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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 5h

Here's a rule of thumb: If "AI" seems like a good solution, you are probably both misjudging what the "AI" can do and misframing the problem.

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Comment by Tom Diettrich on a linkedin post reading:

"You can't "test-in quality" in engineering; you can't "review-in quality" in research. We need incentives for people to do better research. Our system today assumes that 75% of submitted papers are low quality, and it is probably right (I'll bet it is higher). If this were a manufacturing organization, an 75% defect rate would result in bankruptcy.

Imagine a world in which you could have an AI system check the correctness/quality of your paper. If your paper passed that bar, then it could be published (say, on arXiv). Subsequent human review could assess its importance to the field.

In such a system, authors would be incentivized to satisfy the AI system. This will lead to searching for exploits in the AI system. A possible solution is to select the AI evaluator at random from a large pool and limit the number of permitted submissions. I imagine our colleagues in mechanism design can improve on this idea."

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 2h

It’s fun that in Yiddish a lokshn kugel (לאָקשן קוגל) is a noodle pudding but an erd kugel (ערד קוגל) is just the planet earth

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2h

"Sometimes you don't have access to the LIS literature, or time to pick out the duds and synthesize the rest, and in those times 'what are other people doing' is often a good shortcut"

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2h

Restraining myself from ending my portfolio section on doing lit reviews by saying "Okay, but forget that, as a practicing professional you need to read blogs and talk to people"

#GradSchool #GradSchoolGripes #MLIS

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 5h

This is the thing about ai. The benefits are nebulous hypotheticals but the costs are very high and immediate

The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Jul 11

You'd get book 5 of a series at a yard sale, and then simply never find that series or even its author again for years.

Your reading *had* to be eclectic because you were stuck with whatever you had, and what you had was scrounged up like a post-apocalyptic scavenger.

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 18h

Like, my friends, aren't we just talking about data at this point?

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 18h

Just tried to find the Rules for Archival Description by googling "RAD Canadian." Needless to say it did not work

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 18h

Like, yes, TEI is an XML schema… but outside of a little header like HTML has, it's not really used for encoding metadata *about* a text, it's used for encoding the text itself.

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 18h

Discussions of metadata standards in my MLIS classes keep gesturing to TEI. I have used TEI, and would have said it's no more a metadata standard than HTML is. At first I thought it was just one prof being obtuse, but I keep seeing it (ex: scalar.usc.edu/works/intro-...). Am I missing something?

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Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · 3d

But the question did lead me to some great writeups by Black Jews, including this one by @mordkhetzvi.bsky.social (which links to another good piece by Erika Davis)

Translating Black Lives Matter into Yiddish

Amid an eruption of protests over police brutality, a Black performer of Yiddish music reflects on an attempt to “touch Blackness from inside Yiddish.”

jewishcurrents.org

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 3d

You cannot be fucking serious

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 1d

Passyunk

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 2d

(1/2) VDLM2 Message From: N993AN / AA3245

Message: GIVING THE NEW PHILLY CAPT A PLANE WITH NO WIFI DURING A PLAYOFF BASEBALL GAME IS A BAD JOKE. THINK THEY BOOD ME AT THE GATE APPRECIATE IF YOU COULD UPDATE US WITH OCCASIONAL SCORES. I PROMISSED TO PASS THEM ALONG. UNLESS THEY ARE LOSING IAN

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 2d

It cannot be made clearer.

If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

JK Rowling pledges to keep up fight against SNP trans policies

Author vows to bankroll campaigners after Scottish government fails to pay group's legal fees in Supreme Court equality case

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 2d

Someone please give me a grant to do an ethnography on folk beliefs about mass-scale platform moderation before next Halloween, I promise the results will be spookier than any ghost story you can come up with

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Caitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 1d

My day is shot bc a colleague just shared this UNC press release about a still to-be-named, to-be-designed, to-be-planned AI school where the only known fact seems to be that it will replace the library school.

www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

University leadership announces development of new school at Carolina | UNC-Chapel Hill

The School of Information and Library Science and the School of Data Science and Society will be founding leaders of a new school to amplify and lead Carolina’s response to the information and data ne...

www.unc.edu

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1d

periodic reminder that if you write stuff that's published on the web for a publication you yourself do not own, PDF that shit as soon as it goes live

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Allie Alvis 🌷 @book-historia.bsky.social · 1d

Well, something pretty bad has happened at the tail end of our Japan trip: instead of our bag being forwarded from Kyoto to Ikebukuro, it wound up on a container ship bound for Oshima Island

A map of Japan with Oshima Island circled

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 3d

In February, @404media.co did a piece on the overwhelming amount of AI Slop in public library vendor Hoopla Digital. They promised to clean up their platform, but just this morning I went looking and easily found a self-publishing house pushing shoddy health content by a fake author.

Stephanie Hinderock stock photo nonfiction writer

search for a bad self publisher with many health related books

stock photo with many women with different names

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 3d

Just read about John Dewey's theories of learning for grad school. So impressive that this guy did all of that on top of designing a decimal system *and* defeating Truman 😉

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 3d

For real, though, if you want a librarian/archivist-oriented intro to regex (and where, how, and for what you can use it), check out this presentation I put together last year

docs.google.com/presentation...

RegEx Pres

Reg(ular )?Ex(pressions)? A Multi-Tool for Working with Text James Truitt BitCurator Forum Philadelphia Satellite 2024-03-19 Intro Imagine that a student or volunteer has filled out a metadata spreads...

docs.google.com

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 3d

Back on my bullshit (yelling about how great regular expressions are)

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 3d

Also, I've rarely if ever seen anyone trying to reason about digital facsimiles on analogy with microformat facsimiles in this period, which I think is an interesting omission. But I also haven't looked that hard, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