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 @Alex Hanna and @Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) for the final-chapter shout-out to librarians. Yeah. Appreciated the respectful clueful non-stereotyped shout-out. A LOT.
#lastBoost I've gotten several of those. Joke's on them; I don't own a car and rarely drive.
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.)
In better news, HOLY CRAP they found part of the Vulgate Merlin!
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A Lost Bit of the Story of Merlin and Arthur Has Been Found at Cambridge - Reactor
Libraries! They're full of good stuff!
 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.
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.
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.
New Tattle Tape post: When we fight, sometimes we win https://dsalo.info/when-we-fight-sometimes-we-win/
Yeah, put a fork in Creative Commons, it's done. Its new strategic plan is a milquetoast pile of useless bromides.