I learned a lot of valuable things during my 15ish years in Boston: how to parallel park, how to curse with enthusiasm, the difference between being nice and being kind, and how to properly go through a roundabout. (AKA rotaries for my fellow Massholes.)

Overheard today: “I wish my job wasn’t part of the load bearing scam propping up the economy.”

Muppets Kermit & Fozzie Shrug

Alt: Muppets Kermit & Fozzie Shrug

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Spending my mid-ride snack break watching some dingus in Carlsbad. Park/repark/move his FOUR oversized vehicles from his driveway to the street to his garage. What a waste.

Neighbors have been hosting a party since 2 this afternoon. And blasting music since 4. Two different bands, and a dj for the past several hours. I know it’s not late for most people but I’m officially over it.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

It’s really starting to grind me down

you only need to read a tiny bit of the history of industrialization and the impoverishment of workers in early 19c England to feel embarrassment for anyone who uses “Luddite” to describe their disenchantment with a smartwatch or whatever

You know you live in a bougie neighborhood when the kids selling lemonade are pricing it at $5 a cup and ONLY take Venmo. #NoThanks

The moon tonight!!🤩

A scams-based economy is not one that will last. patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Impossible to put into words how useless Gmail search is. No wait, these guys did it!

Hiring a new full-time colleague in the School of Library and Information Science in Iowa. Particularly well-suited (but not limited) to special collections librarians or academic library instruction librarians who want to switch to full-time teaching. 📜 jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view...

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

The posting for Director of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine is finally live! This role is two steps above me at Countway (one step for the last 18 months and continuing as my manager is interim), so I have a vested interest in who takes on this role. careers.harvard.edu/job/director...

Director of the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine

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My campus is hiring for a Scholarly Communication Coordinator. This person will help me with the IR, research data management, and accessibility formatting for all materials going into the repositories. Must be a CA resident. careersmanager.pageuppeople.com/873/sm/en-us...

Calling all of our podcasting institute alum! If you took the National Humanities Center pod institute (2019-2024) and then went on to create a show, let me know! I'd love to highlight the great things you did after spending a week in our learning community library.sdsu.edu/digital-huma...

By popular demand, I have turned my 'if i am dead, look here' list into a fillable template: (Almost) everything someone wrapping up your estate needs to know about finances, how to access your accounts, and other fun things. www.realsesmith.com/the-list

AI has really paved the way for the erosion of consent and the use of other people’s images that these panopticon glasses require as a cultural base line. I do think there’s a powerful connection between people becoming acculturated to AI products || accepting that spy glasses are the new normal.

The ACLU has put together a know your rights guide for people within 100 miles of a border. If you are in that swath of land, please take a look at this and learn your actual rights. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

Know Your Rights | 100 Mile Border Zone | ACLU

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects people from random and arbitrary stops and searches. Although the federal government claims the power to conduct certain kinds of warrantless sto...

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Roads were a little wet, but I got out before the heat of the day came on. Fun ride and I even made friends with a chatty little buddy in Carlsbad.

Pretty sure I just saw a time traveler from the 90s on my ride this morning. He was riding a mountain bike, wearing wide leg knee-length cargo jorts, and jamming up a hill. No shirt either. #BikeSky

Ah, yes. Rain. Of course it is! Maybe I will go back to bed.

Instead of fighting with my brain to go back to sleep, I’ve decided to get out for a very early ride. Now all I need is for the sun to come up!

So much for SDCC’s anti-AI policies — I’ve been complaining to show management about this booth for three days.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some meant to but wind up in gorilla masks instead. Thank you to Joyce Kozloff and all the other Guerrilla Girls, whether or not you ever come forward. What you did was so, so important.

Founding member of Guerrilla Girls reveals her identity

One of the founding members of feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls has revealed herself to be American painter and sculptor Joyce Kozloff.

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Lots in here to chew over - but I think this point is unquestionably true. We cannot have those charged with building an ethical/metaphysical framework around the new technology and this moment in human history co-opted by the companies making the product.

Toby Nangle@tobyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

A machine for making us lonelier and stupider seems a little harsh, but then again www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

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Weird Al and Dolly Parton are different aspects of the same ethos. Both are prolific, great, genre-defining musicians iconic for intentionally playful, exaggerated personas but universally loved for their authenticity (& kindness). All while working for decades AND maintaining a sense of privacy.

Hey drivers who think you're being benevolent towards cyclists: It is totally possible to say "I drive carefully around cyclists; they have a right to use the road & do not deserve to die" without following it up by slagging them off. You can do it. I believe in you, champ. 💖

It’s been ages since I’ve watched the complete series of films, so tonight seems like the perfect time to start a Lord of the Rings rewatch.