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@kcoyle.bsky.social

metadata nerd, librarian, not very social
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This is so close to various early depictions of book cabinets, including this one from the Mausoleum of Galla Placida ~450 a.d.
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Possible sabotage from the headline writers' union at the NY Times?
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It makes sense, and is undoubtedly a best practice, but I didn’t expect to see it on Google Maps.
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And it just spit these out. It's almost like we'll have to give up on humor and satire to keep AI from vomiting them up as truth. I do not understand why people don't see how limited this technology is. It's not "garbage in/garbage out" but "ideas in/garbage out".
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One of Trump's posse at the trial today wore a tie with the picture of Trump hugging the flag.
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This is a photo accompanying the interview of this climate scientist. I don't understand the comfort we have with seeing female skin (think all of those republican women in bare-armed dresses), and how shocking this would be if it were a man.
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Oh, good idea to have one eye uncovered for better navigation, says dewey636.7* * decimal for "dog"
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local sentiment The one that gets me is the "paleo" diet, and then finding them eating potatoes because "root vegetables" and they are about 14,000 years and a few continents off.
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Walk with god, on a gas tank door. God walks with fossil fuel.
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I've blogged again - this time about words. "...the use of whitespace in writing has its purposes but does not define meaning." kcoyle.blogspot.com/2023/10/word...
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Xitter (pronounced shitter) - whole screens of comments of this nature. It's bot-a-riffic there. I didn't stay long enough to figure out why some posts get this response and others look "normal" but many emoji-only comments with no relation to post, from various accounts
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Here's most of what I get for Ian Rankin. So many that they didn't all fit on one screen. @ianrankin1.bsky.social What I really want to know is whether there was a method in choosing the books,or if it was "whatever we can grab on a pirate site". If a method, what was it?
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Throw blanket, duvet, and bunny pillow.
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What I find when cleaning out a filing cabinet: the New York Times used to have 6-8 pages of stock market figures. This is from 1996
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