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Whatever happened to the principled hackers of yesteryear? Get off my lawn and stay away from our public services
2 experts explain why libraries can become cybercrime targets cbc.ca/news/canada/lo… Two days after London's Public Library suffered a "major systems outage" shutting down everything from the library's website to its book catalogue, the culprit remains unclear.
ChatGPT is basically Cow Tools
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if living in a place requires every adult to have a car for their daily lives to function then it’s a hidden tax being paid directly to auto, insurance and oil corporations.
DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR Read and share this classic essay before it's censored. This is what kids should be reading instead of Letter to America. jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/…
Just received a request for an Oxford University Press journal supplement with an eye watering price tag. MDPI wouldn't charge this much...
This was 38 years ago! Half a lifetime! And if we keep it up it’ll be less than a lifetime in no time
Happy Carl Sagan Day! Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.
Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist of Canadian Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt
On this Canadian School Library Day, a huge shout out to every school library professional! We see you and all of the work you do to speak up for school libraries. Give a shout out to someone you know. Share their great work. #SchoolLibraryJoy #CSLD2023 #ONSchoolLibraries
The jury is still out on this one but the article does make some interesting and novel arguments. More to come I’m sure
BIBFRAME Must Die October 15, 2023 marks the 21st anniversary of Roy Tennant's article "MARC Must Die." With a nod to MARC21, this article argues that BIBFRAME is not the way forward for bibliographic description and offers five reasons why. scholarsphere.psu.edu/resources/fc19…
“Microsoft increased worldwide water consumption by a whopping 34%—up to almost 1.7 billion gallons annually—last year. That's dwarfed by Google, which used 5.6 billion gallons last year, a 20% jump that's also likely attributable to machine learning”🫠#ai futurism.com/critics-micros…
Love¹ discovering that my bad opinion of a company's practices was actually not bad enough.² ___________ ¹ I do not, in fact, love this. ² Just assume that if a manipulative option exists, companies will take it until literally forced not to. wired.com/story/google-a…
#eBookPledge aims to protect libraries & authors from publishers’ growing abuse of copyright: for @glynmoody any publisher that values authors and regards itself as helping to nurture culture should sign-up #eBooks #eBookSOS #publishers #libraries #authors walledculture.org/ebook-pledge-a…
We're committed to transparency regarding how the @uofalibrary collections budget is spent. Data now available from 2016 - present, in 4 reports compiled by the Collection Strategies Unit! borealisdata.ca/dataverse/UAL
Calling all new leaders and managers. It's time for the Whitewater Beta Run. Will you join me? youtu.be/aYUqQDqb7BQ via @YouTube
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🚨 Over 1,100 hectares of clearcut harvest is planned for the Upper Highwood in #Kananaskis in 2023/24 and we need your help to stop it! 🚨 #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli #DefendAlbertaForests
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