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Check Your Fucking Sources, People

https://brodzinski.com/2026/05/check-fcking-sources.html

Check Your F**cking Sources, People! - Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology

Outsourcing reference and data checks to unattended AI leads to hallucinated claims and harms credibility. Check your sources.

Pawel Brodzinski on Leadership in Technology

Nicole Myers 3d ago

The Art of Research: How to Find Sources You Can Actually Trust

A guide to how to find reputable sources covers the practical research skills that writers, bloggers, and content creators need to produce accurate, trustworthy work. This article explains why source quality matters for long-term credibility, how to evaluate whether a source is reliable, and what distinguishes trustworthy information from content that simply confirms existing assumptions. Whether writing for a general audience or covering topics that directly affect readers lives — such as health, finance, or wellness — understanding how to identify and use credible sources is a foundational skill that strengthens every piece of content you publish.

https://dreamspacestudio.net/the-art-of-research-how-to-find-sources-you-can-actually-trust/

ALA Editions | Neal-Schuman 3d ago

Now shipping! Presenting a systematic philosophical framework for thinking critically about knowledge, information, and one’s own quest for what matters in life, this book serves as a fun and irreverent guide for sound-decision making in action. https://alastore.ala.org/thnkcrit

#ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation #LIS #MLIS #libraries #librarianship #InformationScience #infolit #informationliteracy #punk #criticalthinking #library

A. Rivera May 7

> Trust in health and wellness influencers https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/05/07/trust-in-health-and-wellness-influencers/

In case you wonder why so many people out there are willing to eat horse paste to treat COVID-19 for example.

#influencer #useless #InformationLiteracy #health #SocialMedia #Internet #wellness #scams

Trust in health and wellness influencers

About this research This study looks at health and wellness influencers – individuals with large audiences online who provide information about health and wellness, largely on social media. It includes…

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maryakem May 5

@grantpotter these 'little guys' are the best. There were some wild big 'uns spotted this season in BC #shrooms #printemps

Thanks for this article! As a child of Ukrainian Canadians I have truly been imprinted you must be some sort of imbecile if you don't know how to forage for mushrooms #informationliteracy you can eat

joel Apr 27

I will be presenting virtually at CLIA 2026 (https://fla.org/clia-2026/) on prediction markets and information literacy this Wed 29 April 2026 around 12:10pm!

Thinkin' about maybe takin' a flyer on 👽, to be honest...

#predictionmarkets #informationliteracy

Subconscious Proxy Apr 9

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation
#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #TechEthics #InformationLiteracy #BigTech

Nicole Hennig Apr 1

What does "Investigate the evidence" mean in the SIFT for AI proposal - Mike Caulfield mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/what-does-in… #AI #informationLiteracy

What does "Investigate the evi...

What does "Investigate the evidence" mean in the SIFT for AI proposal

As I discussed at length this past weekend, I am exploring an edit for SIFT currently called “SIFT for AI” that keeps source verification in a central role but pushes it back from its initial role.

The End(s) of Argument