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You know how a few special people in movie credits have initials after their names, like MPSE or CSA? (Casting Society of America). And priests of religious orders have ones like OFMI (Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate)? Has anyone had both? Which goes first? @chicagomanual.bsky.social

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As a lifetime dead-language nerd, I jumped at the chance to interview @lauraspinney.bsky.social about Proto-Indo-European and her new book, Proto.

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Chicago Sun Times "Summer Reading List" includes numerous hallucinated books, including this from Andy Weir, about a conscious AI system "secretly influencing global events." Unclear if it's also writing Summer Reading Lists for the Chicago Sun Times.

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Amazing. Includes a hallucinated novel by Andy Weird.

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I'm lukewarm on AI. But I have one killer, personal one: language practice. Sometimes when I bored of my audiobook, I'll ask ChatGPT voice mode to create and read me short Latin stories and ask me questions about them. Here's an easy and intermediate story:

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Other disciplines may claim that LLMs can do what they do, but since Classics is all about close reading, human classicists are still firmly on top.

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This is a truly monstrous pun.

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Discussion with a friend about how once-normal public interactions are now strongly discountenanced. There should be a sign—pin, hat, article of clothing—that says "I'm living in the friendlier world before cellphones, earbuds and default isolation. Go ahead and talk to me."

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Dr. Carla Hayden will always be our Librarian of Congress ❤️‍🩹 1st woman, 1st African American Librarian of Congress. Your presence is a blessing to libraries. We love you! ✨ Thank you for your service 💜 apnews.com/article/donald-trump-library-of-congress-carla-hayden-20a1862ce6d2e0d51a84a37b264ce2ef

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The Carla Hayden firing was so unnecessary and spiteful. Her term was up next year anyway and Trump would appoint her successor. What a small, nasty man.

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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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🚨New Pope's mom was a high school librarian! www.distractify.com/p/pope-leo-x...

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🚨New Pope's mom was a high school librarian! www.distractify.com/p/pope-leo-x...

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Habemus larum marinum!

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The conclave is on CSPAN right now. It's a stunning visual, and the litany of the saints is gorgeous in both execution and idea, asking the aid of saints from every age and condition—a third century Tunisian slave, a victim of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, monks, scholars and fishermen.

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The Conclave is over! The smoke is white! The next Library Journal Movers & Shakers are out! www.libraryjournal.com/page/movers-...

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Wonderful interview with Francis Spufford, on C. S. Lewis, Tolkien and children's literature from "Soul Search" an Australian Broadcasting show/podcast. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Wait for the Penguin version, coming in November. The self-published one has a tremendous, original idea, but—IMHO—well short of greatness. I'm thinking the rewrite, with top tier editorial, will be better.

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New ideas in library cataloging! (From a Facebook cataloging group.)

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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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We're probably going with Dell, but is there an easy primary or secondary market for web- and database servers in the Boston area?

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1/2 ALATT post on a kid wanting to read Harry Potter. Angrily telling people not to read books, and how they're bad people for reading them, feeds directly into a hot, high-stakes, culture-wide preoccupation with policing good and bad books, good and bad readers.

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I don't understand why publishers don't just post their ONIX files. Instead they make you jump through hoops. What are they worried about? Oxford UP just posts them. Does your dinky little independent publisher really need to do it differently? OUP: help.oup.com.au/hc/en-us/art...

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Coming soon to @librarything.com

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How many publishers are putting back-cover images in their ONIX files?

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“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

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