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YouTube video by Charlie Berens Manitowoc Minute Special Report: AI questions for policymakers

Wisconsin Data Center fight update, Charlie Berens still has some of the best civic engagement content I've seen in a minute.

Worth the watch and a good 101 on public meeting points challenging data centers anywhere

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I should’ve also mentioned that there’s some real racist shit in there too, but that’s propaganda for you.

The online portal to the records held at the National Archives, and information about those records.

And gobs of them are digitized already! catalog.archives.gov/id/513498

This is a great reminder that the vast number of WWII propaganda posters are government works free of copyright and therefore available to remix!

Young and smoking hot Jack and Roz Kirby #comics

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Worcester.

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I love this so so much. @lenikauffman.bsky.social you’ve truly outdone yourself!

Did I mention that we are a transcription service with a difference?

We are a social enterprise whose mission is to create more disabled-led flexible accessible remote work while also applying our considerable research expertise to helping you get your project into analysis, coding and write up

keep copies on your computer, and preferably also an external hard drive. The idea is that if one things dies, you've got another copy to access.

Another good approach is to save the writing itself in a word/google/whatever document along with the info on when and where it was published.

As for digital files themselves- LoCKSS (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) is the goal. Cloud storage is okay, but you should also at least-

Great question! Printing copies of your online writing isn't the worst idea, to be honest. But you can also do a couple of other things. One, you can make sure the page is captured by the Wayback Machine: go to web.archive.org and you can enter a URL to save under "Save Page Now". Also screenshots.

I love this so so much. @lenikauffman.bsky.social you’ve truly outdone yourself!

Also, even though I wrote this several years ago, I’m still happy to talk with authors who’ve got questions! Info in the post.

Archives Month: Tips for romance authors (and others!) October is always American Archives Month, which is of course when archivists don their colorful costumes and dance in the stacks after assembling their shrine to Henry the Record Keeper, as portra…

It's October, aka American Archives Month, and while it's been a bit warm to don our cardigans, the shrines to Henry from RED are up and it's time to remind romance authors (and authors of all stripes!) about what kinds of things they ought to be preserving. romancehistory.com/2021/10/15/a...

Thanks for sharing, Bev!

They’re just so great! I wrote most of the wiki page for Ruth Belew, who did many of them pre-1951. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_O%...

As beautiful as the Dell cover art was, I’d give a limb to find some of the original map back illustrations for those early Dells! #antiquesroadshow

Update: I’ve been told by my family that I cannot pull this off. No vision!

Highlight my legs while obfuscating my gut? I’m in.

The broad categories to think about are:

1. Creative Process: Anything relating to the creation of your work
2. Promo Stuff: If they'e going to make you DIY promo, document it!
3. Business Papers: A recently VERY relevant topic! Saving any and all financial & contract stuff saves headaches later.

Archives Month: Tips for romance authors (and others!) October is always American Archives Month, which is of course when archivists don their colorful costumes and dance in the stacks after assembling their shrine to Henry the Record Keeper, as portra…

It's October, aka American Archives Month, and while it's been a bit warm to don our cardigans, the shrines to Henry from RED are up and it's time to remind romance authors (and authors of all stripes!) about what kinds of things they ought to be preserving. romancehistory.com/2021/10/15/a...

Black text on a red and black background. It reads "Has your library banned events, displays, talks, or anything else related to banned books week this year? Share your story anonymously." It includes the survey link: https://tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

Has your library banned any displays, events, education, talks, or anything else related to Banned Books Week this year? I want to know about it . . . and emphasize you're not alone.

Please take and share this short, anonymous survey.

tinyurl.com/banning-bbw-25

holy shit this isn't murder, it's a massacre
"Every day is shut the fuck up Friday. Bluesky's entire team, which seems to contain 0 soft skills among the lot of them, has been posting through it. You need to be professional, for god's sake. Sorry. You can't be a mod and a poster at the same time."

So you want to support living marginalized banned authors but your local banned books week displays and events are full of famous dead people?

Not to worry: your helpful non-binary bookseller is here to help!

A thread!

YouTube video by HITC Sevens The Most Expensive World Cup of All Time

I knew tickets were going to be ridiculous for the World Cup, but it’s so much worse than that. NFTs, dynamic pricing, FIFA taking 15% from both buyers and sellers on their resale sites… It’s so bad. youtu.be/vElThKJlTSU?...

Surely Matt Christopher’s books can get the Babysitter’s Club treatment? Anyone?

*own thing

It’s kind of it’s isn’t thing, but for an artist who usually does her own thing musically, this sticks out like a sore thumb.