Marc d'Avernas

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I’d much rather be me. For once I’d much rather be me

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Goodbye my friend

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Okay now it’s been about a year. Still bouncing

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I bought this basketball less than a year ago 😬

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@babrahamse I kinda wish someone would have told me about this 15 years ago

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@funnythat I will wantonly ignore it

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@funnythat “Productive”. How boring!

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Whatever happened to the principled hackers of yesteryear? Get off my lawn and stay away from our public services

[Librarianship.ca @LibrarianshipCA]

2 experts explain why libraries can become cybercrime targets https://t.co/yJ5blkwU2F

Two days after London's Public Library suffered a "major systems outage" shutting down everything from the library's website to its book catalogue, the culprit remains unclear.

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@librarythingtim ChatGPT definitely lacks something in sophistication. Inscrutability is good sometimes

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ChatGPT is basically Cow Tools

[Tim Spalding 🇺🇦 @librarythingtim]

ChatGPT asked to explain this joke:

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Alberta

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@karunatimkova A triangle of pain and exploitation. Not enough is said about it

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@karunatimkova Oh and the best part: “we are doing this because we are suddenly addicted to tea”

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@karunatimkova Love this one. The mental gymnastics required for “let’s cannon this country open so we can sell them destructive illegal drugs” must have been wild

[agent ndn @TheAgentNDN]

DECOLONIZATION IS NOT A METAPHOR

Read and share this classic essay before it's censored. This is what kids should be reading instead of Letter to America.

https://t.co/wYgXXcfqFp

[Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social @ashleydfarley]

Just received a request for an Oxford University Press journal supplement with an eye watering price tag.
MDPI wouldn't charge this much...

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This was 38 years ago! Half a lifetime! And if we keep it up it’ll be less than a lifetime in no time

[David Ho @_david_ho_]

Happy Carl Sagan Day!

Back in 1985, Carl Sagan told Congress that continuing to burn fossil fuels will increase global temperature, cause climate change, melt glaciers and ice sheets, and cause sea level rise.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Dog Sees the Spirits, 1960 by artist of Canadian Inuit heritage Kenojuak Ashevak #WomensArt

[OSLA Council @oslacouncil]

On this Canadian School Library Day, a huge shout out to every school library professional! We see you and all of the work you do to speak up for school libraries. Give a shout out to someone you know. Share their great work. #SchoolLibraryJoy #CSLD2023 #ONSchoolLibraries

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Funny how we called this place a hellscape before

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The jury is still out on this one but the article does make some interesting and novel arguments. More to come I’m sure

[Librarianship Studies & Information Technology @metadataexpert]

BIBFRAME Must Die

October 15, 2023 marks the 21st anniversary of Roy Tennant's article "MARC Must Die." With a nod to MARC21, this article argues that BIBFRAME is not the way forward for bibliographic description and offers five reasons why.

https://t.co/5IUdBGdQ6q