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...

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.

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 📄.pdf