Librarianshipwreck
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@libshipwreck
PhD, former librarian, pessimistic utopian. History of tech, disasters, & doom-saying. Wrote my dissertation on Y2K (currently turning that into a book).
More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone go.nature.com/4uH7o54
HUANG SAYS AI IS THE BIGGEST CAREER OPPORTUNITY OF THIS GENERATION STUDENTS WHO IGNORE AI RISK BEING LEFT BEHIND IN THE JOB MARKET
ChatGPT allegedly shares your chat query topics, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, according to a new class action lawsuit filed today.
We are officially entering “Global Water Bankruptcy”. The UN has announced that we will start running out of clean water (drinking, cooking, showering, dishes, laundry, etc.) in the next few years. Water won't always be free. When clean water becomes scarce, it will be privatized, priced, and controlled. You will pay for it. And those who can't pay won't survive.
Reading scores, 3rd graders to 8th graders, 2015 to 2025. This is a national tragedy.
When it comes to slowing down our biological aging, engaging with arts and culture is as beneficial as physical activity, a new study suggests. cnn.it/49LIOb4
has anyone written a history of the data center? surely these things must have been around before 2022 and chatGPT
A list of resources for people who want to resist the uncritical adoption of AI. I've only read the first, but it's a corker. Like getting shaken by the shoulders, smacked around the chops & given a lifesaving dose of the elixir of truth at the same time docs.google.com/document/d/1DK…
Jack Antonoff slammed people who use AI to make art and music as "godless whores": "So to everyone who is gassed up about the new ways you can fake making art, by all means drive right off that cliff. We're genuinely happy to see you go. Generations coming will be engaging in the ancient ritual of writing, recording and performing as it comes to us from God." variety.com/2026/music/new…
Prolonged AI use may make it harder to think critically and creatively, recent research suggests. But there are ways to keep the brain fit economist.com/science-and-te…
New: Texas county pauses data center construction in rural areas for a year. bit.ly/4dkqV4q
The end is near. @ladygaga’s MAYHEM Requiem, arriving soon. ladygaga.com #AppleMusicLive
I’ve never quite understood how I’ll get “left behind” if I don’t use AI. I’m perfectly capable of writing, researching, and thinking all on my own. What does it do that will leave me behind?
Guillermo Del Toro receives a long standing ovation after the screening of ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’ at the #CannesFilmFestival and says “fuck AI” in his post-screening speech. Cannes boss Thierry Frémaux responds, “that was the first political statement of the festival”
It’s time to build.
Parents are worried AI use in the classroom is parasitic, siphoning their children’s intellectual curiosity, capacity for boredom, and data — all in order to make money. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
