Mine Eyes Dazzle
My main presence remains at @evedazzle@mas.to because Bluesky is not decentralized and remains vulnerable to political interference.
Academic librarian, Chicana, Progressive, Mom & Wife
Stay out of my feed with genAI-loving bullshit
- Safeguarding Journalism in the AI Era: Disabling Automated Features in Your Workflows theintercept.com/press-freedo... May 14, 2025, 1pm CT
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- Full metal librarianship is my love language.
- I missed this. www.npr.org/2025/03/24/n...
- Companion (2025) feat. Sophie Thatcher of Yellowjackets and Jack Quaid of The Boys was excellent. I felt a bit skeptical because the robot doll bildungsroman has been done so often, but it was well done.
- Thank you for the laughs SNL! youtu.be/F7izoOgcIuA...
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- I'm guessing we'll all see something different below the digital fold at www.axios.com/2025/05/09/r... For me, it's an ad from BASE Power for "affordable, reliable power" in Houston.
- It's infuriating that so many apps --from LinkedIn to my grocery store and pharmacy apps, have disabled copy/paste for text. #HostileDesign #UXdesign #HostileInterface #HostileTechnology
- It's frustrating to see the media blaming students and parents, but zero blame is placed on social media for amplifying harmful content for the engagement metrics. #TikTok #Challenges #Youth #Tweens #Teens #Trends #AlgorithmicHarms #SocialMedia local12.com/news/nation-...
- This is an exellent 42 minute read on The Rot Economy and how actively hostile the technology we depend upon every single day just to live our lives has become. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv... #tech #technology #genAI #geneativeAI #SocialMedia
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- As I keyword search the spreadsheet and realized that 1/3 of the records I had pulled were affected, I could hear horror violins in my head.
- Has someone done a cartoon of the consumer as Dorothy pulling back the curtain on the Wizard of AI, but instead of the old man, it's a golem of copyright violation, labor extraction, energy hogging, and ransacked creators? I'm no artist. A friend suggests @bagleycartoons.bsky.social could do it.
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- Heads up on this weirdness!
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- I'm seeing some of the latter things happening in protest organizing discussions, and I do not like it. #protests #mass #organizing #PositivityPolicing #PositivityPolice #ToxicPositivity #USpolitics
- Folks, PLEASE get off Substack. Relevant: www.theguardian.com/media/2024/j...
- "...Trump and DOGE announced plans to cut over 80,000 jobs at the VA. Thousands have already been laid off, including those who staffed the suicide crisis line and delivered telehealth. They even got rid of a program that helped veterans avoid mortgage default." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- "Leaders who come to power by elections rather than coups are more likely to avoid ejection from office and less likely to face punishment. Once a new authoritarian establishes control, he may stay in office as long as some old-school dictators." Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
- TX SB412 removes legal protections for adults who provide material to minors that seems harmful. It's on its way to Gov Abbott after a 92-39 vote. www.texastribune.org/2025/05/02/t... #educators #teachers #education #libraries #librarians #Texas #politics #legislation #censorship #AcademicFreedom
- ¡Ay, Dios mío! lol Whooooooooo did this? pixabay.com/photos/mexic...
- I HATE the new web app feel of desktop MS Outlook I'm forced to use in Win11 now at my org. Haaaaaaaaaaaate. That is all.
- "Several volunteers and partners of the Data Rescue Project (DRP) have been working tirelessly for the last few weeks to back up the ERIC catalog and full-text PDFs." #libraries #databases #research www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the...
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- Suspecting that this is likely true means seeing it pitched as some kind of disability aid for ND folks becomes more infuriating.
- I am ALREADY tired just anticipating the future wave of "we had no idea that we were the bad guys peddling the harmful product to naive consumers, none of us could have foreseen its harms!" Oh yes, you could have, you greedy grasping assholes. www.linkedin.com/posts/activi... #ChatGPT #generativeAI
- State Sen. Bob Hall 6537 Horizon Rd Ste B-1 Rockwall, TX 75032 972-722-3131 bob.hall@senate.texas.gov + Rep. Steve Toth 25700 IH-45 #180 Spring, TX 77386 346-220-0300 steve.toth@house.texas.gov want to end countywide voting via SB76, SB77, HB2990, HB1001, HB1013. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/03/t...
- Today (Saturday May 3) is the Joint #Election for #HarrisCounty #Texas! 7am - 7pm Https://www.harrisvotes.com #TX #Vote #Voting #Elections #Houston
- TODAY! MAYDAY! M'AIDEZ! May 1, 2025 Protest at Houston City Hall, 901 Bagby St, Houston, TX 77002 4pm-5pm marching, 5pm-7pm gathering www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve... Impeach. Remove. Reclaim. #MayDay #Houston #Texas #mass #nationwide #protests #protests #organizing #collaboration #50501Movement
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- Please allow me to also recommend Words for War: New Poems From Ukraine (Editors Oksana Maksymchuk & Max Rosochinsky), available in print, and Open Access online at www.wordsforwar.com/poems
- Sánchez, Carey, Capito, Bennet reintroduce bipartisan Credit for Caring Act lindasanchez.house.gov/media-center...
- And there goes my endorsement of Duolingo. Welp. www.theverge.com/news/657594/...
- Oh John Lithgow. Et tu? Gawd, it just keeps getting worse. Blech.
- Website For MAGA-Friendly Businesses Backfires As People Use It For Boycotts | Social media posts about PublicSquare have gone viral as Trump critics use it to find companies not to support – the opposite of what the site was set up for. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...
- 'The Last of Us' star Pedro Pascal calls J.K. Rowling's anti-trans social post 'heinous' | Rowling posted a photo of herself celebrating on X after the U.K. Supreme Court did not recognize transgender women as women... www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...
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- democracy and freedom is so egregious and unmistakable, that the entire postsecondary industry may not recover the public trust or its reputation in my lifetime. www.aaup.org/news/cowardi... #HigherEducation
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- I have seen librarians from different parts of the U.S. grousing about it. We are not alone!
- "We break down every known way a US student visa can be revoked—based on current law and recent enforcement actions." m.economictimes.com/nri/study/fr... #VISA #International #Students #USA #revocations #SEVIS #SEVP #ISS #ISP #Noncitizens #HigherEducation #Colleges #Universities
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- National Weather Service pauses Spanish & non-English services "With less than a few months before the start of hurricane season, the halt adds another layer of uncertainty for thousands of Houstonians who depend on emergency alerts." #Texas #GulfCoast #SouthernUS houstonlanding.org/national-wea...
- The posthumous revisionism happening online with Pope Francis is as irritating as it is predictable. Francis was better than Benedict, but papal standards remain too low.
