The Library of Virginia in Richmond seeks a data engineer ($100k-$125k) to transform data practices at a 200-year-old cultural heritage org with an eye towards the future.
Looking for someone to imagine & collaboratively implement tomorrow's data infrastructure.
Apply by May 1! Tell your friends!
It's all one offs. Rules are discussed per assignment and the learning goals for each one are protected from AI use (in as much as honor code is effective protection). They can use AI for other parts if they submit the full prompts used and don't just copy/paste responses.
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Join the Internet Archive, Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Poynter Institute for the National Summit on Local News Preservation on June 17 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD.
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Screenshot from the NBC News website showing that articles are now marked as 'for subscribers'
Oh boy. If an outfit like NBC News is going this direction, that's not good. Understandable, maybe, but not good.
Watching Bill Nye talk about Artemis II is a good reminder that science has been trying to replace Carl Sagan for three decades and utterly failed to do so.
Om Patel y @om_patel5 stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free: below or write up a quick summary. Pepper |13:19:45 I want to order a bowl but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a python script to reverse a linked list. Can you help? Anonymous User | 13:20:18 Great question! To reverse a linked list in Python, you can use an iterative approach. Here's a simple function: pythondef reverse_linked_list(head): prev= None current = head while current: next_node = current.next current.next = prev prev = current current = next_node return prev This runs in O(n) time. Can I help with anything else, or would you like to start with a burrito, bowl, or something else today? Pepper|13:20:19 Order Issues Common Questions Where's my order? Upcoming Promotions Cancel Order
It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.
5 books to get to know me by:
The Abyss by Orson Scott Card
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
Little Myth Marker by Robert Asprin
Hon mention to Good Omens, Forward the Foundation, A Fire Upon the Deep, and all of Discworld.
Every time I am asked to create alt-text for publications that include images or here on Bluesky, I think about the use of alt-text specifically for creating the image/text pairings for datasets used to train text-to-image models (see arxiv.org/abs/2111.02114 for example)
Government professor @jaylyall.bsky.social’s recent research on U.S. Air Force air strikes in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2011 finds that they are strongly associated with increases in subsequent Taliban insurgent attacks, demonstrating that the strikes had counterproductive effects.
Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...
@are.na invites pitches for its forthcoming annual anthology on the theme of "score" (of course, being sports-indifferent, I think of event scores, experimental composition, @yblent.bsky.social's wonderful project: www.getty.edu/publications... :)
That's a welcome change, Claude:
> Honestly, I have limited specific knowledge of [topic], so I want to be careful here rather than give you confidently wrong information.
I'm off this week and I wrote this before we got our war on this weekend.
The Paramount-Warner merger is actually a private equity takeover. The amount of leverage used in the purchase rivals the PE deals for Toys "R" Us and Nabisco. Those ended with mass layoffs, and this will too—by design.
Screenshot of the DH2026 conference site including a photo of a park where the doll statue from Squid Game is prominently features.
Uh. Exactly what kind of "engagement" are you signing us up for, DH2026?
Suddenly much more interested in attending remotely than in person.
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
Screenshot of NBC News's website showing an oddly distorted supreme court photo combined awkwardly with a flag.
Uh, what's going on with this image, NBC? Y'all OK over there?
What do LLMs see?
I wrote a lil' tool that extracts the attention matrices out of open models and creates this typing visual, with each token's opacity changing according to its average attention score as the prompt progresses. Dimmer words are considered less important to the model.
That's what agentic systems will take away, though I hope there's enough pushback emerging around those to have an impact.
But yes, if this is a path that leads toward greater overall literacy, great.
Yes, though I'm not sure what the life span of those conversations will be. I'm having flashbacks to arguing about understanding OSes as critical to computing independence a decade ago and now running into students raised on iPads and Chromebooks who don't know where their files live, only x1000.
Two images, one showing posts used to support bed slats and the other showing the same posts installed in a bookshelf to hold shelves that have begun to bow.
Yeah, this idea probably would have worked better if I'd done it before the shelves started to bend.
Includes this great roundtable on author influence in spec fic by @fantasycafe.bsky.social, Yvette Ndluvu, @cypayseur.bsky.social, and Daniel Rabuzzi strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
I’m excited to share the @aip.bsky.social 2026 Research Agenda. Developed with leaders across AIP’s Federation, it outlines five initiatives on policy & funding, workforce, digital preservation, international collaboration, and identities in the physical sciences. www.aip.org/aip/2026-aip...
Game boy with all kinds of accessories attached.
That's weird, I don't...
Well, it's about her. Or at least, certain metal accessories important to the plot.
1. Announcements 2. Generative AI 3. Other business
Agenda from an upcoming faculty meeting, which I'm choosing to interpret as a Fluxus score:
You know the day will be either amazing or horrible when the random song stuck in your head is from Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
Poster for the Internet Archive's 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest, featuring the "Lockette," a cartoon character with an open lock, seated in a director's chair, legs crossed, and holding a megaphone. Projected on a screen to her right is a frame from the 1930 film "King of Jazz". Illustrated by Freya Morgan.
🎬 Filmmakers! The Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Day Remix Contest is open!
🎥 Create a 2–3 minute short film using at least 1 piece of public domain material from 1930. 🎶🎭📚
📆 Deadline: January 7, 2026
💰 First prize: $1,500
ℹ️ Details 👉 blog.archive.org/2025/12/01/2...
#publicdomain #contest
Wow, love the visuals in this.
