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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

"AI" generated image of woman with dark hair sitting in a chair in front of posters with random shapes and symbols meant to look like images and text on movie posters, all superimposed with a post from k.w.bogen reading
"AI actresses can't negotiate. They can't say they'd prefer their bodies not be shown certgain ways. They can't refuse degrading scenes. They can't express distress about disturbing content. They can't ask the creators :why would you do that to me? Why put any woman through watching that? If AI film winds up being the path, we're about to see an entirely new generation (and more brutal depiction) of media misogyny."

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 4d

Like… it's kind of right there, no?

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Meredith Farkas @librarianmer.bsky.social · Sep 8

Just went to a pretty interesting webinar about designing AI-resistant assignments for meaningful learning, but the instructor mentioned she uses AI for all her communication but doesn't disclose that to students. How can you do that while talking about students being transparent about AI usage?

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Sep 4

It would be such a good episode.

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Aug 21

Concluded Rebel Ready Week by hosting round 2 of my identity exploration with TTRPGs and safety tools workshop; students loved the Katie gif, and they were all so wonderful and lovely! And then a second escape room for a grand finale. I love getting to create spaces where nerds can find each other.

Photo of a projector screen with a gif of Katie Marovitch at the head of a table in the Dimension 20 dome with text “say hi, my people!” And text on slide that tells students to “Say hello to your neighbors!”

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Aug 21

Today’s Rebel Ready Week day was a whirlwind of awesome students! Co-led a silly workshop about podcasts with some amazing colleagues, talked to students about how to incorporate their fandoms into research, and had a jam-packed workshop about using safety tools, identity exploration, and TTRPGs. 💚

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Aug 20

Rebel Ready Week is one of my favorite weeks of the year. I get to do the kind of instruction and programming that brings me so much joy (largely bringing nerds together). Today was Locked in the Library, an escape room experience, and Game Changer: Libraries Edition, and it was so wonderful.

A screen says Locked in the Library in neon; in front is a table with six envelopes, black lights, and a single locked box.

Amber, with short blue hair, smiles in front of a screen that says “Game Changer Libraries Edition!”

Photo of a classroom where students sit in an audience. At the front of the room is a table with three contestants, where an assistant sprinkles confetti over them.

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Nicole Pagowsky @nope4evr.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'm putting a panel together for my class, LIS 581, to have a variety of library workers talk about instruction. I have academic 4yr and community college set, looking for a public, school, and/or special librarian to join us. Message me if interested!

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Aug 6

It is me, giving a short presentation on a workshop I’m hosting for first-year students this month! At the best conference of the year; can’t wait to return to the Transformative Play Institute Seminar sometime!

youtu.be/o2H0FYzxeYA

Lines Veils & the Library: A TTRPG Identity Exploration Workshop for 1st Year Students—Amber Sewell

YouTube video by Transformative Play Initiative

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99% Invisible @99pi.org · Aug 5

Weeding is something that gardeners, your neighbors, and even librarians have in common. And we're not talking about crabgrass.

This week, we're talking books, getting rid of them, and what happened when one library had to downsize.

Full episode 👉 99percentinvisible.org/episode/weed...

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Rebecca Strang @bexagons.bsky.social · Aug 5

The new TTRPG collection is on the shelves at Oesterle Library! I just put in another order with @ipr.bsky.social on Friday using their library support program, so we'll add to this soon. 💙 We're also starting a new gaming club on campus to support the collection! #GamingInLibraries #PlayIsAValidEnd

A bookshelf in an academic library. The top four shelves are filled with TTRPGs. The bottom shelf is empty

The top two shelves of a bookshelf, filled with TTRPGs. The top shelf contains several books. The second shelf holds small plastic totes that contain player kits for small, indie TTRPGs.

The bottom half of a bookshelf. The top pictured shelf contains player kits that hold tools that work across s wide array of games: a dice set, a coin, a character standee. The middle shelf contains TTRPGS that come in boxes and a couple plastic totes with player kits.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 3

Real bad. I have a whole class on this, btw.

Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · Aug 3

I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Aug 3

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Jul 26

My friends are cool and smart and awesome.

Rebecca Strang @bexagons.bsky.social · Jul 25

Earlier this month I did an AMA facilitated by @stickydoodler.bsky.social with indie TTRPG designers who want to learn about how some libraries with TTRPG collections collect and process indie titles. This is a thread with notes and photos of the games in the collection at my academic library.

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Sticky Doodler @stickydoodler.bsky.social · Jul 23

Would you like to see your games in libraries around North America? Watch this video to learn 📕👁️ SECRETS 👁️📕.

youtu.be/vkhrBwimb6Y?...

(and also: read the thread after the jump...)

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Jul 24

The battle is not keeping AI out of Canvas— that’s already been lost. The battle is giving individual faculty (not administrators, not campus IT, not ed tech consultants) the power to turn it off at will. That can happen through governance and advocacy.

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Jul 7

In the midst of all the fuckery going on, I’m glad I have finally been reunited with my beloved Wimbledon after so long. I forgot how much I love watching tennis. 🎾

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Greg Stolze @gregstolze.bsky.social · Jul 6

I used em-dashes before ChatGPT crawled out of math's asshole and I'll use them once LLMs join pet rocks and Betamax in the dustbin of history--God willing.

Robin Mar-Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️ @electricland.bsky.social · Jul 6

Stop spreading this garbage about em dashes in ACTUAL EDITED PROSE OH MY GOD.

Plenty of actual human beings know how to type em dashes! We’re called “writers” and “editors” — maybe you’ve heard of us?

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another successful Annual down! What a great team. 😊

ALA Games & Gaming Round Table @alagamert.bsky.social · Jun 30

As we close our our volunteer year, thanks to all the GameRT members who have served on committees and made our work possible! Thanks as well to the leadership of GameRT's board: George, Danielle, Amber, Thomas, Liz, Carl, Rebecca, Jennifer, Joshua, Molly, Terri, and Hannah.

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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · Jun 21

Imagine being so limited in your process as to not know that research is a creative act.

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Meg Pillow @megpillow.bsky.social · Jun 21

I really hope that every writer who doesn’t use AI is so enraged that you work on your poem or your essay or your novel tonight. I want a whole library of incredible original writing to come out this

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sarah @inmywoodshop.bsky.social · Jun 13

No notes.

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"Baby Got Back" is older than the first policy requiring women and minorities to be included in clinical trials and medical research.

Sam Ghali, M.D. @ @EM.RESUS • Jun 9
Hit me with a shocking medical fact

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Jun 11

New blog post on ACRLog, "AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide." Got a lot of comments during a recent presentation that people hadn't heard of the concept of AI refusal, so here's some places to start. 📚 acrlog.org/2025/06/11/a...

AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide - ACRLog

This week I was on a panel at the Generative AI in Libraries (GAIL) virtual conference. Along with my fellow panelists Andrea Baer and Emily Zerrenner, I joined moderator Sarah Appedu to discuss the c...

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Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · Jun 11

Eyes up for ops

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Amber Sewell (she/her) @ambersewell13.bsky.social · Jun 12

In Visby to listen to a bunch of great folks chat about using games in teaching. And very briefly chatting myself about a workshop I’m doing in the fall.