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  The state-university library consortium is moving from EZProxy to OpenAthens. I understand EZProxy as well as a non-sysadmin can, I think. I only know the essentials about OpenAthens. So... ... what does this migration mean for UX and for patron privacy, please?

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  In my back yard. #GardensOfMastodon #FlowersOfMastodon

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  @zotero@fosstodon.org wahoo! also "[Mac] Added Tahoe menu icons, for better or worse" made me snort (it's for worse, but that's not YOUR fault)

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  I've seen questions about the #instructure #canvas leak, to the effect of "why's the data so dangerous if there's nothing financial in it?" There are identifiers, for one thing. But I think the real threat is... look, students send instructors some really heavy and confidential stuff in Canvas messaging sometimes. Health stuff. Family stuff. Relationship stuff. Occasionally even crime stuff. I really am relieved that I direct students to email. I feel...

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  the three e's of AI extraction exploitation evildoing

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  Because I got an email about this yesterday... "Protecting Patrons with Digital Vendors," my Public Library Association conference presentation, is available with talk notes at https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/protecting-patrons-with-digital-vendors I'll be doing a variant of it for an internal ALA audience next month.

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  @luis_in_brief Maybe point them to COAR. https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/open-repositories-are-being-profoundly-impacted-by-ai-bots-and-other-crawlers-results-of-a-coar-survey/ tl;dr: these AI asswipes are taking out online libraries and library catalogs with wild abandon.

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  that thing where you see a sealion reply-guy RIP-my-mentions tsunami coming and you mute the culprit toot immediately (muting is such a great thing, thank you Mastodon for implementing muting)

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  AI token freeloaders are coming for your customer support chatbot | CIO https://www.cio.com/article/4155404/ai-token-freeloaders-are-coming-for-your-customer-support-chatbot.html

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  Haven't seen a cybertruck for a few months. They all break down over the winter?

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  Cataloguing and theorising open research practices in the arts, humanities, and social sciences: Problematising and diversifying 'Open Science' https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.178353.1

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  Open access to data… a good idea that can be taken too far - Journal of Hand Therapy https://www.jhandtherapy.org/article/S0894-1130(26)00015-3/fulltext

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  Clarifying HEVC licensing fees, royalties, and why vendors kill HEVC support - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/lawsuits-licensing-and-royalties-are-complicating-4k-video-support-in-gadgets/

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  started brainstorming for What Is Information Science course this fall have already blown WAY past what's doable in 14 weeks so it goes sorry, Information Retrieval, you're probably outta here (just because hardcore IR intimidates me and I haven't the first idea how to teach it to total newbs)

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  Has nobody suggested that a lot of the supposed vulnerabilities this Mythos gizmo claims to have found are bullshit? Because that's what we've seen with genAI bug reporting so far. Vast quantities of generated bug reports are bullshit. I don't understand why Mythos would be any different. Yet I just read a piece by somebody I thought was reputable enough to put in my feedreader that swallowed "Mythos vulns are Big Scary News" hook line and sinker.

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116403244534337682 Am I surprised? No. Am I pissed off? Yeah.

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  the chairs in the polling place where I work are the actual worst and I need ibuprofen but Chris Taylor's going to the Wisconsin Supreme Court so it's all good

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  I do enjoy a good April Fool's Day piss take. https://www.artefactual.com/post/superpreservation

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  Okay, it's happened. The Moment. The Moment When I Add A Last-Minute Slide To My Talk Because of a Conversation Over Coffee

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  Digital dark times: Salaries in digital preservation https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-dark-times-salaries-in-digital-preservation/

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  So here you go, today's PLA presentation. Not verbatim, because I always riff a bit and I skipped one slide for time, but talk notes are included. "Protecting Patrons' Privacy with Digital Vendors" https://speakerdeck.com/dsalo/protecting-patrons-with-digital-vendors And no, I am still not Sarah Lamdan. Wish I were.

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  I'm home. The poor confused rental car did not get the memo about the timing of the bad weather changing, and was convinced I was driving through an ice storm around Tomah.

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  I will say, if you're going to a conference where Library Freedom Project is exhibiting, they have THE BEST stickers and buttons. Also the hoodie I bought from them is every bit as warm and comfy as advertised. (It has the LFP logo on the front and "AI IS NOT INTELLIGENCE, IT'S IDEOLOGY" on the back. I fully plan to wear mine to the next College of Computing and AI all-staff meeting because I will never be broken of being an enfant terrible.)

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  GenAI and Creeping Cognitive Displacement Syndrome | EDUCAUSE Review https://er.educause.edu/articles/2026/3/genai-and-creeping-cognitive-displacement-syndrome

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  Kicking students out of a meeting sure is saying the quiet part out loud. https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/university-vice-provost-ai-jeffrey-bardzell-resigns-brief-20260325

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  Upgraded to a blizzard warning. Yay.

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  Madison.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116239455614919785 Sometimes you just gotta be like "why even are people"

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  Thank all that is good for Kind Neighbor with Snowblower. Just clearing a path to the front sidewalk took me 15 minutes. Snow was up to porch level!

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  “because fuck you”: why consumer choice is being stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it — fireborn https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/because-fuck-you-why-consumer-choice-is-being-stripped-away-and-how-the-tech-industry-profits-from-it/