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Dorothea Salo
@dsalo@digipres.club
hometown 4.6.9+hometown-1.3.0Mutinous #librarian, iSchool educator, jack-of-all-trades. Bergholt Stuttley Johnson designed my notional machine.
Save your 20th-century creations if you value them. If it's not printed, it's likely in danger. #retrocomputing #MediaArchaeology #DigitalForensics #DigitalArchives
Ethicists are scalpels; I am a buster sword. #ethics #DataEthics #privacy #DataPrivacy #infosec #LibraryPrivacy
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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 horrible for what could happen.
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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TV stations are being quickest on the draw: https://www.wmtv15news.com/2026/04/17/dane-county-board-votes-remove-funding-flock-system/
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.)
the three e's of AI
extraction
exploitation
evildoing
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116403244534337682
Am I surprised? No. Am I pissed off? Yeah.
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funny moment: two voters with the same name, totally unrelated, showed up one after the other and got to introduce themselves to each other
Okay, it's happened.
The Moment.
The Moment When I Add A Last-Minute Slide To My Talk Because of a Conversation Over Coffee
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)
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.
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?
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)
I do enjoy a good April Fool's Day piss take. https://www.artefactual.com/post/superpreservation
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@kklevine Though I also think the state/corporations is doing its level best to make individuals complicit in surveilling their neighbors. It's very Tom Parsons.
Ring is EXACTLY that.
Kicking students out of a meeting sure is saying the quiet part out loud.
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@lynnemthomas@wandering.shop when I got back from Dad's funeral and associated stuff last year:
Finnsie: Oh, you're back. Hi there.
Lancelot: YOU ABANDONED ME FOREVER HOW COULD YOU I AM A TOTAL WRECK WHERE WERE YOU WHY WERE YOU GONE SO LONG I MISSED YOU DID YOU MEET ANY OTHER CATS IS THAT WHY YOU LEFT PET ME PET ME PET ME I AM IN ANGUISH HERE ALSO I WANT TO GO OUTSIDE PLEASE BUT FIRST YOU HAVE TO PET ME
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I thought it went fine, though I did overwrite it a bit. (Not that I have STRONG FEELINGS about this or anything.)
Fantastic crowd, terrific questions.
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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@mickylindlar@digipres.club I'm considering early retirement, myself.
Not actually retiring, just... getting out from under where I am and seeing what I'd like to do for the time I've got left.
I keep seeing grant-funded (yes, even now) one- or two-year gigs that would be fun. I could ride out my career on those, maybe.
Admittedly helps a LOT that I have a windfall coming sometime this year.
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@dgfitch Yeah. There's also the cop-in-the-head aspect: the systematic reduction of freedom (including constitutionally-guaranteed freedom) owing to fear of getting in trouble.
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@vervain they really should, it would do NUMBERS
I will say that their booth was thronged. I meant to go back and say goodbye before I hit the road for home, but there were people four deep, so I left them to it.
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@hipsterelectron this kind of thing, although it's not as mathy as some: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14822
Haven't seen a cybertruck for a few months. They all break down over the winter?
Digital dark times: Salaries in digital preservation https://exponentialdecay.co.uk/blog/digital-dark-times-salaries-in-digital-preservation/
GenAI and Creeping Cognitive Displacement Syndrome | EDUCAUSE Review https://er.educause.edu/articles/2026/3/genai-and-creeping-cognitive-displacement-syndrome
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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@bpettis@mastodon.benpettis.ninja https://alerts.wisc.edu/
https://it.wisc.edu/news/2026-instructure-incident/
https://outages.doit.wisc.edu/outage/94cf9536148987aaf2eed44c07abe03241f6c75dcd
sorry, we're a bit scattered here apparently
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@jessamyn I've done worse with a lot more lead time.
I TOTALLY missed talking about facial recognition, though. Fortunately somebody asked about it in Q&A.
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/
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
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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@TheyOfHIShirts Facial recognition, which I totally whiffed talking about so I appreciated the question.
Also, Michigan actually updated its library-privacy statute to the 21st century? And it has TEETH?! I have a huge note to self to go find and read it.
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@amber Would you be up for modernizing and fixing an existing WP design/theme?
Possibly even two sites; my this-is-me site is pretty lazy if I'm honest.
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@sarae@ecoevo.social I don't either.
That doesn't erase feelings of fear and shame that affected students will feel. US courts don't recognize that as a harm, but they should, and I do.