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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · 20h

In February, @404media.co did a piece on the overwhelming amount of AI Slop in public library vendor Hoopla Digital. They promised to clean up their platform, but just this morning I went looking and easily found a self-publishing house pushing shoddy health content by a fake author.

Stephanie Hinderock stock photo nonfiction writer

search for a bad self publisher with many health related books

stock photo with many women with different names

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 16h

Just read about John Dewey's theories of learning for grad school. So impressive that this guy did all of that on top of designing a decimal system *and* defeating Truman 😉

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 1d

For real, though, if you want a librarian/archivist-oriented intro to regex (and where, how, and for what you can use it), check out this presentation I put together last year

docs.google.com/presentation...

RegEx Pres

Reg(ular )?Ex(pressions)? A Multi-Tool for Working with Text James Truitt BitCurator Forum Philadelphia Satellite 2024-03-19 Intro Imagine that a student or volunteer has filled out a metadata spreads...

docs.google.com

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 1d

Back on my bullshit (yelling about how great regular expressions are)

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I've rarely if ever seen anyone trying to reason about digital facsimiles on analogy with microformat facsimiles in this period, which I think is an interesting omission. But I also haven't looked that hard, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 1d

Still thinking about this. It's especially interesting given that this is when the MPLP movement is taking off in archives world, too

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

I keep being assigned textbooks from the aughts and 2010s for my metadata class, and the lack of engagement with archival theory is really something. Like, no one is interested in archivists' work with aggregates, or questioning that description should be done at anything besides item level. Wild

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

Getting tired of metadata standards named XYZcore. Can we get a -fringe or two? An -edge? Maybe a -shell, if it’s not too confusing? A -skin or -stem or -crust or -mantle if we’re really feeling adventurous?

Why so center-centric?

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neongrey @neongrey.bsky.social · 2d

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 2d

On this day where librarians consider the closing of Baker & Taylor, I would like to remind you that Sandy Berman still walks this earth and today is his birthday.

www.sanfordberman.org

Welcome to the Sanford Berman website devoted to the work of librarian Sanford Berman who created an innovative, radical and inclusive catalog which used terms we use when looking for information instead of the 19th century language of the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Berman worked for the Hennepin County library from 1973 until 1999. Sandy continues to create subject headings and works for political and social justice.

www.sanfordberman.org

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

Also the lists of metadata standards always include EAD but never DACS and it's driving me up the wall. You put AACR2 on here but not MARC, what gives?

#GradSchoolGripes

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

I keep being assigned textbooks from the aughts and 2010s for my metadata class, and the lack of engagement with archival theory is really something. Like, no one is interested in archivists' work with aggregates, or questioning that description should be done at anything besides item level. Wild

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

PBoutskirts. VRAmargin. DarwinLimb. Please can someone throw me a bone here

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

Getting tired of metadata standards named XYZcore. Can we get a -fringe or two? An -edge? Maybe a -shell, if it’s not too confusing? A -skin or -stem or -crust or -mantle if we’re really feeling adventurous?

Why so center-centric?

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve heard “Fast Car” before, but I actually *listened* to it for the first time today, and. Wow. That’s quite something.

James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 2d

Was just reminded of a sketchy comment made by a genealogist I helped with reference a few years back: "The first rule of self discovery should be 'know your genes.'"

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 3d

As you get older, try to keep an open mind for what younger people enjoy, and engage with it how you can. This is easier the more you do. You'll enjoy a wider band of stuff, younger people who need you will find you more approachable, and you won't turn into a "in my day" grump.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 5d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 3d

IMO this hasn't gotten enough attention: a recent memo at NIH announces that peer review will be devalued in determining which grants get funded, granting more power to political appointees to make decisions based on the admin's whims over scientific merit

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 5d

The question journalists need to be asking is: WHY is the government trying this?

It’s because they want to control universities in unlawful ways that courts will not allow; it’s not working; so they’re trying to get universities to sign up “voluntarily” for unlawful levels of government control.

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 3d

Here's what the loofah gourd=>loofah sponge process looks like. You let them dry on the vine (which helps remove skin+seeds; picked mine early bc too wet here=gourds were rotting instead of drying). Peel the skin; soak in soap & bleach, dry on sun.

Photo of a wood deck railing bearing 4 loofah gourds in various states: just picked and looking like a knobbly cucumber the size of your arm; cut in half to show inside fibers and seeds; skin peeled off to show that white, dried-ramen-block-like loofah sponge texture but still soaked in green sap; and after bleaching and sun drying, looking exactly like the rough loofah sponges to use in the shower because that's what they are.

Photo of a wood deck railing bearing 2 loofah gourds in various states: looking like a knobbly cucumber the size of your arm, with skin half peeled off to show loofah sponge texture but still soaked in green sap; and after bleaching and sun drying, looking exactly like the rough loofah sponges to use in the shower because that's what they are.

Photo of a wood deck railing bearing 2 loofah gourds in various states: just picked and looking like a knobbly cucumber the size of your arm; cut in half to show inside fibers and seeds

Closeup photo of the inside of a loofah gourd after washing, bleaching, and sun drying. It looks like a beige block of dried ramen, except tinier strings.

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bri watson 🐝 @brimwats.com · 3d

as always, fascism is colonialism turned inward

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3d

Doocy: "If a young man or woman signs up today, are they more likely to deploy to the Middle East or the Midwest?"

Hegseth: "The era of sort of reckless adventurism around the globe is over...We're here to defend the hemisphere, the homeland, the border."

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🪓💀 Dr. Alexei Q Tschuner 💀🪓 @surliertexan.bsky.social · 4d

"and some even hope AI could simulate the responses of minorities or other groups who are often underrepresented in studies."

You fucks trained a parrot to talk words & now instead of studying trans people you're writing up the parrot's responses as research. there is no place in hell hot enough

Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 5d

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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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 6d

brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it

Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 6d

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch:
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's
In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

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James Truitt @linguistory.bsky.social · 4d

Credit where credit's due, this was mostly the work of one of our student employees. She did the coding, I just scaffolded and supervised (though any bugs or errors are probably my fault).

Andy Jackson @anjacks0n.bsky.social · 5d

Well @linguistory.bsky.social recently built this thing which might help, I think? github.com/Denendaden/d...

GitHub - Denendaden/digipres-deduper: Image deduplication tool for digital preservation

Image deduplication tool for digital preservation. Contribute to Denendaden/digipres-deduper development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 6d

You might think that the mayor of Yellowknife, the capital of Canada's vast Northwest Territories, would be a fan of giant pickups.

Nope. He's disgusted by car bloat.

www.linkedin.com/posts/benjam...

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 6d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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