Personal account. #socialwork, PhD student @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @gcsocialwelfare.bsky.social. Read & think about tech ethics, digital literacy, innovation, inequality, & social change. Find refuge & inspiration in #humanities & #openscience.
Ian G. Williams
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Today is day one of Summer 2026 cohort of The Open Knowledge Fellowship at @minareeslibrary.bsky.social / @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Sandy Jimenez (www.vampyrotechnic.com) gave the opening talk.
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#OER #OpenKnowledge #OpenScience #OpenSocialWork
This looks lovely.
This is another big week for our public libraries in NYC as the public has a chance to weigh in on funding at the City Council budget hearing on Wednesday 6/10. Everything you need to know to testify is here: bit.ly/June10Testify - the libraries have a shortfall and they need you to advocate.
Incredible headline: No walking allowed in heart of Midtown for Monday's Knicks game
I wrote some reflections on experimenting with vibe coding this spring, creating what I've called "Frankentimer."
I’m sure they were just saying, “Boo-urns.”
A few years back I accidentally unearthed the first time that Marshall McLuhan coined "Understanding Media," in a 1958 letter by an advocacy group that brought him to the US on a fellowship to develop a syllabus on educational technology.
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"The biggest + most disruptive series of AI-fueled breakdowns have been the server outages that have disrupted service to the MHDL search engine Lantern. These crashes are the result of LLM bots crawling the website, scraping the scanned trade papers + fan magazines to train their next gen models."
Budget Hearing for NYC Committee on Libraries The NYC City Council’s Committee on Cultural Affairs, Libraries, and International Relations is holding a hearing on May 26, 2026 to discuss the executiv...
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Sorry, Knicks fans: No Madison Square Garden watch party tonight. You won’t even be able to walk close. The NYPD and U.S. Secret Service announced another spate of street closures and security measure...
By Eric Hoyt, Kahl Family Professor and WCFTR and MHDL Director The past year has been a time of AI-powered breakdowns and breakthroughs for the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR)...
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Border Czar Tom Homan said New York City was about to see its largest deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent legislative package that provides residents with added protections from federal authorities.
On June 13th, we’re hosting a Library Art and Propaganda Fair!
It’ll be an all-ages artistic celebration: library-centric art, zines, and ephemera - plus activities for kids, readings, a photobooth and more.
The event is free and open to all, RSVP here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/public-lib...
New on the CUNY AI Lab blog: CAIL Fellow @igraywill.bsky.social reflects on building a customized writing timer through our Spring 2026 workshop series on AI-assisted prototyping for digital scholarly projects. ailab.gc.cuny.edu/blog/franken...
Border Czar Tom Homan on Monday said New York City was about to see its largest deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in response to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s recent legislativ…
A CAIL Fellow reflects on building a personal Pomodoro timer through AI-assisted prototyping in the Spring 2026 workshop series — and on the ambivalence of doing so.
