This might be one of the best pieces of AI literacy content I’ve seen online so far — it’s long, but very nuanced and well researched… and is coming from another leftist! I wish people would listen to people like Dr. Fatima instead of Ed Zitron.

Happy to not be in DC today. Back in ohio, where in my hometown it's Laila Edwards Day, even had a parade for her.

the New York Times Opinion section endorsing my bluesky bot

US Botanical garden staying up late for the dueling blooming corpse plants. Their stink lines were harmonizing all around the greenhouse.

Huntley Meadows a park I go birding at in VA had a pair of Great Horned Owlets that finally fledged last week. I used eBird's APIs to make a timeline: thisismattmiller.github.io/huntley-mead... Image Joey Fry (macaulaylibrary.org/asset/656061...) Here are some big chungus baby highlights...

Yes! I got to present with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social about our essay, written with @thisismattmiller.com, BookReconciler arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165

AI deathbots only weakness: justifying text on sign layouts

Busy day on the national mall with the annual colorectal cancer awareness toilet seat data visualizations and new epstein titanic sculpture

A lot of great posts recently on this topic of "vibe coding as enabler," including the two linked here. For me it's manifested as a way to scratch a digital project itch I've had for a decade, a data explorer for a set of Brewery directories from 1899 - 1918: hadro.github.io/brewery-guid...

oh shit is "mario day"? let me fire up the emulator... "Super Mario Sister (Asia) (En) (Pirate).nes"

We presented on our tool for enriching and clustering book data at Code4Lib today. Check it out, and let us know what you think! data.post45.org/our-tools.html Huge thanks to @thisismattmiller.com for leading development on this project. #code4lib #c4l26

Roy Lichtenstein Catalogue Raisonné site got a serious terms and conditions, complete with auto scroll button before you can use it. Though at least its online + free

I wrote a little Chrome extension to make animated WebP (“weppy”) files from a region of a webpage: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/weppy... I use it when writing documentation and I want to show a short animation (in Github README for example). Simpler than a WebM video and more modern than GIF.

...state of the union? 👎 , look at this bluesky quote post network explorer I just made. I added 6 networks so far: thisismattmiller.github.io/bsky-quote-m...

Building my HathiTrust 1930 public domain survey and coming across interesting volumes... like the tree shaming "Freak trees of the State of New York." babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=co...

Some of these Epstein file redactions are very aesthetic. Reminds me of updates.timsherratt.org/2021/04/21/s...

Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.

A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165

Example and analysis of how AI web scrapers are breaking small and medium cultural heritage sites.

Blog: Visualizing 14,000 Released Epstein Emails. I built a viz of the emails released as part of the 20K House Oversight Committee docs. thisismattmiller.com/post/email-v... - A clustered high level view of the emails by contact across time - Zoom into individual emails and open the sources

LCNAF & Trie – Storing +11M unique names in 50MB data structure in the browser thisismattmiller.com/post/lcnaf-t... - Optimizing LCNAF authorized headings into a trie data structure - In browser MARC file name reconciliation + search tool - OpenRefine / Command line tools for reconciliation

Halloween blog post: Italian Giallo Horror Films thisismattmiller.com/post/giallo/ - Using vision language model to analyze a 70 film corpus (🧟) / 80,000 frames - Build and plot “trope clusters” across movies Probably the longest eye acting supercut you've seen: youtu.be/cGrmkOwut6k

New Post: PEN America Banned Books 2025 dataset thisismattmiller.com/post/book-ba... Looking at school district book bans - Interactive Map interface to the books banned in 2024-2025 - A faceted browse interface to the 3700 books - Subject heading analysis

New Blog Post. Library of Congress & Flickr Commons: Analysis of user interactions on 40,000 images thisismattmiller.com/post/lc-flic... - Organizing 95K photo comments. - Viewer to explore user georectified images - Folksonomy tagging vs LCSH Vocabulary - Placing into the Wiki* knowledge graph

One output, 1 hour 40mins of Siskel and Ebert summaries: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLM...

Trying out workflows that use multimodal LLMs for validating and QA. In this blog I walk through a test using 1000 Siskel and Ebert videos to extract key video frames and other data. thisismattmiller.com/post/buildin...

maintenance

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉 🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Director: Joe Dante Cast: Phoebe Cates-Kline, Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Zach Galligan, Christopher Lee Watch Review wp / wd

thisismattmiller.com/post/glitch/ New blog post about @glitch.com shutdown, how I migrated my apps, and how I used glitch for teaching and creative projects.

The Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update is online today at 1PM EDT. Talks about: - Hubs (BF ontology) - BF Cataloging at Penn Libraries - BF Validation Tooling listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A...

Yeah we have bots endlessly flooding id.loc.gov stressing servers to the limit trying to scrape millions of html pages even though we offer pretty much all of it as bulk downloads: id.loc.gov/download/

ideal

A new very chill bot, for these very un-chill times. Posts FERNS from "Ferns: British and exotic..." by E. J. Lowe. 8 vols 1856-1860. Makes a new collage every 8 hours.

Interesting! Because they just terminated their grant for the Post45 Data Collective, which preserves and establishes access to collections of literary and cultural data!

If you need me I’ll be in…

waiting for the dead bodies to arrive, but they're not doing me any favors

It’s true, and /r/pslf is full of community bureaucratic evocation tips: “did you try the wet signature doc upload ritual?” or “are you sure you used this exact text in your reconsideration request summoning?” that are unclear if they ever actually work.

I wrote a bit about turning triples into pie charts.

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs. I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share. I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project. www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

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Less Gemini AI in my gmail and more fixing the broken Bus Stop theme that I've used for the last 15+ years

"How to tell the birds from the flowers and other wood-cuts." 1929 public domain book. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=co... found via thisismattmiller.github.io/hathi-pd-202...

New blog post: Three interfaces to explore the 50,000 1929 HathiTrust resources that entered the public domain last month thisismattmiller.com/post/hathi-p...

preparing for department of ed shutdown potentiality, downloading all my info, and just looking at my pslf dashboard... "he was just three days from retirement"...almost made it :(

New publication! “Knowledge Graphing Art Archives: Methods and Tools from the Semantic Lab’s E.A.T. Project” Highlighting work creating a knowledge graph for archival materials from the avant-garde movement, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

BEANS!

With the BIBFRAME update forum from Library of Congress coming up tomorrow, I wanted to share my approach to using APIs from Alma to connect data from the Marva linked data editor. youtu.be/N1gP9FPJ9jE

With tiktok probably shutting down I made some scripts to download and build a local web interface for your TikTok liked and favorited videos: github.com/thisismattmi... I had 2200 videos, takes up about 20GB. Here is a video of the interface:

visiting fellow library employees today