Robert J Weisberg (aka Museum Human)
@robertjweisberg.bsky.social
Human being, museum worker, blogger (www.museumhuman.com, subscribing is free), complexity junkie, Buddhist, rest as it occurs to me. (he/him)
Calling all AI evangelists: please read how AI (and the leaders hiding behind it to cut staff, budgets, and resources) is making this lifesaving research work more difficult: How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days
Undoing the Shoddy Work of AI Bots
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October 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Calling all AI evangelists: please read how AI (and the leaders hiding behind it to cut staff, budgets, and resources) is making this lifesaving research work more difficult: How a Hospital Librarian Spends Their Days open.substack.com/pub/annehele...
And also this from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's interview with @karenhao.bsky.social Karen's book, an important reminder where the power behind AI is coming from, is in my library hold queue. "ImperialAI: the empire strikes back". open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
ImperialAI: the empire strikes back
An essential conversation with journalist and author, Karen Hao, about OpenAI and its ambition to dominate and conquer all before it
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July 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
And also this from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's interview with @karenhao.bsky.social Karen's book, an important reminder where the power behind AI is coming from, is in my library hold queue. "ImperialAI: the empire strikes back". open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
@bcmerchant.bsky.social again has to remind AI enthusiasts that the money behind AI has never been about workers. "On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against": www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/on-agi-mas...
On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against
Or how I got Hard Forked
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July 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
@bcmerchant.bsky.social again has to remind AI enthusiasts that the money behind AI has never been about workers. "On AGI, mass automation, and what the Luddites really fought against": www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/on-agi-mas...
The Unlearning Problem: Why AI and Humans Share the Same Dangerous Flaw
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The Unlearning Problem: Why AI and Humans Share the Same Dangerous Flaw
A closer look at both human psychology and artificial intelligence reveals they share the same dangerous flaw
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July 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Unlearning Problem: Why AI and Humans Share the Same Dangerous Flaw
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you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
What It’s Like to Be a Student Who Hates ChatGPT
“Everyone is using it”—almost everyone.
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July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...
“Put aside however you feel about generative AI for a second and face one very simple point: it doesn’t do enough, it’s really not cool at all, and we’re being forced to use it.”
Make Fun Of Them
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Make Fun Of Them
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Make Fun Of Them
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak?
I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?
Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long p...
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July 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“Put aside however you feel about generative AI for a second and face one very simple point: it doesn’t do enough, it’s really not cool at all, and we’re being forced to use it.”
Make Fun Of Them
www.wheresyoured.at/make-fun-of-...
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Make Fun Of Them
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Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...
Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake
There will now be a high-stakes battle to define the meaning of the New York mayoral candidate’s historic win.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Zohran Mamdani’s Mandate Is A Democratic Earthquake www.levernews.com/zohran-mamda...
After reading two books about climate and societal collapse, Museum Human wonders if our obsession with joy is making the doomer/hoptimist divide more real than it should be. Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/is-there-a-j... #museum #museums #doomer #hoptimism #collapse
Is There a "Joy Division" in Facing the World's Problems? A Review of Hospicing Modernity and What If We Get It Right?
Two recent books approach climate and societal collapse from different sides of the apparent doomer/hoptimism divide—with a side question of joyfulness.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
After reading two books about climate and societal collapse, Museum Human wonders if our obsession with joy is making the doomer/hoptimist divide more real than it should be. Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/is-there-a-j... #museum #museums #doomer #hoptimism #collapse
Museum Human set aside the first Links of the Week of 2025 for a rundown of my end-of-year reading binge. What’s on your shelf? How do you take notes on what you read? Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/museum-human... #reading #readinglist
Museum Human's End-of-Year Reading Break Rundown
You get a lot of reading done when you actually read.
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January 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Museum Human set aside the first Links of the Week of 2025 for a rundown of my end-of-year reading binge. What’s on your shelf? How do you take notes on what you read? Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/museum-human... #reading #readinglist
Museum Human is back for 2025 with a new mission statement and a new attitude. Whether doomer or hoptimist, we have to focus on solutions and broadening horizons in an interconnected world. Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/museum-human... #museum #museums #doomer #hoptimism #2025goals
Museum Human Plans—and Plans within Plans—for 2025
When things change, so can we—while also remembering what's important to us.
