Dorothea Salo

Mutinous #librarian, iSchool educator, jack-of-all-trades. Bergholt Stuttley Johnson designed my notional machine.

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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Last Notes

2026-01-23 14:28:21 GMT

Microsoft sure is saying the quiet part out loud.
Amplify this, Satya. 🖕
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/115/944/874/762/533/641/original/2f1fe49e97539032.png

2026-01-15 16:27:37 GMT

@npub1prs…eh8y is librarian.net getting DDoSed? I'm getting a lot of 503s.

2026-01-10 12:03:03 GMT

Feel free to tell Discord what you think about AI.
https://discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5BGtstVUidXadts

2026-01-07 20:59:14 GMT

Library/archives peeps:
It is likely (not guaranteed, but likely) that we will have an opening for a metadata instructor this coming fall, asynchronous online.
If you are or know somebody who'd be interested, let me know!

2025-12-15 20:37:05 GMT

A metadata student who struggled some in the front half of the class turned in THE BEST piece of documentation.
Sometimes the struggle actually helps!

2025-11-12 21:49:24 GMT

Looking for data-rescue efforts that are newbie-friendly. In initial discussions of a possible data-rescue-thon sometime spring semester.
Newbie-friendly most likely means:
* good workflow documentation
* no software installation needed (or at LEAST make it minimal and cross-platform)
* automation-friendly, but by-hand work (e.g. dataset metadata) also available
* a clear destination for completed work

2025-11-12 20:20:01 GMT

Remote repository software-developer position at UW-Madison: https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/repository-developer-madison-wisconsin-united-states
Sharp eyes will note that this is my old stomping grounds, which I left in highish dudgeon. That was fifteen years ago and Things Have Changed. Ask questions if you got 'em.
I note they've been doing Very Cool and Interesting Work around digital preservation.
Boosts welcome. I'd like to see somebody awesome land this.
#getFediHired

2025-11-06 20:15:18 GMT

#Library coll-dev people:
What would you expect to see on the syllabus of a Collections Strategy course?
(Boosts welcome.)

2025-11-01 02:05:24 GMT

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😉

2025-10-31 21:59:20 GMT

Pondering a Sergeant Jackrum costume for next year. Secondhand marching-band jackets have to be a thing, right?

2025-10-10 13:56:22 GMT

So @npub1psa…j5uh has a grant to file a ton of sunshine-law requests over library censorship (any type of library, best I can tell).
They've been doing the best library news coverage anywhere. I trust them.
Let's help them out. All they want is leads -- whom should they request records from?
https://www.404media.co/help-us-investigate-book-bans-and-educational-censorship-around-america/
Contact via Signal at jason.404; email [email protected]. (That's @npub1nn0…qf5k, but remember Mastodon isn't private.)
#libraries #publiclibraries #academiclibraries #censorship

2025-09-30 18:08:55 GMT

Obituary for Irwin Rovner: https://rfhr.com/obituaries/irwin-rovner/
Funeral is tomorrow.

2025-08-21 16:33:06 GMT

If I were still working in institutional repositories, I think a business I'd want to get into is "research project websites." Like Project InfoLit.
Because we KNOW those have expiration dates. Wouldn't it be hugely cleaner if the outputs were already in the IR and we could just decommission the accompanying website chrome?

2025-08-21 14:21:43 GMT

IR librarians, web archivists: tell me somebody's grabbing a copy of this for long-term preservation, please.
https://projectinfolit.org/

2025-08-08 00:37:30 GMT

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US Mobile also. My plan is under ten bucks a month. Verizon reseller, but I think they also can do T-Mob.

2025-08-04 14:38:33 GMT

Fuck AI bros. https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-undeclared-crawlers-to-evade-website-no-crawl-directives/

2025-07-27 19:09:41 GMT

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I would think @npub1xln…s0wy would talk about this. Kyle K. Courtney and Nancy Sims are excellent lawyerbrarians.
I can take a stab at it if I have to, but I'm not the most up-to-date. Also IANAL.

2025-07-17 13:03:23 GMT

Shot, chaser.
(The slide is about eight months old. Our Workday implementation is ten days live.)
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/114/868/700/390/935/819/original/8148b23b93466492.png
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/114/868/706/953/520/635/original/d970371eea466552.png

2025-07-01 15:13:39 GMT

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Really blunt question: why are you doing this? Are you funded for it? Is it worth the effort?
I would be inclined to dump the whole thing in a bit-preservation system with collection-level metadata and leave it the hell alone there.
If even that much.

