Dylan Lewis
@iamdylanlewis.bsky.social
¶rare book librarian & bibliographer ¶historian of print and media ¶video games and cinema ¶he/him 🏳️🌈 📍Atlanta (by way of Dallas, Munich, and DC)
So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about 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
My birthday is tomorrow but I’m going to be out of the office (again). Despite most of my colleagues being at a conference this week, my work bestie rounded up the few of us who are here and threw me a surprise birthday party 🥰🥹
In a mix of vacations, conferences, workshops, work travel, and holidays I haven’t been at my office desk for a 5-day work week since May and I am legitimately craving stability and routine
The "They're throwing away books!!!" panic is so boring and tired and irritating to me, but since this one is making people hate AI more I'll let it slide
Came down from the high of rare book school very quickly today on my first day back at work after having to spend the entire day off-site with one of the most unpleasant donors I’ve ever met 🫠😭 never thought I would miss my office…
I miss all of the chirping and buzzing and beeping and ticking and bbzzztt-ing of pre-2000’s technology
being a billionaire and on the internet all day is crazy to me. if i had even five million dollars, you would not find me online whatsoever.
Being queer means being the target of violence. Every queer person knows this. It's deeply engraved in who we are. We live with it every day of our lives. Not because of terrorism but because it is structurally enshrined in our "free" societies. Violence against queer people is not an exception ...
It would be so cool if I could curse people. I have a list!
Aztec calendar from The Florentine Codex, 16th c. Image of calculations for the Aztec calendar from the Digital Edition of the Florentine Codex. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florent...
The pulp novels with over 110 reprints can’t hurt you, the pulp novels with over 110 reprints can’t hurt you, the pul—
D&D has released an official statblock for Jimothy
gonna popularize the phrase "Gen AI sais quoi" for when you see that uncanny AI slop vibe (derogatory) in something but it's missing some of the usual verifiable telltale signs of being AI
5th straight year at Rare Book School— how did I get so lucky? 🤓 Always a great time in CVille with talented, curious, and generous colleagues
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
One of my favorite things about reading is its ability to transport me far beyond my immediate surroundings. It introduces me to new information, concepts, and kinds of people. Be it a novel, non fiction, short stories, articles, etc.
Taco Bell being ground zero for the diarrhea parasite is both hilarious and completely expected, logical, etc
This is amazing-- a page of Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs or gomgwejui'gasit, with their meanings in Mi'kmaq and some in English; these were written by a Naskapi-Innu man named Gabriel in the 1790s.
With two of my best friends of 20+ years and they’re having a baby and I get to be Uncle Dylan!
I always love the visual contrast of texts that use Latin/English/French/Italian and German/Dutch and therefore have to figure out how the typographic identities are going to be negotiated spatially and aesthetically. This printer drew a typographical line in the sand.
Having now stayed in both Vicksburg and Jackson, I can tell you that I’m not a fan, at all, of Mississippi!
