Sometimes I start a book on kindle, it gets good…and I order the physical book to continue reading. If it’s good, I want to hold it.

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

I can't believe I still have to say this: not everything is on the internet and not all of the internet is accessible and there are billions upon billions of things that haven't been digitized. Some things just cannot be farmed out.

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death.

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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Started *and* finished sewing a yoga mat bag listening to the most excellent @eurovangelists.com Top of the Ethnobops playlist. Such a good Saturday! open.spotify.com/playlist/2Xg...

Absolutely amazing. What a (freely accessible) treasure trove of genius!

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

@caltrain.com The southernmost card tag thingy on the Palo Alto northbound platform has not worked for at least a week, maybe longer. Can it be fixed? 🤞Thank you!

An inviting autumn landscape. Might've been yesterday, but it's actually an autochrome from 1912. "Autumn Gold" by Hugh C. Knowles From the V&A's collections: bit.ly/42Fh4Bv

#Eurovision experts Dean Vuletic and Paul Jordan (neither on here as yet I think) are both in here talking about how the contest’s atmosphere has changed. news.sky.com/story/could-...

Eighteenth-Century Clickbait...

Upload is another provocative & entertaining show (and a Greg Daniels joint!) that seems to be flying below the radar. S4 (final) was recently released — just 4 episodes to tie things up. youtu.be/0ZfZj2bn_xg?...

cabbage is the unsung MVP of the brassicas

What to make of the Intervision song contest? See this excellent article by Joanna York for @france24.com, including comment from me. @uclssees.bsky.social www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Icon *and* archivist. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Halfway through my second watch of Lady Parts and it is *so* excellent! Funny, full of heart, does so much to represent a diversity of muslim women’s experience, and thoroughly punk. Really hoping for a season 3. youtu.be/MPqzoAjxvl4?...

This cartoon by artist Frank Ape grounded me today #artmatters

Yet another demonstration that AI is not a labor-saving device; it merely displaces the cleanup and mitigation (in realms where care, caution, accuracy, etc., actually matter) onto other people

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com p.s. this week I am on a USA/Canada tour with my new book. Details and preorder links at tomgauld.com

Our medieval curator Alison Ray introduces Rawlinson Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. D. 252...a 15th Century necromancer's journal. This manuscript contains spells written in Latin and Middle English, and would have served as a reference for a professional sorcerer. #MedievalMonday

You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)

Walk in the club like

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

It’s so mean.

To walk: Shift your weight and hope. To speak: Open your mouth. Regret everything. To cry: Happens automatically when watching underdog sports movies or looking at your own reflection too long in a subway window.

My publisher let me know and you know what? Hell yeah.

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

Flowering, end-of-season basil and happy bees. 🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝 (at Flower Bloom Farm, Pescadero CA)

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Go look at the moon!

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

absolutely terrible news

Time to remind people about the Commercial Pattern Archive — it doesn’t have instructions and search is a bear but there’s two hundred years’ worth of clothing patterns in here including all the big names new and old: copa.apps.uri.edu

I'm sorry, no matter what personal or ideological gripe one has with universities or the academy, we didn't face the imminent destruction of entire parts of our institutions & the lives of dozens of students suddenly upended because of fascism before Trump. Just stop it with this unserious nonsense.

I think about this comic at least once a week

Asserting my privilege as the OG anytime, anywhere Margarita.

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In a few decades scholars—in other countries, naturally—will study America’s self-immolation “Making America Great” by torpedoing literally one of the greatest things this country has ever produced, all because gender studies hurts conservatives’ feelings

If you are looking for graphic novels by women writers with connections to the former Soviet sphere, @olgaz.bsky.social has some suggestions on @puncturedlines.bsky.social

They put foam around scaffolding in England to protect pedestrians. So thoughtful!

All respect to wordy London signs that not only issue the prohibition, but tell you what the consequences are for flouting them.

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The Crown Estate Paving Commission has clearly had A TIME maintaining this private, key-holder-only garden. (WHAT happened to the children whilst their parents were playing in the garden‽‽‽) (Regent’s Park-adjacent, London)

Off-duty bagpiper questioning his life choices. (Westminster, London)