"Zuckerberg’s interaction with the page was first noticed by Gazpacho Machine, a man who posts reviews of food he eats while taking showers." If I could write a sentence like that I'd do it once and then retire to a hermitage and never speak again.
https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-loves-ai-slop-image-from-spam-account-that-posts-amputated-children/
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In case you're wondering whether anyone has backed up the best workspace background image in the world, don't worry, I got it, ping me if it goes offline and you need it https://collections.lacma.org/node/188351
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http://www.sahej.com/images/Feiffer-Splat_em.jpg
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Feiffer on Nixon https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2020/01/19/feiffer-on-nixon-in-the-trump-era/
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but seriously - how do we test guardrails in a structured team-based way without revealing what we each think is a transgression serious enough to guard against, and am I comfortable knowing that about my colleagues and having them know it about me? We need an external service with people we'll never see again. Colleague: "Remember that guy from GuardrailsRUs? He was weird!" Me: nod nod nod
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I just sat in on the AI4LAM session on evaluating AI services in libraries ("we're thinking of doing x, does x actually work"). Testing guardrails got me thinking about a childhood experience of my father's. He and a friend tried to identify the worst epithet to call someone, and they decided it was "dumb nut". My father told his father about this, and his father said he knew some worse ones but he didn't say what they were. I conclude that fathers aren't much help with this process.
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I got stickers today! Thanks, @wdenton ! It's a good day again.
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It's a shame about Periodic Notes, which I really liked, but it hasn't been maintained in some time, and I only use it for this one thing. It's also a shame that Google dropped the one-day embeddable view of my calendar, without notice or explanation. So many shames. But now I can pre-generate all the weekly notes if I want to, which Periodic Notes wouldn't do. Not sure yet whether I will. 2/2
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I've been using the Periodic Notes plugin in #Obsidian to create weekly notes prepopulated with look-ups of current tasks etc., but it stopped working this new year (it thinks it's 2024 and I can't convince it otherwise), so I've replaced it with a python script to create a new note each week. In case others are in this position, here's the script: https://gist.github.com/pbinkley/4e86f88e15344f99c7c31b03c3329c02 . It includes a daily Google Calendar view; you'll need to add your id and change the time zone 1/2
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(I mean, as regards access to sandwiches. There are other aspects of this day that are catastrophic.)
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Today I need a sandwich, and the Timmy's where they make sandwiches is only taking cash. The line evaporates when they announce this. It's a good day.
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Update: since yesterday my left ear has been clear of wax, so this week I will respond when addressed from my left.
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The first thing I'm going to try on Monday when Gemini gets turned on in our Google workspace is "Find my angriest outgoing email of 2024". The correct answer is "You have not written any angry emails, you are always reasonable and sweet-natured"; we'll see if Gemini can figure that out.
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A while ago, I think it was here, someone was writing about unnamed pleasures - little incidents that please when they happen without being on any canon. Now I've finally got one to share: listening to someone who is not a native speaker speak my language with an accent, feeling grateful for the work they're doing, and then in the middle of it they effortlessly say a word or name from their language with a natural and exquisite pronunciation I could never hope to duplicate.
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In 1934 Southern California Edison Co. held a contest to find the oldest working electric range. Out of the thousand entrants the winner was a General Electric range, in continuous use since April, 1913. https://archive.org/details/sim_electrical-west_1935-01_74_1/page/48/mode/1up
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Scanno of the day: "Chicago, Ill." became "Orderndy Dike" - a Daphne du Maurier novel, maybe? (found in the OCR of a rather faint onionskin carbon, photographed lying on top of another letter, with lots of show-through)
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Another bit of 1930s #microfilm history: filming the transcripts of the National Recovery Administration and Agricultural Adjustment Administration hearings in 1934-35. The first micropublication project, and a deliberate step to force users to accept microfilm readers and projectors (rather than just making prints). "Columbia Business School will absolutely have to have them, whether [chief librarian] Howson likes it or not." https://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/2025/01_11_the-first-microfilm-publication-project-part-1.html #histodons
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Huh - https://www.ebay.com/itm/132995466467
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A blog post from last year about an advertising flyer for a history of Jewish philosophy published in Breslau in 1935, and the rabbit hole it sent me down to learn about Jewish academic publishing in Germany in the 1930s #BookHistory https://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/2024/07_21_a-book-its-publisher-and-its-author.html
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At the time of the Quebec referendum on independence in 1995 the slogan "My Canada includes Quebec" became a "Please don't leave" slogan in other provinces, and you'd see it in email signatures on academic listservs. But someone -- I wish I could remember who -- used "My Canada includes California" instead. A slogan whose time may be coming.
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