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Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · Sep 9

AI Use at Large Companies Is in Decline, Census Bureau Says

A dip in corporate AI adoption isn't a great sign for an industry hellbent on world domination.

gizmodo.com

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 15

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Jodie Double @jodiedouble.bsky.social · Jul 3

Launching Digital Scholarship and Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals (DS Topic Guides) libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... - at #LIBER2025

A 2023-2027 LIBER Working Group collaboration between Digital Scholarship and Digital Cultural Heritage and Data Science in Libraries

Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides

libereurope.github.io

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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jul 2

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · Jul 2

Foundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research.
about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...

Call for Support: – About BHL

about.biodiversitylibrary.org

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Watch a video of how it works here: youtu.be/r9_NJ_6Onew

Hoe werkt automatisch metadateren met de Retrotool?

YouTube video by KB nationale bibliotheek

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hearing from Marie Buesink @kb.nl about the excellent pilot "Retro Tool" developed w/for cataloguers for automatic metadata generation! www.kb.nl/en/over-ons/...! Combines OCR + LLM to identify identical catalogue records and create new ones w/Human in the Loop. #Liber2025 @libereurope.bsky.social

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 2

The hands-on section includes some quick activities you can try at home (or even in a group: libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...). If there's something we should include in this guide that has helped YOU on your AI & ML learning journey let us know here: libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...!

Start your own local DS Training Programme – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides

libereurope.github.io

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Love that the wonderful keynote at #liber2025 by Frederic Kaplan started with briefly unpacking how LLMs practically work! If you'd like a really quick intro to some of the key concepts/terms relating to AI & ML in Libraries we've got a topic guide for that libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui...

Screenshot of the webpage for AI & ML in Libraries topic guide

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you so much!! 🙏

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 1

Off to #LIBER2025 to launch Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides for Library Professionals! libereurope.github.io/ds-topic-gui... A labour of love, 18 guides created by bsky.app/profile/libe... peeps, to help library professionals quickly get their bearings on lots of digital topics!

Welcome – Digital Scholarship & Data Science Topic Guides

libereurope.github.io

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jul 1

🤣🤣🤣 And now "it's a smaaaaaaaall world afteraaaaaallll" is stuck in my head. Thanks lol. And thanks big brother for the shout-out! ♥️

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jennie rose halperin @littlewow.online · Jun 25

There is so much good work coming out of @libraryfutures.bsky.social right now, but this Zine we sponsored featuring writing from incarcerated librarians is really special and beautiful. I learned so much from these knowledge workers’ writing. www.libraryfutures.net/publications...

Controlled Chaos

Research and advocacy for the future of libraries.

www.libraryfutures.net

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Jun 25

Really thoughtful essay by my hubby on agentic AI + hiring + bias. 💡https://www.tenfive.ai/it-doesnt-take-a-genius-to-plan-a-party/

It doesn’t take a genius to plan a party – TenFive AI

www.tenfive.ai

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · Jun 13

loooool

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Jun 13

I do enjoy the country-specific name changes for No Kings protests this weekend

NO KINGS Dublin, Ireland
Sat, Jun 14
12:00 PM — 2:00 PM EDT
US Embassy, Dublin
Dublin, DC 20001

NO TYRANTS - London UK
Sat, Jun 14
10:00 AM — 12:00 PM EDT
US Embassy
Greater London, DC 20001

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · May 21

This has been the consensus of every leading AI researcher I know who is serious about the science and the evidence, as opposed to a) trying to push a product or a brand and/or b) viewing the creation of AGI as an article of religious faith and devotion.

Dov H. Levin @dovlevin.bsky.social · May 21

Vast majority of AI experts believe that key assumption of Biden & Trump Admins on AI- that we are about to develop soon AGI/humanlike AI- is very unlikely to happen soon & lack needed tech. A major US foreign policy is based, as usual, on inaccurate premises.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/t...

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kottke.org @kottke.org · May 8

How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy. “This was his computer exactly as he had left it, down to his customized Photoshop shortcuts and the positions of the windows.” I love Cory, this is awesome. [newyorker.com]

How Cory Arcangel Recovered a Late Artist’s Digital Legacy

Michel Majerus died in a plane crash, but the contents of his laptop are providing a window into his process two decades later. Arcangel says, “It’s like he just stepped out of the room.”

www.newyorker.com

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · May 7

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · May 7

My main suggestion when filling in the BBC survey recently was a plea for them to buy up all the rights to all the matches forevermore lol. Gotta shoot your shot. Lol.

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · May 1

Thx he was shocked too. She told him to "stand to the side", that he could "celebrate at Trafalgar Square if he liked" but couldn't march with the unions. We march every year, sometimes as a family (this was my son's 1st one 10 years ago). Some folks might need a reminder of what solidarity means.

Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · May 1

You know, my husband did try to join you today. He took the day off work to show up 4 the cause and while he waited to march was approached by a woman who told him he was "not allowed to walk with the unions". We're both pretty upset by this. Certainly doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the day.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · Apr 3

I lol-ed

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · Apr 3

SAVE THE PENGUINS.
STOP TRUMP’S TARIFFS.

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · Aug 17

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · Mar 8

This is really cool. Reddit users coming through again. “A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org”

Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe

The team used a Reddit-made archive of the CDC website to create a new live mirror of the site before it was purged.

www.404media.co

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Feb 20

My husband & biz partner have been working on a new thing and it's awesome 🥰 Have a play and help them test out the concept! Send feedback to @detournement-ai.bsky.social!

Detournement AI @detournement-ai.bsky.social · Feb 20

We've been exploring what author-AI collaboration could look like, working with Edgar Allan Poe's story The Cask of Amontillado as a case study:

www.loomers.world/cask/

Is this a worthwhile way of interacting with a text? Is it something that writers and readers alike could get behind?

Loomers

Experiments in fiction

www.loomers.world

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Nora McGregor @noramcgregorbl.bsky.social · Feb 13

RIIIIGHT!??! I think about this all the time. So many wonderful pleasures to be had on this planet and we choose THIS?!? WTF IS WRONG WITH HUMANS?!

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