Nelson Rare Books
@nelsonrarebooks.com
Bookseller of uncommon 18-19th c. British lit, street lit, and Gothic Revival. Dreaming of illuminated manuscripts. Dirtbag medievalist. Wears Crocs with tweed. Always intentionally unhinged. You post, I reply. Never legal advice. Member ABAA/ILAB/PBFA
I had my AI study everything ever published about DaVinci as well as trained the AI on DaVinci's works. This Friday, at 2pm Eastern, I will unveil Mona Lisa 2.0!!! A better, more beautiful, and more nuanced version than the original!!!
Forty years ago, in 1986, NYC suffered over 1,600 homicides. Homicides would peak at over 2,200 a few years later. There were 305 in 2025.
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
What do people that install fences call themselves, fencists, fencers, ?
How did Phish not get in the Rock Hall of Fame?! They’ve literally monopolized an entire genre for 30 years.
Are we calling him AES like we call her @aoc.bsky.social?
Holy 💩! Will the Secretary of Defense n Taco be help responsible for killing US civilians?
Influencer is just a polite way of saying advertorialist with an ego.
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
Am I just an AI-agent babysitter? How many years/weeks until AI babysits itself?
Book bud Tim quoted in the Guardian! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘More than just objects’: Australian booksellers raise alarm over ‘horrific’ destruction of rare titles to feed AI
Secondhand booksellers believe they may have been caught up in the AI supply chain that sees old books scanned then destroyed
theguardian.com
Everyone ask their AI chatbots to use the latest models to hack Iranian infrastructure? (Also, what is the legality of a civilian trying to hack a hostile government?)
Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2d agoHave Donald Trump run their country for a couple of years
The thing you have to understand is that Joe Biden was very old and inflation was nearly 3% and Kamala Harris simply would not provide enough policy details during tarmac Q&A sessions.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d agoProbably would've been nice to know this before the 2024 election, but sure
Reason number 19,208,138 we love librarians:
Lisa Rabey@pookiebear.net · 2d agoOK. Since I'm a librarian and I must ORGANIZE ALL THE THINGS, I took all the titles mentioned by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, and the Library Freedom Project and put them in a single list on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/wishlists/53.... (I did not coin "data politics," Tressie did.)
So what OpenAI and Anthropic are effectively telling us is that we can use AI to hack without consequences?!?!
We didn’t ask you to release a diary. We demanded you release the Epstein files. We even passed a law.
One effective way to resist late-stage capitalism is to develop strongly-held values and act accordingly.
We need to hear Joel Osteen’s opinion!!!!
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoDying. It continues. SUSAN ORLEAN
I need to upgrade my summering. It’s getting too crowded in my Hamptons 5 bedroom :(
They arrested people and tried to ruin their lives to cover up their own corruption and incompetence. They put up fencing and put National Guard to prevent vandalism that wasn't happening. It's a scandal and that's how it should be reported and dealt with.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
