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Maj - 🇨🇦 @maj.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Lovely to see Canadian subject heading sovereignty (this is why CSH exists!) #canada #controlledvocabularies #taxonomy #geography #USpol #libraries #classifcation

Screenshot of social media post with map and text:
Canadian Subject Headings
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) last week announced
the addition of a new Canadian Subject Heading (CSH) for
Lake Ontario to replace the Library of Congress’ updated
subject heading for the lake.
LAC will cease assigning the LCSH term and will instead
assign the CSH “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)” in
bibliographic and authority records moving forward.
Librarianship.ca

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

FDR at the cornerstone-laying of his presidential library in 1941: "I add, too, my very sincere thanks to all the workmen and the foremen who have made possible this splendid beginning of this building. It is an adequate building. It is going to be a wholly adequate building. And it will be […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

September 23, 1944: the onderduiker Curt Bloch, in hiding in Enschede, reports the news that Maastricht has been liberated - the first city in the Netherlands! curt-bloch.com/en/magazin/2nd-volum… Ja men voelt zich echt verlicht Alle Moffen zijn verdwenen […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Just saw a demo of Hyperaudio Lite Editor on the AI4LAM speech-to-text WG call: lab.hyperaud.io/tmp/hle-demo - AI-driven transcription in the browser (WebGPU), handy editor built in; uses Parakeet or Whisper (various versions, local/remote); you could run the transcription on a box with […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

OK, I think I've got this sketched out: I've got an incunabulum I want to OCR; Gemini does pretty well, my local qwen3-vl is significantly worse; so, I'll use Gemini output for a few pages to train the local model. A few pages should be enough, so I'll set up ground truth files and test it as I […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

there are two things left I'd really like to get done today and all I need to do is focus for 15 minutes on one and maybe 30-45 minutes on the other ... that's all it would take ...

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I've signed up for the AI4LAM Automatic Text Recognition Working Group call, which happens on the fourth Thursday of the month at 3:00 pm UTC. Alberta is moving to year-round DST this fall, so we won't fall back an hour like we used to. Google Calendar hasn't yet adjusted to this, I'm told, but […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Just learned that the next big thing in AI hardware is agentic pcs, on which you run a local model that is smart enough to route your company's big AI jobs to the cheapest online service. I assume they'll bring down the price of good-enough hardware for running research LLM tasks locally […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

I do not want a machine to send me a happy birthday notification even on my real birthday, let alone one I made up for a throw-away account

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Every LLM prompt should include "Don''t try to engage my enthusiasm, because I haven't got one."

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

at the end of a meeting my laptop started yelling at me in German - an artificial voice, trying to pronounce German as if it were English - turned out to be Zotero reading out citations - no idea why - I'd like a beer now please

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I just noticed that two weeks ago marked the 20th anniversary of my first deposit in my personal Github account (in a private repo for my family history project) - "initial checkin - working on ajaxing the form, not working yet"

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

People tend to forget the US constitution's provision that if a sitting president is not reelected, and feels the election was unfair, and is subsequently elected to another term, every day of that term shall be that president's birthday

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Pondering the AI transcription "the reopening of the Strait of Hormones is a really big deal"

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

I found a cache of emails from 1994, when my cohort was scattering to jobs and postdocs. I wrote to a friend: Saw a documentary last night about an English woman canoeing down the Zambezi, and it made me think of you. Pushing off into the wide brown flood, jungle in the background, she put a […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

The 2015 blog post about the Google Doodle in honour of the Mundaneum is still up (and still has the Google+ logo at the bottom), but the actual doodle is gone: europe.googleblog.com/2015/08/googl… . Fortunately there's the Wayback Machine […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

why don't we have a word for the cluster of crescents you see on the ground when a partial solar eclipse is filtered through leaves? it takes me by surprise every time. (This time only vicariously, we're too close to the edge to get crescents)

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

you know, I can remember when a billion dollars was a lot of money

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

It's a strange world where I can choose to read your book on a site that renders it in big chunky sans-serif letters or one that uses an elegant serif font, but I can't have meaningful page numbers until I get hold of a print copy

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

there's a medievalist in every crowd > "The Vikings didn't row across. They sailed across the ocean," Lappen said. "They rowed up rivers, but they sailed the ocean." www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/viking…

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Our provincial goverment's AI plans for its technical estate are coming together thevelocitywhitepapers.com - the "How these papers were created" section of the About page is particularly striking, if that's the word I'm looking for

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The Velocity White Papers

How the Government of Alberta is leveraging artificial intelligence to rapidly and securely transform its technical estate.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 06/07/2026

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

A dispute about intellectual property that doesn't involve AI should be a welcome relief, but this just makes me sad. www.comicsbeat.com/cleves-dq-henry-… My take: I can't find it in me to dislike either of them, but I think […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

How local labor history research worked in Sweden in the '70s (Lindqvist, Dig Where You Stand):

Book page: "Most librarians are in my experience friendly towards borrowers and happy to be of help, which is exactly what they are paid to be. Their interest in your particular subject may of course vary. If you want the assistance of a librarian with socialist inclinations, you can contact BIS.
BIS is an abbreviation for a Swedish association - Library in Society - which publishes a journal with the same name. This journal should be available at the county library. If not, it can ordered from: ..."

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

The OED gives us another metaphor for the use of an LLM to write your paper: "Devil", 8.c: "A person employed by an author or writer to do subordinate parts of his or her literary work under direction. More generally: any person who does work for which another receives the credit or remuneration […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

The Obama Presidential Center has good hips

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

What I'd like is a local app that would track my reading of various worthy blogs etc, and at the end of the month it would divvy up my monthly subscription allocation among them accordingly. That way I'd have a fixed monthly reading cost, and I wouldn't have to worry about spending money on […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

"There was no sound of power tools; the letter appeared to come off by hand." The news just gets weirder and weirder

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

On my way to my daughter's commencement - I hope the kids get to boo AI!

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Ben Companjen 🟥 @bencomp.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

RE: mas.to/@udcmrk/116667574114470813 Lucky me: this is around the corner from my place of work! Note: you may want to follow (or mute) the #IIIF hashtag the coming days, while the annual conference is held in Leiden and The Hague.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 29/05/2026

As I work on the talk, I’m getting really excited about this keynote I’m giving next week at the University of Toronto—"A Skeuomorphic View of Book History" builds on a series of talks over the past few months but—because it’s been evolving/improving—I think gets to some novel & exciting new places

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Keynote: "A Skeuomorphic View of Book History"

Ryan Cordell will be delivering the opening for the Thinking Through Printing symposium. The term "skeuomorph" was coined by archeologists to name ornamental features that evoke a...

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

finally added "enshittification" to my desktop's dictionary

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026

If (like me) you're at the point of having the mechanics of local #LLM use under your belt and you're struggling to get to grips seriously with the HSS research applications, here's a book which I think is giving me a lot to build with […]

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

well that's a sensible solution - just start an infinite regression of referenda

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

I was not made for a world where tv movies are 20 hours long

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Peter Binkley @pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

When I was a kid we drove to Colorado one summer and then on to California. On the way through Nevada I remember we stopped at a grocery store, and my dad playing a slot machine by the check out. He put in a nickel and won three nickels, and used them to buy a newspaper. I read the comics in the […]

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