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Great article on how to un-garbage-ify google. Would also recommend putting -ai after your searches to get rid of the irritating AI summaries too. open.substack.com/pub/cardcata...
Hey, I'm doing a webinar for the CILIP info lit group on Information Literacy, data and evidence removal in the US, with a particular focus on healthcare research. It'll be super fun and not at all depressing, honest www.tickettailor.com/events/cilip...
February is LGBTQ+ History Month! Borrow any book from the displays at Forum & St Luke's Libraries and discover more via the LGBTQ+ History Reading List: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibLGBTQHistoryList. Recommend books you'd like to see in the Library via the form on the Libguide: libguides.exeter.ac.uk/lgbtq
Well whatever you say must be right :)
I just think dogmatism, with some reservations and provided everyone agrees with me, is probably a bit good, sometimes?
Now I don't wish to alarm anyone, but it seems that it's currently not (as far as I can tell) (at this precise moment) (external confirmation needed) (could be wrong) raining????
I think a bit of ark-building is a perfectly rational response to the present horrors
Friends I fear this endless rain may be starting to render me Somewhat Unusual
You know you're totally one of the good guys when you're actively trying to (and let me quote here) "narrow the definition of 'inhuman and degrading treatment'". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
diabolical that in order to be able to find where you've put your glasses, you must be wearing them so that you can see to search. Truly the world is unjust
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I have now got all 20, though there was googling and some heavy hints on a couple from a friend. This was necessary for my blood pressure because some of these answers are utterly unacceptable and because I am a very impatient person full of hate hiddenbooks.nationalbooktokens.com?competition=...
From the German National Library of Medicine, beta version of site for tracking additions and deletions to PubMed now available #medlibs
the vampire community continues to bombard me with unsettling little messages
Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.
🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:
Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.
Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...
Seems bad, but at least we can use PollutionBot3000 to summarise this article with questionable accuracy if we can't be bothered to read it though, eh. Must make sure to consider both the pros and cons
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Today I cheerfully said to a class full of slightly dazed-looking students, "I appreciate it's Monday morning, so you're probably all a little tired". Blank, befuddled stares followed. Lads, turns out it's not Monday. I'm fine.
oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.
AI 🤝 fascism
got some lads working on some scaffolding on our house, having some very sweet conversations, including but not limited to such lines as: "Mate you're a great scaffolder - you just need to have more confidence!"
Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed
There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…
Had a great time at Titus Andronicus at Hampstead Theatre this weekend, highly recommend. Leaned effectively into the fact that the play as written is objectively hilarious. Also I got given a blanket to protect against all the blood sprays 😊
Genuinely have seen circulating entirely serious suggestions to use AI generated people for library focus groups. Because finding real participants is too hard.
#medlibs #pubmed
"“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said @adiod.bsky.social , a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We've been seeing how RFK Jr & anti-vax lobby has been steadily and effectively reducing access to vaccines in the US.
But it could happen in UK too.
It's a threat worth considering given Malhotra's speech at Reform conf & big overlap between anti-vax and RW populsim.
Read on!
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They've got it backwards: autistic people take more paracetamol due to all the headaches caused by neurotypical people constantly spouting nonsense takes*
*obligatory disclaimer that paracetamol and autism have nothing to do with each other, and we live in a hell world
Trump Says Broadcasters Should Lose Licenses for Criticizing Him
This is the lead story in the New York Times. If you're in the business of communicating, whether through journalism, commentary, or art, this is the five-alarm fire. People are going to remember who spoke up and who stayed conveniently silent or postured about "neutrality."