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Heather Hill
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Sitting at the nexus of disability, critical disability justice, accessibility, and libraries. Punk ass book jockey and associate professor, UWO. She/her
I deeply appreciate the shout out to UHF.
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
boop
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
In London: Oxford Book Shop and Little Wren for new things. Brown and Dickson, Midnight Mass, and Attic Books for used.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Heather Hill
So I was invited to accept an award for "imagination in service to society." This forced me to think a bit about what "imagination," "service" and "society" mean to me.

Here's the speech I delivered last night:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"The Enemy of Imagination": Here's the Speech I Gave Last Night
I had such an incredible day yesterday, y’all. First I was at the Trans Day of Literature at George Mason University, talking with incredible authors...
buttondown.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
an army off bots at convinced my in-laws that people not like them were to be feared. absolutely criminal
November 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
yaaaaayy!
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
right!?
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Heather Hill
He explains how in the past in healthy orgs there were many layers of experts (like him) to advise against believing pitches of tech products to CEOs that do not work, while now AI companies go directly to executives and convince them their nonsense is real.

www.youtube.com/live/sey7TS4...

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The Tech Industry’s "AI" Play for Education Dollars with Dwayne Monroe
YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:49 AM
100%
So fucking creepy and it really hurt for a long time knowing a mentor was only being a mentor to try to get in my pants.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Right? like wtf does that even mean?
November 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
'we could turn on the ai function in our library discovery system'

'sure, does it work? Meaning has it been tested such that it is proven to work for the purposes you think it will? Does it provide clear results without hiding certain topics like Gaza and abortion?'

'.......uh....we don't know?'
November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
These programs are like a fancy version of mad libs, but they are being sold as something that generates knowledge. Fuck you, Sam Altman. Design better shit and I might use it.
November 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM