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- The Brainwashing Of America's Children [Climate Town]
- Florida school district orders removal of all books with gay characters before slightly backing off [Yahoo News]
- Banned Books Week comes at tense time for nation’s libraries and schools [The Hill]
- How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet [Wired]
- Student Wellness Tip: Therapy Dogs Ease Academic Stress for Nursing Students [Inside Higher Ed]
- The Spy Who Shushed Me: How the Government Is Removing Our Right to Read in Private [Literary Hub]
- Book Bans [Pan Cooke]
- I Asked Meta’s Chatbot What It Thought of My Books. What I Learned Was Unsettling. [Slate]
- Anna’s Archive Scraped WorldCat to Help Preserve ‘All’ Books in the World [TorrentFreak]
- Educators, librarians could face criminal prosecution and a level 6 felony over controversial books [WSBT]
- The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts [The Guardian]
- Signs of undeclared ChatGPT use in papers mounting [Retraction Watch]
- Alabama library flagged a children's book because the author’s last name is 'Gay' [NBC News]
- Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. [The New Yorker]
- So why is the medical device lobby suing the Library of Congress? [Fierce Biotech]
- Rising number of ‘predatory’ academic journals undermines research and public trust in scholarship [The Conversation]
- Batley Library's shelves 'decimated' by book sale mix-up [BBC News]
- Frankfurt Book Fair postpones award for Palestinian author [Deutsche Welle]
- Millions of Workers Are Training AI Models for Pennies [Wired]
- Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back [Salon]
- BIBFRAME Must Die [Jeff Edmunds]
- Most libraries to provide ‘warm banks’ again this winter [The Guardian]
- Et Tu, Scholastic Book Fair? [Slate]
- Salman Rushdie: allow writers to create characters outside of their own experience [The Guardian]
- How To Style Your Bookshelves, According To The Experts [British Vogue]
- Don’t expect the government to save us from misinformation [The Boston Globe]
- Music lyrics lawsuit could set AI copyright precedent [Axios]
- Amazon Limits Authors to Self-Publishing 3 Books Per Day Amid Flood of AI Garbage [PC Magazine]
- Large language models prove helpful in peer-review process [Phys.org]
- This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI [MIT Technology Review]
- Tracking Down The Library Ghost [Ghostbusters]
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