manu schwendener
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librarian, photographer manuschwendener.ch Bluesky is on https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues
On Saturday, Aug 15, I'm giving a keynote at the Southeast Arizona Bird Festival. There are still a few spots, so sign up and come say hi! Here's a comic with the festival's signature bird, the Vermilion Flycatcher. tucsonbirds.org/festival/fes...
This is your annual reminder that if you inadvertently write on a whiteboard with a Sharpie, you can trace over that with a whiteboard pen and then the whole thing will come off.
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Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · last mo.HEY!!! Do you know that the NYC schools PUBLISH HISTORICAL COMICS - which involve (compensated!!) collabs between historians and comic artists?? And they’re all FREE to download. Take note! We can make cool historical comics without ripping off anyone! sites.google.com/schools.nyc....
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia It's been a year & people tell me they've changed their mind, feel safer now to sign, etc. So I'm sharing it again for them. We're almost at 2k & anybody from anywhere can add their names. openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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
Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/
How to disable or avoid intrusive AI – librarian.net
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I am tired of this crap infecting everything. I've been on Twitch for 10 years and have seen a slow mutation of the Bleed Purple mentality turn into Bleed Creators Dry. Here is the UserVoice opposing this if you'd like to tell Twitch where to stick their AI: twitch.uservoice.com/forums/92338...
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Zach Bussey 🍁@zachbussey.tos.gg · 5d agoTwitch and Amazon are apparently planning to use streams to train Generative AI. Multiple sources tell me it will be announced in the coming months, despite some internal friction against it. Creators may be able to opt out of some training data.
I’ve decided to start doing a monthly newsletter. It’s not going to be huge, just sharing things I’ve found interesting each month, with the main focus being accessibility, of course! If you’re interested you can sign up at the following link: buttondown.com/craigabbott #accessibility #a11y
Monthly Newsletter, by Craig Abbott
One email a month, about interesting accessibility related things I’ve found on the web. Craig speaking at Access:Given conference.
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AI-generated content must be labelled in the EU from Sunday. #GenAI #AIEthics #AISlop www.rte.ie/news/2026/07...
Made by AI? EU tells firms to stick a label on it
Deepfakes and other AI-generated content must be labelled from Sunday, as the European Union's sweeping artificial intelligence transparency rules kick in.
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At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
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www.severe-weather.eu/global-weath...
Europe's Heat Dome Furnace Returns: Brutal 40+ °C Record Heatwave Builds Into August
The Heat Dome is forecast to bring a historic 4th heatwave across Europe, as the peak holiday season emerges over the Mediterranean. Heat Furnace delivers 40+ °C.
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Calling all Wham! fans! Anderson's material relating to this trip and the rough cut film that he produced for the band are true treasures of our Lindsay Anderson Archive - we're delighted to see them getting used! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I thought it didn’t stand a cat’s chance in hell’: Andrew Ridgeley on Wham’s surreal trip to China
Four decades after he and George Michael became the first western pop act to tour the country, Ridgeley recalls silent gigs, awkward embassy receptions – and the ‘bloody ludicrous’ hiring of Lindsay A...
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buttondown.com/perfectsente... this week in sentences: shellacked, currency, orange, warm, ruins, jests, cocaine, tender, DNA, mascara, NO CRYING, voices
