Steve Ely
@stevereally.bsky.social
Longtime librarian, currently unaffiliated.
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Sham investigations serve the dual purposes of 1) targeting enemies and 2) discrediting the concept of meritorious prosecution when it's time to hold your administration accountable.
November 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Sham investigations serve the dual purposes of 1) targeting enemies and 2) discrediting the concept of meritorious prosecution when it's time to hold your administration accountable.
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unfortunately you just gotta assume that any screenshot without a verifying link is fake until proven otherwise
This tweet is fake
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
unfortunately you just gotta assume that any screenshot without a verifying link is fake until proven otherwise
Disappointing that it includes one by the CEO of Palantir.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Disappointing that it includes one by the CEO of Palantir.
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Letting your dog off-leash in an area not designated for it shrinks the world for other people and animals who can't risk unexpectedly meeting a loose dog. My dog is not dog-friendly. WE mind our own business, obey leash laws, and just want to have a nice walk.
"owners tend to downplay the situation, insisting their pet is friendly or disciplined and deserves a chance to roam."
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Owners tend to underestimate the former two properties of their dog, but the latter really pisses me off. It's incredibly entitled.
Unleashed dogs in Boston are a source of frustration for some people, and citations have risen - The Boston Globe
The clashes play out in parks, on baseball fields, and Facebook pages — often pitting neighbor against neighbor.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Letting your dog off-leash in an area not designated for it shrinks the world for other people and animals who can't risk unexpectedly meeting a loose dog. My dog is not dog-friendly. WE mind our own business, obey leash laws, and just want to have a nice walk.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
November 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Trump's domestic Gestapo raided a job site, then handcuffed a US citizen born in Raleigh NC -- even after being shown the guy's REAL ID, which is only available to US citizens and LPRs
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
CBP+ICE will ignore your identifying documents when it suits their racism
www.newsobserver.com/news/local/a...
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This. I've been working with "machine learning" since before the current AI-fever and it's an invaluable tool in science and engineering.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This. I've been working with "machine learning" since before the current AI-fever and it's an invaluable tool in science and engineering.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
LLMs and GenAI are being misused in a criminally negligent way and using misplaced legitimacy to do it, and that misdirect cannot be allowed to continue.
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Many of the biggest problems America faces today have their roots in “forgive & forget” after the Civil War & the violent overthrow of Reconstruction by white supremacists. We can’t afford to repeat those enormous blunders this time. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Many of the biggest problems America faces today have their roots in “forgive & forget” after the Civil War & the violent overthrow of Reconstruction by white supremacists. We can’t afford to repeat those enormous blunders this time. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
since the "google is now training gemini on your email contents" thing keeps bumping around here: it's _not happening_. I say this not to defend google but because I know a lot of people that have broken their filtering and made their lives much more annoying from sheer misinformation.
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
y'know, if tech companies weren't so fired up to call every single thing "AI" it would be a lot easier to distinguish "ML spam filter that is well-sandboxed and tuned on your emails" from "giant context and IP-eroding foundation model that makes people paranoid and unhappy"
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"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social
✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social
✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face
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I had no idea this was going on and it's so upsetting. The public sphere is being dismantled before our eyes.
It's not just laws about books that are breaking libraries. Several states have passed property tax reforms–or are in the process of passing them–that are dismantling, destroying, and defunding these public institutions of democracy.
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
buttondown.com/wellsourced/...
It's Not Just Laws About Books Breaking Libraries. It's Also New Tax Reforms.
Two states have passed property tax cuts that are directly impacting public libraries. Expect to see this happen more.
buttondown.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I had no idea this was going on and it's so upsetting. The public sphere is being dismantled before our eyes.
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Hope I live long enough to read Mamdani's memoir
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Hope I live long enough to read Mamdani's memoir
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I love the way if you turn off AI in Gmail, it removes your tabs along the top and dumps everything into the main inbox instead, even though those predated AI by years.
Talk about spiteful little fucks.
Talk about spiteful little fucks.
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I love the way if you turn off AI in Gmail, it removes your tabs along the top and dumps everything into the main inbox instead, even though those predated AI by years.
Talk about spiteful little fucks.
Talk about spiteful little fucks.
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ALA celebrates today's ruling in federal court in RI permanently blocking the Administration's actions to dismantle IMLS.
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
ALA celebrates today's ruling in federal court in RI permanently blocking the Administration's actions to dismantle IMLS.
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
ALA Pres. Sam Helmick: "This victory belongs to all of us, and we build the future of our libraries together." Read our full statement & take action: www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
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NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
November 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
NEWS: Libraries WIN in federal court!
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
A judge in RI issued a permanent injunction stopping the Administration from dismantling the Institute of Museum & Library Services and nullifying all actions taken to do so.
Read the ruling: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... (More to come from ALA)
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Opted out, but wow, that turns off a lot of features that existed way before the AI garbage, like spell-check.
Gmail users!!
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off.
Pass it on!!
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.
www.malwarebytes.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Opted out, but wow, that turns off a lot of features that existed way before the AI garbage, like spell-check.
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🧵 NEW: US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights. The Trump administration is attempting to impose Project 2025 anti-DEI agenda on countries outside the U.S., citing Christian nationalist ideology.
The EU has doubled down on DEI.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The EU has doubled down on DEI.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
EU to ‘Double Down’ on DEI policies, Equality Chief Says
The European Union will not row back on diversity, equity and inclusion policies which are under threat in the United States, instead viewing strong equality legislation as a competitive advantage, th...
www.bloomberg.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
🧵 NEW: US rules say countries with diversity policies are infringing human rights. The Trump administration is attempting to impose Project 2025 anti-DEI agenda on countries outside the U.S., citing Christian nationalist ideology.
The EU has doubled down on DEI.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The EU has doubled down on DEI.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...