“no, we still need to send the lion and the baby to the printer.”

every day at the library we say a brand new sentence

One thing chatting with journalist unions have taught me is that management doesn't care about the quality of the news product.

Nor do they actual care about respecting actual journalists, it seems.

Anyway, our public libraries deserve more support. Let's fight to ensure they receive what they need to pay library workers fairly, to do the necessary capital repairs/upgrades, and to afford lots of books and other resources, and to offer programming.

Good night everyone. #NationalLibraryWeek

Being “bad” at art is good, actually! My favorite excerpt from my appearance with @emilymbender.bsky.social on the @404media.co podcast with @samleecole.bsky.social in the episode “The Marketing Tricks of ‘Artificial Intelligence’”.

my day has now improved 10000000% because of this news

Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfreakers around? You expect studio executives to say things like “it’s going to revolutionize content,” and “from a bottom-line standpoint it’s inevitable,” and “I’ve finally found an instrument as cold and empty as myself,” but you’d hope that an artist would have more self-respect.

of course you CAN use AI to "write" your book but you run the risk of a lethally derisive colson whitehead materializing in your office to call you a hacky motherfreaker
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

More higher ed discourse like this please

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

www.wired.com/story/deepfa...

Doe had broken up with the user in 2024, and he used ChatGPT to process the split, according to emails and communications cited in the lawsuit. Rather than push back on his one-sided account, it repeatedly cast him as rational and wronged, and her as manipulative and unstable. He then took these AI-generated conclusions off the screen and into the real world, using them to stalk and harass her. This manifested in several AI-generated, clinical-looking psychological reports that he distributed to her family, friends, and employer.

For months, her then-fiancé and partner of several years had been fixating on her and their relationship with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. In mid-2024, she explained, they’d hit a rough patch as a couple; in response, he turned to ChatGPT, which he’d previously used for general business-related tasks, for “therapy.” Before she knew it, she recalled, he was spending hours each day talking with the bot, funneling everything she said or did into the model and propounding on pseudo-psychiatric theories about her mental health and behavior. He started to bombard the woman with screenshots of his ChatGPT interactions and copy-pasted AI-generated text, in which the chatbot can be seen armchair-diagnosing her with personality disorders and insisting that she was concealing her real feelings and behavior through coded language. The bot often laced its so-called analyses with flowery spiritual jargon, accusing the woman of engaging in manipulative “rituals.” Trying to communicate with her fiancé was like walking on “ChatGPT eggshells,” the woman recalled. No matter what she tried, ChatGPT would “twist it.” “He would send [screenshots] to me from ChatGPT, and be like, ‘Why does it say this? Why would it say this about you, if this is not true?'” she recounted. “And it was just awful, awful things.”

Shortly after moving out, the former fiancé began to publish multiple videos and images a day on social media accusing the woman of an array of alleged abuses — the same bizarre ideas he’d fixated on so extensively with ChatGPT. In some videos, he stares into the camera, reading from seemingly AI-generated scripts; others feature ChatGPT-generated text overlaid on spiritual or sci-fi-esque graphics. In multiple posts, he describes stabbing the woman. In another, he discusses surveilling her. (The posts, which we’ve reviewed, are intensely disturbing; we’re not quoting directly from them or the man’s ChatGPT transcripts due to concern for the woman’s privacy and safety.) The ex-fiancé also published revenge porn of the woman on social media, shared her full name and other personal information, and doxxed the names and ages of her teenage children from a previous marriage. He created a new TikTok dedicated to harassing content — complete with its own hashtag — and followed the woman’s family, friends, and neighbors, as well as other teens from her kids’ high school. “I’ve lived in this small town my entire life,” said the woman. “I couldn’t leave my house for months… people were messaging me all over my social media, like, ‘Are you safe? Are your kids safe? What is happening right now?'”

A woman sued OpenAI last week alleging that ChatGPT reinforced the obsessive, violent delusions of her stalker (her ex-boyfriend.)

This woman's claims (as detailed by TechCrunch, left) are chillingly similar to those of a completely different woman whose story Futurism reported on in Feb (right):

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

This is also why it's so gutting when Mamdani doesn't fund libraries. The threats are very real. And as big content pushes us towards a post-ownership world, libraries are going to be even more critical resources.

unfortunately i am very vain, sorry you had to find out this way

why does everything happen before my eyebrows are done

one of these is my hometown’s hospital.

all of my siblings were born there. my dad works there.

ProPublica journalists are providing some of the best reporting out there right now, and they are currently on strike to make sure that they continue to be the best. Please support them by donating to their strike fund.

WE DID IT!

Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Tell Columbus Metropolitan Library to stop their anti-union campaign Librarians and library workers at Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) are coming together to form our union. We deserve a voice in the policies that affect us, and we will use that collective voice to...

support CML United and tell Columbus Metropolitan Library to stop union busting.

because there is no library without library workers.

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Hey Columbus folks, let's support our library workers. They deserve.

propublica workers are on strike today as they fight for a fair first contract. don't cross the picket line by reading/sharing their stories!

solidarity with my fellow newsguild comrades 🖤✊

The news is full of stupidity and evil. The world slides deeper into madness. My friend Sama'a still needs our help to feed her children. Please give what you can.

chuffed.org/project/157569

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

CML is trying to stop workers from forming their union.

Tell them to knock it off:

Tell Columbus Metropolitan Library that you support library workers! Librarians and library workers at Columbus Metropolitan Library are coming together to form our union because we love our libraries and we are dedicated to serving our community. We deserve a voice i...

there is no library without library workers.

support us at CML United by signing this pledge.

actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

as a member of the organizing committee— we are doing this because we want to truly make CML Open to All.

we are doing this because respect, integrity, and inspiration are the values that guide us in our work every day, not buzzwords on a slide deck.

Workers say Columbus Metropolitan Library management is union-busting – Matter News An Unfair Labor Practice Charge filed last week alleges that the recent termination of a CML employee was “unlawful and retaliatory,” motivated by the worker’s involvement in union organizing.

matternews.org/community/wo...

we asked management to stay neutral. they refused to do that.

sharing misinformation and punishing workers does not demonstrate respect, integrity, or inspiration. it does not create “a thriving community where wisdom prevails.”

Meanwhile the European federation of teachers union is calling yours out. See below a useful book by our union to hold yours to a higher standard.

@etui.bsky.social @etuce.bsky.social
@aob.nl @ucu.org.uk

PDF for whole book here: www.csee-etuce.org/en/item/7245...

bsky.app/profile/oliv...

It really cannot be overstated that COVID happened, suddenly a bunch of absentee tech dads were forced to stay home where they saw their kids playing Animal Crossing while talking on Discord, then collectively decided to light a trillion dollars on fire to make Snow Crash IRL.

what’s a medium you haven’t worked in that you would like to work in?