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AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet – Open Objects Open Objects

Some thoughts from recent talks: 'AI and Machine Learning in Libraries: Promising, But Not Ready Yet' www.openobjects.org.uk/2025/10/ai-a...

The mighty Chief Mountain, Alberta, Canada

A river running through Glacier National Park, Montana

Statue of a Blackfoot rider on a horse, Babb, Montana

Massive iron teepee sculpture from a distance, Babb, Montana

🧵 101/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Stay at Mountain View, Alberta then past Chief Mountain on the way to Glacier National Park in Montana. May, 2025.

Entrance sign at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site. The head that was smashed was that of a native boy who stood below the cliff.

The cliff buffalo were driven over at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Fence and tall grass near Ft. McCloud, Alberta

Buffalo at the edge of a display cliff in the interpretive exhibit at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.

🧵 100/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, near Ft. McCloud, Alberta. A World Heritage Site. May, 2025.

Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.

@michellegoldberg.bsky.social puts a fine point on this “giddy nihilism.”

Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/o...

Why, was there a protest yesterday? Nothing about any protest on the @nytimes.com site right now.

Vienna , Austria

#NoKings Miami!

A few hundred people, 2 frogs and a few bananas at #NoTyrants in Vienna today

#NoKings either

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

This is fantastic. I/we spent a lot of time digitizing much of the Bregel Historical Atlas of Central Asia, and this further distribution and linking of that data is personally fulfilling. So thanks, Tom!

Amphitheater at Butrint, Albania

Stone wall pattern, Butrint. Alternating rows of grey stone and thinner reddish ones.

Bas relief at Lion's Gate, Butrint of a lion devouring a bull.

Morning mist over Gjirokastër from the Stone Sky Hotel terrace. A stuffed toy sheep is perched on a post in the foreground.

Just back from quick 3 day sidetrip to Albania. Butrint and Gjirokastër were highlights. A stark contrast returning to Vienna from Tirana - chaos to ordentlich.

Siri, show me a picture of a pompous sonofabitch

American in Vienna here, so it will have to be the #NoTyrants demo at Karlsplatz for me, 18 Oct 2pm. Several kings in the EU, mostly tamed.

Decorative illustration sign for Manitoba, as a large postage stamp

Landscape painting on the trunk of a truncated tree (all uper branches lopped off.

Circular First Nations artwork of dreamcatcher and handprints at Saamis Teepee in Medicine Hat

Reminder to "SMILE, HAVE FUN" painted on a paving stone. Always a good idea.

🧵 98,99/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

West on the Trans-Canada Highway: Brandon, Manitoba, Swift Current, Saskatchewan and points in between. May 2025.

Steel statue, "The Sawyer" of a lumber mill worker with a giant blade and a giant mustache, Virginia, Minnesota

Beaver pond and forest beyond in Voyageurs National Forest, Minnesota

Welcome sign for Lake Kabetogama, Minnesota featuring a giant walleye - the best known fish species of the area.

Giant fiberglass Smokey the Bear statue, International Falls, Minnesota. Accompanied by a bear cub...helper? offspring? Unknown.

🧵 96,97/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Through Virginia in the Iron Range to Voyageurs Nat'l Park and International Falls, MN, home of the world's largest fiberglass Smokey the Bear. May 2025.

It was my great good fortune that @docuracy.co.uk was ready, willing and more than able to take over from me at @whgazetteer last year (reflected in the github commits). Learned there is now a full, non-beta 3.1 release. The many updates and future plans are listed here: github.com/WorldHistori...

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

Trump, Miller, and now random senators are trying to make the case that participants in #NoKings demonstrations are antifa. They will try very hard to provoke violence to get their true Reichstag equivalent.

The country will be unrecognizable in 2028

Happy Slow Horses day to all who celebrate. 🐎

Also the fact that every third word out of their mouths is insurrection

Smirking is a shared trait of MAGA apparatchiks

450, oh my. Congrats!

So, nicht immer gut. Aber, jetzt gut. You might say.

Hibbing, Minnesota Public Library - home of a Bob Dylan exhibit

Monument outside the Hibbing, MN library honoring Nobel Prize in Literature honoree, native son Bob Dylan

A life-sized Bob Dylan cardboard cutout at the Dylan exhibit in the Hibbing Public Libraru

Small detail of song lyrics on the monument to Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, Hibbing, Minnesota. "May you stay forever young"

🧵 95/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Hibbing, Minnesota. May 2025. Birthplace of Bob Dylan. They are mighty proud of him here.

George Floyd memorial in Minneapolis, Minnesota

The historic Stillwater Lift Bridge, Stillwater, Minnesota

🧵 94/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Minneapolis and Stillwater, Minnesota. May 2025.

Goodnight from the HQ of WOMB – Women Opposing Male Bullshit – in a squat on Vinegar Street, where their fundraising party is so loud it threatens to wake the plague pit dead. Goodnight from Cass Farley, reading fox-scattered bones as a map to tomorrow. Goodnight from Hookland.

I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.