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Sci-eng / comp sci librarian at @mitlibraries; long-time @wikipedia / @Wikimedia vol. I ♥ open: collab, info, internet, science, politics, dinners. 📷 @megwacha

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

Wikipedia was founded exactly 20 years ago, on January 15, 2001: today is Wikipedia Day, our birthday. I have been editing Wikipedia -- & writing, teaching and helping govern it -- for 17.5 of those years. #wikipedia20 1/🧵

[Matt Miller @thisismmiller]

Made some improvements to:
https://t.co/1a4OdgOJMQ
An OCR tool for complicated docs that lets you manually select what text to extract. You can now structure the text into fields and download as JSON. It now also supports multipage PDFs. New tutorial video on the home page.

[OpenCitations @opencitations]

Open Position: Research Fellow at OpenCitations (University of Bologna, Italy) https://t.co/uSeev4UMJ3 #unibo

[Andrew Lih @fuzheado]

It is with great sadness to report that Effie Kapsalis @digitaleffie is no longer with us. She was a fierce advocate for open access to knowledge at the @Smithsonian and beyond, and a passionate @Wikipedia supporter. @MuseumCN #Museweb #OpenGLAM #GLAMwiki https://t.co/pBhQkYc99A

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Donald Trump asking the SCOTUS to invalidate an election, suspend the Constitution & just declare him president is wild AF

That would essentially mean the Jan 6 insurrection was successful. There’s no way anyone who knows REAL HISTORY thinks that could happen…

Again.

A thread

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

I'm losing my fucking mind. ChatGPT just let me boot up a modem, dial into a hallucinated BBS, enter a hallucinated chat room, and chat with a hallucinated person named Lisa.

[National Library of Wales @NLWales]

Matchday two has arrived and football mania has certainly reached the Library. Pob lwc today @Cymru!

#YWalGoch #TogetherStronger #ArBenYByd

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

@nap_time You had a lot happen this year, friend! Being out of it (or reading less, or whatever) is legit

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

Cosycore. Empathycore. Hobbitcore!! This thread is genius. Let's all be Hobbitcore.

[Cassie Evans @cassiecodes]

Whatever the opposite of “hardcore” 10x rock star dev is, that’s what I want.

cosycore, moving slowly, making things right, petting the dog, naps, staring out of the window pondering problems and drinking tea.

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

One wonders I guess if the Twitter fiasco is a surprise to corporate shareholders, and if so why.

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

Let us reflect on this Matt Levine story from May:
https://t.co/ueEXimc1Op

The board didn't have to say yes, and (I don't think) the shareholders had to vote yes. And anyone with a brain (or research background) could have told them and Elon acquisition would be bad, so ?????

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

@qwertnewto @jersiegel solid answer. Mine is off because we chose this week (of all the weeks) to replaces furnaces with heat pumps ☑️

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

@jamesofur good luck with the stove, and I am impressed! Caramels are difficult. Wishing you glorious comfort cooking this time around! I may have bought a variety of gelling/emulsifying agents to bring a little molecular experimentation action to thanksgiving :)

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

Come find me at @[email protected] and let's go experience some terrible UX together

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

You've now got new fake accounts spoofing the apology of the real account for the behavior of the other fake accounts.

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

@krmaher 1) I was always sad wm-l wasn't/isn't wittier; the funniest members historically had some of the sharpest axes. I always wanted it to be more fun to complain.
2) I've been thinking a lot about how the lessons we all learned about community pushback are, apparently, non-obvious.

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

@TownBlvd We're all lucky to have you!

[@[email protected] @phoebe_ayers]

@smythsewn We got a tiny David Bowie!