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RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-RxD7ajxhRWiVXPoBBvml3w%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

This headline feels like it was written for a Carney fancam lol

Here's one example I could see: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/02/10/ai-recommendation-poisoning/

Recommendation poisoning/memory manipulation.

One of the regrettable things about the delay inherent in academic publishing is that my "KULA" citational justice piece (https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.310) basically fell out of currency as soon as it was published potentially with all this MCP stuff(?) lol

I do still think there are tons of citational justice concerns with RAG and MCP, though. Could be something to explore further!

Screenshot is from this "Scholarly Kitchen" piece (https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/11/what-publishing-leaders-say-about-ai-when-theyre-not-on-panels/) from yesterday.

"The flip side of that caution is the question he’s now actively working on: “How do we get the content delivered via things like Wiley Gateway, or should we be building our own version?” — meaning a licensed, metered pipeline that delivers content to agents at the moment they need it, rather than baking it into the model’s weights.

This is the distinction. Content in the weights is a one-time transaction with a depreciating asset: the model that ingested your corpus in 2024 will be superseded by 2026, and you’ll have no claim on its successor. Content accessed as context — retrieved at inference time through what the industry is starting to call tool use, or agent architectures, or model context protocol (MCP) and command-line interface (CLI) endpoints — is an ongoing relationship. The article can be updated, corrected, or retracted. The access can be metered, licensed, or renewed. The source can be cited. Your goal is to be the machine that the agents call back.

When an editor, a board, or an executive says that they want their organization’s content in “all the AI places,” what they mean is that they want exposure and attribution — not to be an anonymous source of knowledge."

There are so many (now legacy) 00s/10s "indie" artists that are just absolutely tedious now. For example, a new James Blake album in 2011 would've been appointment listening for me, but now I can't even bother because I don't think he has anything to say.

Finding myself more and more sympathetic to Mark Fisher's thinking on cultural stagnation lol

@redlibrarian Oh yeah! Yeah that last Aldous was a whiff for me, too, but I'll check her out always haha

I can't recall a year like this for music so far where I've been so ~unmoved~ by the release calendar this far into the year.

(Could also be that I'm just an unc now, I guess, too lol)

But seriously - my most anticipated album of 2026 so far doesn't come out until May and it's Broken Social Scene

Good reporting in "The Verge" by Josh Dzieza.

"Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs."

https://archive.ph/uHGrp

@redlibrarian Damn, that'd be so great!

I was just thinking that his stuff can be hard to track down. I remember having to place a bunch of ILLs for it when I was trying to get the major pieces.

Kinda wanna start a Michael Harris reading group this summer...

lol

Ah yes, style or voice is completely extraneous to understanding content.

Sponsored post (on Reddit?) for Magibook imploring the user to "Turn HARD books into EASY books with Magibook! Maximize your reading potential and avoid difficult language today"

Below is an example from "The Great Gatsby" where a long sentence on the left has been shortened to a sentence on the right.

"In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."

"When I was yougn, my dad told me something that I still think about."

"AI is increasing the speed, density and complexity of work rather than reducing it, according to an analysis of 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. The data, from workforce analytics and productivity-tracking software company ActivTrak, covers more than 443 million hours of work across 1,111 employers, making it one of the biggest studies of AI’s effects on work habits to date."

https://archive.ph/mmPNa

Imagine finding any of this at all shocking lol

New Dan McQuillan paper!

https://zenodo.org/records/18908530

The Library's follow-up response (attached).

Artists are some of my favourite explorers of opportunities and challenges lol

CPL's response on 5 March 2026:
"We appreciate the conversation and feedback on this important topic.
As AI becomes more prevalent in our community, there is an emerging public need to help Calgarians understand and navigate the opportunities and challenges that AI presents. We feel it is important to clarify that this residency is intended for a human artist with a local connection to Calgary.
In keeping with the Library’s policies, this residency will allow the utilization of AI while safeguarding data privacy, security, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Visit the link in our bio to review more information on this opportunity."

This looks good!

"AI assistants in the archive and the lure of 'instant history'"

https://doi.org/10.1017/cfc.2025.10012

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-library-ai-art-residency-9.7119703

FWIW, I don't think it's outside the realm of the possible that someone could do something interesting with a residency like this, but it is absolutely fascinating to see the backlash from creators/people online in the comments.

The Library's attempted response in the comments about "opportunities and challenges" itself feels like it could've been written by AI lol

From the "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" OST lol

Song came up at trivia tonight. Extremely 2003-coded!

Couldn't for the life of me get artist or title lol

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R-FxmoVM7X4&pp=ygUZZWxlY3RyaWMgc2l4IGhpZ2ggdm9sdGFnZQ%3D%3D

Interesting to see this new editorial (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2026.2615553?af=R#d1e90) by Luci Pangrazio (one of the authors of "Critical Data Literacies") ? the applicability of the "literacy" paradigm to AI.

Feels very similar to what I was trying to get at in my CAPAL24 talk (https://doi.org/10.60770/36Y6-3562).

Really good piece, as expected from Samantha Cole at "404 Media"!

https://www.404media.co/ai-psychosis-help-gemini-chatgpt-claude-chatbot-delusions/

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