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• Post #4422597

  Gizmodo asks “Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?” I love this answer: “I know of one data storage form that can be permanent: a library. Or rather, a world full of libraries. Libraries aren’t perfect storage devices (nothing is), but they are fiercely committed to self-repair. A good library is a collection of people, technologies, and practices that pass an obligation—to remember the things we must remember—from the last generation to the next.” https://gizmodo.com/will-we-ever-sol...

• Post #4397922

  There’s a newly launched drive to unionize Harvard’s professional librarians and when the organizers asked us what issues we might want them to address, I said I wanted protection against being required to incorporate AI hallucinations in my work, a profound violation of my professional ethics. https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/

• Post #4394740

  Fly Ergles Fly

• Post #4394653

  @universalhub@mastodon.online Stop me if you’ve heard this before, there’s signal problems at Harvard some more.

• Post #4322060

  So wait, you’re telling me I take the blue pill, I wake up in my bed and believe whatever I want? That sounds amazing.

• Post #4287726

  Finalizing selections for our spring exhibition “Picturing Work” which surveys the history of books of trades and other depictions of labor both early and modern.

• Post #4283468

  Interview with Dale Grimes, who holds a number of roles at the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library, including "Junior Morale Officer, Chair of Impromptu Play Sessions, Director of Hallway Patrol, and, more recently, Senior Nap Strategist." https://libraries.utulsa.edu/blogs/mcfarlinmemo/staff-spotlight-mr-dale-grimes

• Post #4240246

  From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw. “A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online...

• Post #4223931

  I have been so precisely targeted by a video from the Pointless Notalgia channel breaking down the “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” joke from Airplane! that I can only assume there’s a red laser dot on my forehead right now. https://youtu.be/_Iz0IK7qt88

• Post #4208741

  100,000,000,000,000 de Poèmes is a work by Raymond Queneau with interchangeable lines of poetry printed on individual strips to allow recombination. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990065886080203941/catalog

• Post #4206081

  Trigger warning for any conservators out there. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990018770280203941/catalog

• Post #4203489

  Boston Globe Oops All Vehicular Homicide

• Post #4179281

  It seems like a somewhat improbable coincidence that a man named Auric Goldfinger would independently have a lifelong obsession with gold.

• Post #4173440

  I found this interesting 1907 book in a catalog and located a digitized copy online. It's called Picture Paragraphs and it's little illustrated explanations about everyday things in the period that might be mysterious. (Contains a surprising amount of coal mining content.) https://digital-research-books-beta.nypl.org/read/9526623

• Post #4169887

  You know, I think this link might be up to no good.

• Post #4091367

  I see about one new in-theater movie a year and this year it’s The Odyssey in 70mm at the beautiful Somerville Theatre.

• Post #4032367

  Luckily I managed to catch the last bus to WRONG CODE ENTER NEW CODE

• Post #4015788

  A sharp-eyed visitor to our gallery noticed a mistake that’s particularly galling since it’s a Harvard Library binding,

• Post #4015316

  Email from the Dean describing laying a bunch of people off as "entering the next phase of our administrative transition".

• Post #3991693

  Solar eclipse broadside with translated title "A true and credible account of a terrifying miraculous sign which appeared in the sun on 28 January of this year 1664." #NewAcquition

• Post #3945357

  Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solarisbabies #Monsterdon

• Post #3904646

  MetaFilter celebrated its 27th birthday yesterday and someone pointed out in the thread it's amazing to look at this capture from 1999 and see how much the site has changed since. https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/metafilter-in-1999 @metafilter

• Post #3904645

  I walked out into one of our public galleries and it smelled strongly of someone’s perfume, but there was no one around. I can only imagine what it must be like to stand next to that person if it lingers that much after they’ve gone.

• Post #3904644

  The Trump administration cut tracking of the explosive diarrhea parasite because they don’t give a shit about you. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cyclospora-parasite-trump-cuts/

• Post #3904643

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116923918003958566 Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could

• Post #3904642

  I like it when the book boxes on the shelf let you know you should open them.

• Post #3904641

  Amazing new headcanon from @ZachWeinersmith. Full comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/pac

• Post #3904640

  Calfornia’s Citrus Heritage is a digital collection of classic fruit crate labels. https://californiascitrusheritage.com/labels via @Researchbuzz

• Post #3904639

  He is all of us. https://www.youtube.com/live/r6qgc4WyQXI?si=Qr_avD1g7CIr2hwT

• Post #3904638

  Well that's one autograph I don't think we have in our collection. https://inlibris.com/item/bn69002/?catalogue=108725