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January 14, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Museum Human is back for 2025 with a new mission statement and a new attitude. Whether doomer or hoptimist, we have to focus on solutions and broadening horizons in an interconnected world. Subscribing is still free: www.museumhuman.com/museum-human... #museum #museums #doomer #hoptimism #2025goals
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I won't say "Happy … " … instead, may you have a good day this Thursday.
a man wearing a fur hat is asking if he is thankful
Alt: a man wearing a fur hat asking angrily "do I look thankful to you?"
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November 28, 2024 at 5:21 PM
I won't say "Happy … " … instead, may you have a good day this Thursday.
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Okay #musetech peeps, I created a starter pack for you all. Go ahead and hop in if I didn't get to you! go.bsky.app/V7MsiXr
November 26, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Okay #musetech peeps, I created a starter pack for you all. Go ahead and hop in if I didn't get to you! go.bsky.app/V7MsiXr
Museum Human welcomes new Bluesky folks with our first Links of the Week in a while, asking museum denizens to consider what the results of the recent US election mean for institutions and workers who should be listening and learning. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museums
Links of the Week: November 26, 2024: Looking Back to Look Ahead, Post-Election Edition
What's keeping us from learning anything from recent events?
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November 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Museum Human welcomes new Bluesky folks with our first Links of the Week in a while, asking museum denizens to consider what the results of the recent US election mean for institutions and workers who should be listening and learning. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museums
Museum Human welcomes all our new Bluesky followers with a new post on whether, in an eerie election echo, museums’ focus on minimum viability has kept us from going big in the way that audiences and workers need. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/do-museums-n... #museum #museums #empathy
Do Museums Need to Go Bigger Than Just Minimally Viable?
Is there such a thing as too many MVPs?
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November 22, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Museum Human welcomes all our new Bluesky followers with a new post on whether, in an eerie election echo, museums’ focus on minimum viability has kept us from going big in the way that audiences and workers need. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/do-museums-n... #museum #museums #empathy
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The House just passed a bill that gives the executive branch sweeping authority to effectively shut down non-profit universities and newsrooms. And a House Committee report quietly reveals a blueprint for just how those powers might be used. Read more @levernews.com www.levernews.com/gop-takes-fi...
GOP Takes First Steps To Shut Down Climate Groups
Democrats are helping give Trump the power to wipe out enemy nonprofits — and there’s already a road map on how to defund clean energy groups.
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November 21, 2024 at 10:19 PM
The House just passed a bill that gives the executive branch sweeping authority to effectively shut down non-profit universities and newsrooms. And a House Committee report quietly reveals a blueprint for just how those powers might be used. Read more @levernews.com www.levernews.com/gop-takes-fi...
Museum Human finishes its two-part list of museum-field links with articles about immersive art, leadership, workloads, NFTs, AI, and the (already-here) future. Time to think big. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the.... #museum #museums #immersive #AI #NFTs #futurism #leadership
Links of the Week: October 25, 2024: All Museums, All the Time (part 2)
Here's the second part of Museum Human's largest group yet of museum-focused links.
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October 25, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Museum Human finishes its two-part list of museum-field links with articles about immersive art, leadership, workloads, NFTs, AI, and the (already-here) future. Time to think big. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the.... #museum #museums #immersive #AI #NFTs #futurism #leadership
In Museum Human’s latest interview, longtime friend of the site Andrea Ledesma of Monterey Bay Aquarium talks musetech, careers, people management, conferences and so much more. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/this-is-a-cu... #museum #museums #career #musetech #conferences #peoplemanagement
"This Is a Culture and Team We Want to Create": An Interview with Andrea Ledesma
Sometimes asking a lot of questions is more important than always having the answers.
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October 22, 2024 at 3:54 PM
In Museum Human’s latest interview, longtime friend of the site Andrea Ledesma of Monterey Bay Aquarium talks musetech, careers, people management, conferences and so much more. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/this-is-a-cu... #museum #museums #career #musetech #conferences #peoplemanagement
Museum Human had so many links about museums that we had to break it into two parts. This week: art-tech incubators, careers, journals, tax laws, museum libraries, trust, and, oh, Taylor Swift. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museum #museums #trust #careers #libraries
Links of the Week: October 18, 2024: All Museums, All the Time (part 1)
We've got the first part of a big pile of museum-related links this week.
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October 18, 2024 at 12:30 PM
Museum Human had so many links about museums that we had to break it into two parts. This week: art-tech incubators, careers, journals, tax laws, museum libraries, trust, and, oh, Taylor Swift. Subscribing is free: www.museumhuman.com/links-of-the... #museum #museums #trust #careers #libraries