Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 7h(Models Available For Subscribers) Prince Edward Island Provincial Polling: GRN: 46% (+24) LIB: 24% (+7) PC: 20% (-36) NDP: 9% (+4) Narrative / Sept 28, 2026 / n=150 / Online (% Change With 2023 Election) Check out all PEI polling here: canadianpolling.ca/PE-2023 3568
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 4hah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 6581963083
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 8hCanada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying 172046542
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 6hOh man, do I remember those times. So many retirements coming up!! A million jobs!!! Go to library school!!! 020
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 8hI prefer to think of it as full of the happiest people in academia!!!! 120
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 8hdid you know that one of the library schools in Ontario is a combined school with the journalism program? 100
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Coral, yr Bird Friend @parodybit.bsky.social · 10hI know of one university—in France—that uses mostly open source (Moodle instead of Canvas/Blackboard, LibreOffice instead of MS/Google, etc.). Do we have any colleges or universities in the US who are similarly principled? (And are they hiring remote from NY?) 122
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 11hyou say "run roughshod over copyright law" like that's a bad thing 010
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 11hWhether or not these are really decompiled Adobe suite apps, I gotta say -- they are small, fast, and appear to work great. Even on Linux. Rust, man. I should learn it. 030
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The last four years has been the AI denialists clinging onto the rulebook going "but a dog can't play basketball!" while a dog dunks on us over and over 063
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 16hHoly shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/appsgetartcraft.comCrafting Apps: open-source creative toolsImage editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use. 18139901137
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 22hWe've got *allllllllllll* this guy's shit in our special collections. Had to get an entire building just for it. 030
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 23hI mean I can't even get you people to use Linux which is OBVIOUSLY good for you because it is SO DIFFICULT TO USE. How are you gonna get Johnny Geeps-A-Bunch to go back to status quo ante 2023? 010
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Matt Hodges @matthodges.bsky.social · 23hLet’s stop pretending there are intellectually stimulating jobs. There’s only one job and it’s emails. 021
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 23hYou're just not going to get the average chatty geeps big enthusiast to *care at all* that the act of, say, writing a personal email or doing their own research on a thing is good for the mind and the soul. They just want it done to a reasonable facsimile of quality as easily as possible. 100
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 23hProblem with the (correct) metaphors against AI that are like "I could go to the gym and just hit the showers instead of exercising and be done in 1/10the the time" is that for many people the mental work they are offloading to language models is not something they think is worth doing themselves. 220
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 07/10/2026...i think I'm the only non-STEM-ish person I know who uses it regularly. Especially Beamer. Love Beamer man 000
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 06/10/2026My favorite Eva Marie Saint films are On The Waterfront, North By Northwest, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, and, maybe less well known, Loving. One of the greats. Rest In Peace. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/m...nytimes.comEva Marie Saint, Oscar Winner for ‘On the Waterfront,’ Is Dead at 102A luminous beauty with dramatic depth, she brought a layered intensity to harrowing roles and seduced Cary Grant in the romantic thriller “North by Northwest.” 26655118
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A while ago I ran a workshop / pep talk on LaTeX specifically for humanist scholars in which, amongst other things, I really talked up how lovely LaTeX's output is. I ... don't think the workshop went particularly well. Humanities people are pretty Word-centric. :/ 120
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 06/10/2026SCOOP: I obtained screenshots of some of the proposed resolutions UCP members are ranking in the lead up to November’s convention. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...open.substack.comSCOOP: UCP mulls trans bathroom ban, abortion, secession debates at 2026 AGMThese policy resolutions were proposed by party members. Not all of them will necessarily make it to the convention floor in November. 713161
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You can quibble about all kinds of things when it comes to AI in library spaces, but there is zero room for debate in our professional ethics when it comes to patron data privacy. 0234
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hadn't realized the QC election was that exciting. Shades of 1993 Canada fed. 040
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"why would I ever need a task to be done faster" come on, guys. Because we're dying. Because we are literally all dying all the time. Because we're running out of time. The fact that it's often hard to measure or stupidly measured doesn't mean "saving time" isn't an important thing to human beings 1647758
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)acabforcutie @ahemnason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"Oh this JT had some zany ideas that stuck in the craw of librarians everywhere". Like... "McMastergate" (ffs really) wasn't about a guy trying to mix up professional practice and make a statement about the value of an MLIS. He was gutting staff and practicing toxic neoliberalism. 011
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026He might be interested to find out that here at McMaster University, we basically reversed the hiring priorities of the prior administration after the prior administration left. 020
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I wonder if Dave Banush, the author of this.... piece, is on bsky. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comWhy Do We Keep Debating the M.L.S.? (opinion)Here’s why librarians can’t resolve our recurrent arguments about the import of the field’s professional degree. 320
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Jill Murray @jillmurray.bsky.social · 06/10/2026QC election: the governing party won 0 seats. First Conservatives elected since 1935. PQ wins minority government but Liberals might have the popular vote. Maximum chaos. Best of luck to anyone trying to draw orderly conclusions from this; that’s not what we do here. 33211
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Sheena Sharp @sheenasharp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The crowning NDP achievement? Shoulda asked for PR. #cdnpoli 132
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hamilton Ontario again!!! It was so nice to see you. 120
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Big fan of the Nofrills 99c whole wheat baguette. Very serviceable. 000
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Ardath Whynacht @ardathjean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Imagine if we sent REITs packing and municipalities expropriated the fancy condos for public housing? And we stopped blaming newcomers for the corporate landlord economy strangling our town? 172
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)hyperbolbri @astrobri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Tri Agency Open Access Policy got a *big* update! I'm actually pretty happy with it compared to previous drafts, which just goes to show that I can be won over with a nice little Preamble and Statement. 😅 163
adr (goddamit yes) @jbfink.bsky.social · 05/10/2026is there such a thing as an un-influential supreme court justice 100
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The Carney Liberals have passed a lot of bad legislation and the devastating consequences will not be clear immediately. But, the impact of Bill C-3 has become clear in the past year, and it’s hurt archives and Canadian citizens. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caCanadians born abroad caught up in yearslong citizenship certificate processing delays | CBC NewsImmigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is struggling to handle a flood of citizenship applications — many of them from a change to federal law late last year that allows anyone who can prove the... 093
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)daily dose of estragon @craigburley.bsky.social · 05/10/2026jubilee, debt relief, shaking off of burdens, call it what you will: the key to supercharging an economy is to cancel and relieve accumulated economic rent 15219
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"I'd rather get free money from the government than have socialism, which just teaches lazy, stupid folks they don't have to work for money they get, y'all!!!" 76564791213
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026it is REALLY easy for folks to 'do the right thing' when they are getting bombarded with bad press. so in my mind i thought 'well, if they REALLY want to grow and learn, we can see if they REMEMBER this and actually care when the smoke clears and nobodys looking.' i have not been invited back. 472658
Reposted by adr (goddamit yes)POWERFUL CRAB FART🦀 @powerful.crabf.art · 25/07/2026Had a webserver getting crushed by Claude for some reason. Dug in to the logs and someone made a shitty php hangman game back in 2008, the dipshit computers found it, and were “playing” it 1M+ times a day until I blocked it. The future sucks ass 18720202