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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/09/2026
INSIDE YOU THERE ARE TWO OUTLOOKS
NEITHER ARE WORKING
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest for @newscientist.com
Two scientists walk past numerous enormous shelves, each divided into sections containing a huge array of weird items. One says:
“We still don't know what any of this is, where it came from, or what it does, but you have to admit we've shelved it all beautifully.”
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Tara O’Connor @taraocomics.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think we owe comic sans an apology. 😭
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The idea of AI “hallucinating” is one I wish I’d had!
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 11/08/2026
Soon the tyranny of my youtube "watch later" playlist will be over 🌄
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 08/08/2026
terrapin-trail.com 🐢🚐🌎🎤📼👀
terrapin-trail.com
Terrapin Trail - a long strange trip simulator
A comedic Oregon Trail-style RPG following the Grateful Dead's Spring 1977 tour. Tape every show, work the lot, keep the van alive, and don't get dosed.
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ECP @ecppdx.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
omg I found the picture ❤️
An image of The Villeneuve Scale of Air Pollution (aka the Milleneuve)

Arrival
< 100 milleneuves
(normal particulate levels)

Prisoners
200 milleneuves
(chimney smoke and rage)

Sicario
300 milleneuves
(gunsmoke and drugs maybe?)

Enemy
600 milleneuves
(C'mon, Toronto, you used to be cool)

Dune
750 milleneuves
(stillsuits are a must!)

Blade Runner 2049
900 milleneuves
(omg why are you even outside, Ryan Gosling??)

