carissa
@carissapffffft.bsky.social
📚 Special collections librarian/archivist in Asheville, NC
🌧️ Documenting the impact of Helene in WNC: helenehistory.omeka.net
📝 Views are my own
🐦 I miss old #library Twitter
🌧️ Documenting the impact of Helene in WNC: helenehistory.omeka.net
📝 Views are my own
🐦 I miss old #library Twitter
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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“Downloading and archiving data in private or non-governmental repositories is a double-edged sword. It allows archivists to make multiple copies… But saving such data on platforms owned by US-based companies could be risky if those companies are later compelled by the government to delete the data”
Inside the desperate rush to save decades of US scientific data from deletion
Swathes of scientific data deletions are sweeping across US government websites – with decades of research at risk. Now, scientists are racing to save their work before it's lost.
www.bbc.com
April 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Downloading and archiving data in private or non-governmental repositories is a double-edged sword. It allows archivists to make multiple copies… But saving such data on platforms owned by US-based companies could be risky if those companies are later compelled by the government to delete the data”
“I’m doing nothing productive. I’m answering emails stating we cannot help, we cannot process, we have no guidance, we cannot operate. This ship has no captain whatsoever, and I’m playing in the band while the Titanic sinks.”
SCOOP: Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.
HHS Systems Are in Danger of Collapsing, Workers Say
The purging of IT and cybersecurity staff at the Department of Health and Human Services could threaten the systems used by the agency’s staff and the safety of critical health data.
www.wired.com
April 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“I’m doing nothing productive. I’m answering emails stating we cannot help, we cannot process, we have no guidance, we cannot operate. This ship has no captain whatsoever, and I’m playing in the band while the Titanic sinks.”
This bit right here: ‘the lack of evidence against you is actually what proves you’re a terrorist, and as a terrorist you will not be given the right to defend yourself’
April 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
This bit right here: ‘the lack of evidence against you is actually what proves you’re a terrorist, and as a terrorist you will not be given the right to defend yourself’
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Bless the citizen archivists who are joining in to preserve & provide access to at-risk information.
As someone who’s worked with web archiving off and on since about 2016, I want to make a few notes on archiving web content: (1/?)
As someone who’s worked with web archiving off and on since about 2016, I want to make a few notes on archiving web content: (1/?)
February 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Bless the citizen archivists who are joining in to preserve & provide access to at-risk information.
As someone who’s worked with web archiving off and on since about 2016, I want to make a few notes on archiving web content: (1/?)
As someone who’s worked with web archiving off and on since about 2016, I want to make a few notes on archiving web content: (1/?)
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If your Southern university/institution holds LGBTQ and related archives and collections and they become at risk of inaccessibility, censorship, or destruction, please reach out to us. We have developed a long term loan program to keep the materials until it becomes safe to return them.
January 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If your Southern university/institution holds LGBTQ and related archives and collections and they become at risk of inaccessibility, censorship, or destruction, please reach out to us. We have developed a long term loan program to keep the materials until it becomes safe to return them.