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universities themselves didnt have material investment in the success of Wikipedia though

subway etiquette like “letting people off the train first“ or whatever has been totally shredded, car brain on public transportation

very insane to watch this video and then rewatch the matrix, a film in which an evil ai keeps their human biofuel calm by convincing them it’s the peak of civilization, the end of the 20th century

dingled one

experiencing vicarious embarrassment hearing about "dillon dingler" flying out to "c.j. kayfus" on a pitch from "slade ceccconi"

continuing on the subject of not being able to find an ethical streaming replacement to spotify. these people are going to force even the normie's hands eventually.

really excited to post the new Data Curation Network Director position -- DCN has provided me with a wealth of practical advice and moral support ever since i abruptly became a data librarian. it's a great and welcoming org--feel free to message me w qs! hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/370...

when the cat’s away the mouse will spend untold sums on late season stone fruit at the farmers market

President of a women’s college ad 2025

it's honestly so crazy to think about how many tshirts exist, like not tshirt designs or tshirts to purchase just like the total number of tshirts on this earth

america is in mourning for all the trees kawhi didn't plant :'(

simply cannot wait to smash the buy button on this

They want us dead and we want everybody to be able to read books if they want to but yes, tell me more about how “fractured” we are.

crazy how much this man's head looks like a raisin

i would pay $20 to get this taste out of my mouth

pretttty sure i put my iced coffee this am into a ball jar i last used for pickling :(

helping to organize a union is the best thing I’ve ever done in my working life and being in a union/the benefits of organized labor should be available to everyone. happy Labor Day ❤️

not a business but it's shaping up to be a big problem for libraries trying to get books and other foreign language materials from non-US-based publishers and sellers

i wish more people were talking about this, that the endgame of surveillance capitalism turned out to be using all that data to churn out products that are sort of right some of the time and convincing us all to accept that

universities seem to have austerity budgets for everything except $1000 chairs that get placed in spaces w only vaguely defined purposes

They randomly showed up to a tiny nyu student walkout for palestine and chanted so loudly they drowned out the counterprotestors !

for many years "i need to maintain access to nirvana - unplugged at all times for my sanity" was my personal rationale but you know, nirvana unplugged will always be in my heart

there is so much incredibly good free radio on the internet that i just cannot hang with "but i need good generated playlists so i don't have to think about what to listen to" as an excuse to not stop subscribing to music streaming services i'm sorry

engaging in my favorite activity which is arguing about who were the most famous baseball players in the early 90s

image entitled Abraham Lincoln Brigade Spanish War Veterans Collecting Clothing for the Red Army: 1943

collection absolutely rocks and you should check it out even if you can't make it to the event

Exhibition Opening: Bringing the Daily Worker to the World Exhibition Opening: Bringing the Daily Worker to the World: Images from the Daily Worker and the Daily World Negatives Collection. Register at Eventbrite Join NYU Digital Library...

my coworkers digitized the Daily Worker negatives archive and are celebrating their achievement with an exhibit that honors the labor of the student workers who contributed to the project :') nyu.libcal.com/event/14872554

deeply baffling that our society produced and accumulated an unbelievable amount of data and its ultimate purpose has turned out to be fueling a ubiquitous machine that is sort of right some of the time

screenshot of an ask a librarian chat saying "I found it! Thank you! Yay libraries and librarians!"

not to have vocational awe or whatever but sometimes you make someone's day by helping them use a database and it's very nice!!

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data Personally identifiable information has been found in DataComp CommonPool, one of the largest open-source data sets used to train image generation models.

"anything you put online can [be] and probably has been scraped.” www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

the wait wait don't tell me archives chopped and screwed into oblivion/eternity