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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 7h

DJSTTDJ definitely knows about Pitchfork tranche scores lol

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 21h

Watching the Dodgers lose - I could get into this!!!

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tinashe - "Pillow Fight" Probably my fav production of the year That piano just does something to my brain lol

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Roughly chronological in my life (kinda)

My 9 Albums (https://www.my9albums.com/)

"The sound that made Joel"
- Broken Social Scene - "You Forgot It in People"
- Bob Dylan - "John Wesley Harding"
- Gillian Welch - "Time (The Revelator)"
- Women - "Public Strain"
- D'Angelo - "Voodoo"
- Judee Sill - "Heart Food"
- The Blue Nile - "A Walk Across the Rooftops"
- Andy Shauf - "The Party"
- Everything But the Girl - "Walking Wounded"

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Imagining an alternate timeline where journalism hadn't been hollowed out as a viable profession by the time I went to undergrad, so, instead, I went to j school, became a tech journalist, and then could cash out with my own gormless AI book this year. #Roosecore

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Drake's "Solar Eclipse" is his best track in years IMO (Hilarious, though, that he's still referencing Johnny Manziel in bars lol)

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Towards a Theory of the Canadian Centrist Boomer Thinkpiece Lit Industrial Complex

Bob Rae- "Reclaiming Canadian Sovereignty in a Ruptured World"

Andrew Count "The Crisis of Canadian Democracy"

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So meaningful, earlier this week, to be in a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation event on campus and to not hear a single mention of AI. IMO it's notable that when people are concerned about slow, relational work, & important questions of authority/testimony, that it doesn't seem to come up.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are any of these online by chance? Would love to tune in.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Dave Hamelin from The Stills has production credits on Tinashe's "Popstar" - wild! lol

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jays season officially over, but I will never stop texting my Dad Brett Bateman updates

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Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Had a blast on @librarypunk.bsky.social talking about Gramsci, Carnegie, and public libraries. Where has philanthropy gone in the politics of our elites? What's changed since the homestead strike? Listen! open.spotify.com/episode/4rzD...

open.spotify.com

170 - Carnegie, Gramsci, and Libraries feat. Dan Greene

librarypunk · Episode

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Classic 2026 Blue Jays loss today to be officially eliminated - 10 hits and 2 runs lol

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I edited a piece on the (dis)continuities between critical IL and AIL that will be coming out in the special issue of "CJAL" later this year that uses hauntology. Also very interesting.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've been seeing lots of articles like this right about ... (dis)continuities between IL and whatever AIL is or might be. Also, "algorithmic literacy" (AL) sometimes in play, too. It really feels like a time of shifting, nebulous definitions.

"Do We Need Something More Than Information Literacy? Surveying Academic Librarians’ Opinions and Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Library Instruction" by Jonathan Bull and Teresa Augustine

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dirty Stache Trey Yesavage kind of dealing tonight? lol

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Truly curst headline lol

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What are the papers (or other works) that you would consider "core" to critical AI studies? Asking because I'm building a libguide for MPOW!

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for a new book! It's about ImageNet, a dataset of 14 million photos. Without it, we likely wouldn't have "AI" as we currently know it. I've been thinking about this book for over 5 years, and am excited to finally write it.

Screenshot of a deal report from Publishers Marketplace that reads: “Coauthor of AI CON and cohost of the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 podcast Alex Hanna’s NET WORKS: IMAGENET AND THE CREATION OF THE MODERN AI DATASET, on the labor behind ImageNet’s cache of 14 million photos from the early aughts that became the backbone of AI datasets, to Rachel Moore at MIT Press (world).

