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The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 14h

Honoring the work of @themisterlibrary.bsky.social & myself for #AASL25, this is my #HumbleBragAASL2025

This picture contains FOUR award winning Hoosier school librarians & all four in service leadership roles with @ilfonline.bsky.social.

The Bride (aka Rain) I ❤️ the Monster @simplyrain.bsky.social · 14h

An Awesome is the collective noun for a group of school librarians!

This is an AWESOME awesome!

@mrsboudreau.bsky.social, Stacey, Diane & me at the TiffanybJackson event.

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t want it to play sound when I press play, I’m too used to other apps where sound is muted by default.

I’m not sure what changed but I don’t remember doing this before. Like pretty sure it didn’t do this before.

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 2d

Why do all videos unmute now when I play them 😕

I press play, video unmutes.
I press mute, video pauses.
I press play, video plays on mute.
I watch and then scroll to next video in feed.
Same thing happens.

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 4d

People are running stats on LLM-generated participants and think they’re being social scientists when in fact they’re technically just playing a very strange video game. This is like saying you’re doing math research because you’re playing sudoku.

www.science.org/content/arti...

AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds

Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings

www.science.org

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 4d

Research and reference CAN be fun lol

Downtown Brandi Frown 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 4d

The LA Public Library research librarian explaining what is going on with Charli and Taylor is outstanding work

www.instagram.com/reel/DPXZIUa...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

Any NYC library workers on here potentially available to join a panel organized by @nycplan.org happening tomorrow??? We'd need you from 1:30 to 3 pm. Holler at me if this is you or someone you know.

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 5d

I did that once with a book I borrowed from a friend. I still lived with my parents then, but I tore the house apart looking for it. Never found it. Ten years later I’m visiting and go through some boxes of old stuff of mine in the basement & there it is! Where was it this whole time I’ll never know

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Matt Wall @mattwall.bsky.social · 6d

"Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets."
😩😩😩

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t think it lasted long lol

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 6d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 6d

Also totally agree it is important to call things by the right name

To many companies try to slip by referring to genAI, ai, and LLM like they’re all the exact same to try and keep the waters muddy and make it difficult to know what something is

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 6d

You are correct, spellcheckers have used AI as part of their tools for a while now but some companies are implementing LLMs into autocorrect and grammar checking.

Ex: The spell checker on iPhones with IOS17 and beyond…LLM.

LLM is a subcategory of genAI.

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 6d

Hilarious video but

Don’t think we forgot that you did try to pull a fast one

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · Jul 14

Not Merriam-Webster adding generativeAI to the dictionary 😭

Screenshot of merriam-Webster pop-up labeled Hey custom synonyms help. Get the exact word you need based on your specific sentence. Showing someone looking up important and using it in a sentence with genAI. Bottom subtext reads this is a beta feature. Results may contain errors. Word replacements are determined using AI. Please check word choices in our dictionary

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 6d

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · Jul 14

Not Merriam-Webster adding generativeAI to the dictionary 😭

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 6d

Big talk even tho you tried to add genAI as a feature in the thesaurus while back.
Glad you listened to your users.

(This is a hilarious video regardless)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 7d

Let’s just all agree to write it lowercase
Bc yeah

Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 9d

I hold many grudges against "Artificial Intelligence", but perhaps the biggest one is how confusing this era is for all us Weird Al Yankovic fans.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9d

To the Daily Beast staffer who put “79” into this headline, know this:

We salute you.

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Booklist Publications @ala-booklist.bsky.social · 7d

Join the round tables of the @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social (GameRT, GNCRT, FMRT, IRRT, RRT, & IFRT) on 10/24 for a day of interactive sessions about intellectual freedom, popular media, and moral panic, as well as conversations about how libraries work to protect the freedom to read: bit.ly/4gLpmh4

Promotional graphic for Intellectual Freedom Spectacular happening Friday, October 24 from 10:00-4:30 p.m. CT

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 8d

WHEEWWWWWWWWWW:
"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers . . . We agree that we would rather deplete our natural resources than make our own art or think our own thoughts."

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Large Language Muddle | The Editors

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

LLMs are an output-driven technology, but most jobs that AI is meant to replace require far more than just spitting out stuff. In reality, executive excitement over AI shows that they have little understanding of labor - they're Business Idiots.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

To be clear, some people have lost jobs to AI, just not the white collar workers, software engineers, or really any of the career paths that the mainstream media and AI investors would have you believe.

