“The Mellon Foundation today announced the appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as a senior fellow. As part of the Foundation’s fellowship, Dr. Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress, will pursue scholarship, writing, and research projects while also serving as a strategic partner and counsel, working in collaboration with Foundation leadership and staff, advising on opportunities to support and advance libraries, archives, and other organizations”

Mellon Foundation Announces Appointment of Dr. Carla Hayden as Mellon Senior Fellow

Dr. Hayden, the former 14th Librarian of Congress and the first woman and first African American to have held the position, joins the Foundation in...

I’d say @Simon Willison is easily having the most fun of anyone at the #pyconus poster session

House Democrats have disclosed that Trump has told the #LibrarianOfCongress that she’s fired, but there’s no stated reason or clear authority to do so:

House Committee on Appropriations

DeLauro on the Firing of the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden

House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) issued the following statement on President Trump’s abrupt firing of the Lib...

“In 2025, buying a Vizio TV won’t just mean buying a TV from a company that’s essentially an ad business. It will mean fueling Walmart’s ad business. With Walmart also owning Onn and Amazon owning Fire TVs, that means there’s one less TV brand that isn’t a cog in a retail giant’s ever-expanding ad machine.”

Ars Technica

Buying a TV in 2025? Expect lower prices, more ads, and an OS war.

I do fear that the pressure to make better TVs will be lost..."

“when I used my phone again to display my barcode, the person at this desk said ‘you can’t sign your name but you’re tech-savvy?’ I replied that I was a computer science professor who just happened to have an injured arm. I’m sure that people with more permanent disabilities get this sort of nonsense all the time.”

SMBlog -- 31 October 2024

“The state’s top education official relied on generative artificial intelligence to draft a proposed policy on cellphone use in Alaska schools, which resulted in a state document citing supposed academic studies that don’t exist. The document did not disclose that AI had been used in its conception. At least some of that AI-generated false information ended up in front of state Board of Education and Early Development members.” https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/10/28/alaska-education-department-published-false-ai-generated-academic-citations-in-cell-policy-document/

The U.S. Library of Congress is hiring an enterprise architect, a rare non-supervisory GS-15 position:

USAJOBS

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government

<p>This position is located in the Enterprise Architecture Division, IT Governance Directorate, Office&nbsp;of the Chief Information Officer.&nbsp;...

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The U.S. Library of Congress has an open fully-remote position for a DevOps engineer:

USAJOBS

USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal jobs across the United States and around the world as the official employment site for the federal government

<p>This position is located in the&nbsp;DevOps Section, Software Engineering Division,&nbsp;IT Design and Development Directorate, Office of the Ch...

#GetFediHired cc: @Public Interest Jobs