kay slater
@kslater.bsky.social
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Chicago-based library worker + DJ—MA + MSLIS #CritLib, #CriticalAI, #InfoLit, digital preservation, communication, cultural studies—views my own https://online-roleplay.ghost.io https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2026-8669
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In “Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library,” I examine LIS as in need of a values-realignment, asking readers to refuse the technosolutionism we are so often offered in place of human-centered possibilities, like taking racism, climate change, and labor rights seriously

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Project MUSE - Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
There are so few people actually asking, “is this any good for what we do?” Instead people give lip service to “responsible use” while plowing ahead with punching “AI” into everything. This isn’t just about selling a product; it’s about co-opting humanities researchers to train “AI” models.
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idgordon.bsky.social
If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!
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bergisjules.bsky.social
Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...
A digital poster with information and a link (bit.ly/warc-2026-signup) about signing up to receive reminders and updates for release of the 2026 web archiving school application.
kslater.bsky.social
LLMs are not people, but LLMs represent the relationships of people to their exploitation by extractive companies
kslater.bsky.social
@keshaunpearson.bsky.social of Memphis Community Against Pollution on the mythology of technology ‘saving’ society: “We are literally failing an open book test”
ainowinstitute.bsky.social
Last week we co-hosted a live show with Computer Says Maybe at Climate Week NYC on AI and data center expansion. If you missed it, catch the recording!

Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1KS...
Or listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/nyc-...
Let Them Eat Compute: Computer Says Maybe LIVE from Climate Week
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kslater.bsky.social
aligned with this: many librarians don’t even have time to read!
kslater.bsky.social
very curious what this means for the potential Sims movie adaptation and the game’s move to a MMO. will they continue with it all for possible revenue? will they decide to scratch it just in case it all fails?
jasonschreier.bsky.social
It’s official: EA is going private.

The leveraged buyout will be financed by a staggering $20 billion of debt, which likely means some *aggressive* cost cutting is ahead for EA in the coming months and years.

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
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kslater.bsky.social
Humanities Methods in Librarianship – a new, no-fee, open access journal that publishes high quality, peer-reviewed research at the intersection of librarianship and the humanities – is seeking peer reviewers to join our team.

www.humanitiesmethods.org

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Become a peer reviewer for Humanities Methods in Librarianship!
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kslater.bsky.social
paulie did it again
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i love when women
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
photo of paulina borsook
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tamigraph.bsky.social
I can’t believe people are “discovering” AI supply chains in 2025. Stop grifting for a minute and read a damn book!
kslater.bsky.social
an impressive series worthy of your attention and time!!!
datasociety.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to be hosting a 4-part fall event series in collaboration with the New York Public Library, exploring the social implications of AI & its impacts on democracy, the environment, & human labor. Learn more and RSVP to attend live in NYC or via livestream! datasociety.net/events/under...
Text on an blue, green, orange, and purple background with the title of the event series, Understanding AI, which is a collaboration with the New York Public Library. It says, “Join us online or live in NYC at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL).” It continues with the dates and titles of the four events in this series; the event on September 5, 2025 is titled Understanding AI: What the Public Needs to Know; the event on September 23, 2025 is titled The Environmental Costs of AI Are Surging — What Now?; the event on October 29, 2025 is titled Reorienting AI in the Public Interest; and the event on November 20, 2025 is titled Standing Up for Human Value in the AI Economy.
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kslater.bsky.social
had a dream i was prompted to explain how lizards have a connection to the concept of ‘deep time’

somehow i was able to give a more theoretically accurate response in this dream than i’ve ever been able to demonstrate while awake

reading works! knowledge sticks!