Abigail Goben

BREAKING: U.S. Customs and Border Protection detained three U.S. citizens and three Green Card holders, including an Evanston resident, at O'Hare Thrusday afternoon

At least one, an Evanston woman, is currently being held at Broadview's ICE facility, her sister told me

@blackamazon.bsky.social and I are available for consulting on this topic. We could prevent so much harm and bullshit in return for housing security and no more student loans!!!

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: $78,000 - $88,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virgini...

Apply to join my team by 3/16!

Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.

$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.

Tiny turtles!!!!

I have a Small Gray Cat, can't hear your argument over the purring.

I want all of these.

I'm reviewing this paper which is written in a very "now we will tell you for three sentences what we are going to do" style and it's a lot of added labor for the reader.

We are hiring a Head of Global Advocacy and Internet Policy at the Internet Society! This is a rare opportunity to join our team and shape the future of the Internet during one of its most challenging eras. 1/5

If you can't attend a webinar, don't attend. Read the report or watch the recording. But don't send your creepy recording service. And hosts? Attendees can't meaningfully consent to that.

Just left a webinar because an unknown and unvetted AI scraper announced itself and the hosts weren't responding to requests to have it removed.

Tech companies have until August 2026 to comply with the EU AI Act's rule requiring public summaries of AI model training data.

New analysis shows that the big AI players (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Microsoft) have so far neglected this requirement for GPT, Gemini, Claude, and other models.

20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me To listen to the generative AI enthusiasts and vendors with exclamation riddled decks, you would think that every boring and mundane task was now easily handled, freeing me up to lead that mythical…

It's so much new and added labor

hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...

In addition to everything else we need to do... Completely overhaul our instruction over and over again to try and convince students to show up and actually do the work

An aspect of Executive Function Theft where they also refuse to fix anything.

H/T to Sky for the link to the article

"There is no escalation path that leads to a person who can actually change the product. There is no mechanism for holding a company accountable to fixing something they’ve been told is broken. The feedback loop is deliberately closed......Nothing will change."

"Because nobody is required to change anything. Because the indifference is structural. Because fuck you, but politely, with a ticket number."

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/because...

Isaac Chotiner absolutely can simply walk into Mordor, sit down and interview Sauron, and then a few hours later after he’s gone Sauron looks and goes “Well when you say it like that it looks bad.”

Maternal was a teacher, a farmer, and did aerial image analysis during WWII and Korea

Paternal worked in business. I never understood exactly what kind. He passed last year and it's not in his obit.

Why Africa Is Sounding the Alarm on Platforms' Shift in Content Moderation African Commission’s Resolution 630/2025 warns moderation and fact-check cuts risk human rights in Africa, writes Yohannes Ayalew.

See also:
www.techpolicy.press/why-africa-i...

OR

arxiv.org/html/2502.00...

OR OR OR

You’re not the only one seeing what you record on Meta smart glasses, contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

The latest in the harm these companies visit on contract content reviewers. What happens as they review crimes or as they have to try and not remember private information?

san.com/cc/what-your...

Hey authors, I know y’all hate self-promotion, but when I see book promos in my feed being retweeted by friends I trust, I almost always click through to check it out, and if it’s on sale you have *really* good odds of me taking a chance on it, so, you know, you should do that more.

So grateful for "hide reply for everyone"

I wonder if Lenscrafters will at some point be held liable for their obnoxious and constant promotion of the surveillance FB glasses where it then results in harm.

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Ancient Greek priestesses may have turned ergot fungus into a psychedelic brew during the Eleusinian Mysteries The Eleusinian Mysteries were secret religious rites in ancient Greece honoring the goddess Demeter and her daughter Persephone, and aimed to remove the fear of death. The ceremonies included days of ...

Ancient Greek priestesses may have turned ergot fungus into a psychedelic brew during the Eleusinian Mysteries phys.org/news/2026-03...

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction A Canadian journal has issued corrections on 138 case reports it published over the last 25 years to add a disclaimer: The cases described are fictional. Paediatrics & Child Health, the journal…

A medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are, in fact, fiction retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...

Four decades of data give unique insight into the sun's inner life Scientists have analyzed more than 40 years of astronomical data to uncover evidence that the sun's internal structure subtly changes from one solar cycle minimum to the next. Publishing their finding...

Four decades of data give unique insight into the sun's inner life phys.org/news/2026-03...

It's like the spam journal and academic conference invites I get... only I'm sure times about 9500000000

Indiana passes statewide homeless camping ban. Here's what will change Indiana will soon join a handful of states that ban homeless camping on public property. Results from one neighboring state worry critics.

And just as they are passing laws outlawing public homelessness www.yahoo.com/news/article...

My current research on African feminism and AI explores this exact thing. The whole “why aren’t more women using AI?” In part it’s gendered perceptions and experiences of risk.