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In case you missed it last night: we are seeing reports all over the country of immigration surges and state violence. If you need whistles for your community, we will send you 100-3000 3d printed for free, and we will love doing it. 3dwhistles.com

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Great essay on Torrey Peters and the fortunes of trans fiction in 2026

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"We’re automating the humanity out of our jobs and leaving the annoying parts" --a take from an edtech CSM (and K-5 teacher) who's pivoting out, in @oaklandreviewofbooks.org www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/how-ai-repla...

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How AI replaced me

An edtech worker's account of what got left behind.

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh man. Good luck! Wouldn't Python be more performant than XPath, for something that large? Maybe it depends on the type of task

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So cool--like finding a previously unrecognized MS exemplar, except trees

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'd forgotten my UDIC nym, and/yet/but this @kotaku.com longread by @tieryasxu.bsky.social is perfect in scope: suddenly I wanted to reinstall Exult--last tried its early dev phase kotaku.com/the-history-... Props also to the udic.org team for keeping the roster alive! www.udic.org/members/rost...

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The History of Ultima VII, One Of The Greatest RPGs Ever Made - Kotaku

Exploring the history and legacy of Ultima VII: The Black Gate.

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Creative Commons @creativecommons.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our updated "Guidance on Using CC Licenses in the Age of AI" contextualizes the use of existing licenses as AI reshapes the digital landscape. Our goal is to continue to balance public access with licensor choice, providing options even in this new complex world of sharing. buff.ly/feUVKin

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Guidance on Using CC Licenses in an AI Ecosystem - Creative Commons

Creative Commons publishes guidance on sharing openly using CC licenses and tools to meet your goals in the age of AI.

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The same person wondered aloud repeatedly why it's so hard to attract PTA volunteers--because the only volunteers worth having were individuals marked socially as familiar to her

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Worth reading through to its end. Perpetually true, if less overtly than in the case studies of Collier's deft analysis. This stuff is why a former (laid off) director of M&A pushed me out of volunteering my time to a local PTA

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

(I did that, a few years ago! Can recommend--it smells slightly better around here, year round)

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"Always be winning" is pernicious

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Solidarity (I've had those moments)

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Nice work! Though not an SLC guy, I remember some of his typewriter struggles--plus there's the Paige thing (page content orig. 2007): web.archive.org/web/20230427...)

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The Paige Typesetter - Inventions, Games, and Contraptions - Mark Twain at Play - University of California, Berkeley

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just make sure the catalog descriptions (which is what both AI and human intake have to rely upon) say that each item has marginal annotations or underlining. Almost joking, but I think the chomping of printed codices favors 1) discounted items with 2) no prior physical evidence of use

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It's Boomer advice, or at least, it's what Silents and Boomers told people my age in 1992. I used Brin's _Earth_ for a college admissions essay (used--not particularly to agree with it). And yeah, mostly they want to feel that they're _giving advice_, psh

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Great essay (I love that @defector.com published it, especially), not least because I started reading it with the vague sense that I've worked mostly in Primary Source mode (because it's where people would hire me), and by the essay's middle I'd remembered that I'm just about ambidextrous

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Snyder asked 40 people to indicate which one sentence in an AI-written memo needed most to change. Results stratified by role--participants tended to rely on AI where they had less domain expertise, and themselves where they had more kieransnyder.kit.com/posts/beginn...

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Beginners <3 AI, experts not so much

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Sometimes people write these on scratch paper and then toss the sheets, ritually (or even shred them)--YMMV

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"We searched the entyre internet!" What archivists heare: "We searched the entyre small airport bookeshoppe!"

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If only it were easier for people who aren't retired to turn in their ballots outside working hours in most states

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It is pretty obviously your voice, but one would need to have gained a sense of such things by ... reading other longform pieces previously, ideally by a wide variety of writers. I'm not currently in a position to buy anything on an org's behalf, and I think your piece is thoughtful and generous

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 30/07/2026

Welcome to the resistance: meet the workers dodging (and sabotaging) their employer's AI mandates: aftermath.site/ai-resistance-...

