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Sarah

@essyem.bsky.social
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Librarian/research therapist, reposter, map nerd, chapstick femme, helicopter chihuahua mom, radicalized on 2011 Tumblr, nosy. ❤ #critical everything & #OpenEducation. Upper Midwest ➡️ Mid-Atlantic ✨🪩

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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Interestingly, the intuition I felt and spoke from -- that embodied knowing -- is precisely the kind of thing AI, for all of its performative anthropomorphic gesturing at the simulacrum of personhood, can't do. Tech billionaires want us to believe that our embodied/human ways of knowing are useless!
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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We have unlimited money for paramilitary forces that kidnap people off the streets but also have something called "school lunch debt" what are we doing here
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Over the past couple weeks, I‘ve felt terrified, angry, and proud all at once watching news of my hometown and my friends and family there. There are multiple ways to support the incredible folks on the ground who are working collectively to keep people safer during this siege.
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
“Like Prime, but with human beings.”
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror. The administration’s goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
No I do not want LinkedIn Wrapped I do not want NYT Games Wrapped I do not want my bank account Wrapped!!! I do not want a 2025 retrospective for every app I’ve ever used!!! Take my data and/or money and leave me alone!!!
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
the small language model arrived
a chatgpt branded magic 8 ball"i love that you asked this"
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Sarah from Pretzels.
Email from Sarah from Pretzels:

Sarah Here—Ready to Try the Pretzels? Here's 20...
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Rachel Hands @rachelhands.com · 11/12/2025
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 03/12/2025
Reminder: It's never too late to start wearing a mask again
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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
This entire country is being scammed — we can afford health care. You reason you don't have the health care you need because someone is making profit. That's it.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 06/12/2025
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
enshittification's venerable ancestor is advertising
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
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Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Sorry guys, I ordered a Filet-o-Fish meal on the credit card one too many times this month because I’m sad and tired, and I may have skewed our national economic data
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
apmreports.org
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/11/2025
If you told them people you was leaving... be out ✌️
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This checks out journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Driving under viral impairment: Linking acute SARS-CoV-2 infections to elevated car crash risks
This study explores the linkage between acute SARS-CoV-2 and car crashes across U.S. states, correlating with COVID-19 mitigation strategies, vaccination rates, and Long COVID prevalence. This investi...
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 03/11/2025
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
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As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan
The union, which reps staffers, says the move was "clearly designed" to blunt the journalism of the brand, which has leaned in to progressive politics.
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Ben Goggin @bengoggin.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
AWS outage seemingly takes down Medicare website during open enrollment... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Hey idk if anyone has thought of this but maybe we shouldn’t be hosting 40% of the internet on Amazon servers ?
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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I am beyond excited (and nervous!) to announce that my first book, "The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities" is available for sale! This series of essay includes reworked talks, new reflections, and a lot of my heart weherespace.myshopify.com/products/the...
light skinned Black woman with natural hair parted down the middle (me!) wearing gold earrings and an orange-red dress, holding a small paperback book with a mint green-blue cover and a variety of vintage + antique photos
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Oh this is so good
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Of course there are some things that computers can calculate faster and more reliably than human minds, but that does not mean that computers are superior to our minds. We don’t even know all the things our brains are doing! They are weird and miraculous! And mostly unconscious! A grand mystery!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 18/09/2025
meanwhile...
theverge.com
Samsung brings ads to US fridges
Samsung’s ‘screens everywhere’ initiative is morphing into ads everywhere.
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MU-Peter Shimon 🀄 @mu-peter.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
⚠️ AI has some legitimate uses, however... Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — and in social media. This can't go on unchecked. Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia 🧪 zenodo.org/records/1706...
AI tuba blown by any company into my face
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/09/2025
or the millions upon millions of people who have died, and will die, from merciless attacks on consumer protection, labor rights, environmental law, corporate oversight, and the social safety net
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Like bell hooks said, “I think that we have to restore feminism as a political movement. The challenge to patriarchy is political, and not a lifestyle or identity... we have to return to very basic education for critical consciousness, around what visionary feminist politics really is about.“
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Please do not post pictures of protesters unless you have their consent. Take photos from behind them. Showing faces even with masks on just adds to palantir’s database that it gives to the police. Solidarity with protests isn’t taking social media pics. This is serious stuff now
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Steph Noell (they/them) @librarianstebbs.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
librarians everywhere
simpsons don't make me tap the sign meme. 
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bus driver: don't make me tap the sign.
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bus driver taps sign that reads "asking for help is a positive social skill"
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The more we make humans machine-readable, the closer capitalism comes to its end goal of fully treating humans like machines
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Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️‍🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
If you’ve ever read or discussed Fobazi’s work on vocational awe in librarianship, you know a small bit of what she’s contributed to the world. Help her and her wife make it through this tough time.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
We are actively, *right now*, living in an AI surveillance state that profits Big Tech companies while plundering your rights and freedoms. These are not future threats, this is our present oppression. If we can't accept the reality of AI surveillance, we can't properly resist & abolish it
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
I would once again like to take this opportunity to remind you all to support billionaire free, local, and/or worker run news. if you're in the DMV area: @washingtoninformer.com @51st.news @wcp.bsky.social @streetsensedc.bsky.social @thebaltimorebanner.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.
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Sarah @essyem.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
This is a flexible, relaxed, fully remote service position with a caring, interesting group of people! Consider applying if you're interested in library user experience (UX), even if you feel like you're still developing your knowledge in that area!
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 20/06/2025
malts, not shakes, should be the standard
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
As a four-decade veteran of the daily journalism business, let me tell you: Every competent political reporter in this country knows that Trump is trying to establish a dictatorship. The industry's shame is that so few journalists will say so, and the ones who do lose their jobs.
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