2025-06-30 17:22:00 GMT

Library batsignal:
Throw me examples of US public or school libraries reporting on individual minor patrons' information use (books or Internet) to their parents/guardians, either willingly or under (legal or other) duress?
Asking for something I'm writing. A reasonably recent systematic survey of this phenomenon would be wizard if it exists.

2025-06-26 14:00:36 GMT

Libxml2's "no security embargoes" policy [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1025971/73f269ad3695186d/

2025-06-23 16:25:11 GMT

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Thinking about whether I can pull this off in my weed-ridden front yard. Difficulty level: significant slope on two sides, grass-obsessed neighbor on one side.

2025-06-23 14:10:06 GMT

Hello yellow! My back yard this morning. #Florespondence
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/114/733/072/661/614/880/original/0e3761ad12bee81d.jpeg

2025-05-27 19:28:20 GMT

On the topic of "C&RL sure has been publishing some puzzlingly bad stuff lately," here is a KABOOM of a response well worth reading:
https://acrlog.org/2025/05/27/open-letter-to-crl-from-the-academic-wing-of-criplib/
My thanks to the authors for this. It takes courage to do it at all, and significant skill and knowledge to do it as well as this.

2025-05-19 15:17:27 GMT

Dear @npub18jr…z02s: Brewster Kahle is not a librarian and does not speak for librarians. Stop pretending he does. Talk to ACTUAL LIBRARIANS, please.

2025-05-18 21:57:08 GMT

Hey, so I finished The AI Con today.
And, like, for people who have been paying a lot of attention, there isn't a lot in it that will be new. But there is a LOT that is extremely well-expressed in ways I am absolutely gonna reuse-with-credit.
And I just wanna thank @npub1e2z…n97d and @npub15xv…0jms for the final-chapter shout-out to librarians.
Yeah. Appreciated the respectful clueful non-stereotyped shout-out. A LOT.

2025-04-11 18:43:01 GMT

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I was horrified and then I read the rest of your toot. *g*
And yeah, no, not naming that asshole.

2025-04-06 18:01:19 GMT

#lastBoost I've gotten several of those.
Joke's on them; I don't own a car and rarely drive.

2025-03-31 20:00:28 GMT

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Session info:
Kit Bash! Building a Media Lab in a Box
Our patrons and communities are losing their history to obsolete and deteriorating media, from cassette tapes and VHS to floppy diskettes and data CDs.
Expecting every library to have a full-blown media lab is unrealistic -- but what if most of a lab could be packed into a traveling kit? Learn to build such a kit based on two existing ones, one for audio/video and one for digital media.

2025-03-31 20:00:01 GMT

Hey, I got my Upgrade proposal accepted! (And don't say "of course." Believe me, my colleagues have no compunction about kicking my butt when they think it needs kicking.)

2025-03-28 22:18:26 GMT

In better news, HOLY CRAP they found part of the Vulgate Merlin!
https://reactormag.com/a-lost-bit-of-the-story-of-merlin-and-arthur-has-been-found-at-cambridge/
The book-length translation from Spanish that I did as an undergrad... I did it because the Vulgate Merlin was (is) thought lost, and what I was translating one of its few offshoots.
This is huge and very cool.

2025-03-25 17:19:41 GMT

Me: *in grungies at home, doing odds and ends of work*
10:15: *phone rings* Hi, it's Ashley from WMTV. Can you do an interview on the 23andMe bankruptcy?
Me: Uh, sure. When and where?
Ashley: How about 11, your office?
Me, out loud: Sure, I'll meet you there.
Me, inwardly: *FUCK*
But I got my face on and some non-embarrassing clothes, and it should air this afternoon/evening.

2025-03-18 20:54:19 GMT

Just wrote this. Make this hypothetical project worse!
A rogue librarian with no care for library ethics could design and carry out an assessment project that systematically collects and analyzes fully-identified data on patrons’ use of the library and its services and materials, both physical and electronic, while neither informing patrons of that collection and analysis nor offering them a chance to protect their information privacy by refusing to participate.

2025-03-07 22:58:10 GMT

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oh lord wtf has stuart reges done now

2025-02-20 15:32:02 GMT

New Tattle Tape post: When we fight, sometimes we win
https://dsalo.info/when-we-fight-sometimes-we-win/

2025-01-30 18:44:01 GMT

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did you see The Beaverton? https://thebeaverton.com/2025/01/chinas-new-and-cheaper-magic-beans-shock-americas-unprepared-magic-bean-salesmen/

2025-01-23 14:35:40 GMT

Yeah, put a fork in Creative Commons, it's done.
Its new strategic plan is a milquetoast pile of useless bromides.

2025-01-19 23:25:46 GMT

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stop, are you me?

2025-01-17 21:49:57 GMT

I have stayed out of several squabbles/quarrels this week that I could have dived right into.
Good job, me; I am proud of you.

2025-01-15 20:08:42 GMT

Oh hey, it my students and me. (Data Privacy Week is week after next, but the campus office wanted to be prepared early.)
https://it.wisc.edu/data-privacy-week/data-privacy-week-faculty/

2025-01-15 00:52:17 GMT

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I mean, a ton of it the only threat model I can think of is a Perry Mason "I can prove THIS is the camera with which..." scenario.
But timestamps and GPS, yeah, I'd want that gone.

2025-01-14 19:45:50 GMT

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Okay, brief EXIFtool walkthrough built. Thanks to @npub1prs…eh8y for the awesome example of one of her Wikimedia Commons selfies.

2025-01-14 19:01:20 GMT

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... Looks like no, which is the result I need for purposes of my course, though it also gives me the blue creevles for privacy reasons.

2025-01-14 18:59:29 GMT

When you teach digital curation and metadata, you have to wonder things like "does Canvas scrub embedded image metadata on upload?"
Will let y'all know what I find out...

2025-01-12 00:37:14 GMT

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Gonna get stabby at the first person who asks why it wasn't all digitized already.

2025-01-10 15:02:53 GMT

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N.b. I'm a librarian. Libraries have totally pulled the same "we're neutral" and "the fix for bad speech is MOAR SPEECH" bullshit you've been pulling all this time.
I teach soon-to-be librarians now why this is not okay and how to move beyond it. The profession hasn't caught up with what I'm teaching yet, but I teach the way I do so that it will, someday.
You can change. You should change. Free speech absolutism is no longer acceptable. Grow up.

2025-01-10 14:58:46 GMT

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Y'all will do or say anything to avoid OWNING YOUR SHIT, won't you?
Own. Your. Shit.
You've been simping for hate for a long time. Figure out how you're going to NOT DO THAT ANY MORE, apologize for doing it at all, and then don't do it again.
You get not one penny and not one word of praise from me until you fix your hearts and your practices.

2025-01-09 23:33:58 GMT

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omg YOU?!
like, do they even KNOW YOU?!

2025-01-07 15:49:59 GMT

In fairness to Elsevier, I was talking to a colleague just yesterday on how stigmatized it obviously is in many circles to call gen-AI the con job it is.
These circles emphatically include way too much of academe. I read my colleague the bit from the introduction to AI Snake Oil about how its authors called out AI papers for arrant bullshit but their critique was deemed unpublishable.
I've also run into that tone-policey bullshit (not about gen AI yet). Fuck. That. Sideways.

2025-01-06 19:33:27 GMT

Infosec folks! Read any good books lately?
Looking for novella-or-longer fiction from the last couple-three years with some kind of infosec slant. Does NOT have to be realistic in any way (sff is fine!). Does not have to be amazing literature (pulp is fine!).
Asking for a me-and-my-syllabus. For context, you can find the assignment under "Learn (?) from a book" in https://dsalo.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/510syllf2023.pdf

2025-01-03 20:14:46 GMT

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I dig it. It gives me a source of images for my students to run exiftool on. I'm a privacy wonk and scrub my own images, so...

2025-01-03 17:59:41 GMT

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interesting application of technical metadata! may borrow for metadata class

2024-12-25 21:40:06 GMT

בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יהוה, אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם, שֶׁהֶחֱיָֽינוּ וְקִיְּמָנוּ וְהִגִּיעָנוּ לַזְּמָן הַזֶּה.

2024-12-20 15:28:40 GMT

GRADES ARE IN.

2024-12-18 15:13:50 GMT

The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship continues punching WAY above its weight.
IMO it's the equal of any theory journal in LIS and vastly superior to most.
Latest issue: https://cjal.ca/index.php/capal/issue/view/2802

2024-12-17 21:28:58 GMT

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is this self-hosted Ghost or Ghost Pro?

2024-12-05 18:04:39 GMT

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I wish I didn't think a lot of that had to do with crab-bucketing in librarianship... but I do think that. Unfortunately.

2024-12-04 16:57:19 GMT

Found my stash of rubber ducks for next Monday.
(I give them to any graduating seniors in my tech-related classes, inducting them into the Right Noble Order of the Rubber Duck.)

