🚨 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...

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

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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...

“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...

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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.

Arrived in the living room only to find I was interrupting our cats during the making of their debut French new wave film.

And on my birthday, too!

The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903)

Glad to hear that sad Pompeiian skeleton is/was living its best life

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!

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...

As more and more government information disappears, we're glad to see @archive.org (which has done so much already to preserve our online history) become an official Federal Depository Library! www.engadget.com/general/inte...

Something I wish we could get into people's heads a lot more is that when they say AI is "lying" or "hallucinating" they're giving it orders of magnitude more credit than it deserves

Sheesh this is mental. Here’s a list of Open Source alternatives. alternativeto.net/software/wet...

Tom Plasterer was instrumental in the creation of the now-widely-adopted #FAIRdata principle, the idea - driven by the introduction of the #semanticWeb - that data should be findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. knowledgegraphinsights.com/tom-plasterer/

A lot of e-commerce sites were really *busy* in that late 90s-early aughts era — i.e. loads of links. Their style obviously influenced by portals, and the tabs (a la Amazon) were a big trend too. #InternetHistory

#booksky #writingcommunity

Favorite film ever

I'm making a puzzle game where you manipulate light! #gamedev #indiedev Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3081690/...

A thread of interdimensional portals I've found on walks in the British countryside.

Did not know that Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln Logs. I used to love them as a kid.

As @lilyray.nyc recently pointed out, LLMs' memory is shaped (among other factors) by social media conversations. Thinking about marketing strategies through a neuroscience lens is no longer sci-fi—it’s becoming a practical framework for all of us! Thanks, @larry.bsky.social, for the interview!

In a meeting about 30 years ago some people sat down and decided on these icons

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

The Pleiades (M45). 17 March 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

This is great second-monitor content for folks who like background noise when they’re working!

Sometimes I try to understand the magnitude of Elon Musk's wealth. $359.4 billion. It helped a little when I read from Reuters that it will take $53.2 billion to rebuild Gaza. A drop in the bucket for one lonely, weird, sad, fragile man.

Foto is now available on Google and Apple App Stores! Direct links are on our website at fotoapp.co

This week's sky at a glance, February 21-March 2. Very useful Sky & Telescope observing guide by Alan MacRobert. 🔭 🧪 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

We will launch Foto in two days. More details coming soon.

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

As a 10-year-old photographer, @mmw09.bsky.social would jot down on the back of each print metadata about the image. Her interest in image metadata has continued into her adult life with the creation of the ImageSnippets linked-data service. knowledgegraphinsights.com/margaret-war...

It feels tactical to say this but if you like a text someone has written here consider sharing it. Likes on Bsky signal your approval, but they don’t bump it or amplify it because there’s no algorithm. *Sharing* independent writer’s work helps us find and grow an audience!

A bit random, but is there anyone out there who loves podcast editing and is interested in being the Foto Podcast editor? Work directly with me (Michael) to edit the Foto Podcast, create socially shareable clips, and help shape the future of the Foto Podcast. E-mail [email protected]

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...