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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 1d

Hell YEAH Yukon!

Sean Boots @bluesky.sboots.ca · 2d

New blog post! 🎉 “Introducing Vote YES Yukon!” sboots.ca/2025/10/06/i... #Yukon #cdnpoli #electoralreform

I’m really stoked to introduce “Vote YES Yukon”, a non-partisan campaign in support of electoral reform during the current Yukon territorial election. This year, the Yukon is having a plebiscite askin...

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 2d

added to vocabulary

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 3d

I would never upload myself to Sora, so I very much appreciated Casey’s video to explain how different and other worldly it is youtu.be/I1dW-nZqhew?...

SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity?

YouTube video by CaseyNeistat

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

I think often about the Amazon engineer who wrote in an open letter to the company that Ring was “incompatible” with a free society.

Analysis | Amazon’s Ring plans to scan everyone’s face at the door

For the first time, the company is putting facial recognition into its home security doorbells and video cameras.

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 3d

As a board member of CJAM, I’m here for this!!!

Emily White @emwhitenoise.bsky.social · 6d

College radio stations are seeing a surge in student interest.

Stations that once struggled to fill airtime are now overflowing with student DJs.

I spoke to 7 college radio stations across the U.S. to understand what is driving the revival:

emwhitenoise.substack.com/p/gen-zs-col...

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday I gave a Pecha Kucha talk for Bike Windsor Essex's Community Conversations event where I shared my love and admiration of @aadl.org's The Summer Game.

My talk was entitled "Libraries deliver the freedom that games promise" librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/10/01/l...

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · Aug 26

At the Game Over Gala we welcomed a new friend and AADL staffer: our new costumed mascot Akako G. Shins!

Akakojiishiins means "Little Groundhog" in Ojibwe, and while they're not exactly little, they'll be making a big impression at AADL festivals and expos!

aadl.org/akakogshins

An enormous furry costumed groundhog mascot wearing glasses, a blue puffer vest, a mustard yellow beanie, hiking boots, and an AADL staff badge, standing in front of an AADL Summer Game banner in the lobby of the Downtown Library with AADL Communications & Marketing Manager Rich Retyi and Library Director Eli!

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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that @aadl.org plans to acquire the Ann Arbor Observer!

Public ownership of local news media is more important than ever, and this acquisition builds on years of partnership and archival work to ensure the future of this priceless community asset.

aadl.org/node/647334

The Ann Arbor District Library Plans to Acquire the Ann Arbor Observer | Ann Arbor District Library

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 8d

Reading hughrundle.net/did-you-mean/ and librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l... and thinking about it (1)

Did you mean..?

Search engines based on embedding vector queries are fundamentally at odds with the goal of enabling multiple ontological mappings across information and cultural works.

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 8d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 9d

I devoured this

Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · 12d

We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...

Q-UP on Steam

Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...

store.steampowered.com

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 9d

One of the real joys of writing online is when you see someone also find the value in something that you have shared, and runs with farther it in a way new to you.

Hugh Rundle’s insights on Google Search’s adoption of Ai snippets is a good read!

www.hughrundle.net/did-you-mean/

Did you mean..?

Search engines based on embedding vector queries are fundamentally at odds with the goal of enabling multiple ontological mappings across information and cultural works.

www.hughrundle.net

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Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social · 9d

Always excited to check out a @copystar.bsky.social talk! Don’t miss out on this one on libraries and LLMs.

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 18d

Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.

Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"

librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l...

Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power

On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.

librarian.aedileworks.com

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jul 21

Maybe the real Ship of Theseus was the Ship of Theseus we made along the way

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Briar in Blue @auroraworeblue.bsky.social · 17d

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia

A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says:

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune:
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible...

View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune

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Mark Swartz @mark-swartz.bsky.social · 17d

Awesome and inspiring stuff from Mita here. My favourite talk out of many great ones at the “Legacy of CCH” conference.

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 18d

Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.

Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"

librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l...

Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power

On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.

librarian.aedileworks.com

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you for the kind words!

Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · 18d

Today I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025.

Here is my talk: "Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power"

librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/09/20/l...

Libraries and Large Language Models as Cultural Technologies and Two Kinds of Power

On September 20th, 2025, I spoke on a panel at THE LEGACY OF CCH CANADIAN LTD. v. LAW SOCIETY OF UPPER CANADA AND FUTURE OF COPYRIGHT LAW CONFERENCE 2025. Here is my talk.

librarian.aedileworks.com

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irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 21d

One week left to get your apps in!

irina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨Windsor Law is hiring! 🚨
@windsorlaw.bsky.social is looking for 4 asst/assoc profs who bring social justice & critical perspectives to our core curriculum, esp environmental law, torts, constitutional, family, evidence, int'l trade & Indigenous law. Deadline: Sep 24
www.uwindsor.ca/faculty/recr...

Four (4) Tenure-Track Assistant or Tenured Associate Professor Positions - Faculty of Law

www.uwindsor.ca

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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 21d

No more publishing in library journals we're all makin zines

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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · Sep 8

Registration is open! Join us for an international conference on ‘The Legacy of CCH Canadian Ltd. v. LSUC and the Future of Copyright Law’, taking place on Sept 19-20th in downtown Toronto and live-streaming online! 📚©️

Find more information and a link to register here: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/ipos...

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · Sep 7

This looks promising but there is a considerable leaning on AI in the resource lists, which - for me - gives me pause www.natcom.org/resources-li...

Interdisciplinary academic work on Fascism/White Nationalism, including classical political thought - National Communication Association

Search this page × Hide unmatched 0 results ▲ ▼ Top

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · Sep 7

We’re done it before, we can do it again web.archive.org/web/20060916...

Iraq 2003: Sources of News - Leddy Library

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Mita Williams @copystar.bsky.social · Sep 7

My Wordle starter word is ‘steak’ because I love recalling the moment when I impressed the hell out of my co-workers by “hacking” the whatisthematrix website (by guessing it as the correct password) so many years ago…

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Love this. Churches ringing their bells for protests & popular uprisings has a long history. Out my window is Florence’s Badia bell tower, built 978 CE but rebuilt in 1330 because the tower was demolished in 1255 as punishment for ringing its bells to support a workers’ revolt 💪🔔

A tall skinny pointy gothic bell tower with rosette windows and a golden weathervane on top, proudly standing against a bright blue sky.

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