Librarian in HE | Union rep | Maker | Potterer
Out in East Lothian usually
Dr Lauren Fraser
Every time you think you've got a short, easy walk in Edinburgh BAM unavoidable four flights of stairs up
All uses of AI are costing someone… this sucks as the Game UI database is such a valuable resource.
Not only are we knee deep in canaries, the canaries have been falling off their perches for thirty odd years at least now.
The Major Oak is dead. I am sadder about this than I could have imagined.
Union-busting shit right there
"we've been forced to make difficult decisions about canaries, but we're confident that those decisions will benefit the long term financial sustainability of the mine"
I am chair of an AI advisory group at my library (note: *advisory* - explicitly not advocacy, or I wouldn't have volunteered to chair) and I've discovered that people really do not want to talk about their personal use cases, even when I stressed I was looking for failures as well as successes.
Generative AI is a tool designed to break labor, but to break some laboring groups harder than others
My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!
The joy when you go to add a new reference to a reference list and realise your co-author has already done it because they've cited the same source elsewhere
