I believe that's 36.73 scaramuccis if you count as of today, or 39.1 scaramuccis as of March 31
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I believe that's 36.73 scaramuccis if you count as of today, or 39.1 scaramuccis as of March 31
Having been both a historian and a librarian, that difference is one of the main reasons I prefer being the latter. While I enjoy a deep dive, most of the time it's more fun to find the relevant stuff, then hand it off to the scholar to do the deep dive for themselves
"Kids these days don't know how to think. But also kids these days need to know how to get the magic machine to think for them."
They're the same partners who have been concerned for decades about the analytical gap in new associates because they grew up with the Google search box instead of indexes and digests
"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.
This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."
"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"
abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...
Library and Archives Canada wraps up digitization of 6 million Indian day school records
Records now easier to search and request
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
All my alma mater had to do was follow its own motto for one year instead of caving immediately
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
The DOJ has asked states to agree to sign a secret agreement “in connection w/ handing over their full voter files.” The agreement says that “the DOJ will ‘test, analyze, & assess states’ [voter rolls]’ & send each participating state a list of voters who must be removed within 45 days.” 2/5/26 …1/
Working on Restoring Justice kept me grounded this past year, so I share it w/ excitement & some nervousness.
Written w/ Meredith Elizalde, whose son Nick was killed in a shooting at his high school, we argue for a right to restorative justice.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I finally got around to watching this presentation and it's both an excellent summary of what GAI is and why lawyers should think twice about outsourcing legal work to it. Off to watch the rest of the speaker series now
library.law.yale.edu/news/critica...
English-only California: the golden state with Spanish place names removed. First map I ever commissioned, to commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, whereby the US made Mexico give up its northern half, adding California and the Southwest to the Union.
They also think archival data just magically uploads, organizes, and makes itself readable.
Also, mathematicians? LLMs notoriously can't math.
And don't say it's just because of the Rule Against Perpetuities. It's not that hard to understand; just watch The Descendants.
Not sure why Trusts & Estates gets called out for hate in so many law school programs. It was one of the most fun classes I took, and if you love reality TV drama, it's absolutely your speed.
What other classes get unfair hate?
They're just destroying information to destroy it.
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.
Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
I meant his toy ones, obviously, as he is not leaving any descendants
A red merle Australian Shepherd next to a snowy tree
He liked it better yesterday before it crusted over but now his balls will roll over it instead of sinking
As previously noted, it's not all online and for what is, the books don't just magically ingest themselves
In law you would cite to everything that is not an original argument of yours, including foreign-language material in the original. If you cite to a translation you should generally also still provide a citation to the original.
Looking for data that the government is pulling down? We may have it backed up for you. Check our portal: portal.datarescueproject.org
Know of data being taken down or worried about a data source? Let us know: baserow.datarescueproject.org/form/r7V1c44...
If you oppose the integration of generative AI content on Libby, I was advised by my library when I registered my disapproval that you should also send a comment within Libby itself, so Overdrive can get the feedback directly
mashable.com/article/how-...
Paraphrasing this excellent rebuttal of the denialism/Luddite/FOMO peer pressure tactic:
It is not my job to help tech companies "prove" how useful their systems are. It is my job to use what I know as a librarian to help people make better decisions about this technology.
Please email your local library and politely complain about Libby's AI "Inspire Me" feature.
Your local library worker will love this. Seriously. We had so many tools for collecting feedback.
If you’re in Minneapolis and need a place to just BE right now, Big Hill Books and Birchbark Books & Native Arts are both open and ready to welcome you with open arms.
Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"
If you have to spend time double-checking every research result to see if it's real, actually relevant, and comprehensive, how is that improving your research efficiency?