"It is dishonest to present this for this" a lesson in from the 50's, perhaps more relevant than ever
The price for a 1 bedroom in Princeton has dropped to... still (just) over 1/3 the gross salary of my mid-career professional job there
Information Architecture Conference 2025 call for proposals is live! www.theiaconference.com/ia-conferenc... (Philadelphia!)
Grumbled and sighed my way into going work even though I couldn't find my headphones But at the bagel shop a woman complimented my hair, my glasses, and my nails...!? Got to work and my headphones were (charged! and) in my backpack after all lfg, day
There is an upcoming webinar from the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries on the decision and controlled digital lending www.aserl.org/event/whats-...
Similar lack of statements from library professional bodies about the dean of the FL university fired for what seems to be a weeding project that got bad press. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...
An attorney for Shannon Hausinger said she wasn’t responsible for tracking books from the school’s Gender and Diversity Center.
It's been two weeks since the Supreme Court decision about the Internet Archive's e-book lending and I can't find a statement from ALA, ACRL or ARL about it...? Does my domain really think this decision has no implications for our futures? That the missions we claim give us no responsibility here?
I was at an (academic!) XR technologies conference, and a table full of people discussing the coming ability to interact with dead celebrities, seemed surprised by my take that no matter how much data you had behind it, this experience could not be equivalent to interacting *with the person*
Anyone who says they want to see the “complete and total eradication of grief” vastly overrates what bots will be able to do but also speaks to how tech solutionists misunderstand what it means to exist in the world. A hollow amalgam of a loved one’s utterances can never replace what is lost.
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint....