HeySig
@sigtheday.bsky.social
Librarian. Doodles for days. Opinions my own. They. 🦆
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“Knocking on a door, or even just walking in front of it, shouldn’t require abandoning your privacy,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com - state regulators must investigate, protect people’s privacy, and make use of their biometric privacy laws. techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/...
Amazon's Ring rolls out controversial, AI-powered facial-recognition feature to video doorbells | TechCrunch
The feature lets you identify the people who regularly come to your door by creating a catalog of up to 50 faces. The company says the Ring feature is opt in and the biometric data isn't used to train AI models.
techcrunch.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Knocking on a door, or even just walking in front of it, shouldn’t require abandoning your privacy,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @TechCrunch.com - state regulators must investigate, protect people’s privacy, and make use of their biometric privacy laws. techcrunch.com/2025/12/09/...
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This is an underacknowledged phenomenon, IMO: Real events, even those with actual proof and documentation, being falsely depicted in the form of AI outputs.
When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question
When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question
✔️ YES: On Nov. 28, a raccoon broke into a liquor store in Virginia, damaged more than a dozen bottles of alcohol & passed out on the bathroom floor.
❌ NO: This video does not depict the real event. It's AI-generated.
🔗 RumorGuard post: go.newslit.org/AIRaccoon
#AILiteracy
#MediaLiteracy
❌ NO: This video does not depict the real event. It's AI-generated.
🔗 RumorGuard post: go.newslit.org/AIRaccoon
#AILiteracy
#MediaLiteracy
December 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
This is an underacknowledged phenomenon, IMO: Real events, even those with actual proof and documentation, being falsely depicted in the form of AI outputs.
When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question
When fake content is based on real info, the everyday social media user is left with no choice but to call every image into question
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Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist.
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵
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Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
Books Not Bars 2025 Holiday Campaign
BOOKS NOT BARS FOR THE HOLIDAYS
Haymarket Books is committed to making our books available for free to people who are incarcerated.
In an effort to support those inside who are dealing with the imm...
haymarketbooks.app.neoncrm.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program
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New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#SantaClara County en español
#NewHaven
#SouthCentralPA (Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster & York counties)
#Ulster County, NY
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
#SantaClara County en español
#NewHaven
#SouthCentralPA (Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster & York counties)
#Ulster County, NY
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
SALUTE zines **BE SURE TO PRINT AT 100%!** - Google Drive
drive.google.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
New "How to Report ICE" zines up today:
#SantaClara County en español
#NewHaven
#SouthCentralPA (Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster & York counties)
#Ulster County, NY
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
#SantaClara County en español
#NewHaven
#SouthCentralPA (Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster & York counties)
#Ulster County, NY
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.
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Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
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There's this form of behavioral engineering/coercion going on to use AI when you're not even trying to. Ex: Enterprise Google Slides replaced "Upload an Image", with "Generate an Image" (right?), requiring extra work +adaptation to sidestep the AI-as-default push. It drives me bonkers.
November 10, 2025 at 7:18 PM
There's this form of behavioral engineering/coercion going on to use AI when you're not even trying to. Ex: Enterprise Google Slides replaced "Upload an Image", with "Generate an Image" (right?), requiring extra work +adaptation to sidestep the AI-as-default push. It drives me bonkers.
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If you don’t get it yet.
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you don’t get it yet.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Are you subscribed to the Tech Policy Press newsletter? If you are interested in issues at the intersection of technology and democracy, it's a useful resource. It comes out every Sunday morning. Sign up here: www.techpolicy.press/newsletter/
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I spotted this on Mastodon and I find it horrible, not least for the speed with which this has happened.
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This NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction"
This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 9, 2025 at 3:23 PM
This NeurIPS workshop claims that LLMs "provide an important foundation for exploring human cognition, emotion, and social interaction"
This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
This is flawed logic, as @lmesseri.bsky.social and I argue here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Good morning! It's Zine Librarians unConference day (one)! www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/
November 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Good morning! It's Zine Librarians unConference day (one)! www.zinelibraries.info/wiki/zluc2025/
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Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Paramount Has Blacklist for Stars Deemed “Overtly Antisemitic” — World of Reel
It sure looks like the likes of Javier Bardem, Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, and Mark Ruffalo won’t be making movies for Paramount in the foreseeable future.
www.worldofreel.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Under new head of Paramount David Ellison, the studio has drawn up a list of actors who opposed the Gaza genocide and will not allow them to appear in its films and TV shows.
