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I predict the Elon/Trump split will get uglier and more dramatic over the next several months. Eventually they'll have a public tweet battle, hurling insults and falsehoods. No lessons will be learned on either side. Nothing will be better for it, except I'll get to feel some schadenfreude.

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Behold, it's Monsieur Bonk, who insists we sit on the deck to read this sunny afternoon 📚❤️

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The Devil in the White City. By Erik Larson. First Edition, First Printing. Crown. New York, 2003. SOLD

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Elon Musk has learned his lesson. by Susan Collins

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So let’s check in on computational analysis of literature. What’s happening there? 1) Good news, LLMs make it possible to pose 10x as many questions. 2) Bad news, we’re losing our ways to access post-1930 data and don’t know if they will be replaced, 3) and there’s no longer any NEH support. +

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A Voyage to Pagany. Inscribed by William Carlos Williams. First Edition, First Printing. Macaulay. New York, 1928. eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

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It's been a couple wks since the various reports of Trump's incursions at the LoC. In that time, I've been backing up the OCR text of Chronicling America, just in case I documented my process on my blog. Just sharing in case others want/need to back up Chron Am for their own peace of mind

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Across the River and Into the Trees. By Ernest Hemingway. First Edition, First Printing. Scribners. New York, 1950. eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

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Sadly, at the end of Last of Us season 2, I’m only stuck thinking that it was the most precipitous drop in quality between seasons of any show I’ve ever watched.

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I’ve seen some academic presentations over the last few weeks that I was surprised to find myself genuinely moved by. I don’t know, there’s something beautiful about people thinking hard and honestly about things they care about, and trying to explain why, in a world that manifestly DGAF.

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“Not all good boys are dogs, but all dogs are good boys” ~Sir Francis Bacon (the very best good boy of them all).

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Born #onthisday in Edinburgh in 1859, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Watch a rare filmed interview with him from 1927 in which he speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holmes, and his work in spiritualism: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sir-arthur-conan-doyle-interview-1927 #OTD

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There is something specifically gratifying about loaning a book to a student and having it returned having clearly been thumbed through, bookmarked, carried around in a backpack, etc.

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Want to level-up your Agentic RAG? by @nohtow.bsky.social ModernColBERT folks (lighton.ai) trained their model on reasoning-intensive dataset to create Reason-ModernColBERT as outlined in Meta's ReasonIR paper.

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There are many reasons why I wish spontaneous combustion upon this man. Today it's his impulse to play an out-of-context news clip to spread misinformation in the middle of a joint conference with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72. Inscribed by Hunter S. Thompson. First Edition, First Printing. Straight Arrow Books. San Francisco, 1973. SOLD

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Graduation day families are the most adorable thing. They meander down the sidewalks, well-dressed and beaming with a combination of pride, nostalgia, or bewilderment. Do they realize they’re the best part of the spectacle? I don’t think so, I think they’re too dazed by the speed of life to notice.

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Dali. By Salvador Dali. Translated by Eleanor Morse. First American Edition. Harry N. Abrams. New York, 1968. SOLD

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It. By Stephen King. First Edition, First Printing. Viking. New York, 1986. SOLD

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

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@kristinaintin.bsky.social and were feelin’ crunchy, so we built a raised bed and planted veggies, complete with gates and fence to keep out those pesky groundhogs.

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I've been pushing myself through Deleuze & Guattari, unsure why. But then I found this passage wherein they compare the processes of evolutionary biology and DNA to the processes of social and cultural change, and vice versa. And suddenly it clicked.

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This map all of the projects built by the New Deal is really remarkable. Astounding how much was built in such a short time. Clicking on each dot brings up a project -- and there are so many of them, and so varied. livingnewdeal.org/map/

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So instead of trade deals he’s just going to publicly negotiate with himself until he walks back the tariffs? We get a couple of months of supply chain shock and nothing to show for it besides damaged relationships across the world.

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Please sign up for the Evening Land Books newsletter tbh I got carried away and built the whole newsletter system myself... Bah! So signups would make the whole effort worthwhile In return, you will receive delightful life updates alongside info abt rare books you can unsubscribe at any time

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It took literally one time hearing the phrase "American Pope" for this to be stuck in my head: 🎶 Oh yeah, alright Take it easy, baby Make it last all night He was an American Pope 🎶

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The Secret History. Inscribed by Donna Tartt. First Edition, First Printing. Knopf. New York, 1992. The classic Dark Academia novel is SOLD

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Went to see Sinners tonight. Didn’t realize that movie would draw so many teenagers. I have never felt older in a movie theater.

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Mike Waltz has left the chat.

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I Rise in Flame, Cried the Phoenix. Signed by Tennessee Williams. Signed Limited First Edition. New Directions. Norfolk, 1951. SOLD

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Fielding as many emails as I have today has got to count for something

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I will never understand why it's common practice for taxpayers to subsidize major league stadiums in the US. These sports franchises can afford to pay for their own real estate.

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Stranger Music. Signed by Leonard Cohen. First Edition, First Printing. McClelland & Stewart. Toronto, 1993. eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

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Please share! Fully funded PhD studentship in Digital Humanities and 19C travel writing at U of Copenhagen: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

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Morel of the story hehehe

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Portnoy’s Complaint. By Philip Roth. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Random House. New York, 1969. eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

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There will be a garden of tacky statues in place of informative, enriching research. How efficient.

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Lexicon Philosophicum. By Stephani Chauvini. Second Edition. Franciscus Halma. Leeuwarden, 1713. eveninglandbooks.com/product/0001...

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How I arrived on bluesky

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We have found more morels 🍄‍🟫

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We're building a list of IOBA members on Bluesky. Are you a current member of the IOBA? Let us know so we can find your Bluesky account and add it to the list! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The Year of the Flood. Signed by Margaret Atwood. First American Edition, First Printing. Doubleday. New York, 2009. SOLD

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The Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) has joined Bluesky! Please give them a like and follow. Helping the IOBA is essentially helping hundreds of independent booksellers from various countries across the globe.

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Just found a morel mushroom!

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Every Easter of my adulthood, I wake having forgotten it was Easter–only to be reminded by a text that came sometime before the sun rose. It's my elderly father. Every time, from wherever he is in the blueblack cold of early morning, he asks, where is my Easter basket?

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