the future is here and it is picking images for news alerts
Margaret Warren
@mmw09.bsky.social
Artist and Archivist. Researcher and Technologist. Creator of ImageSnippets. Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web. Building KG's from Image Descriptions one triple at a time. Curious about many, many domains and the human experts in those domains.
The universe is a glorious, stunningly beautiful place, and it’s offensive & gross when people produce or share fake space imagery. There’s a video floating around on here pretending to be the night sky viewed from Mars. It’s extremely fake, has been polluting the internet for years. Don’t share it
No, This Isn't What the Night Sky Looks Like on Mars
Fake news.
petapixel.com
I am moderating this ASIS&T Webinar March 12th 11 AM with @mmw09.bsky.social . Don't miss it! She will be discussing linked data, image annotation, RDF, Wikidata ontology subclass paths, and much more! Register here: www.asist.org/meetings-eve...
Webinar: ImageSnippets: Experiences with a Linked Data Image Annotation System (SIG-CMR)
In metadata schemas, descriptive information about images is often either condensed into keywords and subject classifications or stored in description fields that, despite being conceptually rich and ...
asist.org
Upcoming ASIS&T SIG-CMR webinar with @mmw09.bsky.social on Thursday, March 12th at 11:00 AM EST. It should be a good one! More information here: www.asist.org/meetings-events/webinars/image-snippets
Webinar: ImageSnippets: Experiences with a Linked Data Image Annotation System (SIG-CMR)
In metadata schemas, descriptive information about images is often either condensed into keywords and subject classifications or stored in description fields that, despite being conceptually rich and ...
asist.org
my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels
The archive has had some issues today, especially random logout. It is being worked on.
Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.
Big Tech’s Dominance Depends on Our Laziness
Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.
bloom.bg
🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨 #CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next. 📆 Fri Nov 21st 🕙 10 AM PT 📍 Online 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-... @AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
New: Dutch & Papiamento translations of Our Future Memory’s “4 Rights.” 🔗 www.internetarchive.eu/2025/10/06/n... Internet Archive Europe has signed. “Universal access to knowledge is a shared responsibility.” — Tony Guepin Sign & share: ourfuturememory.org #GLAM #Libraries #Archives #OpenKnowledge
New Dutch & Papiamento Translations of the “4 Rights” Statement — and a Call to Every Memory Institution to Sign - Internet Archive Europe
We’re pleased to announce that the Our Future Memory “4 Rights” statement has now been translated into Dutch and Papiamento, thanks to the generous work of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba and Maarten Zeinst...
internetarchive.eu
FYI, The videos from each of the sessions from the September 18 #IPTC Photo Metadata Conference are now online. #photometadata #AI #optout #c2pa #digitalimaging iptc.org/events/photo...
Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.
iptc.org
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas." Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩🔬 Image: Harvard Observatory
Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
publichealthpolicyjournal.com
Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
Thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social my eyes are now opened to the many inter dimensional portals which appear whilst dog walking.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · last yr.THREAD. A selection of interdimensional portals I have chanced upon during walks in the British countryside.
Arrived in the living room only to find I was interrupting our cats during the making of their debut French new wave film.
The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903)
The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903)
Once lost, this 8-minute, very damaged, but very delightful silent version of Alice in Wonderland was restored several years ago by the British Film Institute. It is the first film adaptation of the 1...
openculture.com
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text: 🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
Friends, we got a call to action 👇 We have the right to know when and how our creative works are used, especially when it comes to GenAi! This is why we need regulation like California’s Ai Copyright Transparency Act #AB-412 ! If you agree, especially if in CA, please sign & share this petition!
Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW!
Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...
actionnetwork.org
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped Felis when they created their official constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...
We're looking for talented people to help build a better Web for everyone - through open standards, open source technologies and community development. We're looking for two Senior Developers experienced with Semantic Web, Solid and digital identity standards. buff.ly/8glhJA8
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
Image taken from @mmw09.bsky.social's metadata website Image Snippets, from the set of all images which lio:hasArtisticElement dbp:fisheye (meaning taken with a fisheye lens): imagesnippets.com/imgtag/main?... Image snippet with metadata located at: imgsnp.co/erxal
More of this work based on the Lightweight Image Ontology written by @mmw09.bsky.social and @thepathayes.bsky.social, published at: cdn.aaai.org/ocs/1120/112...
