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Mark Swartz
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Scholarly Publishing Librarian at Queen’s University. Visiting Program Officer for Open Science at the Canadian Association of Research Libraries.
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hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 20d
In Canada, proposed cuts of 15% across the federal government would have a dramatic effect on already globally decimated research & science. @caut.bsky.social have started a petition to PM Mark Carney to preserve the funding promised in 2024. Sign here: win.newmode.net/canadianasso...
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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.
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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"

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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.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Jun 19
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
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davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 12
“Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches about how to meet ‘big booty women.’”
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then ...
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Apr 7
amazing how the cyber attack on the British Library still means that all recently published work (and that's a definition that stretches back several years) is completely unavailable to researchers, since they only acquired ebooks and that system is still down
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Aaron Blackshear @aaronblackshear.bsky.social · Mar 15
Get these things out of your house

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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant.
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · Feb 25
Amazon has quietly redefined ownership as a vaguely permanent rentals
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · Feb 25
As this date approaches, worth noting that if you own an older kindle there IS still a way to get an Actual File if you manage your ebook library with calibre etc:

Send books wirelessly to kindle, plug kindle into PC w USB, open "documents" folder on kindle; single file versions will be there.
Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books
It’s bad if you like to keep ebook backup copies.
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · Feb 12
ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration - ORCID https://info.orcid.org/orcid-endorses-the-barcelona-declaration/
ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration
<p>After thorough review and discussion with the ORCID Board late last year, ORCID is happy to announce our endorsement of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information as an institutional [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://info.orcid.org/orcid-endorses-the-barcelona-declaration/">ORCID endorses the Barcelona Declaration</a> appeared first on <a href="https://info.orcid.org">ORCID</a>.</p>
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Feb 7
This journal is leaning hard into the discourse around open science. It's quite a good illustration of the weaponization of 'transparency' to legitimise a publishing effort.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 7
From @walkerbragman.bsky.social, more on the RealClear journal of COVID contrarians.

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“A New Academic Publishing Model”: Right-Wing Dark Money Group Launches Fringe Medical Journal
The right-wing RealClear Foundation’s foray into public health has been called “a mockery of scientific process.”
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · Jan 31
"if you are a tenured academic, you should be devoting a bunch of your time to cultivating alternatives to the usual money-sucking journal racket."
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Alex Holcombe @alexh.bsky.social · Jan 31
New blogpost. Long, but punctuated by a bunch of silly pictures! Partially a rebuke of scientific societies, partially an advertisement for the WikiJournal of Science.
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Scientists! What are you supporting?
Much has been said about how expensive academic journals are. Large companies like Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley publish most of the major journals, and their sha…
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librarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · Dec 30
142 - Library publishing and NISO feat. Mike Nason

This week we have @ahemnason.bsky.social on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core.

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142 - Library publishing and NISO feat. Mike Nason | librarypunk
This week we have Mike Nason on to talk about open scholarship, publishing, Crossref, NISO, and decentralized publishing futures. Also Jay airs his grievances against Dublin Core. https://bsky.app/pro...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · Dec 28
This year, we worked swiftly to save legacy media sites Vice.com and MTVNews before decades worth of valuable journalism could be erased. These sites are now searchable on the Wayback Machine!

Help us in saving these resources:: https://archive.org/donate/?origin=blsky-eoy2024
Wayback Machine capture of MTV News.
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Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social · Dec 18
New, important paper on surveillance publishing: 'The Citation Economy as a Site of Extraction for Surveillance Publishing'
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