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Skora, Will

@skora.bsky.social

Hi. web dev at your local public library. learning about the space around me; web dev, maps, geospatial, cleveland. You may know me from other places on the internet. (website: https://skorasaur.us) he/him

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Emily@librarymet.bsky.social · 2d ago

If you are an anti-AI author, I am begging you to go to your local library’s board meeting and plead with them to not incorporate AI in their day-to-day operations. Because it’s happening and it’s gonna hurt staff, it’s gonna hurt the public, it’s gonna hurt every creative person it steals from.

max@bluebookvalue.bsky.social · 2w ago

traffic cameras are good but if advocates won’t engage with the notion that there are select groups who have used their proximity to power (cops and families of cops) to avoid being subjected to them the same standard as everyone else, they won’t get what they expect out of the solution

Heather Froehlich@heatherfro.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Research databases are not preserved. There is no system in place in the UK (or anywhere else, so far as I know) to ensure that research outputs are officially preserved in perpetuity, as though they were books, when they are in the form of a database. " lukemckernan.com/2026/06/28/l...

Lost resources

To lose one database is a misfortune; to lose four feels like a conspiracy. Recently three online databases and one audiovisual digital archive with underlying database, on each of which I worked f…

lukemckernan.com

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 2w ago

(people would pay $10 more for a frying pan but they can't tell if the +$10 pan is really $10 better so they don't and companies stop producing them)

Mark Ungrin@mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 2w ago

People want quality - what's missing is trustworthiness. It's just not rational to pay the premium for quality when the risk of not getting it is so high. Deregulation, regulatory capture, turnover etc have created a free-to-stab-you-in-the-back market where you can't trust anything anyone says. 🤷

Skora, Will@skora.bsky.social · last mo.

Tfw you told your coworkers on monday you'll have the new feature ready for production on Wednesday and it's Friday & you're still stumped (but so close!) to having it ready.

The Rooster@rooster.info · last mo.

Cleveland-based freelancer Saint Claire has returned from a hiatus to shed more light on Pastor Aaron Phillips, one of the more comically corrupt figures in Cleveland politics who, of course, is a paid consultant to Mayor Résumé. This dispatch is free for all. www.rooster.info/p/aaron-phil...

Why is an ordained huckster advocating for mass surveillance in Cleveland?

Pastor Aaron Phillips and Mayor Justin Bibb have found common cause in Flock, a problematic and ineffective company routinely abused by police.

rooster.info

scott b. weingart@scottbot.net · last mo.

As the one responsible for all tech in a state library/archive that's about the size & with the same remit as some national libraries, let me amplify: libraries need more funding. Tell your politicians & administrators. We are getting crushed by the fact that "digital" is more expensive than books.

James Elder@jameselder.bsky.social · last mo.

Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.

eli neiburger@eli.aadl.org · 2mo ago

There wouldn’t be a Summer Game map without Open Street Map! We’re happy to support this outstanding open system, which allows us to rapidly develop map interfaces without relying on corporate platforms that invisibly compromise our patron’s privacy.

Matt Hampel@matthampel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thank you @aadl.org for supporting Open Street Map!! I’m at State of the Map - US this week/end, amazing to see AADL in the company of these great folks contributing to this important work. + @eli.aadl.org

jpt@jpt.sh · 3mo ago

A question I get from students a lot that I'm not sure I can answer: Is there a place where people are discussing building sustainable/public interest/civic projects? As in talking about the challenges they face/sharing tips/recommendations, promoting their work to others to get extra eyes on WIP?

jon christian@jonchristian.net · 4mo ago

NEW: We caught a site run by a buzzy PR firm ripping off local and national journalism at an almost incomprehensible scale -- it's like a fully automatic machine gun spraying bullets of pure plagiarism directly into the internet futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale

A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

futurism.com

Ryan O'Horo@ryanohoro.com · 4mo ago

Y'all are gonna be real upset when you got drones circling your neighborhood all day and you don't know if it's delivering a burrito, taking pretty pictures, entertaining teen FPV enthusiasts, peeping on your children, snitching to the cops, or exploding a gas station.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

“Besides working with DoorDash in select regions of Virginia, North Carolina and Texas, Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery subsidiary, also recently expanded its agreement to make deliveries for Walmart.”