2024-12-03 15:08:42 GMT

Operation Fucking Stop Calling Brewster Kahle A Librarian
(he is also not an archivist)

2024-11-22 15:37:43 GMT

Whew, it's just pithy quote day, I tell you what.
"... the mega-platforms themselves, at the core of which are machines for turning human action and feeling into saleable data objects." -- @npub1sac…kcpe
https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/

2024-11-22 15:10:23 GMT

"Today we don’t have a manufacturing model of software development; we have a literary model, where everyone gets to make up their own version of what we often already have." -- @npub1udn…3tjr
OH DANG will I ever be quoting that in class.
https://www.securityweek.com/rising-tides-wendy-nather-on-resilience-leadership-and-building-a-stronger-cybersecurity-community/

2024-11-19 00:59:43 GMT

fluffy gripper socks are the best thing in the universe when you've biked home from work through a driving rain and are therefore tired and cold and wet

2024-11-13 19:32:15 GMT

So I last-minute threw together a talk for INFOCon (https://www.ischools.org/infocon) today, and it was a little scattered but not too bad (attendee questions were AWESOME), so.
Taking Arms Against a Sea of Chatbot Sludge
https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/taking-arms-against-a-sea-of-chatbot-sludge

2024-11-12 17:43:36 GMT

ugh, this is my day for asking questions apparently
I remember the Cat&Girl webcomic... but there was another site (home tips and similar, I think?) that talked openly about chatbot-generated web sludge eating its lunch vis-a-vis advertising.
Who was this?

2024-11-11 18:09:14 GMT

All conferences who still use a two-column whatever-flavor-of-TeX template:
STOP. STOP IT. PEOPLE READ THOSE PDFS ONSCREEN. Two-column sucks for that.
One column (plus marginalia if you like; that's a great way to handle notes or citations), please.
Looking at you today, [@PET_Symposium](https://infosec.exchange/@PET_Symposium )

2024-11-06 15:38:12 GMT

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filtering is also good as a spat/squabble prevention measure
can't spat over something I didn't see

2024-11-04 23:47:54 GMT

One of my infosec students is a collegiate-level figure skater and she showed me video of her latest competition skate after class and HOW AWESOME IS THAT

2024-10-29 20:21:05 GMT

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Yeah, that would be awesome. The issue, I suspect, is the disconnect between CPanel-type apps and those that need *spit* Docker or similar.
I'm currently kinda frustrated with the WordPress situation because my hosting is CPanel-type and the app selection is Not Great, Bob. To do better I'd have to move to the pricier, DIY-ier Docker service.

2024-10-21 16:07:51 GMT

it lives! IT LIVES! IIIIIIIIIT LIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES! *evil cackling*
... ahem.
My research article "Data Ethics in Library Learning Analytics" has been published by the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.16245

2024-10-16 14:13:18 GMT

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backblaze saved my azz a couple months ago when my home laptop abruptly gave up the ghost

2024-09-29 22:18:17 GMT

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Unfortunately, if I had to guess, it'd be an implosion at BU. The libraries there have had some painfully bad leadership the last decade or so.

2024-09-25 20:29:33 GMT

From Tumblr.
Ranganathan's Five Laws of Feline Science:
1. Boxes are for cats.
2. Every cat its box.
3. Every box its cat.
4. Save the boxes for cats.
5. Cats are growing organisms.

2024-09-24 00:32:35 GMT

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it's ALWAYS DNS

2024-09-18 20:12:22 GMT

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uuuuuuuuuuuuugh I'm sorry and furious at once
I am fighting a not-dissimilar battle on a much smaller stage in my department, as the loudest gen-AI "it's a fucking mania what is WRONG with this fucking campus why are we uncritically climbing on this ridiculous bandwagon" skeptic
but @npub1e2z…n97d is visiting us next week, so I'm not wholly without hope (and will try to get there; I have to shed a meeting but I think it's sheddable)

2024-09-06 16:21:10 GMT

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I don't love six months either -- shorter is better! -- but I strongly suspect that given cross-campus library politics (one campus's UL is a known surveillance monster, and no, it's not Madison's), it was the shortest they could achieve consensus on.
And it's at least reasonable.

2024-09-06 16:01:58 GMT

2024.08.23 EFF Amicus Brief Draft - Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs - 2024-08-28_amicus_curiae_dckt_.pdf https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-08-28_amicus_curiae_dckt_.pdf

2024-09-06 14:43:43 GMT

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Yeah, I really like it.
I am not opting in! But happy for others to, if they want.
And because I've ripped those libraries up one side and down the other over circ record retention, I just wrote a post congratulating them on this. Only right that I do.

