SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
"Even when disabled people appear in the archive, they appear as objects of intervention rather than witnesses to their own lives. When disability materials are [viewed] according to the medical model, the archive reproduces the very framework that justified confinement and cure" #CripLib
guys i asked my friend at story corps what the deal is with the prego surveillance device and it PAINS me to admit it’s actually a cute non networked recording device that launched in a comically bad environment.
Thanks! Mostly I'm just following instructions from the great Iffy Books (iffybooks.net), but I did have to self-teach a bit about networking.
I'm very much still a novice. Hopefully I've done well enough that this board won't get taken over by a botnet, but if it does, I can unplug it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thanks! It's mostly because I went to a great workshop at Iffy Books here in Philly that gave me the hardware and starter's guide I needed
Excited to announce that I now have a real website! I built it in Jekyll (using someone's slightly-overengineered template) and am running it off a single-board computer in my home.
I'm already learning a lot about networking and Linux systems!
Check it out at jamestruitt.com
Was this cover designed by a Flyers fan
If a vendor won't even let me opt out of their marketing emails, why would I trust the data policies of the products they push?
happy national library week!
another drawback to all the disinfo floating around about AI causing outages over the weekend: it means you're not primed to see the connection between these two events
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
People began hoarding gas cylinders, and in the Delhi area, prices skyrocketed by 600 percent. Some people stood in line for three or four days to get LPG cylinders.
With his own supply running low, Kapoor had little choice but to turn to the black market.
www.thexylom.com/post/iran-wa...
"Lost, inaccurate or incomplete records, and the consequent loss of identity and personhood, were part of systemic abuse."
Stace, Hilary, Susan Martin, and Martin Sullivan in Preserving Disability: Disability and the Archival Profession
search.worldcat.org/title/148298...
“You cannot build your way to a public if the political economy is designed to prevent one.”
a map from 1918 showing the interurban network sprawling across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio
One side obsession from my research into the 1920s is the extensive network of ELECTRIC trains that used to connect cities and towns across the central Midwest called the Interurban. We had this more than a hundred years ago. The things we had and the things we lost.
this is as bad as the "if it has an em-dash it was written by AI" rule. I use em-dashes! & I often begin emails with "I hope this email finds you well". here's the thing: the LLMs use such punctuation & wording BECAUSE ACTUAL HUMAN WRITERS USE THESE THINGS! AND THEY WERE TRAINED ON OUR WRITING! smfh
reading yiddish novels means reading a bunch about the tragic lives of agunes (עגונות), women whose husbands left them without granting a divorce and can't remarry unless they find the guy or basically prove that he's dead, and anyway now i want an assassin's creed game set in the pale of settlement
A gray and white kitten with a pink nose sleeping on her human’s hand
Mods are asleep post Penny
passkey is imho one of the most important security developments that touch consumers and also one of the worst consumer rollouts i ever witnessed because every company involved treats everything like an enterprise customer solution
It’s the first day of National Library Week 📚
Take some time to reflect on everything libraries do and stand for and the threats they are facing.
Then think about how you can help.
👇
EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.
The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.
"Your triceratops, sir."
"MOAR SPIKES"
"Your styracosaurus, sir."
Apparently it's the manufacturer and type of dye that tend to make more a difference
This is what I was told by optical disk expert @cdrom.ca when I asked about this last year digipres.club/@misty/11407...
Reese and Sandra may want to embrace ai, but Milla Jovovich still takes the cake for pushing an AI app that pretends to be an archive
why the New Yorker publishes the brilliant Hanif Abdurraqib and then does not put his name in the social media post about his essay is absolutely beyond me, but anyway, the important thing here is that you should always read Hanif
I woke up randomly angry that RDA is not an open cataloging standard
Elaborate title to a plan of Glasgow Green and nearby coal workings (1828). At least it doesn't contain any Comic Sans.
I know lithographers who use consistent typefaces, and they're all cowards.
LOOK AT THE COOL TOY I GET TO PLAY WITH AT WORK TODAY
