Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialTom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so 3551961
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Ooh! I'm halfway through Black Silk now! This is great 010
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBen (Bee) Kahn @benkahncomics.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They call him Batman Beyond because he's made entirely of plant proteins 201623317
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialSwedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026 6367445163
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialMary Jo Richards @mjrichards.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I’m fascinated by what @ryancordell.org and @skeuomorphpress.org are doing with printing technologies. I have been talking about doing something similar with an unnetworked/analog writing lab for students at my college. Having it also be a makerspace like this? Exciting! youtu.be/5MJG4_q7vcc?...youtu.beSkeuomorph Press: Slowing down in the digital ageYouTube video by Liberal Arts & Sciences at Illinois 2114
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Historian: The cup can teach you a lot of things that you do not want to know 56916145
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Wait is this not who "Butlerian jihad" refers to?! 330
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Yessss this is where the series gets even WEIRDER! 010
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You're inspiring me to go back and read the series again 200
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Yeah the main characters of all the series get tortured a LOT. But I still read all of them and loved them. 010
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialMel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026my prediction for the near-term future is that the most technologically savvy among the general populace will be driven to a kind of neo-luddite revolution being the demographic that understands that everything that surrounds us is increasingly broken by design 29119
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialDan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching 61785451
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialLise M. Dyckman @lisedyckman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This is a huge issue for scholarship, not just for library collections. We can’t keep ebooks, etexts, ejournals, only rent them. Which means: - paying over & over again to achess the same titles, & - no guarantees of finding the same works later; they can be yanked at any time. 17136
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Zuckerberg refuses to acknowledge that he owes his fortune to the fact that his users love each other more than they hate him, so he has set out to shatter those bonds of love and sharpen that hatred. 43/ 124942
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026For Zuck - who owns a controlling share of voting stock in his company and need not answer to his board - it's a spectacular act of delusional self-sabotage. Zuck refuses to understand that the majority of his users are on his platform because they love their friends more than they hate him. 36/ 324629
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026Zuck has benefited enormously from the fact that you love your friends more than you hate him, but (because hell is other people), you can't all agree on when to leave and where to go next, so you stay put on Facebook and Instagram: locusmag.com/feature/comm... 22/locusmag.comCommentary: Cory Doctorow: Hell Is Other People“So this is hell. I’d never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the ‘burning marl.’ Old wives’ tales! There’s… 321842
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialAdam Rawnsley @arawnsley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast. 10346171519
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We've spent our lives, until very recently, reading predominantly human words, human sentences, human text, poetry. What is it doing to us now, emotionally, to have to wade through so much written material which simply isn't written by a person? If you're a big reader, love words, I think it hurts. 3429
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialRobin Bradford @tuphlos.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Book 1 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 Book 2 is $59.99 went out 4 times. Cost per circ $14.99 I'm not buying book 3. If the cost per circ was $5 or $3, I wouldn't mind. But that is WAY too high, especially for a thing that expires after 2 yrs. 57112
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126137999
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 01/08/2026"Gospel-centered Bible" ....so, like, the Bible? 010
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.social👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/07/2026Happy Friday everyone, as promised, here is my personal theory on this. I think Redwall takes place in our world, after an apocalyptic event of the nuclear variety caused rapid but varied growth of all animals, including humans, leading to our extinction and their mental development. Okay? 🧵 21626124
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 31/07/2026organized crime 018532
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialGC is Doing Whatever @gcvazquez.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The thing about books, as that repost earlier today mentioned, is that the words on a pdf can be changed. But to edit an already printed book, you have to cross the lines out, and if you do that to a book, people will ask, "why did you do that?" No one gets to ask a question they don't know to ask. 194
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Southern grandma's are just looking for someone to look deeply into their eyes and say, "hominy hominy hominy." 011
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026If an archive or library does digitization, they're probably using one of these or something like it. There are also smaller, less-terrifying v-cradle scanners. It's quite common! 000
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialHannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The fundamental, delicious paradox of studying history is that: 1. These people are radically different from me, and I may never properly understand them. 2. These people are exactly like me. 751493
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Archives is very slowly remediating some of their most-used collections. We're a tiny library and without hiring 4 or 5 staff just for digitization (lol) this is all we can do. Basically everyone is just waiting for someone to get sued so we can all figure out what we should *actually* be doing. 000
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Anecdotally, many students like reading via text-to-speech and are happy if that is mostly functional. Our disability services offices does do the full treatment for students with accommodations, though. 100
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026By that I mean no one's requested full remediation in the year+ we've been doing this, which might just mean people don't want to ask. But otherwise it would mean 1) not offering that service at all or 2) taking a week+ to deliver instead of an hour or less, which just hurts access in the long run. 100
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Same on all counts! We scan for ILL/patron digitization requests, not otherwise available to the public, so we've defaulted to just sending out what the system autotags and telling people we'll happily do full remediation if requested. Not perfect, but seems to meet patron needs so far. 100
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I will say all of them do just fine (more or less) with born-digital or simple scanned pages with just one column of text and no images. But we're working with older/archival stuff which is a crapshoot. 000
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The third is Panorama which works fine for faculty remediating their course materials (it connects to our LMS) but is otherwise pretty useless. Easy to autotag but hard to change or add tags. Clunky as hell. Limited # of files you can process before it costs more $$$. 200
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026PREP is our second fave! Equidox is easier to use and better UI but PREP can be better for the more fiddly bits of tagging. A colleague compared it to the Mac vs. Windows in that way. And sometimes one will just...not export tags on a file that the other one does perfectly well. Why? Who knows! 100
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026And "AI" doesn't really have a solution! Everything we're using is supposedly "AI" in some way but it all just sucks in different ways! Whyyyyy 000
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Oof, best of luck. We found one we like (equidox) but still have subscriptions to two others because they do some things slightly better and sometimes the first one just....doesn't do what it's supposed to do for no clear reason. 🙃 200
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I'm passionate about my job but sometimes it all just feels like accessibility theater. :( 120
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialNew-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b 7678532570
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 28/07/2026The more I remediate PDFs for WCAG compliance the more frustrated I get that no one had figured out an actual solution to this besides "edit it all by hand." 1270
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026whoops, reading comprehension fail 000
nofunfortrish.bsky.social @nofunfortrish.bsky.social · 24/07/2026"The Great Cat Massacre" by Darnton. Fascinating subject with a huge WTF-factor and plenty to talk about from a historiographic standpoint. 120
Reposted by @nofunfortrish.bsky.socialRoland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past 24671185