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Everybody holding hammers looking around for nails

Maybe that's a disservice to CEOs. I'm sure they also attend meetings at which no one is eating lunch.

re: companies going all in on AI, I keep thinking about my husband's theory that these CEOs do 2 things at work: write emails & go to lunch. And they think AI will get rid of the emails part of their job.

Notice of Voluntary Dismissal – #48 in OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. v. Anna's Archive (S.D. Ohio, 2:24-cv-00144) – CourtListener.com Notice of Voluntary Dismissal

Congrats to Maria Matienzo. OCLC dropped their suit against her in their ongoing windmill-tilting against Anna's Archive. 🎉

www.courtlistener.com/docket/68157...

the doge teens destroying the general services administration's magnetic tape backups because they think it's like a vhs of aladdin 2: the return of jafar might be the niche thing that kills me

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency: We saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 year old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records

YOU DID WHAT?

Today's unexpected find: extensive footage of Atari's Star Wars cabinet in a 1984 promotional video about an early scientific abstracts database

The crossover event of the year

I willingly surrender on this one! The times, they are indeed a'changin'.

Oh nooooo

(they're right though)

You either die young or you live long enough to see the person who took over a previous position email a listserv to complain about a workflow you passed on to them.

Thank you to the dental hygienist who was shocked that I was old enough to have experienced the painful cardboard dental x-rays of the 80s

We did not account for painting the ceiling dark to stop it reflecting in the glass of our photo table & generally keeping light from bouncing around. Had to go back & do it after the room was set up & the fancy equipment installed.

For fucks sake. THIS is what they update quickly?

Earning our "someone was condescending to me on the Internet" badge

We've been dealing with lots of bot traffic as well, but nothing that seems to be political. Fwiw, my dev colleague suggests asking the code4lib slack

Man it is still too soon

A role model for us all

My dude, you are the experts this is literally why I am posting in this forum

God grant me the strength to not be made angry by men being condescending to me because I had the audacity to ask for help in a video digitization forum while not being an expert in video digitization

Thanks! I hadn't heard of ollas before

Hi all - I thought this letterpress print would be a good place to start on this new platform: A Grounding of Revolutionary Reminders. Keep going. 🌹 Sending you love & solidarity - Nicole #radicalemprints

Here to report that I liked the Gen-Z Romeo + Juliet and now I kind of don't know who I am

The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week The online archive will include over 1,500 magazine issues and other gaming artifacts at launch.

The Video Game History Foundation opens its digital archives to the public next week

Congrats!

Archivist Actions Abolitionist Futures • CLIR Alison Clemens and Jessica Farrell, editors January 2025. 47 pp. (electronic only)CLIR pub 193 PDF download >> Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarcerat...

New collection of short essays: "Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration," edited by Alison Clemens & Jessica Farrell www.clir.org/pubs/reports...

I do! It's not terribly convenient for a permanent hose/irrigation set up (it would have to run under a gate) but that's probably the best option

Have decided that to fight back against The Despair I'm going to try growing herbs & vegetables in my tiny urban backyard (for real this time). If you've got any watering solutions that don't involve me getting eaten by 300 mosquitoes every day, let me know!