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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 3h

"you can pay this bill by using the QR code in the attached PDF" what a bullshit information age this is

Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It's not that I don't like to stick it to the man with an open source suite of tools but if one's method requires copying the completed work someone else paid people for, rather than getting a community to contribute the work, where does the next generation of that, or other software come from?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Interesting pedagogical perspective from 1975, less text in the text book, to encourage thinking: "Faced with a choice of reading about something versus thinking about it, people will choose reading. Reading drives out thinking."

A Note for Instructors. The problems in this book are designed to stimulate thought. For many of the problems, especially those in Chapters 2 and 3, there are no unique correct answers; rather, there are only thoughtful and nonthoughtful answers, or creative/noncreative answers. The amount of written material in the book has deliberately been kept terse to allow more time for thought. In effect, we postulate a Gresham's Law of Study: Faced with a choice of reading about something versus thinking about it, people will choose reading. Reading drives out thinking. Reading is a well-defined technology at which most of us are relatively competent; it provides easily recognized benchmarks of progress and completion, and it can be accomplished with certainty in some easily predicted time period.

Reducing the necessary reading time is only part of the solution, though. We also need to make thinking more attractive and rewarding. One way to do this is the formation of small problem-set groups. Each group meets outside of class to discuss the problems and ultimately turns

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"The application of information technology to organisations demands a wider knowledge than many of its specialists now display." Ha! I hear that 1973 Robert Stamper

The explosive growth of information technology has not been accompanied by a commensurate improvement in the understanding of information. It is undoubtedly easier to manufacture and distribute electronic hardware than to refine our concepts of information and disseminate them to the hard-pressed men and women who are trying to put the new technology to work in government, industry and commerce. Too often the computer has either had a muffled impact or caused unexpected damage when introduced by technicians who do not understand how information functions in organisations. The application of information technology to organisations demands a wider knowledge than many of its specialists now display. It calls for an understanding of both machine and human information systems.

Society is a fabric woven from threads of communication. Organizations occupy a significant area of that fabric and increasingly they affect the texture and tensions of the life of every individual. The products of technologies have had a profound effect upon society, which has adapted its contours to accommodate them as though they were objects underneath and external to it. But information technology is different. It can be woven into the fabric itself and, by making possible new patterns of communication among people, it can allow us to create new kinds of society

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

in addition to being for the wrong date, this automatically created Outlook event includes a line of blue text: "Check in online" which is NOT a hyperlink to anything and so I think this is some Copilot AI bullshit

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My outlook calendar has an event on it for my flight to DTW, and the day after a return flight I didn't add these events to the calendar, outlook must have done it for me based on email contents?? But it did me a panic, because I should be staying a week, not one day... Did I fuck up the booking?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

this rep, a supporter of term limits, retired in 2016 to "uphold a promise to limit himself to 4 terms" and was replaced by... his brother, who is now running for his 6th term

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There are now *6* tiers of ticket on a Delta flight?? You can't make a UI nice enough for this not to be an exhausting bs experience, ffs

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I remember getting the breaking news of the first "Shock and awe" strikes on my 12 inch black and white TV a fact that is true, even if it seems like a false flattening of the past in a movie 100 years from now

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Best wishes to the student driver having their lesson on rush hour rt1

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"the labor force [in Trenton] includes the most skilled mechanics in every line of industry, and is singularly free from the influences that disturb workmen in some other large centers of manufacturing industry" - This 1901 NJ industrial directory What disturbing influences do you suppose?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Patron led subject classification?

Title page for The Death and Life of Great American Cities with a handwritten note in pencil: this is anthropological work

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My only complaint abt this product is that the sounds are backwards: Four notes descend when you turn it on and ascend when you turn it off

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Middle of the night me heard what I was sure was the cat hunting a mouse, and thought that's nature's problem not mine and went back to sleep

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Looking to buy a lake Ontario shirt, and so many are using a format with an "established" date, which makes no sense but where are they getting these dates???? 1615, 1632, 1656, 1660, 1867

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ugh, I needed 3 more drafts for that to have said what I wanted, but maybe what i got to made enough sense

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There is a sidewalk across that bridge, from which one can view the river but if you stand there too long the bridge police come to make sure you're ok and then won't leave until you do ask me how I know :/

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1. *Is* cooking the fun part? 2. Is this just blue apron with a chat interface instead of preference settings, or am I just getting whatever it makes up fresh for me

