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  • ~/elis64.elfluelista@chaos.social
    Mar 27, 2026, 1:08 AM

    richtig lesenswerter artikel. was die autorin da aus ihrer eigenen bibliotheksarbeit beschreibt, müsste an noch viel mehr stellen passieren - kritische beschäftigung damit, dass vieles unserer "infrastruktur" wirklich so überhaupt nicht neutral ist.

    [...] There’s nothing neutral about AI,[2] or Microsoft,[3] or Facebook.[4] These tools, systems, and platforms endanger our patrons and communities in ways that are both direct (subjecting them to surveillance and selling their personal information to data brokers and government agencies[5]) and indirect (via the growing political influence wielded by their CEOs[6]). As values- driven organizations, libraries have a role to play in facilitating patrons’ rejection of technology, just as much as in their adoption of it. Patrons are catching on, too. Over the past year, in response to increasing numbers of questions from patrons, I have taught a slew of classes focused on technology refusal, and these have been some of the best-received tech programs I have ever run. While I’ll never run out of folks looking to take an “Intro to Computers” or “Smartphone Basics” class, the interest, energy, and excitement around classes like “Data Brokers 101” (wherein I teach patrons how to find out who has their data and try to get it removed), my “Dump Big Tech” series (including “Break up with Meta,” “Break up with Amazon,” and “Break up with Google”), and especially “Avoiding AI,” has been unparalleled. “Avoiding AI” alone attracted seventy participants, attending in-person and live online, to my small and relatively rural library, and they burst into applause at the end of the class.[...]
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