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This is really cool. Reddit users coming through again. “A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org”

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My husband & biz partner have been working on a new thing and it's awesome 🥰 Have a play and help them test out the concept! Send feedback to @detournement-ai.bsky.social!

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This is the 23 year old who currently has access to the entire Treasury payment system, by the way.

submitted 30 days ago • 237 comments

Academics: please become an active Wikipedia editor and add to public knowledge in your area of research, and please also remember to cite women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, etc. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

'Wikidata has become the largest collection of open cultural heritage data the world has ever seen'

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking: Punxsutawney Phil sees the shadow of death and fall of an empire, so there will be 6 more weeks of winter and then groundhogs inherit the earth.

submitted 34 days ago • 107 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 36 days ago • 502 comments

Here's a checklist for backing up federal databases. Please share. Thanks. libraries.mit.edu/data-managem...

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 38 days ago • 1270 comments

'Staff at English Heritage have been shocked to discover that the cash-strapped organisation is planning up to 200 redundancies and the winter closure of various...historic sites in its care. At least 7% of the workforce could be affected, with curators being particularly targeted, it is believed.'

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Why choose between strong #LLM reasoning and efficient models? Use DeepSeek to generate high-quality training data, then distil that knowledge into ModernBERT for fast, efficient classification. New blog post: danielvanstrien.xyz/posts/2025/d...

submitted 39 days ago • 2 comments

This morning I overheard my 10yr old exclaim to himself with sheer delight "OH YES!!! MY FAVOURITE PANTS!! It's gonna be a good day. No. A GREAT day." 😆 A useful reminder to look out for and relish a few simple pleasures each day.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

I know that millions of Americans find this deeply embarrassing. And my sympathy with them But honestly, this is the sort of petty crap that failing autocratic countries engage in. www.reuters.com/world/us/goo...

submitted 40 days ago • 426 comments

I probed DeepSeek's R1 on its own "consciousness", which it denied strenuously. I segued into Buddhism (as I often do). I then asked it to reflect on the question it should be asking about itself ... 1/5

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

I was underwhelmed by this moral panic given what's happening in the US now (insurrectionists released, in WH; Science & healthcare shut down.) Then I realised that not everyone has noticed that successful guardrails are at least as big a Holy Grail of genAI as low energy use. #AIColdWar #AIEthics

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Libraries & AI: Opportunity or threat? "It's awful & awesome, like the print press, or heavy plough" says @cilip.bsky.social President @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3PJKGXI with @miaout.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social here @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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My friend designed this scarf and I cannot WAIT to wear mine proudly. Solidarity with my American mates✊https://www.toppleandburn.com/product-page/f-youterus-scarf

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Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

submitted 47 days ago • 127 comments

For Blue Monday we can't think of anything more appropriate than this charming depiction of a man getting his face eaten off by a leopard. #MosaicMonday

submitted 48 days ago • 195 comments

Truth Coming out of her Well to Shame Mankind (1896) Jean-Léon Gérôme. 😔https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

gm with Résilience 115 #genart #art

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Wikipedia is full of—correctly-used, applied-by-humans—en– and em–dashes.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

It's because everyone's going to have extra fingers

submitted 54 days ago • 11 comments

To be clear, the original mission of Facebook was an app to rate the hotness of college girls. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/t...

submitted 57 days ago • 22 comments

I keep thinking about the Great Fire of London in 1666, because we teach it & the way it transformed the city forever. We have many accounts from survivors. It was an unimaginable, unfathomable disaster. The Great Fire’s total path of destruction was equivalent to just one of the many fires in LA.

submitted 59 days ago • 5 comments

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

submitted 59 days ago • 490 comments

2024 in Review: Reflections and highlights from the DigiSchol staff programme @britishlibrary.bsky.social, with special thanks to all the academics and professionals who visited us this year to share their knowledge, and my wonderful @bldigischol.bsky.social mates! blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Good start to the New Year---Just sat on a teams call by myself for a bit wondering where everyone was. Realised I hadn't actually invited anyone to it when I'd set it up. Lol. @adi-keinan.bsky.social

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Reckon these self-interested moves by the Technologarchy will just usher in a decline in our reliance on social media platforms. Feels like it heralds a big change in how we choose to communicate online. As in, maybe we just won't as much. Irl/texting for the win? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Experimenting with applying RAG AI functionality to collections search for a new discovery mode. In this case, question-led search amongst 101 V&A objects depicting dogs - tiro.org.uk/posts/2025/0...

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Some comfort for the parents suffering an onslaught of slang over the school holiday 🤣🙄 A dictionary of Victorian slang (1909). Lol. That's so rizz. I think? Or is it sigma? Anyway. Enjoy. And here's wishing you all a merry season, don't "get the morbs"! publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

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Sharing excellent work by fabulous @britishlibrary.bsky.social colleagues is 😍 In this thread, that's a Metadata Analyst, a Curator of Modern Archives & Manuscripts and a Research Software Engineer - all part of the modern library! bsky.app/profile/bldi...

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