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'They said I should be purged and killed': The librarians who stood up for free speech [The Telegraph]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2025/09/17/librarians-defending-free-speech/

Published: September 18, 2025 00:00

Books about slavery could be removed from NPS museums, gift shops [Morning Edition]

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5538412/books-about-slavery-could-be-removed-from-nps-museums-gift-shops

Published: September 17, 2025 00:00

What is AI slop? A technologist explains this new and largely unwelcome form of online content [The Conversation]

https://theconversation.com/what-is-ai-slop-a-technologist-explains-this-new-and-largely-unwelcome-form-of-online-content-256554

Published: September 16, 2025 00:00

How thousands of 'overworked, underpaid' humans train Google's AI to seem smart [The Guardian]

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/11/google-gemini-ai-training-humans

Published: September 15, 2025 00:00

DC cancels comic book series after writer posts about Charlie Kirk's death on social media [CNN]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/11/entertainment/dc-comics-red-hood-charlie-kirk

Published: September 14, 2025 00:00

AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose [The Conversation]

https://theconversation.com/ai-is-making-reading-books-feel-obsolete-and-students-have-a-lot-to-lose-262680

Published: September 13, 2025 00:00

When the Scoreboard Becomes the Game, It's Time to Recalibrate Research Metrics [The Scholarly Kitchen]

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/11/guest-post-when-the-scoreboard-becomes-the-game-its-time-to-recalibrate-research-metrics/

Published: September 12, 2025 00:00

Trump vs. Higher Education [Last Week Tonight with John Oliver]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk94il8L820

Published: September 11, 2025 00:00

Judge: Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is being shoved "down the throat of authors" [Ars Technica]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/judge-anthropics-1-5b-settlement-is-being-shoved-down-the-throat-of-authors/

Published: September 10, 2025 00:00

The Shocking Cancellation of a Special Issue [Inside Higher Ed]

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/08/12/shocking-cancellation-special-journal-issue-opinion

Published: September 9, 2025 00:00

Documenting humanity [WashU Magazine]

https://source.washu.edu/2025/08/documenting-humanity/

Published: September 8, 2025 00:00

Introduction and summary: Library Studies, the Informational Disciplines, and the iSchool: Some Remarks Prompted by LIS Forward [Lorcan Dempsey]

https://www.lorcandempsey.net/introduction-and-summary-library-studies-the-informational-disciplines-and-the-ischool-some-remarks-prompted-by-lis-forward/

Published: September 7, 2025 00:00

Antarctic Press, Korero Press & Class Comics, Hit By New U.S. Tariffs [Bleeding Cool News]

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/antarctic-press-korero-press-class-comics-hit-by-new-u-s-tariffs/

Published: September 6, 2025 00:00

Books by Bots [American Libraries]

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2025/09/02/books-by-bots/

Published: September 5, 2025 00:00

How an Academic Archive Became a Tech Juggernaut [The Chronicle of Philanthropy]

https://www.philanthropy.com/article/how-an-academic-archive-became-a-tech-juggernaut

Published: September 4, 2025 00:00

Papers continue to face retractions for failure to license pricy tool [Retraction Watch]

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/09/02/papers-continue-to-face-retractions-for-failure-to-license-pricy-tool/

Published: September 3, 2025 00:00

Generative AI is Turning Publishing Into a Swamp of Slop [Paste Magazine]

https://www.pastemagazine.com/books/publishing/generative-ai-is-turning-publishing-into-a-swamp-of-slop

Published: September 2, 2025 00:00