Dinner decided by Muse tell Muse what you like and get recipes delivered to your door. You do the fun part: cooking

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I bought a countertop dishwasher last week, and while I hesitate to say this, given the "new item" effect hasn't had time to settle yet, but It's one of the best purchases I've made. It might actually work better for me than a full dishwasher (which this apt doesn't have)

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This was a folder in the online archive in the League of Nations' International Institute of Intellectual Co-operation Which was documents related to a German writing to ask if they'd create press arbitration courts, to manage inciting slander in the papers, which was a threat to peace in Europe

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ah, to be a bougie, educated man in the 1880s the punctuation suggests this section contains a transition, but I like this as its own noun phrase

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

funny to read that Richardson (librarian at Princeton 1890-1925) "lamented the fact" that US library schools neglected to teach paleography given I was struggling to read some of his old fashioned handwriting in our special collections a few days ago

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Dear client, we're "thrilled to share" were being acquired by "a software focused private equity firm with extensive experience supporting enterprise software companies" 😒😕

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's possible I avoided giving them this information but still rude for LinkedIn to email me a prompt to wish someone else a happy birthday on my own birthday... (also, I thought I'd turned off this sort of email?!)

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Your browser has javascript disabled, today at the library

secton of an events calendar where the title of one event appears as "your browser has javascript disabled"

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"the bonds built here can never be broken" says this Army ad, while Army veterans are being deported by their commander in chief's administration

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Flash flood warning until noon! don't attempt to travel! says the phone alert that woke me up at 8:30 and my first thought was if I still worked retail (the only time I regularly traveled on Sunday mornings) could I be fired for not traveling to my shift against emergency orders?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Uh, adding a second post to a thread triggers my Android to offer to autofill my password!? Which seems not great Does anyone have any idea how to troubleshoot that in what system??

Ad another post with a pop over offer from Google password manager asking to use my saved password for blesku

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just got notice that if I take no action LinkedIn will be adding a "verification badge" to my profile, because I have "previously connected [my] LinkedIn profile to a LinkedIn Learning license" associated with my employer??

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why these logos both look like buttholes?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"[the leadership group] discussed the use of Zoom's AI note-taking capabilities and ways to share meeting outcomes with greater transparency and context for staff" ok... and uh, where did they land on that? Is what I'm reading the output of Zoom's AI, or?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I wonder what Shannon Larratt would be writing abt AI

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 09/09/2026

Bleeding edge technology? No thanks, I don't want to get blood all over my stuff

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I once told a prescriber that I know when my meds kick in, because I notice the music stops, and she was like Wut. Uh, yeah there's almost always a few phrases of something on repeat in the background up there

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Surprised to report that "Test Book Collection" in this header nav goes to a collection of test prep books! either a frequent use case, or someone at least had the foresight to make their test category coherent

Landing page for the NJ State Library showing the header navigation options: Get a Library Card, Discovery Search, Ask a Librarian, Request Materials, Jersey Clicks, Test Book Collection

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

negative fifteen has the right absolute value of letters (or negative sixteen if you count the space)

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If 10 Americans "meet by chance in the Sahara Desert and they will immediately call a meeting, form 'The Great Sahara Association,' elect officers, get themselves large badges, and hold annual reunions" and then their children will join "the sons and daughters of the same... lol (1933)

The real danger lurks in a clearly defined national weakness of an entirely different kind. This weakness may be termed the "Bloc mania." We are a nation of joiners. Let ten of our citizens meet by chance in the Sahara Desert and they will immediately call a meeting, form "The Great Sahara Association," elect officers, get themselves large badges, and hold annual reunions. And when the whole ten have passed on to their final reward "The Sons and Daughters of the Founders of the Great Sahara Association" will organize and carry on until the last progeny of the group is extinct.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Grew up with tv ads for Bryant and Stratton professional education, but didn't realize they were as old as this! 1870's for teaching the skills needed for clerical work

Age limits were very rarely mentioned. At the Bryant and Stratton Commercial School of Boston in 1875, pupils could begin the preparatory course if they were at least ten years old. Boston Commercial College, which offered no preparatory course, said that no formal entrance examination was necessary, and there was no limit as to age, but scholars less than thirteen years old were not desired. Upper age limits apparently did not exist, and in fact the same Boston Commercial College went on to say that "Scholars of mature years will almost always find persons of their own time of life attending. Every year we have among our students persons of both sexes, married and single, who have passed the early flush of youth, and are seeking special training for special ends. "

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

meliorist! don't think I've ever seen this word before (nor has my phone's autocorrect) but, I immediately knew it would mean oriented towards things getting better because my undergrad institution has the motto "Meloria" which I was taught translated to "ever better"

Section of text: laudatory in tone, meliorist in orientation (or bias)

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I ordered a camping chair on Amazon, and it was ostensibly delivered 2 weeks ago but I never got it I looked at the delivery information, and there was a picture of an Amazon box at my door

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

"We cannot see that we are so like other people that if they are prejudiced, probably also so are we. We repeat phrases and judgements uncritically. ... If we are to understand [the era's social] problems we have to tear such prejudices out by the roots and examine them objectively."

