Posts by phette23@digipres.club
(DIR) Post #B27KOrZb3oLYuEguhc by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-09T18:48:48Z
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Local barista, muttering, "I swear the hardest part of this job is reading people's handwriting", then shouts "PROBABLY ALEX"
(DIR) Post #B2He5My2ZKYP96hpGi by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-14T18:16:29Z
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My college (California College of the Arts) is going to close, ending operations in June 2027 after we teach out as many students as we can. Vanderbilt will take over the campus and open a location in San Francisco.It'll be my twelve year anniversary at this job this summer. The best coworkers, students, and faculty you could ask for.
(DIR) Post #B2KCG1oXLGdXU1R0Jk by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-15T23:48:48Z
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The For Carnation / self-titledThis is a truly excellent obscure album, by one of the members of Slint. Slow, haunting songs with an indelible atmosphere. #music
(DIR) Post #B2a6JVWNa0511l7u7M by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-23T15:57:32Z
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Form to report library vendors who include AI-generated materials: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_80WBbcwpjIEFEkm?[ via AUTOCAT listserv ]
(DIR) Post #B2affJnLM6IXQQCH68 by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-23T22:33:43Z
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JORPNET is excited to announce we are switching to Casturbium for our SSO DRM LMNOP solution. This strategic move is set to bring inestimable benefits to our customers, clients, shareholders, employees, contractors, precarious labor, executives, indentured servants, board members, disgruntled peons, sycophantic sinecures, and their friends and family. We are excited to be included in the Casturbium community.
(DIR) Post #B2afjJT2VzPjZGbYsi by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-23T22:34:26Z
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This will appear under next year's "accomplishments" in the DEIB section.
(DIR) Post #B2kTfxZxtpJkGHckgy by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-28T16:06:24Z
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@edbilodeau I've been thinking about this, it's kind of shocking there are still old school spam emails with misspellings in them.AI has *definitely* lead to a boom in phishing. We see so many more attacks, of an increasingly convincing quality, than we used to.
(DIR) Post #B2lBRtijqPrMDvpgGW by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-29T00:16:16Z
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AI is very good at simulacra, valid looking bullshit. If your job is bullshit, AI is a godsend, enabling you to bullshit at previously unheard of speeds. It's great at emails and verbose documents no one reads.It rarely helps with other jobs. Minor productivity gains, maybe, at a cost that the purveyors seem averse to disclosing. This is an oversimplification to some extent, but it's largely true.https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/workers-ai-useless-bosses-miracle
(DIR) Post #B2lBbdGxquWs6hU1pY by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-29T00:18:43Z
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Would love to see a business model that replaces the entire C suite with AI but retains frontline workers. This is "saving money on labor" btw. Hire me as a consultant Silicon Valley and I promise you we can make millions.
(DIR) Post #B2lDZyzuJCLyoZqWRc by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-28T19:04:59Z
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Been reading latest Nobel Prize for Literature winner László Krasznahorkai lately—The Melancholy of Resistance now, third book of his I've read—and enjoying his bleak, muddy outlook. I will probably go through his whole oeuvre, & I'm looking forward to "War and War".I will say, his style of no paragraph breaks is not my favorite. Yes, you feel immersed in a sea of words. But you lose the outstated impact of a long paragraph every now & then, as in Proust and Faulkner.
(DIR) Post #B2lDuqYKtvAghmtm7c by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-28T18:59:42Z
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AI recommendation feature: burns a small forest to tell me if I'm looking at a biography of James Joyce I may be interested in little known work "Dubliners". Gee thanks.
(DIR) Post #B2pBdkLFJm6HF7Kl4S by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-30T22:37:54Z
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There are those days where you write literally one line of code (in PHP even) but it was thoroughly researched, you understand the reasoning, and it solved a major and until then mysterious problem. Feels like a resounding victory.
(DIR) Post #B2pi3YSTJtm0Rv41GC by phette23@digipres.club
2026-01-31T04:41:08Z
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Sanford Berman still spitting straight fire at the age of 92 https://lowereastsidelibrarian.info/interviews/sandy-2025
(DIR) Post #B2rVX6trR2OGZvYcsq by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-01T01:30:00Z
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Very nice deep dive into the Internet Archive https://hackernoon.com/the-long-now-of-the-web-inside-the-internet-archives-fight-against-forgetting
(DIR) Post #B2v3f16YqRxKpzJrWK by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-02T18:36:44Z
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Latest NDSA Climate Watch report is out covering the end of last year https://ndsaclimatewatch.substack.com/p/october-to-december-2025We put a lot of work into these, hope they're helpful to folks.
(DIR) Post #B2vzP1j2Z3U3TEOiGm by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-03T05:23:45Z
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@susankayequinn this has been a paradigm in philosophy for a long time, "process philosophy", I assume the shared name is not accidental. Whitehead is usually cited as the prime example, though it certainly goes back to Heraclitus' "can't step in the same river twice".
(DIR) Post #B2xbyTY76CVfJeZpUe by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-04T00:10:42Z
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I recently discovered that I (accidentally?) reviewed the location 0° latitude 0° longitude on Google Maps. I gave it 5 stars. Great spot in the ocean.
(DIR) Post #B2yxylcqHg8lWoIDZ2 by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-04T15:51:58Z
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My wife keeps calling Blade Runner "Chinatown". "You know, Chinatown, that Harrison Ford movie." I am trying to explain that Chinatown is an entirely different movie and that this is very confusing.
(DIR) Post #B31QnAYN3y5aLuwXSa by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-05T20:24:15Z
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Standing desk of joy and whimsy
(DIR) Post #B31Qq1VJAHoF9fs5lA by phette23@digipres.club
2026-02-05T20:24:46Z
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full size for full effect, the cropped video cuts out the lights which was the whole point