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@paulwalk agreed that it’s an “interesting” implementation decision, which also stands in the way of harvesting records for a specific contribution type (also implemented as Sets) from a chosen repository.

@paulwalk If you use verb=ListSets and keep scrolling (i.e. follow resumptionTokens) information is listed about which repository corresponds with which portal_nn

A meme of several panels The top panel contains cartoonish drawings of phones with progressively increasing numbers of camera lenses. First 1 lens, then 2, then 3, then 4, 5 and 6 becoming more and more a circle of lens "holes". Finally, an image of a phone with a full circle of lens "holes" resembling a rotary "dial" based telephone, and hands lifting a receiver and dialling. The text across the top reads: "WE'RE GETTING THERE"

#shitpost #meme #phone #camera

Did you know that all 4-star female officers have been purged from the US military? I didn't until I read this article.
https://journa.host/@atrupar/115015769548101144

2025-08-10: Who Cares About All Those Old goo.gl Links Anyway? The Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group at Old Dominion University.

Part two: Who Cares About All Those Old goo.gl Links Anyway?

TL;DR: likely 4000+ goo.gl URLs indexed in Google Scholar will be "lost" under the new sunset criteria (i.e., access in late 2024).

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

Interesting ay?

Yesterday President #Trump issued a new executive order on federal research grants.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-oversight-of-federal-grantmaking/

A few highlights:

* It criticizes previous granting criteria for promoting DEI and gender pluralism, providing […]

US military finds a good use for Tesla Cybertruck: missile target practice Musk always envisioned the Cybertruck as a military vehicle, but probably not like this.

😀

https://www.theverge.com/news/754739/tesla-cybertruck-us-air-force-target-practice

The big academic publishers are in court it seems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Si-UHkAT_A

Video: Opinion | Mahmoud Khalil Tells His Story The Palestinian activist discusses the Columbia protests, ICE detention and free speech in America.

In case you care about #palestine #gaza #israel #uspolitics #maga #ice and associated hypocrisy, the recent podcast by Ezra Klein with Mahmoud Khalil is a must listen https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010322312/mahmoud-khalil-tells-his-story.html?smid=url-share

“Paramount is installing a censor at CBS News with a direct line to the president.” - Former CBS News anchorman Dan Rather https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/bias-or-just-bs

typical Captcha window with tic box and text: Verify that you're human * I recognize Palestine CEASEFIRE now

Verify that you're human:
#GazaGenocide

Common Crawl estimated 10M googl links impacted, which is probably a good estimate, but I was only able to find 1.3M archived in the Wayback Machine. More detailed analysis:

ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/08/2025...

ABC - NSW Police say 90,000 pro-Palestinian protesters took to the Sydney Harbour Bridge to highlight the humanitarian impacts of the war in Gaza […]

Coming up in a post near you! Fake "jobs numbers" courtesy of TrumpFail, Inc!

I like good summaries.

Maybe now is a good time to just quit LinkedIn and its owner M$FT: “LinkedIn removes hate speech protections for transgender individuals.” https://opentermsarchive.org/en/memos/linkedin-removes-transgender-hate-speech-protections/

This smacks of McCarthyism. VOA journalists have no access to classified information. If hundreds of them are “missing,” then release the list of names. For months, hundreds have been silenced on “paid administrative leave,”forbidden from working, their email accounts and phones deactivated.

@JoeChip Lessons learned? Voters actually like real socialism.

@ben in case anyone needed more hard proof about where this is heading, this should suffice

It just occurred to me how even the term "RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)" is a product of the AI-bullshit-marketing hype machine.

It ought to be "GAR (Generation Augmented Retrieval) since the indispensable part of the operation is the "retrieval", not the "generation"....

But no - […]

Reminder: this presentation is tomorrow (Wednesday), July 16 @ 11am EDT.

@webscidl.bsky.social

The image displays a stock market chart focusing on NASDAQ futures. Important events are indicated with colored circles: a green circle marks a significant sell-off starting at 7:52 PM, a blue circle notes the announcement of tariffs at 8:06

Why is no one in the press asking the Manhattan DA or NY State AG what they are gonna do about this
-- cause we know Trump’s SEC and US DOJ aren’t going to do anything about this,

One thing that has become clear to me is that the United States represents a single point of failure for way too many things around the world. As somebody who has spent many years designing and operating resilient systems, it’s essential that we diversify. A failure in the US (bad leadership […]

Trump and US commerce secretary say tariffs are delayed until 1 August President says team will start reaching out to trade partners with new tariff rates as 90-day pause ends this week

Bribe payments taking longer than expected?

Trump and US commerce secretary say tariffs are delayed until 1 August, sparking confusion. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/06/trump-tariff-delay

@evan @timbray I think we’re in agreement about a core aspect: what’s the value proposition? Usage statistics don’t convince me with that regard. A significant number of people, worldwide, happily devour conspiracy theories after all.

@evan As @timbray asks: What is it for? Dairy and meat provide nutrition. Keeps humans alive. AI (as in LLMs) provides?