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

New Helen LP absolutely rules

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There's no way in hell DJT ever thought or typed "'territory' of doubt" lol Also—redundant to note this at this point—but absolutely unhinged capitalization throughout

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It hits me like yearly how hard he was spitting on this song lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVS...

youtube.com

Bob Dylan - Summer Days (Official Audio)

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Catching up on recent "KYE" eps, and this one with Kim Phillips-Fein is great: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... Interesting to hear her mention—and write about in the book—that there were around 250 communities that refused Carnegie libraries. Literally had never known that before. Fascinating.

dissentmagazine.org

Know Your Enemy: The Long Struggle Against Equality in America - Dissent Magazine

Matt and Sam talk to Matt Dinan about Leo Strauss's 1953 book, Natural Right and History.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Kinda wanna start a highly-a e s t h e t i c booksta account and then just put stuff like this on it lol

Walt Crawford & Michael Gorman - "Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness, & Reality"

William F. Birdsall - "The Myth of the Electronic Library: Librarianship and Social Change in America"

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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People designed genAI so it always replicates our existing injustices. To take an already underrepresented group & just replace them w/ chatbots trained on centuries of anti-Indigenous writing, esp when reporting immediately affects their communities, is revolting. There MUST be real consequences.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Randomly skimmed this piece a week or two ago (onl00p.substack.com/p/bad-nonfic...), and I haven't been able to get the phrase "Verso slop" out of my brain.

onl00p.substack.com

Bad nonfiction, part 1: Verso Slop

the three main subcategories of Verso Slop: (1) slam poetry/memoir????? (2) manife(slop)to (3) literature review but bad

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Sick as a freaking dog this weekend, but still excited to be reading "CJAL" paper drafts for our issue! There are some bangers, folks!

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Good piece on "History News Network" by Jordan Sand on GenAI and primary sources using a really good, specific example from his own class: www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...

hnn.us

AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine

Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Spent way too much time on this while sick this week lol "AI in Higher Ed Bingo"

BINGO card with the following in the spaces:
- reference to calculators
- "cognitive offloading"
- reference to Ethan Mollick by superfan
- "the toothpaste is out of the tube"
- reference to "backward design"
- AI is claimed to be value netural tool "like any other tool"
- "agentic engineering"
- reference to importance of "critical thinking"
- "what is the necessary friction?"
- urgent revival of '90s/'00s "digitial divide" discourse
- "augmentation not automation"
- individual responsibility emphasized through need to consult academic integrity policy and/or course syllabus
- Free!
- "garbage in, garbage out" (GIGO)
- "context engineering"
- "prompt engineering"
- glancing reference to bias concerns
- "human in the loop" (HITL)
- glancing reference to privacy concerns
- glancing reference to environmental concerns
- reference to autocorrect/spellcheck
- "I just know AI-generated text when I see it"
- caution expressed/urged about AI detection
- "postplagiarism"
- "the horse has left the barn"

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

(x.com/seattletimes...) lol

Seattle Times post on X with picture of Ichiro Suzuki pitching:

"At age 52, Ichiro just threw a 127-pitch shutout with 17 strikeouts during an All-Star game against the best high school girls in Japan."

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/ichiro-at-52-throws-127-pitch-shutout-against-all-star-girls-team-in-japan/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned_echobox_tw_m&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1789663772-2

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For the morning crowd, this gift link should work.

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I really love how weird and shambling the arrangement is on this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4d...

youtube.com

Bob Dylan - Went to See the Gypsy (Official Audio)

YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"NES" resumed it's "Do Look Back" series today and they just compared "If Dogs Run Free" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH6V...) to this lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBmt...

youtube.com

Kim Cattrall scatting with an upright bass - HQ

YouTube video by Teigan Reamsbottom

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

(Huge shoutout to Dr. Dagmar Monett's list, which has been invaluable: monettdiaz.com/books-critic...) If anyone has any suggestions for additions, please let me know!

monettdiaz.com

Books Critical AI

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Tired: prompt engineering/agentic engineering Wired: ~ontology engineering~ lol

Graphic describing "Ontology for Agents & RAG"

From: https://lnkd.in/p/eDn3H8Wh

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joel @jblechinger.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's amazing how this is literally just re-staging the "digital divide" discourse of the 90s/00s.

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