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LibraryThing founder. Father, hacker, bibliophile, ex-classicist, Mainer, Catholic. I tweet books, libraries, technology, culture. LibraryThing: @librarything.com
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Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

On the plus side, we can finally get the James Bond / Lord of the Rings crossover fans have been asking for. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Social-media thought: I do not understand how pornography moved from free—and a disaster for the actors, because it was 95% pirated—to paid and highly lucrative for the actors via OnlyFans. I guess mens' real desire was for connection, via parasocial relationships, not porn per se?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 335 days ago • 80 comments

*stares in historian*

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

iocus bellorum stellariorum /Minimi (A Star Wars/Minimus joke). Luccus: haec est Ala X mea (Luke: this is my X-wing). Rufus: sed alas IV habet (but it has four wings). #ilcd25 #ilcd2025

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Today I'm a real programmer. I did some math I actually needed to write down on paper to figure out. Obscure Big Red One (1980) reference.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Our President and Vice President are evil liars, the enemies of freedom at home and abroad. They should make the heirs of Reagan sick.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Instead of endlessly scrolling streaming services, they should make a fake Blockbuster store for millennials where you can bring your family and browse all the VHS boxes on the little shelves for 45 minutes and then check one out and bring it home and scan it and then your tv plays it

submitted 9 days ago • 183 comments

Now I'm picturing Dante trying to say "Gwaihir." It would be like that cute American/Italian couple, Carlo and Sarah, where Carlo can't pronounce words like "tickling."

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The word 'bed' kind of looks like a bed.

submitted 9 days ago • 29 comments

"With the click of a button, censors can wipe out access to crucial resources for hundreds of thousands of people at once... because of one person’s complaint." Our new report on digital censorship is out. www.libraryfutures.net/censorship

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Great idea for a list from a LibraryThing member: "Books you live in fear of seeing adapted because you know they're going to screw it up."

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

People complained that AI videos involved bizarre changes—faces, hair, clothing would morph as the video went along. They fixed this to a great extent, but now CHANGE is hard. "Take a classical column and morph it through the major orders—Doric, Ionic and Corinthian."

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

LibraryThing released two not-small features today—a revised review format, now on author pages, and an @ mentions and notifications feature, to make Talk better. Tomorrow let's do three!

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to convince LibraryThing staff that the site should have mentions with ampersands, like &TimSpalding instead of @. More bookish! Sexier! They're not buying it.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

When you get your Catholic teaching so wrong the pope himself has to issue a correction ☠️

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Not believing it's him until he posts in Norwegian! (Yes, he knows Norwegian. He learned it to read a book. I'm not even joking.)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

LibraryThing popularity charts for rising and falling series. Enders Game? Falling. For Dummies? Falling. The Empyrean (Fourth Wing)? Rising. Narnia? Stable.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Why on earth has nobody made an ebook of Joseph Moncure March's "The Wild Party" (1928)?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment