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Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati di Siena The Intronati library combines a modern public library with a priceless historical collection inside the former home of one of Europe's oldest universities.

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An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

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#MedievalSky

I get a 404

That looks like an LP cover :D

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What I see when a company replies to my question with genAI:

"Go away, we don't value you enough as a customer to spend any time on you."

So if I have an alternative, I _do_ go away.

Visitors at the Agave americana in bloom. Botanical Garden of Basel University, 2012.

This was in 2012. The Botanical Garden of Basel University made a special day about it.

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Happy birthday, Heather :-)

Young Tawny owl

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Agave americana in bloom at the Botanical Garden, Basel University, 20212

I think that was an Agave in bloom

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Hi Andy
Any chance that the participants can get a discount for the Handbook?

My library bought it after I made a purchase request; now thinking about getting one for myself, too, but it's quite a chunk of money.

Library social media in a post-Twitter world YouTube video by Ned Potter

<<< The full (subtitled) 34 minutes or so is on YouTube here youtu.be/16DZk1rcHIE?... and although it’s public library focused I think much of it is applicable to cultural orgs more generally. 📚

I also wrote some more context for the talk here www.ned-potter.com/blog/new-vid... >>>

I love this one :-)

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