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dsalo

@dsalo@digipres.club

Mutinous #librarian, iSchool educator, jack-of-all-trades. She/her. BS Johnson designed my notional machine. digipres.club co-mod.

Save your 20th-century creations if you value them. If it's not printed, it's likely in danger. #retrocomputing #MediaArchaeology #DigitalForensics #DigitalArchives

Ethicists are scalpels; I am a buster sword. #ethics #DataEthics #privacy #DataPrivacy #infosec #LibraryPrivacy

Former #scholcommer. #ScholarlyCommunication #OpenAccess

#nobot #metafilter #nobridge

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dsalo, to random
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Johns Hopkins is doing a long-COVID survey and apparently is having trouble finding controls -- people who haven't had COVID. If this is you, consider giving them some clicks.

https://covid-long.com/

themarkup, to random
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Thinking about doing research in your school’s library databases? Your browsing history might be shared with data companies.

Here’s why maintaining privacy is becoming increasingly difficult in universities: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2024/05/18/librarians-are-waging-a-quiet-war-against-international-data-cartels

dsalo,
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@themarkup as one of the people working with SPARC on this stuff, THANK YOU for drawing attention to it!

dsalo,
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@themarkup btw SPARC's doing a webinar thinger about all this on June 20, let me know if you'd like to be in the loop, love to have you there.

yo_bj, to privacy
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How many libraries had "police having the tech to scan the RFID of a library book in a moving car" in their list of threat scenarios? :yikes:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/05/14/police-car-surveillance-tech-uncovers-phones-pet-trackers-and-library-books/

Non-paywalled archived version - https://archive.is/bYszD

dsalo,
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@yo_bj I never thought RFID was an especially good idea, but wow, this one did not occur to me.

dsalo, to random
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HOT TIP from Anita Walz: if you have a textbook author who wants their rights back from a BigPub to do OER, DO NOT go thru BigPub's rights crew.

They will just say no.

Go through BigPub's SALESPEOPLE, who want to keep the library happy. "Saves a lot of time" per Anita.

I am remembering that one.

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Loving the Corsi-Rosenthal boxes that are heading for conference presentation rooms.

dsalo,
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@kdnyhan Library Publishing Forum https://librarypublishing.org/forum/

dsalo,
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@kdnyhan COVID policy: https://librarypublishing.org/full-covid-policy-2024-lpf/

kissane, to random
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I got the giant puppy one of those toys you put frozen food in and they’re supposed to be entertaining for awhile but the giant puppy is VERY FOCUSED and got it all out, gave himself an ice cream headache, and spent the next five minutes growling mightily at god

dsalo,
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@kissane did god answer?

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Data Colada is in court and drily hilarious about it. https://datacolada.org/116

dsalo, to random
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Who else is making a note of the authors of rah-rah-AI-everything, rah-rah-GPT articles so as not to believe anything these chumps ever write again?

Just me? Huh.

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@edsu I may be wrong about this, but I remember seeing rather fewer librarians climbing onto the blockchain/cryptocurr/NFT train, and of those, several of them were already known to me as total hucksters.

Librarianship just seems to be a lot more susceptible to AI gullibility? I wish I knew why.

dsalo,
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@djfiander I was actually carping because of https://newsie.social/@infodocket/112377585719844896

Buzzword bingo. I've never heard of the author, which suggests "thought leader" would be overblown. "Thought leader wannabe" seems fair.

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@waynedixon curiosity is fine, I'm generally in favor of it!

(though I am muzzling mine because AI bros are terrible and the environmental impact is super not great)

dsalo,
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@waynedixon I lost my last shred of curiosity when the LAION bros got confronted with the existence of extremely private medical images in their training set and were just like "welp."

@$$holes. Karma got 'em (CSAM was found not long after; the training set and model then abruptly disappeared) but ffs.

platypus, to random
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"For the fiscal year ending June 2023, OCLC revenue totaled nearly $225 million, up from $220 million in the previous fiscal year." oh cool https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/05/01/2024-library-systems-report/

dsalo,
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@platypus

and they're using that extra 5mil on lawsuits

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome

jessamyn, to random
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I got my petition to put my name on the ballot as a Justice of the Peace as an independent. This is a position I've held within the town since 2013. JPs can marry people and serve on the Board of Civil Authority (to run elections) and the Board of Abatement (for hearings on tax/water bills)

Usually the parties put forward candidates. I've always run as a Democrat because it was easier. Now I've decided to get all thirty signatures because I'm honestly not a Democrat and I think it will be okay.

dsalo,
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@jessamyn you could join up with the UK's Monster Raving Loony party

tbh I've always wanted to

dsalo, to random
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I want to do a content analysis of hype followers in the LIS literature. I need to pick phenomena where the bubble has burst and it's clear there was never any there there.

From the world outside libraries, I've got Second Life, MOOCs, and NFTs. Anybody got ideas for phenomena internal to libraries?

(Not hype-y enough or too substantive: IRs, FRBR, linked data, DH, third places. I'm talking TOTALLY bankrupt here.)

kissane, to random
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Some of the responses to yesterday’s post made a rusty gear start clunking in my brain and oof, understanding aspects of FOSS culture as fandom makes a lot of things make sense.

https://mas.to/@kissane/112288128849621639

dsalo,
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@kissane ... I think my brain just exploded.

In a good way.

dsalo,
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@kissane it puts the routine-but-necessary Tumblr fisking of "how dare ao3 ask for donations?!" (usually from baby fans) into a new context

dsalo,
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@JMarkOckerbloom @kissane please don't bring Stevan Harnad all up in here

so glad I never need to think about that jerk EVER AGAIN

he does have heirs, though, you're quite right

dsalo,
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@JMarkOckerbloom @kissane anyway, it's interesting that software and scholcomm both have deep labor exploitation problems...

... which fandom seems to have mostly avoided? Not that there haven't been attempts (including by ten-ton gorilla Amazon). But those have pretty much failed.

Here's a question, though. Is AI fandom's up-and-coming exploiter, the new Microsoft or Elsevier?

dsalo,
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@kissane @JMarkOckerbloom oh yeah, the fandom variant of Gaiman's famous "GRRM is not your bitch."

It hasn't quite happened in my main fandom (Good Omens), but a few of us Fandom Olds have had to shut it down before it could get going now and then.

dsalo, to random
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And the other 40% are delusional.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/04/60-of-small-businesses-are-concerned-about-cybersecurity-threats

Mer__edith, to random
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📢 My @NDSSSymposium keynote is up!

On how we lost the crypto wars, why surveillance advertising must be understood as the foundation of "AI", & why the tactics of the past won't serve us in defending privacy today.

Text: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/ndss-keynote.pdf
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA2fRRO4qug&t=2s

dsalo,
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@Mer__edith Holy SHIT. I want to be you when I grow up!

(Alas, I will never grow up.)

Also, thank you for this, it's a beautiful example for a position-paper assignment in one of my classes and if it had come out before semester start I'd totally have made them dissect it in class.

(Still might, actually.)

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