@k8bowers.bsky.social
Archivist at Harvard, librarian, contributing editor (Dictionary of Archives Terminology), Oxford comma enthusiast, grumpable knowmudgeon #archives #records #metadata #saawords #cataloging #bornDigital Mount Holyoke ‘86 she/her
somewhere between "libraries are not neutral" and "libraries are typically small and fragile organizations that need to pick their battles extremely carefully" lies the truth
To be fair, when I was cataloging legal books, the fact that they were translations was frequently missed, likely in pre-publication cataloging.
Yikes! Is “abs-fucking-lutely none of your business to track this level of detail” an option?
If a library cataloged it, it Should be easy to find.
“Bots” not “thoughts” … it‘s early here!
There are intellectual property (copyright) reason reasons for doing this as well as every other kind of potential access restriction. But indeed, it would also prevent thoughts from scraping.
Personal best!
🙂 Daily Quordle 1507
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Fuck the fuckin‘ fuck off.
No surprises, but I’m still so fucking disappointed.
Even Warren and Markey?
I know! I wanted to do that to go to Chicago in 2024. But $$$.
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I told you so.
*I* told you so.
I *told* you so!
I told *you* so!!
I told you *so*!!!
I TOLD YOU SO!!!!
My pedantic self cannot stomach the adverbial name, so I’ve never even tried grammar🤮
Any website that ends in…
…ify
…ly
I just can’t.
When I was in school, I would read about how great & powerful civilizations would fall
Never made much sense to me, but here it is happening to us, the US, before our eyes, and it makes perfect sense
to paraphrase, Against stupidity and the desire for quarterly profits, good men contend in vain
How does an InkJet Printer stack up against Vincent van Gogh? Take our quiz.
As we have long suspected, the NYT is committed to not understanding anything about writing’s critical connection to human agency.
Or perhaps should I say, “Commitments were made to misunderstand the point of cognition and communication (leaving hundreds dead)”
If Trump is convinced he wins all wars regardless of the actual outcome, maybe he could simply declare he’s won before he starts them, and skip all the bloodshed.
What I hate most is the ahistorical crapola. “Modernity” brought bespoke shit? Dude—everything used to be custom-made. Modernity brought “putty” as the most common color for office furniture. If someone spends 8 hours a day in a griege cubicle, let them have a mint chocolate frapp-o-fuckin-ccino!
🙂 Daily Quordle 1505
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In fairness, it's easier to like a war when you're not the ones paying for it.
“Go ham”? Is that a Chicagoland colloquialism?
We can stop this madman if enough of us say "enough"...
The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...
"How will you pay for it?"
The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...
"How much do you need?"
It doesn't have to be this way.
When you hear them target any vulnerable community—immigrants, trans people, refugees—ask first why they're trying to distract and divide us. Don't fall for it.
I laughed out loud when Ancestry once told me that “Adam“ had a twin named “Adan.” And I squinted and thought—they’ve got to be using AI! A transcription error became a whole second person!
Nepotism has made Iran weak.
by Jared Kushner and RFK Jr.
I got the intrusive “You’re now using Gemini on your iOS device” email.
Oh, hell, no!
So… I deleted the Google app from my phone. I turned off AI in gmail on the web. Do I have to delete gmail and chrome apps from my phone, too? Anyone know?
#help #cancelAI #disableAI