Notices by Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻‍💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵] (platypus@glammr.us)

Fantastic:

tfw I feel seen but also I think most of my stuff is working right now and maybe I should be grateful.

Hoopla has said they're going to pull AI slop after @404mediaco's investigation. As a librarian, that's like a 2000% ROI for value to my field for my subscription!

https://www.404media.co/public-library-ebook-service-to-cull-ai-slop-after-404-media-investigation-3/

Regard the miracle of the folded laundry. I left it down here to wait for the last load. A pipe flat out burst this time, intake thank goodness, and the laundry managed to perch on this little island in the flood.

Waiting for a call back from the plumber. Bought a shop vac. Starting upstairs where the water isn’t actually as catastrophic I think because the room is more important?

I had a pipe burst, so send the strength

welp, tiktok is back online, thanking Trump for restoring access, and I would like to thank the majority of Dems for continuing to have less common sense than God gave a housefly.

Mommy and daddy want to talk? Pup must be involved.

@eff it was a mistake to project good faith onto the company in this the year 2025?

8 years after the Rohingya genocide? You still gave them the benefit of the doubt?

Is there any kind of internal self-evaluation happening at the organization or even in your own heads asking yourselves why you made such a poor choice? In, and I cannot stress this enough…. 2025?

@DeliaChristina when I noped out of the scene at 17 (2003), they were organizing for this, so I am unfortunately not surprised that they're moving fast now.

Ironically, it seems that I'm getting for my 40th birthday everything people spent the first 2/5 of my life telling me would make the country the best place ever. 🙃 :yell2: 😭

Tfw you think about addressing the group chat as “Hey Moby Dickheads” because you have A WHALING FACT TO SHARE but you’re a coward.

Basically once we moved on from whale oil for lighting and such, WE HYDROGENATED IT TO MAKE MARGARINE? 🤯💀

@shiflett the PAIN on my husband’s face

https://lists.mcls.org/pipermail/michlib-l/2024-December/033792.html

It has come to our attention that some libraries in Michigan have been receiving visits from their local FBI offices.

Agents have been specifically interested in Maker Spaces and 3d printers, the library policies for what can or cannot be made, and how the library maintains the digital files used to create items and tracks usage and users.

(see link for more)

Imagine working at GitHub and launching Copilot for all in December 2024 without anticipating that a ton of people would immediately say "and how do I never see this again thanks"

like, I don't want to waste time over FAQs to figure out the answer to my most basic question which is:

"Does this only show up for me if I opt in to using it?" or is it going to try popping up places when I least expect it?

(mostly because the FAQs are not written with the assumption that anyone would ever be asking this)

It's not new, but in this past year I've treasured every search result that takes me to a real website, not a content mill. They're like lentils salvaged from a pile of pebbles. They're like wheat gleaned from a harvested field.

I want to find your blogs, your web 1.0 resource sites, your passion project databases, your articles in web magazines, your poetry.

I want to find the things made with human minds and hands to share passionately with other humans.

The older I get, the more I understand why the Discworld librarian had NO interest in being turned back into a human