe, unsubscribe, or outright ignore to your heart's content.
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My father died by suicide 44 years ago today. Usually I go by the old house to pour out a libation for him, but today I wanted to go somewhere he was happy, not somewhere he despaired. So I went to the library. 📚
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www.icpl.org/westgate
Westgate Collection of Original Children’s Book Art | Iowa City Public Library
The Westgate Collection of Original Children's Book Art was donated by nationally known authors and illustrators of children's books, most of which was collected by long-time children's librarian Haze...
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August 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
My father died by suicide 44 years ago today. Usually I go by the old house to pour out a libation for him, but today I wanted to go somewhere he was happy, not somewhere he despaired. So I went to the library. 📚
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www.icpl.org/westgate
Going home, going home, resting my bones back on my blog.
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It's been fun here...
But it's time to go back home.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Going home, going home, resting my bones back on my blog.
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Couldn’t have said it better.
i hate google always correcting my words for me, suggesting all kinds of garbage instead of letting me write my own damn emails. how about you get off my fucking jock you second-rate clippy sack of shit
August 2, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Couldn’t have said it better.
Reposted by Laura Crossett
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.
July 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.