Academic science librarian currently focused on #Makerspace #pedagogy. Co-Chair of the Librarians’ Department at Thompson Rivers University. Previously medical libraries with a focus on evidence-based practice and #reproducibility. Slow runner, mediocre meditator, big fan of oatmeal. #ADHD and #MyastheniaGravis #DisabilityInAcademia
@futurebird
Brutal irony is that "AI labor" is only cheap because it's a market capture gambit. Nobody is paying real cost of using #genAI tools.
Once genAI vendors think everyone's locked in on AI-driven business processes they'll jack up prices to closer approximations of what it actually costs. Any apparent* cost savings will have been temporary.
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*pretty sure imagined cost savings are a human hallucination, resulting from failure to examine the actual business processes being replaced.
WeekNotes for 2024 Week 16: What I want from AI is an on-demand committee of cocaine-fuelled Franklins remixing and probing my ideas with me https://franklinsayre.trubox.ca/2024/04/20/weeknotes-for-2024-week-16-what-i-want-from-ai-is-an-on-demand-committee-of-cocaine-fuelled-franklins-remixing-and-probing-my-ideas-with-me/
We had about 100 people come through the TRU Library Makerspace yesterday for the student-organized repair event in partnership with Kamloops Repair Cafe. A really nice thing about these events is the intergenerational teaching that happens and opening our space to community members.
My letter to the TRU Senate about the proposed elimination of the Visual Arts program https://franklinsayre.trubox.ca/2023/09/29/letter-to-the-thompson-rivers-university-senate-about-the-proposed-elimination-of-the-visual-arts-program-09-19-2023/
My kinks are well written governance documents and well facilitated meetings.
Call for Proposals: #NeuroGLAM2023 Conference
Online
August 11th 2023
Neuro-GLAM-orous Canada emerged from the success and elevated feelings around the Ontario College and University Library Association’s 2022 Neurodiversity in the Library conference when it was seen just how badly there needs to be a place for neurodivergent GLAM workers in Canada to share their interests, experiences, research, and support.
Weekly Reviews 3 and 4 – April 17 – 30, 2023 - Franklin's Web Bog https://franklinsayre.trubox.ca/2023/05/03/weekly-reviews-3-and-4-april-17-30-2023/
Weekly Review 2: April 10-16, 2023 https://franklinsayre.trubox.ca/2023/04/17/weekly-review-2-april-10-16-2023/
@librarifran @ryanrandall thanks!!
Weekly Review 1: March 27-April 9, 2023 https://franklinsayre.trubox.ca/2023/04/09/weekly-review-1-march-27-april-9-2023/
My new job is AI sommelier and I detect the bouquet of progress: "And the only way I can read that is that there is something in the instruction tuning of gpt-3.5-turbo which includes a belief in progress? A bias towards the future, rather than pastoral conservatism, which can manifest in an almost pushy fashion from time to time?"
assume every camera on everything with an internet connection is recording you and sending those images to some place with poor access controls on who can and cannot view them.
Hey #Hachyderm folks, I’m outta here. Nothing against this instance, which IMHO has the best instance-local feed anywhere, but because I’m about to migrate to #CoSocial, which is a Canadian instance operated by a member-owned co-op. I think co-operatives are a super-attractive building block for the kind of Fediverse we want to inhabit. I blogged the details here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/04/06/CoSocial
(For those I follow, pardon the re-follow notifications you’re about to get.)
Recommendations for podcasts about poetry.
Today in the Panopticon
Tesla employees watched, shared, and joked about images of their customers recorded by cameras on their cars. And some of them think that’s just fine. https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/
Canadian media: By now you definitely know about the Apocalypse, but you probably haven't heard about the Canadian connection with this member of the 4 Horsemen
If you’re mad Elon gave NPR a state-affiliated media label just wait until he gives every reporter a 🤡 badge
what you do is, see, you have the ai chatbot write the work the fake citation is referencing at the same time they invent it, retconing the whole thing. problem solved.
Academic Librarianship in the Chthulucene - Franklin Sayre's Web Bog
https://franklinsayre.trubox.ca/2023/04/05/academic-librarianship-in-the-chthulucene/