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Folks elsewhere might find the city proposal of interest (it's also linked in the @berkeleyscanner.com article): berkeleyca.gov/sites/defaul... Note the older folks visible in the headline photo, then the proposal's table of ages of cyclists and peds injured along the Hopkins corridor

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This 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

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 26/07/2026

By popular demand, I have turned my 'if i am dead, look here' list into a fillable template: (Almost) everything someone wrapping up your estate needs to know about finances, how to access your accounts, and other fun things. www.realsesmith.com/the-list

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Now that many people are buying my 2017 metrical verse translation of the Odyssey in great numbers (thank you, Mr Nolan!), or at least, gazing at it and wondering whether to buy it, I thought I should share some thoughts on the cover design.

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

😔😔😔 (I vote for not bringing it)

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

"Vertical parking" got my attention (Still not getting an e-bike, but this series looks thoughtfully designed)

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Great review by @stephentotilo.bsky.social about a game billed as a remake that's really a sequel. (I'd love to dig into this from literary-critical or textual-critical angles. Since my hands can't use a game controller anymore, what I can do is paste a link) www.gamefile.news/p/assassins-...

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47 revelatory hours with Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced

A review in the new Assassin’s Creed's fringes, where some truths about the game can be found.

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Springer Nature recently announced that for all future articles, authors would have to pay Article Processing Charges of $2990.

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Skimming this thread is so much more satisfying than watching the film would've been (thank you for your service, OP!)

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I understand the excitement about technology “rediscovering lost texts.” I do, & I get the media hype. But I wish people knew that there are hundreds of thousands of “lost” texts just sitting in manuscripts in libraries, which have never been published outside of those single manuscripts. 1/n

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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The heatwave in Europe is so extreme, it's 25–32°F (14–18°C) above normal. You read that right. France recorded it's hottest day ever. The UK had its hottest ever June day. The ground is exceeding 122°F (50°C). People are dying. Tell me again why we shouldn't talk about climate change???

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Changes are in progress at _Scientific American_, whose issues at the public library taught me so much in high school. Link 1 press release, 2 union statement group.springernature.com/gp/group/med... www.wgaeast.org/wgae-scienti...

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Springer Nature to divest its consumer media businesses | Springer Nature Group | Springer Nature

Strategic divestment of consumer media portfolio enables Springer Nature to focus on its core business Transaction supports the long-term development

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James Dyke @jamesgdyke.info · 23/06/2026

Gave an interview to @news.sky.com earlier this evening about heatwaves. I said I gave a very similar interview 10 years ago (that time to BBC) about heatwaves. Politicians have failed to act. Societies have failed to adapt. And here we are. We are in dangerous climate change.

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"We initially sued over EPA and NSF and NEH terminations [...] There are actually people who are paid to defend the University’s interests, right? So, it’s sort of ridiculous that this is an extracurricular project, but here we are." Also NIH, DOD, DOT, now DOE alumni.berkeley.edu/california-m...

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Someone Had to Go First - Cal Alumni Association

Berkeley Law’s Claudia Polsky on taking Trump to court

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

That is, the friend and the NB blogger have indicated the same terrible list, as different types of springboard

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A corner of my brain has been chewing upon (mostly terrible) "best # books" lists since a friend posted one a month ago, so it's lovely to find that the editor of the Neglected Books blog has been, too--quite productively neglectedbooks.com?p=11259

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The Slippery Subject of Best Book Lists – The Neglected Books Page

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It seems to me less fiddly, too (though I still mess it up). Proper tatting doesn't ack the needle because one cannot translate all of the former to the latter. But it's a good prop (makes relative orientation more fixed) if the goal is _some tatted stitches_ 🙃

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Good to try, though! Even in needle tatting (simpler), I accidentally reverse the alternating half-hitches way too often. One day I'll retry it, one day, but I've no incentive--thread crochet and my brain get on better

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sounds good to me. Also--marking it now in order to bend its subsequent encoding to suit your project (plus documenting how you've done so in a consistent way): a time-honored TEI tradition

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I think @xml:id is still usual for distinguishing multiple anonymice. If it's only to ack `sin autor`, perhaps something like <author role="unnamed"> (or a value that works better for your project! just tossing ideas)

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Nice viz, also. Do you need to keep the different anonymous entities distinct, or only to acknowledge an entry's lack of a specific name? Are you mostly encoding the book inventory's structure, or trying also (for other uses) to gather up individuals named in it?

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Sharon K. Goetz @skgoetz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yes. As I read it, there's another through-line: where each of us may choose to commit our labor and attention isn't neutral, and sometimes it isn't entirely a choice; and (in the last graf) each may dismantle as well as build. (Ripping back for knit/crochet, and for gardening, also weeding/pruning)

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