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why is my chocolate yelling at me to get back to work

get library cards and use them often (online e-book and audiobook rentals count!). sign up to volunteer at your local library. donate money to your library’s general fund. run for a spot on the library board.

join and participate in your local “friends of the library” group. donate books (if your library accepts book donations). set up your own little free library. vote for library funding when it’s on your local ballot.

fill out comment cards to leave positive comments. request new materials that you’d like to see added to the stacks. like and share your library’s social media content.

The Trump administration is explicitly targeting libraries, museums, and the press in the latest executive order.

Also going after services for the homeless, minority businesses, and community development.

The cruelty is the point.

BlueSky’s “user intents” is a good proposal, and it’s weird to see some people flaming them for it as though this is equivalent to them welcoming in AI scraping (rather than trying to add a consent signal to allow users to communicate preferences for the scraping that is already happening).

I think the weakness with this and Creative Commons’ similar proposal for “preference signals” is that they rely on scrapers to respect these signals out of some desire to be good actors. We’ve already seen some of these companies blow right past robots.txt or pirate material to scrape.

I do think that they are good technical foundations, and there is the potential for enforcement to be layered atop them.

Technology alone won’t solve this issue, nor will it provide the levers for enforcement, so it’s somewhat reasonable that they don’t attempt to.

But it would be nice to see some more proactive recognition from groups proposing these signals that enforcement is going to be needed, and perhaps some ideas for how their signals could be incorporated into such a regime.

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats"

Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.