Heather I
@rollforlibrarian.bsky.social
Librarian, TTRPGs, video games, ebikes. Melbourne, Australia
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My career arc could be mapped from “replacing Janet’s version” to “convincing clients to keep using Janet’s version”.
June 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
My career arc could be mapped from “replacing Janet’s version” to “convincing clients to keep using Janet’s version”.
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Murderbot being relatable feels like a diagnostic note. You don't have to be an autistic person in the service industry to relate but it helps.
April 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Murderbot being relatable feels like a diagnostic note. You don't have to be an autistic person in the service industry to relate but it helps.
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I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @gabriellekent.bsky.social) in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here.
www.32auctions.com/organization...
www.32auctions.com/organization...
Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch (1/3)
Auction item 'Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch (1/3)' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
April 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @gabriellekent.bsky.social) in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here.
www.32auctions.com/organization...
www.32auctions.com/organization...
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My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My translation of a viral Japanese meme summarizing decades of U.S. complaints about Japan not buying enough American cars (while not making the kind of cars Japanese consumers actually want):
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Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.
March 20, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Overconfident humans who don’t listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.
I have had a mild knee injury bothering me for the last week - on the mend. Extra grateful for my ebike - in the top power assist level it's quite manageable for me to get where I need to
March 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I have had a mild knee injury bothering me for the last week - on the mend. Extra grateful for my ebike - in the top power assist level it's quite manageable for me to get where I need to
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Libraries buy books; authors receive royalties every time a book is sold. Authors aren't missing out on compensation. Libraries don't cheat authors. I'm an author. Libraries carry my books. I love libraries.
February 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Libraries buy books; authors receive royalties every time a book is sold. Authors aren't missing out on compensation. Libraries don't cheat authors. I'm an author. Libraries carry my books. I love libraries.
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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
March 24, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.
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At first glance, this reads like a series of conspiracy theories, until you realize every single one of these things is actually happening & this batshit insanity is reality. For YEARS, we librarians have been gaslit & told, “bans aren’t bans if you can still buy it on Amazon”. Well, guess what.
February 18, 2025 at 12:40 AM
At first glance, this reads like a series of conspiracy theories, until you realize every single one of these things is actually happening & this batshit insanity is reality. For YEARS, we librarians have been gaslit & told, “bans aren’t bans if you can still buy it on Amazon”. Well, guess what.
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Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.
A federal judge in Wyoming received a motion citing nine cases. Of the nine, eight don't exist.
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
When she demanded an explanation, the lawyers said their "artificial intelligence platform ‘hallucinated’ the cases in question."
@courtwatch.bsky.social www.courtwatch.news/p/lawyers-ca...
Lawyers Caught Citing AI-Hallucinated Cases Say It’s a ‘Cautionary Tale’ For All Law Firms
The attorneys filed court documents referencing eight non-existent cases, then admitted it was a "hallucination" by an AI tool.
www.courtwatch.news
February 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Me being a broken record on this: Don't trust consumer-facing "AI" for anything.
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Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I *don't* know about?
February 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Here's an example of the sort of tests I run with "AI" to see if they're still on their bullshit. One of these listed characters doesn't exist in the book. Gemini just plain made them up. Again: what does it get wrong about the things I *don't* know about?
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The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com
#trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter
#trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter
The Real Stonewall Monument
The correct and original content for the Stonewall National Monument website that the National Park Service doesn't want you to see.
realstonewall.com
February 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The National Park Service is misremembering #Stonewall. We're here to help correct their mistakes! All of the original content for the Stonewall National Monument has been republished at realstonewall.com
#trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter
#trans #queer #LGBWithTheT #translivesmatter
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Embrace graphic novels
1/ ?
1/ ?
February 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Embrace graphic novels
1/ ?
1/ ?
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We literally have science fiction on why this is a bad idea.
February 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
We literally have science fiction on why this is a bad idea.
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Finally reading Ink & Sigil, and I must give a shout out to @kevinhearne.bsky.social for this extremely spot-on snippet about billionaires.
February 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Finally reading Ink & Sigil, and I must give a shout out to @kevinhearne.bsky.social for this extremely spot-on snippet about billionaires.
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my favorite people are the ones who are drunk on learning, who check more books from the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about stardust or the sea or Icelandic sagas and just. never. stop.
February 4, 2025 at 10:49 PM
my favorite people are the ones who are drunk on learning, who check more books from the library than they have time to read, who stay up all night on wiki rabbit trails, who need to know everything about stardust or the sea or Icelandic sagas and just. never. stop.
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You know what EVs have, just like conventional cars?
"The most abundant nanoplastic was tyre particles (41%), then polystyrene (28%) and polyethylene (12%). Each tyre on the world’s 1.6bn vehicles can lose 4kg during its lifetimes and may be the largest source of tiny plastic pollution."
Vehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high Alps
Mountaineers now scaling more peaks for first global study of nanoplastics, which can enter lungs and bloodstream
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You know what EVs have, just like conventional cars?
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More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday
Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a NYT analysis found.
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
The purges have removed info about vaccines, veterans' care, hate crimes, and scientific research, among many other topics. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
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"'I doubt that most library users of Hoopla are aware that some titles may be AI generated or unedited and of dubious quality,' Blackwell said. 'They may assume that if the library is offering the information, it can be trusted. That is a problem.'"
New from 404 Media: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries, forcing librarians to sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI.
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
www.404media.co/ai-generated...
AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"'I doubt that most library users of Hoopla are aware that some titles may be AI generated or unedited and of dubious quality,' Blackwell said. 'They may assume that if the library is offering the information, it can be trusted. That is a problem.'"
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This list includes "female" and "women" but not "male" or "men."
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This list includes "female" and "women" but not "male" or "men."
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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The fash have been emboldened by demagogues and a misplaced sense of invincibility but we will win this war if we stand together!
ACLU sues on behalf of librarian fired after opposing book censorship effort
Patty Hector lost job after being targeted by campaign urging restriction of books with race and LGBTQ+ themes
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The fash have been emboldened by demagogues and a misplaced sense of invincibility but we will win this war if we stand together!
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I just want to beat the drum again that no other public institution grants civic respect and standing to kids quite like the public library, and that eroding or destroying it is a direct attack on a democratic ideal according to which even the powerless and voiceless have a place among us. 📚
Kootenai County libraries will create an "adults only" room, revoke library access to minors, and seek to ban purchases of a wide swath of book topics for anyone under 18.
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"Adults Only" Room, 140 Banned Books, & New Restrictions on Children's Access Come to an Idaho Public Library System
Kootenai County libraries will create an "adults only" room, revoke library access to minors, and seek to ban purchases of a wide swath of book topics for anyone under 18.
bookriot.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I just want to beat the drum again that no other public institution grants civic respect and standing to kids quite like the public library, and that eroding or destroying it is a direct attack on a democratic ideal according to which even the powerless and voiceless have a place among us. 📚