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Posts by Scott Witmer

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

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Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

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📚 @fogcount.bsky.social 📚
Nib Rot is a comics collective and anthology by librarian cartoonists Rimki (Champaign, IL), Ryan Edge (Seattle, WA), and Scott Witmer (Ann Arbor, MI).

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Its not a business! It’s a public good! And it’s not “running out of money,” either. Republicans deliberately created this illusion by requiring USPS to prefund pensions *75 years* into the future. Literally no other agency (or business, lol) requires this.

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Black-and-white film frame of a woman in a dark dress looking at a rack of Serie Noire books in a well-lit pharmacy.

Black-and-white film frame of a woman in a dark dress looking at a rack of Serie Noire books in a well-lit pharmacy.

A sighting of the Serie Noire in a Neo-Noir: 1960’s Les Distractions. Do they appear in any other Films Noir?

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Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

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Are you accepting comics for review?

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hot take: When logged in on a work computer, you should stay logged in, and not be randomly logged out requiring 2FA, or have whatever you’re doing constantly interrupted by update reminder popups. Every time it happens I want to leave the room.

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Don’t forget to block bsky.app/profile/atti... everyone

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Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack millions of iPhones | TechCrunch Leaked "DarkSword" exploits published to GitHub allow hackers and cybercriminals to target iPhone users running old versions of iOS with spyware, according to cybersecurity researchers.

If you have an iPhone, today is a good day to make sure you are running the latest software. techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/s...

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reshare for alt text, republicans and rich people who want to privatize mail have been lying about the USPS and trying to push this narrative longer than I've been alive, and imposing massive financial burdens on it to make it "insolvent"

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these are death camps

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The Nationwide Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now The nationwide book ban bill, HR 7661, has progressed out of committee and into the House. Here's what you need to know to take action.

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

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One step closer to the bleakest Black Mirror scenario in the Metalhead episode

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NBC News poll

Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

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MAD: The Complete Harvey Kurtzman Years For the first time, the entire original run of MAD comics and magazine by creator, editor, writer and cover artist Harvey Kurtzman in a lavish five-volume collector’s box set, in oversized facsimile, ...

👀 www.fantagraphics.com/products/mad...

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Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

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Hire Us Diskette Press is also a full-service print and design shop! We offer Risograph printing and a variety of finishing and binding methods to make your project shine.  To get started, reach out via email...

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I just read that Bill Murray was considered for the lead in Eyes Wide Shut and now I can’t sleep

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Street sign with message: You are enough

Street sign with message: You are enough

Street sign with message: All we have is now

Street sign with message: All we have is now

Street sign with message: Breathe

Street sign with message: Breathe

Street sign with message: Attention: Take note of what it feels to be alive right now.

Street sign with message: Attention: Take note of what it feels to be alive right now.

Seen in Boston, MA

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yikes ok, unfollowing now. really enjoyed her exhibit at the louvre, had no idea she’s in the epstein files.

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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

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Vocational Awe and Librarianship: The Lies We Tell Ourselves – In the Library with the Lead Pipe Vocational awe describes the set of ideas, values, and assumptions librarians have about themselves and the profession that result in notions that libraries as institutions are inherently good, sacred notions, and therefore beyond critique. I argue that the concept of vocational awe directly correlates to problems within librarianship like burnout and low salary. This article aims to describe the phenomenon and its effects on library philosophies and practices so that they may be recognized and deconstructed.

In her honor, please read her original essay about the term she coined:"Vocational Awe". Take a moment today to reflect on your relationship to work, especially if you are in a so-called helping profession, regardless of field.

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photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.

this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

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Just the Browser - Just the Browser Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.

I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers.

This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.

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Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik 

The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

Tweet by Jatin @jatinkmalik The reason why RAM has become four times more expensive is that a huge amount of RAM that has not yet been produced was purchased with non-existent money to be installed in GPUs that also have not yet been produced, in order to place them in data centers that have not yet been built, powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist and to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible

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My comic The Garden Cat is now available for order at rimkicomix.bigcartel.com/product/the-... . I've always said I don't like cats, but here I am publishing an entire comic about one. This is why certain people call me a secret cat lover. #cats #comics

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Bruno Paul in Simplicissimus, "American Policy", 1901-1902

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