Brian Merchant has done excellent work covering how LLMs have devoured the work of translators, using cheap, “almost good” automation to lower already-stagnant wages in a field that was already hurting before the advent of generative AI, with some having to abandon the field, and others pushed into bankruptcy. I’ve heard the same for art directors, SEO experts, and copy editors, and Christopher Mims of the Wall Street Journal covered these last year.

These are all fields with something in common: shitty bosses with little regard for their customers who have been eagerly waiting for the opportunity to slash contract labor. To quote Merchant, “the drumbeat, marketing, and pop culture of ‘powerful AI’ encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have.”

Across the board, the people being “replaced” by AI are the victims of lazy, incompetent cost-cutters who don’t care if they ship poorly-translated text. To quote Merchant again, “[AI hype] has created the cover necessary to justify slashing rates and accepting “good enough” automation output for video games and media products.”

Yet the jobs crisis facing translators speaks to the larger flaws of the Large Language Model era, and why other careers aren’t seeing this kind of disruption.

Generative AI creates outputs, and by extension defines all labor as some kind of output created from a request. In the case of translation, it’s possible for a company to get by with a shitty version, because many customers see translation as “what do these words say,” even though (as one worker told Merchant) translation is about conveying meaning. Nevertheless, “translation” work had already started to condense to a world where humans would at times clean up machine-generated text, and the same worker warned that the same might come for other industries.

Yet the problem is that translation is a heavily output-driven industry, one where (idiot) bosses can say “oh yeah that’s fine” because they ran an output back through Google Translate and it seemed fine in their native tongue. The problems of a poor translation are obvious, but the customers of translation are, it seems, often capable of getting by with a shitty product.

The problem is that most jobs are not output-driven at all, and what we’re buying from a human being is a person’s ability to think.

Every CEO talking about AI replacing workers is an example of the real problem: that most companies are run by people who don’t understand or experience the problems they’re solving, don’t do any real work, don’t face any real problems, and thus can never be trusted to solve them. The Era of the Business Idiot is the result of letting management consultants and neoliberal “free market” sociopaths take over everything, leaving us with companies run by people who don’t know how the companies make money, just that they must always make more.

When you’re a big, stupid asshole, every job that you see is condensed to its outputs, and not the stuff that leads up to the output, or the small nuances and conscious decisions that make an output good as opposed to simply acceptable, or even bad.

What does a software engineer do? They write code! What does a writer do? They write words! What does a hairdresser do? They cut hair!

Yet that’s not actually the case.

As I’ll get into later, a software engineer does far more than just code, and when they write code they’re not just saying “what would solve this problem?” with a big smile on their face — they’re taking into account their years of experience, what code does, what code could do, all the things that might break as a result, and all of the things that you can’t really tell from just looking at code, like whether there’s a reason things are made in a particular way.

A good coder doesn’t just hammer at the keyboard with the aim of doing a particular task. They factor in questions like: How does this functionality fit into the code that’s already here? Or, if someone has to update this code in the future, how do I make it easy for them to understand what I’ve written and to make changes without breaking a bunch of other stuff?

A writer doesn’t just “write words.” They jostle ideas and ideals and emotions and thoughts and facts and feelings into a condensed piece of text, explaining both what’s happening and why it’s happening from their perspective, finding nuanced ways to convey large topics, none of which is the result of a single (or many) prompts but the ever-shifting sand of a writer’s brain.

Good writing is a fight between a bunch of different factors: structure, style, intent, audience, and prioritizing the things that you (or your client) care about in the text. It’s often emotive — or at the very least, driven or inspired by a given emotion — which is something that an AI simply can’t replicate in a way that’s authentic and believable.

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 8d

Also don’t come at me for posting a picture of my screen okay. There was no other way. We all get to enjoy the simplicity of doing things the boomer way sometimes.

Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 8d

The training got so bad people are seeing the light.

Tho one of these people later was brainstorming in chat how to make it work better so maybe not.

Screenshot of a chat with one person writing That presentation is a very sobering reminder of what AI can do and someone replying I was thinking the same thing

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 8d

Mind boggled by researchers not wanting to actually do their own research.

Like…that’s supposed to be your whole thing

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 8d

Blood pressure is UP today bc this is so annoying.

Google guy told us there’s no concerns regarding Gemini and plagiarism, librarians are aghast in the private chat.

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Void in a Cardigan @jumbledcardigan.bsky.social · 8d

Attending Gemini training bc we’re all expected and required to learn how to use it.

Them explaining we’re supposed to roleplay with the bot so it’ll give us better responses is so dumb. Your taxpayer dollars are going towards a bunch of people role playing in order to generate government reports

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