MrDys

the Internet Archive thing is an example of the fascinating trend recently where people consuming products they’re not paying for seem to believe they also have the right to dictate how much human labor is spent producing them.

I’m an idiot.

"Libraries should be open late as an alternative to the bar" is going around some groups I'm in again and I just Y'all can't convince enough people to fund libraries to be open during the day with reasonable pay and expectations Where do you think you're finding night shift premium pay money

And new Pleias paper: in collaboration with AI Bridges and @wikimediade.bsky.social we developed a new harness for complex semantic search over the largest knowledge database, @wikidatacommunity.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2610.06650

Just got tipped off to Sally Daley, a Chicago church organist who released a dozen tapes of… low-fi sacred ambient??? in the 1980s. This shit is CHOICE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqb7...

Bluesky was bumming me out. So I created a ChatGPT Site that pulls my feeds, sorts for importance and personal interest and summarizes it so I can read for 3 minutes at a time instead of get sucked into doomscrolling.

At this point, I will be long dead before the shushing stereotype dies out. When I was in library school 20 years ago, that was already not a thing.

Hey Dems. Please just hire all of the short-form documentarians out there. They’d appreciate the work and they’re more effective communicators.

“I loved you in Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Reven—!“ *elevator door closes*

I have so much shit to do today and all I want to do is turn my brain off and watch some trash like Congo (1995).

I shared this image four years ago, two months before ChatGPT was released. It’s from The Actual Star by Monica Byrne, published five years ago this week. Given everything that’s happened in the last five years and current discussions today, I’d say it a bullseye.

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

#art

Ed “I take public transportation to the Oscars” Begley, Jr.? That’s who the Russians decided would be a good celeb to flip R?

You eschew any use of the actual tools, ignore all academic research, refuse to read anything about neuroscience of mind or its connections to the long, storied history of AI research, don’t understand what a transformer model is, and expect to somehow have a good take on AI? Get real.

As a leftist who has both 1) read a lot of philosophy of mind stuff and 2) personally done deep academic research in machine learning I promise you that your reductive takes on AI having no chance at “real” intelligence or even sentience in the near future (decade or so) are flat out uninformed.

“I have complaints about implications for labor and capital therefore I chose to completely reject an entire field of applied science as invalid under my worldview” is so tedious and it makes people who are experts and otherwise might agree with your concerns gag and withdraw. What’s the point?

Like, being a cookie cutter leftist rejecting the significance of AI systems wholesale in 2026 means just freezing your understanding of technology five years in the past and frankly it’s a really dumb look. I don’t care how cool it sounds at punk shows and parties. It’s anti-intellectual and wrong.

You don’t have to buy industry hype about AI to take like a few weeks to read some papers and realize that in terms of algorithms and the 70 year program of research in artificial intelligence we are on the cusp of something truly transformative for computing and society. Think for yourself.

I keep seeing all of these Gloria Steinem photos in my feed and wondering why everyone is posting about Adele

Found in a YouTube comment:

I’m just going to leave this here: youtu.be/PDm65RJZxXk?...

While sharing this elsewhere, I ended up finding out that he was in not one, but *four* Victor Salva movies. Ummm.

The people that like my videos on TikTok always have the most psychotic usernames.

If Natalie Harp has the keys to his Truth Social account, then she has the ability to move markets.

My silver lining read of this is that *museums* make double the film box office and almost as much as live music. Good job, museums!

In honor of this, I started a new Letterboxd list of movies where I thought I put on the wrong movie because the opening scene is so wildly different from what I know about the movie. boxd.it/Wjvou

Card catalogs were only ever metadata. They were digitized because a search box is a million times faster at finding your resource than flipping through physical cards. This is fetishizing a piece of furniture. Source: my MLIS

This is some Scholastic Book Fair-level art.

if you're opposed to the dominance and acceleration of AI usage you need to become way less fucking stupid about your criticisms of it

Cy Ikea

Here’s my two silver lining takes: Netflix is a better tech company than creative studio, so Letterboxd would be better situated there. Also, Netflix has a finite number of subscribers and they won’t put up with rate hikes forever, so diversifying into related areas would be a good thing.

Wanna see how I spent (part of) my holiday weekend? I made an interactive visualization of how movie titles cluster around certain words. (It works best on desktop for now.) mrdys.github.io/title-viz/

Wanna see how I spent (part of) my holiday weekend? I made an interactive visualization of how movie titles cluster around certain words. (It works best on desktop for now.) mrdys.github.io/title-viz/

Distributed backups, cyber resilience, and a half-million records are preserving Palestinian history beyond any single building or border. www.wired.com/story/how-pa...

I can't believe it's July 4th and I haven't seen anybody post a fourth of July.

I ended up getting Taco Bell for dinner because of this thread and all of the commenters talking up the $5 Luxe Box. Fed a family of four for $20 and got way more food than we normally do for $30+.

Worth a repost every year but especially this one #250yearsofthisbullshit

My kids’ school district uses Schoology, which is…fine. In an effort to get keep everyone on task this fall, I’ve decided to make a little app that sucks in Schoology data and displays it in a little dashboard app that I will have running on a Google Nest Hub in our kitchen.