Stephen Francoeur
stephenfrancoeur@glammr.us
<p>Deputy chief librarian at Baruch College (New York, NY). My "Library and info. science linkspam" posts here are things I've saved to Instapaper that I thought others in the GLAMMR world might be interested in.</p>
Posts
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Post #3141488
Notable read: Pluralistic: The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble (26 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/
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Post #3141487
Notable read: AI Academic Search and the Missing Middle of Literature Discovery https://aarontay.substack.com/p/ai-academic-search-and-the-missing
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Post #3141486
Notable read: MIT Expert Warns Courts &quot;Will Basically Have to Grind to a Halt&quot; as They&#39;re Overwhelmed by AI-Generated Lawsuits https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mit-expert-ai-generated-lawsuits-spike
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Post #3141485
Notable read: New Initials, Old Issues: How Remembering Y2K Can Help Us Think about AI https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/new-initials-old-issues-how-remembering-y2k-can-help-us-think-about-ai/
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Post #3141484
Notable read: ‘Lobotomized’: Character.AI Is Showing What AI Enshittification Looks Like https://www.404media.co/lobotomized-character-ai-is-showing-what-ai-enshittification-looks-like/
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Post #3141483
Notable read: There Are A Lot of Cats https://justalurkr.tumblr.com/post/817697390903607296/text-of-tweet-under-the-cut-because-it-is
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Post #3141482
Notable read: Pluralistic: AI and a world without migrants (27 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/27/unnecessariat/
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Post #3141481
Notable read: What happens next, after the decline of tokenmaxxing? https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-happens-next-after-the-decline
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Post #3141480
Notable read: The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written By AI https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/how-to-tell-ai-writing/687345/
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Post #3141479
Notable read: CEOs Change Tune, Saying Lazy Workers Are Using AI to Waste Money Automating Tasks They Don&#39;t Enjoy https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/corporations-ai-costs-no-benefits
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Post #3141478
Notable read: Was This the Moment That AI Psychosis Began? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-memory-ai-psychosis
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Post #3141477
Notable read: Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI https://futurism.com/future-society/professor-fail-any-student-uses-ai
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Post #2799520
Notable read: Pluralistic: Kickstarting “The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI” (14 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/14/who-it-does-it-for/
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Post #2799519
Notable read: AI-generated research papers are overwhelming peer review https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/930522/ai-research-papers-slop-peer-review-problem
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Post #2799518
Notable read: “Endemic Microcheating” by Academics “Going Unpunished” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/research/2026/05/14/endemic-microcheating-academics-going-unpunished
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Post #2799517
Notable read: Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/your-doctors-ai-notetaker-may-be-making-things-up-ontario-audit-finds/
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Post #2799516
Come work with me at the Newman Library at Baruch College! Opening for someone to lead our collection management unit. I&#39;m on the search committee, so I can&#39;t answer questions but I can say that I wouldn&#39;t have been working here since 1999 if I didn&#39;t really like the place. https://cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/librarian-collection-management/A9C1319EB18A4CBF9DE0F54301C045A4/job/
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Post #2799515
Notable read: A generative-AI class policy(ish) – Dorothea Salo https://dsalo.info/a-generative-ai-class-policyish/
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Post #2799514
Notable read: AI Appears to Be Trapping Certain Job Applicants in a Limbo Where They Never Get an Interview for &quot;Reasons&quot; That Are Completely Unfair https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-job-applicant-limbo-cortex
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Post #2799513
Notable read: Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/preprint-server-arxiv-will-ban-submitters-of-ai-generated-hallucinations/
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Post #2799512
Notable read: An Entire &quot;Local Newspaper&quot; Just Shut Down When All Its Reporters Were Busted as AI Fakes https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/local-newspaper-shut-down-reporters-ai-fakes
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Post #2799511
Notable read: Libraries Face Hard Choices Amid Constraint https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/research/2026/05/18/libraries-face-hard-choices-amid-constraint
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Post #2799510
Notable read: The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opinion/reese-witherspoon-mel-robbins-girlboss-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.i1A.vddc.Gii4-PD-w6ny&amp;smid=url-share
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Post #2799509
A colleague found this today while decluttering. Ah, the memories of our old CD-ROM server!
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Post #2799507
Notable read: Jefferson Pooley, &quot;The Matthew effect in AI summary,&quot; LSE Impact https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2026/05/19/the-matthew-effect-in-ai-summary/
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Post #2799506
Notable read: AI Has Broken Containment https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/ai-inflection-point-trump-china/687202/
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Post #2799505
Notable read: Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/media/future-of-truth-ai-quotes.html
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Post #2799504
Notable read: Ban on Authors Who Submit AI Content “Welcome but Unenforceable” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/books-publishing/2026/05/22/ban-authors-who-submit-ai-content-welcome-unenforceable
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Post #2799503
Notable read: Starbucks Scraps Disastrous AI Tool https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/starbucks-scraps-disastrous-ai-tool
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Post #2799502
Notable read: AI Resist List https://airesistlist.org/