2024-09-06 14:16:46 GMT

LOAN HISTORY, THEY DOIN IT RITE.
https://www.library.wisc.edu/borrow-request/loan-history/
I'm really very happy about this.

2024-09-06 14:01:30 GMT

Seattle Public Library recovers from ransomware attack, makes moves to strengthen tech security – GeekWire https://www.geekwire.com/2024/seattle-public-library-recovers-from-ransomware-attack-makes-moves-to-strengthen-tech-security/

2024-09-06 14:01:30 GMT

How the Hourglass Won - Systems Approach https://systemsapproach.org/2024/08/19/how-the-hourglass-won/

2024-09-06 14:01:30 GMT

Shocking video: Flood water smashes through library wall, destroys historic documents | CTV News https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/historical-documents-swept-away-in-catastrophic-long-island-library-flooding-1.7026459

2024-09-06 13:34:57 GMT

Hah. The reason my new MacBook was rebooting during sleep appears to be that the keyboard cover I put on it only has half-height covers in the top row, so the cutout for the power button wasn't big enough. The half-key cover there was pressing the power button during sleep.
Guess those affordances are real real thin. I fixed it by cutting off the offending key cover. Seems fine now.

2024-09-05 22:25:00 GMT

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Yeah, I get it too.
Too many yahoos out there currently going "Banned books? I'M IN FAVOR!"

2024-09-05 20:01:48 GMT

The Links x Hivemind Swarmed reading guide to Gamergate https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/the-links-x-hivemind-swarmed-reading?triedRedirect=true

2024-09-05 20:01:48 GMT

Corporate surveillance technology is out of control - Sherwood News https://sherwood.news/tech/corporate-surveillance-technology-is-out-of-control/

2024-09-05 19:15:04 GMT

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that is a Midsomer Murder in the making right there

2024-09-05 19:14:28 GMT

50 students and a few waitlisted for human-factors-infosec. Quite good for the in-person version (which is capped by room space).
Happy about it; I was concerned last spring that it didn't seem to be enrolling.

2024-09-05 18:01:41 GMT

Threads is trading trust for growth https://werd.io/2024/threads-is-trading-trust-for-growth

2024-09-05 16:37:33 GMT

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I hope your birthday is as comfortable as Lancelot in his cat cave!
https://digipres.club/system/media_attachments/files/113/085/919/430/231/284/original/b880aed15e492f59.jpeg

2024-09-05 16:02:08 GMT

Australian government trial finds AI is much worse than humans at summarizing | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/australian-government-trial-finds-ai-is-much-worse-than-humans-at-summarizing/

2024-09-05 16:02:08 GMT

Tasks | Another Rodeo https://another.rodeo/tasks/

2024-09-05 14:49:41 GMT

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And let's not mince words: if IA thought they could replace libraries and librarians, they'd do it in a hot minute.
They don't give a SHIT about libraries or librarians. I've had IA people diss my work TO MY FACE.
We're just convenient rhetorical shields for them doing whatever the hell they want and making everything all about them.
I hate that they have such a huge following among otherwise-fairly-sensible people.
I definitely hope Kyle Courtney wises up.

2024-09-05 02:31:21 GMT

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He's the guy who said in 2016 that radiologists would be wholly obsoleted by AI in 2021.
Even if true, which it wasn't (and this is far from Hinton's only AI-related whopper), what an asshole move.
He's currently Prodigal Techbroing around, pretending to be Oh So Scared of AI so that people will pay attention to him again.

2024-09-05 02:10:37 GMT

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Oh I have lots of issues with medical imaging actually, starting with can we yeet Geoffrey Hinton into the sun.

2024-09-05 02:01:58 GMT

Hazelnuts! Off my hazelnut tree!
(Well, one of them. I have four now. But this one's the oldest and the only one that actually makes nuts.)

2024-09-04 19:36:44 GMT

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every jot and tittle of Primo

2024-09-04 16:35:01 GMT

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I completely agree. Appreciate the validation!

2024-09-04 16:21:50 GMT

Thanks a bunch, Brewster.
#subtoot

2024-09-04 14:09:12 GMT

I updated last year's hastily-created deck on AI for my intro-librarianship course.
(It would give some campus leadership ulcers. I consider this a feature, not a bug.)
There will be more; this is just context and ethics-what-ethics.
https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/whats-machine-learning-ml-or-artificial-intelligence-ai-or-a-large-language-model-llm

2024-09-04 14:01:37 GMT

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