Margaret Warren

Would very much like to connect with you about this work and your ideas which are very much in sync with that of myself and a team of colleagues who are working on similar projects. We work on preserving this kind of 'common historical knowledge' into structured data/knowledge graphs.

The archive has had some issues today, especially random logout. It is being worked on.

Big Tech’s Dominance Depends on Our Laziness Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.

Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.

Cover for the book “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, featuring a poop emoji with symbols representing expletives. Text reads “Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”

🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.

📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
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Salvador Present for a few years - a face, erupted out of the car fender until time eventually wore it away.

Love this! And this lovely face emerging from peeling paint and rust was always a great listener: imgsnp.co/wcwjy

What Machines Don't Know Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

Fantastic essays. Lately, I have been extremely interested though in the value of using the machine look up tables for building domain models/ontologies. It would seem a process like constructing ontologies would benefit by being a little more like these slotted/shifting mazes somehow.

New Dutch & Papiamento Translations of the “4 Rights” Statement — and a Call to Every Memory Institution to Sign - Internet Archive Europe We’re pleased to announce that the Our Future Memory “4 Rights” statement has now been translated into Dutch and Papiamento, thanks to the generous work of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba and Maarten Zeinst...

New: Dutch & Papiamento translations of Our Future Memory’s “4 Rights.”
🔗 www.internetarchive.eu/2025/10/06/n...
Internet Archive Europe has signed. “Universal access to knowledge is a shared responsibility.” — Tony Guepin
Sign & share: ourfuturememory.org
#GLAM #Libraries #Archives #OpenKnowledge

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Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.

FYI, The videos from each of the sessions from the September 18 #IPTC Photo Metadata Conference are now online. #photometadata #AI #optout #c2pa #digitalimaging

iptc.org/events/photo...

A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She is sitting at her desk and looking up at the camera, which is in front of her and to her left. Payne-Gaposchkin is wearing a baggy, ribbed sweater and has a wristwatch on her right arm. A pair of glasses rests on the desk in front of her, next to open books and papers which are just visible at the bottom of the photogaph. Filing cabinets, drawers, and another desk are visible in the background. She has short, dark hair which is no longer than chin-length, pulled out of her face behind her left ear.

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Harvard Observatory

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well.

publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

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Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

Thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social my eyes are now opened to the many inter dimensional portals which appear whilst dog walking.

My cats Jim, Charles and Roscoe

Jim and Roscoe trying to patch things up, in the aftermath of a failed attempt at polyamorous relationships.

Roscoe and Charles, considering the ultimate futility of all feline endeavours.

Arrived in the living room only to find I was interrupting our cats during the making of their debut French new wave film.

And on my birthday, too!

Forgot to add that we use Lucene for text search and the syntax does handle boolean, but most of our searches are much more effective as semantic searches.

We have an interesting search in ImageSnippets. It isn't vector based. You can do plain text searches which is combined with a semantic search.

The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903) Once lost, this 8-minute, very damaged, but very delightful silent version of Alice in Wonderland was restored several years ago by the British Film Institute. It is the first film adaptation of the 1...

The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903)

Glad to hear that sad Pompeiian skeleton is/was living its best life

New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:

🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW! Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...

Friends, we got a call to action 👇

We have the right to know when and how our creative works are used, especially when it comes to GenAi!

This is why we need regulation like California’s Ai Copyright Transparency Act #AB-412 !

If you agree, especially if in CA, please sign & share this petition!

Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.

Old timey star chart illustration of a shorthaired ginger and white cat floating amongst overlapping grids and little black stars. The word "Felis" is written underneath.

Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped Felis when they created their official constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...

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So exciting. I have a better link for the ontology also. And see the Visual Guide to the Ontology: imagesnippets.com/ArtSpeak/hel...

maybe there's still some good left in this world after all

Image taken from @mmw09.bsky.social's metadata website Image Snippets, from the set of all images which lio:hasArtisticElement dbp:fisheye (meaning taken with a fisheye lens):
imagesnippets.com/imgtag/main?...
Image snippet with metadata located at: imgsnp.co/erxal