Patricia Galloway

Archival educator, reader, gardener.

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‘Nobody Signed Up for This’: One Professor’s Guidelines for an Interrupted Semester https://t.co/vAdrYgYf2H via @chronicle

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Just saw this: https://t.co/PwJDhWXKCR --wouldn't it be nice if people had to program blockchain in Ada?

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#"But her emails": Well, Colin Powell is still on television for Memorial Day, and he was doing the same thing.

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Texas-based data subscription service Pensa has created a drone and its underlying artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance grocery operations. The drone can hover to scan grocery shelves and check inventory levels. Bet there will be fights with the birds in the store...

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The President gave us the solution: let people who live in gated communities pay for the wall.

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@lindaholmes I heard your comment on Netflix's Bandersnatch episode and wondered: have you ever heard of Michael Joyce (Afternoon) and StorySpace?

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Here in Austin TX the mayor says our boil-water warning (from serious rain and mud) should last "a handfull of days"--my solution: sponge baths!

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@lukedormehl Hey, Luke: DNA storage will be hugely expensive to support; do you remember Jaron Lenier's suggeation of using cockroach DNA? Self-preserving...

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@mkirschenbaum But TAR is rather more archival than other backups... ;-)

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#AppraiseThis Mat's summary from the A&A blog really offers some good advice in the way of what is needed, good because it comes from shared policies.

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#Appraisethis If you work in an archives that lacks a policy, develop one that reflects present practice and ask if you got it right!

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#appraisethis It seems to me that the public has a right to know, particularly if you are spending tax money.

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From ACM: Rechargeable Zinc Battery Could Power Smart Clothes and Wearables. From me: So we'll have to take up weaving or go naked in order not to be spied upon.

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I wonder if DevOps is too fast for mere mortals. Oh the old days of code freezes!

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Great news! AI may not be a legal person! Maybe it can't vote! https://t.co/tcXDGFhOAh

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Garbage collectors open library with abandoned books @CNN https://t.co/f9AYARTNIo
Wonder how many people in Austin are too lazy to go to HPB with their castoffs?

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See this for a useful statement that covers many bases. https://t.co/1CmDdAJ81s

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#BoyScoutGirls Well now that it's come to this, wonder if they'll get what they wish for?

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The Cisco Web Security Appliance is now altering urls in received emails at my university: archival authenticity gone?

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Comey's problem? Too tall.