Kendra K. Levine

What’s a good 26” wheel bike for a tween who will be bike commuting in all weather?

I would put one in my collection but don’t want to deal with paying for it.

New meta-analysis of 26 published studies concludes that AVs will lead people to use cars a lot more — which would thicken congestion and worsen pollution (even if AVs are electric).

"AV deployment is anticipated to lead to an overall increase in Vehicle Miles Traveled."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

They would kill me.

And when I say they were attacking the truck, the turkeys were pecking at the tires and bumpers.

The big one turned and gave me a very menacing look, as if it was saying, "You're next."

I’ve been told developers like traffic.

I owe the @berkeleyca.gov worker who got out of their truck to try to get some wild turkeys (who were attacking the truck) to move out of the street. They distracted the turkeys enough that I was able to ride by without the turkeys turning on me.

(They’re fine and we laughed about it up the road.)

I am into the idea if starting fresh. I am realizing it’s not always great to hold on to the old ways.

I've been on wordpress for almost 20 years, but I also think it's kind of a mess. Is my old blog worth saving?

I won't mess with that platform.

I'm tempted to move to Ghost for a fresh start.

I don't want a following but I also want to remember that people might actually be reading it because I tend to go a little wild when I think I'm shouting into the void.

Holding the Line: Professional ethics, procedures, praxis I’ve been thinking a lot about the impossible task of trying to hold decaying institutions together while a fascist coup burns through all of our structures. We have to try to preserve and pe…

This is my last blog post - libraryattack.com/holding-the-...

WHAT A YEAR IT'S BEEN!

Should I get back into blogging or is it all newsletters now?

I’m going to try that out for the tournament!

Who knew the thing that would finally get me to learn python would be youth baseball.

oh thanks for the tip on that!

ChatGPT has a hard time counting to 12.

Gemini doesn't seem to understand what "each team must play every other team twice" means.

Claude is inserting random games into the schedule.

My adventures in using LLMs to create a baseball schedule continue to frustrate and remind me of the limitation of these tools.

Also when people complain (WHICH THEY ARE), I blame the stochastic parrots.

The one thing GenAI should be good at - making little league schedules - is such a pain in the butt. Neither ChatGPT nor Claude actually used the parameters I fed it. Apparently "no double headers" was too tricky.

Started listening to this on my ride to work. @jjvincent.bsky.social said that humanoid robots are an avatar for capital, which put the push for them into perspective.

I immediately thought about how society treats cars (and I guess all property) as avatars of capital.

The Guardians continue to confuse me.

One of the annoying things about coaching is that I can’t do anything during the games besides make sure kids are where they’re supposed to be.

I have a long day of youth baseball ahead of me but all I really want to do is lay around and read City of Quartz.

Maybe it’s because I grew up a Giants fan in the early 90s, but misery is a crucial component of fandom.

Mike Davis on Fellow Legendary California Historian Kevin Starr Historian Mike Davis was appalled by the horrors California had inflicted on itself, while Kevin Starr was awed by the Golden State's spirit of optimism. In this interview right before his death, Davi...

Mike Davis said that “the real vocation of a librarian” is someone who is “a fighter for the public sphere and believed in public works” and sees “the capacity of the public sphere for doing good.”

jacobin.com/2023/11/mike...

Embedding Atlas Interactive visualizations for large-scale embeddings. Effortlessly explore, filter, and search through rich metadata.

The more I think about LLMs, the more I think it's important for students to know how word embeddings work. I wonder if there's a way to use something like this to get (non-CS) students thinking about what embeddings represent. apple.github.io/embedding-at...

I am right now! Joined to vote for @edrabinski.bsky.social

Should I renew my ALA membership? 🤔

The Albatross would have been perfect! Or Lanesplitter.