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
Does this sound familiar?
Also, "Ellison is reportedly aiming to take over Warner Bros. next."
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Teens overwhelmingly used negative words like "biased," "boring," "chaotic," and "bad" to describe the news media and journalists in a new @newslit.org survey.
Those doing the hard and important work of teaching media literacy to high schoolers are unsurprised. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
Those doing the hard and important work of teaching media literacy to high schoolers are unsurprised. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
“Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds
About half of the teens surveyed believe that journalists frequently “make up details, such as quotes” and “pay for sources.”
www.niemanlab.org
November 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Teens overwhelmingly used negative words like "biased," "boring," "chaotic," and "bad" to describe the news media and journalists in a new @newslit.org survey.
Those doing the hard and important work of teaching media literacy to high schoolers are unsurprised. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
Those doing the hard and important work of teaching media literacy to high schoolers are unsurprised. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/bias...
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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Look a new thing
Librarians you should become experts in that new thing
No we aren't gonna give you new staff so you can hire or train specialists
You all just need to be experts at that and whatever else you're doing too
Don't drop anything though
We'll get mad
You have to do the new thing
Librarians you should become experts in that new thing
No we aren't gonna give you new staff so you can hire or train specialists
You all just need to be experts at that and whatever else you're doing too
Don't drop anything though
We'll get mad
You have to do the new thing
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Look a new thing
Librarians you should become experts in that new thing
No we aren't gonna give you new staff so you can hire or train specialists
You all just need to be experts at that and whatever else you're doing too
Don't drop anything though
We'll get mad
You have to do the new thing
Librarians you should become experts in that new thing
No we aren't gonna give you new staff so you can hire or train specialists
You all just need to be experts at that and whatever else you're doing too
Don't drop anything though
We'll get mad
You have to do the new thing
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For some CEO/VC ish Ed Tech event at Columbia my clever and rightly skeptical colleagues made an exhibit of Dead Tech. Learning machines, laptop for every child, School of the Air, and Smartboard mania. Brilliant and necessary rebuttal.
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
For some CEO/VC ish Ed Tech event at Columbia my clever and rightly skeptical colleagues made an exhibit of Dead Tech. Learning machines, laptop for every child, School of the Air, and Smartboard mania. Brilliant and necessary rebuttal.
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If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
October 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If you want to pursue something, don't be discouraged by how long it may take. The time is going to go by anyway. You can either be moving toward something you want to see happen, or not.
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The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl–an optional state-wide competition intended to get kids excited about reading–has banned 8 books from its teen competition this year.
Among the banned books? @samiraahmed.bsky.social's book about banned books.
What the hell is going on?
bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...
Among the banned books? @samiraahmed.bsky.social's book about banned books.
What the hell is going on?
bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...
A Georgia Reading Bowl Bans Titles from Competition, Including a Book on Book Bans
Eight books, including a book about the current spate of book bans and their impact on teens, have been banned from a Georgia Reading Bowl.
bookriot.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The Helen Ruffin Reading Bowl–an optional state-wide competition intended to get kids excited about reading–has banned 8 books from its teen competition this year.
Among the banned books? @samiraahmed.bsky.social's book about banned books.
What the hell is going on?
bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...
Among the banned books? @samiraahmed.bsky.social's book about banned books.
What the hell is going on?
bookriot.com/helen-ruffin...
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hi hello unpaywalled
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
hi hello unpaywalled
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Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.
#booksky
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#booksky
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Bookshop.org Offers Free Shipping and 20% Off Banned Books for “Anti-Prime Day”
Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.
bookriot.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Support independent bookstores and get free shipping by purchasing books through Bookshop.org during their "Anti-Prime Day" sale.
#booksky
bookriot.com/bookshop-org...
#booksky
bookriot.com/bookshop-org...
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your imaginary friend who uses too much electricity is now also annoying
October 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
your imaginary friend who uses too much electricity is now also annoying