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Librarian by profession. Curious by nature. Wish I were walking in the woods right now. Blog: sameaimee.com

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sameaimee@sameaimee.com · 4d ago

My mom made me jealous by seeing this in a theater last month, but it's finally streaming. It was illuminating to hear other poets discuss the work, since Oliver's type of popularity is typically repellent to academic/critical attention. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World | American Masters | PBS

Celebrate the work of writer Mary Oliver, who published more than 30 collections of poetry and essays on nature, beauty, and love.

pbs.org

Dorothy, a publishing project@dorothyproject.bsky.social · 6d ago

Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . .

The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · last wk.

They didn't want to live in a retirement home. So these women started their own housing collective in Montreal. Maison des RebElles is a chosen family of 22 women – mostly gay, some allies – that's been flourishing for more than 30 years. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

At a Montreal housing collective, women live intentionally and age joyously

The Maison des RebElles is a flourishing chosen family for lesbians and allies

theglobeandmail.com

Chance the Lawyer@chancethelawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Anna Holmes@annabookwriter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hey, guys, when the librarians get pissed about the destruction of books, it’s time to put those listening ears on. Because we are very comfortable with the idea that books are tools that can be retired. What’s happening right now is not that.

Rusty Lake 🚣 Servant of the Lake out now!@rustylake.com · 3w ago

🐴 Servant of the Lake is OUT NOW on mobile and PC! 🧹 Board the carriage for a 3-day weekend at the mysterious Vanderboom estate! Once there, you are to begin your new job as a Servant of the Lake. Solve puzzles, serve the family and uncover their dark alchemical secrets! 🧪✨

Nisi Shawl@nisishawl.bsky.social · 3w ago

I'm up here with the heavy hitters! The 2025 Endeavour Award finalists are: The Antidote by Karen Russell Blind Date with a Werewolf by Patricia Briggs Hole in the Sky by Daniel H. Wilson Making Amends by Nisi Shawl (Aqueduct Press) When We Were Rea, by Daryl Gregory

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 3w ago

“She forged a trailblazing career… In the early 2000s, she was credited as the first researcher to show definitively that the human papillomavirus, or HPV — the most common sexually transmitted infection — caused so-called oropharyngeal cancers of the throat, tonsils and base of the tongues”

Dr. Maura L. Gillison, Who Linked Throat Cancers to HPV, Dies at 61

She challenged the conventional view that a majority of head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.

nytimes.com

Milk Burger@milkpork.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don’t know who needs to hear this… but all those art supplies sitting unused in your totes? They’re made to be used. Fuck them up. Get them dirty. Use the markers til the ink is dry. Use all the super glue. Paint til your paint is gone. MAKE. ART. The world needs it now more than ever. #art

vortex_egg@vortexegg.com · 4w ago

For me, LLMs are clearly powerful machines, but everything about their construction and deployment in society by the people constructing them appears oriented around achieving a political project that deeply conflicts with my values or a vision of a future I want to live in and dont have a choice in

HR @ Weyland-Yutani@professormusgrave.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is what is driving me nuts. So many posters around here keep haw-hawing about R’s in strawberry and clearly have NO idea that these are extremely powerful machines *already* that we have not yet figured out how to utilize fully. If we stopped development today, they’d still be astonishing

jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · last mo.

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

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.