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Eric Hellman

@gluejar.com
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Executive Director of Project Gutenberg. Free Ebook Foundation, Unglue.it, Free-Programming-Books. (他)

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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 05/07/2026
Excited to visit the Gutenberg Museum MOVED tomorrow. They’re building a new museum, the old building was unsuited to exhibiting the museum’s treasures, so there’s a temporary museum in the Natural History Museum.
Eric in front of the Gutenberg statue in Gutenberplatz.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 15/08/2025
On Wednesday, I finished a 110km trek, the Fjällräven Classic Sweden, along with 500 others, many of whom are now good friends!
Eric and Miggi celebrate crossing the finish line.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 05/04/2025
#handsoff the sign is weeping.
Can’t spell FELON without ELON
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 05/04/2025
#handsoff Essex County, with Cory Booker
Cory Booker working the crowd. Protest crowd with cherry blossoms
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 03/04/2025
Aggressive AI scraping bots have been periodically making it very difficult to access Unglue.it. The image shows the traffic pattern we've been dealing with. We will outlast this evil scourge.
plot of unglue.it cpu usage vs.time for a 3 day period. bots periodically attack the site resulting in 100% cpu usage.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 31/12/2024
For example, the alt text for the illustration showing Pooh peering up at the bees can't call them bees, because in the next sentence, Pooh thinks: "That buzzing-noise means something. You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something."
What is that buzzing sound?
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 03/12/2024
Are Open Acces Ebooks Accessible? (Poster from Munin Conference).
Poster styled as a whiteboard collage. Short answer: Not really.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 27/11/2024
Ronald Snijder and I presented our poster assessing the state of accessibility in Open Access Ebooks at the Munin Conference in Tromsø.
Ronald Snijder and Eric Hellman standing in from of their poster.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 11/11/2024
Here’s the image:
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 20/03/2024
Did I mention that the “community standards” warning from Facebook came just a few hours after this?:
Screenshot of message from Facebook offering “performance bonuses” for the gutenberg_new page.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 20/03/2024
I run the bot that posts new books at Project Gutenberg. Today Facebook thought that www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73205 violated their guidelines
Screenshot from Facebook warning about going against “community standards”. (For showing a woman with breasts. )
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 23/10/2023
Went to Montclair Film Festival panel on AI. Anna Feldman (cs prof): Human intelligence can be hard to define. Stephen Colbert: I’ve met us! #mff23 #montclairfilm
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 19/09/2023
Here’s the poster I’ve just presented at the #OASPA2023 Conference. We’re checking 69,000 free ebook links every month. Currently there are problems with 6% of them. doab-check.ebookfoundation.org
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 15/05/2023
Here’s an iris, and some blue sky, for all the sky-moms.
A dark purple iris at the Presby Memorial Iris Garden.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 04/05/2023
Gardening the Lawn: Bamboo Shoot edition.
Bamboo Shoots, processed. Bamboo shoots, as harvested.
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Eric Hellman @gluejar.com · 02/05/2023
Is the sun rising, or setting?
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