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Gabriela Femenia

@gfemenia.bsky.social
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Law Library Director and Associate Professor at Temple Beasley School of Law. Former medievalist, and fan of archaic information technologies. She/her/hers

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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This, except the vendors appear to think this is the year to shoot for a 5-8% increase instead.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As both alum and former staff, I'm very concerned about its future, which is why I've signed Penn Quaker Courage's letter calling on the Board of Trustees to choose a president who can meet this moment. bit.ly/pennpresident alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/pe...
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Tell Penn: Choose a president who will defend academic freedom
Penn is choosing its next president at a consequential moment for the University and for higher education. Join Penn Quaker Courage in calling on the Presidential Consultative Committee and Board of T...
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Yooty @yooty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember when they said Me Too failed and went too far??
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
So wild to me that the entire economy is propped up by companies who think living your best life is being a middle manager to a collection of bots.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Between Cornell and this article, I'm having a lot of feelings, both general and individual, about academia this week
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Standing is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
One of our students said they don't have the latest edition of the Bluebook yet but they did bring their mom's law school copy, which was both delightful and made me do some mental math about how old that edition must be.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you need a break in the constant barrage of horrors, this is like the Williams-Sonoma Christmas Catalog takedown in August.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I am not one of the people for whom lockdown meant catching up on my TBR pile. Those two years messed with my ability to read for pleasure in a way I found tragic and I had to work hard to get it back. I fundamentally can’t understand doing that to yourself on purpose.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
<insert really long rang here about how there's always money for the next big hype but never enough for core functions that actually keep the library running> 📚 www.chronicle.com/article/does...
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Does Your College Need an ‘AI Librarian’?
At a time when many institutions are grappling with the technology and its implications, some are turning to librarians for leadership.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Indeed
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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Excellent observation by @katemanne.bsky.social "In short, they miss female subordinates who seamlessly do their bidding." open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bar Exam Week: when you know summer is OVER over (Although this one in particular felt like it never happened in the first place, apart from the rising anxiety in the building)
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A fantastic introduction to all the challenges libraries are struggling with, including AI
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Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
The coverage on this OpenAI incident is abysmal. Use of the terms "rogue" and "loss of human control" lead to groupthink as people lack the critical skills to understand the difference between "autonomy" and faulty reward functions in AI on a task it was directed and given access to do.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Yes, librarians have been worried about this for a long time. I've made the decision to revert back to print for certain things when vendors overreached on the digital side
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
More books and AI news
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I know I'm not the only librarian who's been approached about "digitizing unique collections" in what was obviously an AI training grab
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I don't like this turn of things. Get in the archives and breathe the ancient dust! Give me a narrative that captures me. There are so many great uses of AI technology to improve research and copyediting, no doubt. I'm no Luddite. But let's not farm our human judgment out to statistical models.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
ALA's new guidance on AI use in libraries looks is helpfully grounded in values rather than FOMO @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social www.ala.org/tools/standa...
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Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Justice Department appears to have included a fake AI-generated. citation in an ICE detainee's case. Judge Jarbou, a Trump appointee in Michigan, called it out: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I am once again begging Hollywood to stop using the Greek alphabet for an Ancient World movie, if they can't afford to even throw a couple of quid at anyone with an inkling of the language. Unless they really think audiences are dying to see THS THDPSSSSPS
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/07/2026
I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!
lgbtqlegislation.com
LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project
Two decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, documented bill by bill — 10,000+ bills tracked across every state and Congress by the LegiAlerts team.
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
lol devastating. This is exactly how all profs should move here on out, in-person finals with paper and pen. ChatGPT your way outta THAT one.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/07/2026
Uhhhhhh, don't use it? wapo.st/3TmHl5G
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Column | How to stop ChatGPT from ruining how you think
Studies show that using AI can lead people to “cognitive surrender.” But with the right approach, it can also elevate your thinking.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
most of the time it's the fault of the 19th century
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Here's the thing: I grew up an engineer's kid in Silicon Valley and I practiced IP in the early 2000s. I generally have pretty warm feelings about tech and the people who make it. It is endlessly frustrating to now be branded a Luddite just because I can see the problems and the hype.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
There are many reasons I barely use LinkedIn, but here's a new one
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'm a little bit relieved my Con Law and Fed Courts professor didn't live to see this term.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Do I do my duty to stay informed or do I risk a rage aneurysm by reading the opinions? Decisions, decisions...
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Throwback to when an economics prof was trying to tell a historian and others that we should be more open to the amazingness that LLMs will unleash on our fields specifically and higher ed pedagogy generally. This was the one and only example he presented as evidence of this shining future.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Yet another reason LLMs are not actually helpful tools in the research stage either
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Sitting in the Bayeux Tapestry ticket queue all afternoon only to have my only available conference day sell out is sadly reminiscent of eBay sniping circa 2003. Alas, I have no choice but to plan a second London trip and try again.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Such an interesting glimpse into the student experience of AI
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Very interesting development
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Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The whole thread is worthwhile, but this point is key. AI is, to the degree it engages with the potential sum of human knowledge, restricting what we might know, not expanding it. And to the degree that it is killing the skills required to read what it can't, it's killing knowledge.
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Dan Epps @epps.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Law folks using Zotero: I'm ready to release my "Bluebook Citations Fixer" plugin designed to address some recurring issues with law review citations that Zotero alone can't handle. Download and instructions at link below. danepps.github.io/zotero/blueb...
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Bluebook Citations Fixer
Bluebook rule fixes for Zotero citations
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The future the techbros probably want
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/06/2026
A Pennsylvania Rep “has introduced a bill that would require every pair of smart glasses ‘manufactured, sold, and used’ in the state to have a ‘visual indicator’ that tells others when they’re recording.”
gizmodo.com
Smart Glasses Would Legally Require a Recording Light Under Proposed Law
Some lawmakers in Pennsylvania would rather not leave privacy up to the discretion of Meta and other tech companies.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Wow. I have formative memories of going up Sterling's gondola and looking across the valley on the annual family winery tours. Napa really isn't the same anymore.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Saving this for later
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I have read through Berkeley's new AI policy and appreciate that it's grounded in the principle that "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering". I just wish it had also recognized that legal research is also a cognitive process and shouldn't have been left out.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Go Bears
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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is so interesting for many reasons, but partly because it put a price on AI confabulation: $500 for each fabricated citation and $1,000 for each false quotation or substantive statement of law.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT
Pope Leo standing up in an airplane aisle holding a baseball bat
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