For most of us, the trouble is that we get caught up in a web of confused thinking. We mistake prejudices for clear thinking. While we may see the prejudices of others we remain quite unaware of our own. We cannot see that we are so like other people that if they are prejudiced, probably also so are we. We repeat phrases and judgments uncritically. We are assured that "Indians are not logical," and so you can do nothing with them. What do people know of the contributions of Indian scientists and mathematicians? Yellow men are naturally cunning, and, like the monkey, imitators: Jews have a natural attraction for money and business; the German is a first class, but unoriginal organiser; the Russian is original, but has no power of organisation; the British are natural colonisers We know it is a hotch potch of prejudice, at best an unconscious attempt to justify something else that is not mentioned-the lower status of the African, the subjection of the Indian, antipathy to the Soviet system, and so on. If we are to understand these problems we have to tear such prejudices out by the roots and examine them objectively.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm a skim then 30 pages into 3 of his books (don't judge the way I read) and I really do like him and while I like his Marxist flavor, and systems thinking (he's a dialectical materialist)

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

when I do Bleak. (~30 seconds says the article)

Headline: When you call the Suicide lifeline, how long with it take someone to answer? See how NJ compares.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Renaissance papermakers' watermarks!! My colleague and I spent a while debating what the symbols on this clock in the library lobby were, and this was not one we considered! But here in the 1949 special edition of the alumni magazine about the opening of the library, it's explained!

Short article featuring a photo of a clock with symbols at the 12, 3, 6 and 9:

The Clock

PATTERNED after five common water marks of the Renaissance, four sculptures on the cardinal points and a fifth on the hour hand of the clock in the main hall of the Firestone Library invite the attention of the scholar and casual visitor alike.
The names of most of the early paper-makers who first used the watermarks depicted remain unknown; but the same de-vices, with trifling variations, were used simultaneously by hundreds of different pa-per mills all over Europe. Each figure has a symbolic significance, interpreted in a study made by Harold Bayley.

The hand, at twelve o'clock, is the emblem of the axiom, "laborare est orare" to work is to pray." When marked with a heart, it takes on added significance as "loving labor." The unicorn, at three o'clock, symbolizes purity and strength. It was often represented during the Middle Ages in company with a virgin holding a dove. At six o'clock is the "Bright and Morning Star."

Stationed at nine o'clock is the hound representing the pursuit of knowledge. The greyhound, a breed of dog that figures most prominently in watermarks, is normally distinguished by the little bell around its neck signifying "acute preaching." By stretching the analogy, the belled hound becomes another symbol: an emblem of persistent and energetic education destined eventually to destroy the monster Ignorance.

The head of an ox that tips the hour hand appealed particularly to papermakers, since it was a badge of patience, a type "of all those who bore the yoke and labored in silence for the good of others."

The clock was designed by the architects with the aid of Austin Purves Jr., mural painter and sculptor, and was executed by Mr. Purves at his studio in Litchfield, Conn

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

lol, at this author for including this list of illustrations in its usual place in the front matter

Illustrations the scenes that illustrate this book are all about us. For illustrations, please look closely at real cities. While you are looking, you might as well also listen, linger and think about what you see.

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've no take or insight on the meaning of this jobs number but, "The economy churned out jobs" is a weird framing, right? Jobs as like a factory product, produced by the economy? Churning them out like plastic tat?

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An interesting management balance of wanting prof dev to be justified by skills/learning with clear applications to my current or near term work responsibilities and wanting me to submit the specific conferences I'd like to attend for funding approval long before the programs are announced

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Kat King @katalogofchaos.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Farewell MTurk, where I made grocery money the year before grad school mapping the layers in retina scans, and locating basketballs in video stills, and taking surveys about moral choices, and rewriting plagiarized blurbs for content farms It's always taken the work of people, and always will

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