[each entry has a still from the film showing the sky color, from clear to deep orange]
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Yes yes yes
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Those assembly turn cranks that won't get thrown in the trash
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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Self-Portrait” by Haruka Kawakami
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 11/07/2026
hey so... I dunno if you've noticed this... but bluesky is kinda entertaining?
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026
This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)
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videajames (on vacation - comms reopen 10/1) @videajames.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
do u see the vision
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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
Cairo Smith:
There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.
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Paperpile @paperpile.com · 24/02/2026
What if your AI assistant could search your library like you do? MCP allows researchers to connect LLMs directly to academic databases or personal libraries. This moves the AI from a simple search to a real research assistant, via @aarontay.bsky.social aarontay.substack.com/p/creating-y...
aarontay.substack.com
The agentic researcher - building custom, transparent and extensible workflows with Claude & MCP
Why generic LLM + academic MCP servers might be as good if not better than specalised Academic deep research
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 22/01/2026
Lifehack: speed-running Youtube news using the "ask Gemini" button for timestamps
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/01/2026
The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller
theguardian.com
The pulmonaut: how James Nestor turned breathing into a 3m copy bestseller
It is the most essential thing we do - yet many of us arguably breathe badly. The author of Breath explains how that can be changed
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE MALTESE FALCON (1930) 🦅💎 🕵️ Sam Spade is on the Case of the Disappearing Copyright as The Maltese Falcon novel joins the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Very happy to introduce a new tool, BookReconciler! You can take spreadsheets with book data and add subject headings, descriptions, ISBNs, HathiTrust IDs, & more. You can also cluster editions & variations of the same "Work." Led by @thisismattmiller.com and supported by @post45data.bsky.social.
Diagram illustrating the BookReconciler workflow. On the left, a book cover of The Book of Salt by Monique Truong appears alongside “Minimal Metadata,” listing Author: Truong, Monique and Title: The Book of Salt. An arrow points to a box labeled “BookReconciler” with book and diamond icons. A downward arrow leads to “Enriched + Clustered Metadata,” showing multiple editions of the book cover and expanded metadata, including several ISBNs, subject headings (e.g., Vietnamese–France fiction, women authors, household employees, gay men, cooking), and an author VIAF identifier.
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 24/11/2025
concert tour t-shirt spoof that just lists different LLM model drop dates in a year
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 23/10/2025
The hilarious idea of combining www.copyright.gov/vcc/ & DeepSeek OCR
copyright.gov
Virtual Card Catalog | U.S. Copyright Office
Virtual Card Catalog
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 21/10/2025
10/20/25, a day forever known in the public library world as the "Hooplapocalypse"
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 18/09/2025
Don't be fooled, "Agentic AI" is "Daemonic AI" in sheep's clothing 🤣
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Geoffrey A. Fowler @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
What happens when you show up for a Zoom meeting ... and the only other participants are AI note takers? It happened to my colleague: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
washingtonpost.com
No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
why did this make me laugh
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 19/06/2025
The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2000 #WebDesignHistory
The diversity of horizontal navigation in 2000
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 14/03/2025
I'll say it again: can't ignore the personalized accessibility benefits of GenAI, especially combined w/ local LLM. Game changer in many ways.
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 20/02/2025
go.illinois.edu/lmrs
go.illinois.edu
Library Makerspaces Research Showcase Registration
Friday, 2/28/2025, 10am - 4pm CST, Zoom Join us for the Library Makerspaces Research Showcase, a free one-day online event highlighting the breadth of research and scholarship on library makerspaces. ...
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 17/02/2025
Extremely satisfying to fix $100 headphones with $0.02 tape 🎶
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 11/02/2025
So I just found this and it's very reminiscent of the ideas percolating at Xerox PARC before the PC revolution took off. What happens we focus tech on making people smarter? In a lot of ways the internet became an entertainment machine, but that's not all it can do!
microsoft.com
Tools for Thought - Microsoft Research
Better thinking through AI Much AI research focuses on solving specific tasks for people – generating content or automating processes. While such systems may be powerful, there are risks that this app...
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 07/02/2025
chatgpt.com/g/g-tMnRo5nY...
chatgpt.com
ChatGPT - The Improver
It improves your last prompt based on an agreed upon goal or set of goals and continues to update as the conversation goes on.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This paper is wild - a Stanford team shows the simplest way to make an open LLM into a reasoning model They used just 1,000 carefully curated reasoning examples & a trick where if the model tries to stop thinking, they append "Wait" to force it to continue. Near o1 at math. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.19393
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is a fascinating effort. huggingface.co/blog/open-r1
huggingface.co
Open-R1: a fully open reproduction of DeepSeek-R1
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 28/01/2025
LLM Horror Story: The (API) Call is Coming From Inside the House
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 25/01/2025
OpenAI "Operators" + scheduled tasks will be game changer for public library systems. We're all union catalogs now!
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 18/01/2025
Over the years I've come to realize that my quality of life is directly proportional to quick laser printer access. Respect the printer, behold the power of publishing🫡🖨️(and I'm only half kidding about this)
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 17/01/2025
Watching a webinar recording you did months ago and then realizing you're currently wearing the same shirt is funny. Perhaps I time traveled, but forgot?
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 11/01/2025
Nice to see "books3" in the LLM news once again. Trying to mesh this with Lawrence Lessing's book 'Remix' from 2009 and all the fair use advocacy that librarians did back then...
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Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
New AI Snake Oil essay: Last month the AI industry's narrative suddenly flipped — model scaling is dead, but "inference scaling" is taking over. This has left people outside AI confused. What changed? Is AI capability progress slowing? We look at the evidence. 🧵 www.aisnakeoil.com/p/is-ai-prog...
Declaring the death of model scaling is premature.

Regardless of whether model scaling will continue, industry leaders’ flip flopping on this issue shows the folly of trusting their forecasts. They are not significantly better informed than the rest of us, and their narratives are heavily influenced by their vested interests.

Inference scaling is real, and there is a lot of low-hanging fruit, which could lead to rapid capability increases in the short term. But in general, capability improvements from inference scaling will likely be both unpredictable and unevenly distributed among domains.

The connection between capability improvements and AI’s social or economic impacts is extremely weak. The bottlenecks for impact are the pace of product development and the rate of adoption, not AI capabilities.
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 18/12/2024
I don't normally rate dogs, but this one is easily a 12/10
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 07/12/2024
Ok instead of Secret Santa I propose a new game called Secretive Santa™
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 06/12/2024
The irony of a 30 second video intros about "not wasting time and getting into it" 😉
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 15/11/2024
"We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We can make it better than it was. Better, stronger, faster. Higher Quality Memes. Lower pings. 144hz refresh rates."
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MadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
The Onion should buy Elsevier next
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 14/11/2024
This me
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 14/11/2024
(xcm was my cataloger name as an intern here many years ago) www.americanantiquarian.org
americanantiquarian.org
Welcome to the American Antiquarian Society | American Antiquarian Society
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Chris @akamarkman.com · 14/11/2024
First post
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