🔖 Louisiana House Passes Legislation to Fight Weather-Controlling 'Chemtrails': Chemtrails are a long-debunked conspiracy theory but that hasn't stopped lawmakers from latching onto it | Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/lousiana-house-passes-legislation-to-fight-weather-controlling-chemtrails-2000610217 #BookmarkShare
“Swift allowed us to write smaller, less verbose, and more expressive codebases (close to 85% reduction in lines of code) that are highly readable while prioritizing safety and efficiency.”
https://swift.org/blog/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-password-monitoring-service-from-java/
Spent an evening actually reading the Supreme Court judgement. It's left me convinced that the path to sort out the mess is a) self id for changing legal gender b) update Equality Act and Gender Recognition Act because sex is not a binary and c) remove gendered language from law unless it's really, really needed to avoid tortuous pedantic interpretations. Oh and d) talk to trans folk and non-terfs next time
I like this. (Solomon Bloom,from an unpublished essay quoted in the intro to A Liberal in Two Worlds: The Essays of Solomon F. Bloom, p. 6)
We* got rid of phone booths because mobile phones and it would be really great to bring them back so people could have their private calls in private.
“Not in a million years would I have predicted this outcome. I just wanted to make flying robots. Ardupilot powered drones just took out half the Russian strategic bomber fleet.”
https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/
Yikes, sad news about Guilford College.
"Guilford College Debates How 'Quakerly' It Should Be"
I'm enjoying the #German #TV crime #drama, #Spuren (titled 'Black Forest Murders' in English), currently available on BBC Four. But it brings new meaning to the genre 'police procedural'! Lengthy scenes of forensic lab teams acquiring genetic material from murder weapons, genetic samples being meticulously transferred by pipette for analysis, police officers sleeping during a stakeout, police officers phoning round an almost endless and mundane list of potential witnesses. 😃
The Bureau of Library Tourism, a pecha kucha by the inimitable @copystar https://librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/05/28/the-bureau-of-library-tourism/
"I teach 18 year olds who range in reading levels from preschool to college, but the majority of them are in the lower half that range. I am devastated by what AI and social media have done to them. My kids don’t think anymore. They don’t have interests."
This part is a broader cultural problem (albeit one exacerbated by AI), and one that teachers like this can help with but can't really solve without a broad, *radical* cultural shift.
"Switching to in-class writing [to prevent students cheating with gen AI] has got me contemplating giving oral examinations, something I've never done. It would be a big step, but likely a positive and humanizing one."
This sounds great, honestly. I'm not terribly optimistic that this will happen, but a silver lining to omnipresent AI would be if there's a sufficient backlash that at least some parts of the world become more human.
6/2/2025“Wim Wenders’ New Short Film Reminds Europe of the Lessons of World War II” https://urls.mcilwa.in/79pfi
We're organising another Data Carpentry for Social Sciences and Humanities workshop with R, in collaboration with TU Delft, on 1 and 2 July: https://4turesearchdata-carpentries.github.io/2025-07-01-ld-delft/
It's open to researchers and staff from #TUDelft and @universiteitleiden
A reminder that there still time to apply for our Digital Library Systems Developer post at the University of Glasgow. All the details are in the toot below. Join us!! 😃
https://code4lib.social/@g3om4c/114465524204724701 #DigitalLibraries #DigitalArchives #GLAM #repositories #OpenResearch #software #systems #developer #jobs
Keynote from Prof. Thomas Wilson at the #CoLIS2025 doctoral workshop, describing changes in #InformationScience research over 50 years. Interesting observations on quantitative and qualitative methods.
En route to the #CoLIS2025 conference which, handily for me, is being held at the Technology Innovation Centre (TiC) in Glasgow (part of University of Strathclyde). 😃 Today I am one of several mentors in the doctoral workshop -- looking forward to hearing about new frontiers in research from the next generation of students, and the future generation of scholars! 👍
https://colis2025.cis.strath.ac.uk/ #InformationScience #libraries #LIS #HCI #HumanComputerInteraction
🔖 Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device: Using the Apple TV app or an Apple account means giving Apple more data, though | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/all-the-ways-apple-tv-boxes-do-and-mostly-dont-track-you/ #BookmarkShare
After seeing that pic of 47's phone lock screen, I am forced to conclude that the guy doesn't even HAVE a cat
hot take but it’s actually okay and cool to hold people responsible for their actions
"Librarian clears lost book debts thanks to social media followers"