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I just found out there were five species of fungi named after members of the Dutch Royal family. I wonder if they took that as a compliment,...

I just found out there were five species of fungi named after members of the Dutch Royal family. I wonder if they took that as a compliment, or...

#GLAM

#GLAM

Red Red Whinehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1Kpv0WScw#WhineASong#HashTagGames

Red Red Whine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1Kpv0WScw

#WhineASong
#HashTagGames

Shrek is love, Shrek is lifehttps://imgur.com/a/Typ86f1#Shrek #shrekart #midjourney #generativeai

Shrek is love, Shrek is life

https://imgur.com/a/Typ86f1

#Shrek #shrekart #midjourney #generativeai

The blackout begins #Reddit #redditapi #redditblackout #youbrokereddit

The blackout begins #Reddit #redditapi #redditblackout #youbrokereddit

The way the world works has changed. Like it or not, people access information through computers and the internet far more often than they...

The way the world works has changed. Like it or not, people access information through computers and the internet far more often than they do through traditional brick-and-mortar venues. Digitization of these services is not only inevitable, but a boon to society.

I have been able to take out digital copies of books from my local library for years. What makes the Internet Archive any different from them?

https://www.battleforlibraries.com
https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/17/heres-how-to-participate-in-mondays-oral-arguments

#DigitalRightsForLibraries #GLAM #internetarchive #fightforthefuture #battleforlibraries @team

Angry librarian tells off conservative Christians protesting library in righteous...

Angry librarian tells off conservative Christians protesting library in righteous speech

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12/angry-librarian-tells-off-conservative-christians-protesting-library-righteous-speech/

(reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ztf6jt/angry_librarian_tells_off_conservative_christians/)

This article reminds me of the #CarlSagan quote:

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

I got #chatgpt to write a #syllogism proving the #Earth is round. Take that #flatearthers.

I got #chatgpt to write a #syllogism proving the #Earth is round. Take that #flatearthers.

This is one of the more striking images I have seen recently. It's a photo taken in 2021 of #Israel's #irondome intercepting rockets...

This is one of the more striking images I have seen recently. It's a photo taken in 2021 of #Israel's #irondome intercepting rockets fired from #Gaza.

Photo credit -- Anas Baba/ #AFP.

Disappointed to learn that you can't share lists on Mastodon. I created a list of #Wikimedia related accounts that I was hoping to...

Disappointed to learn that you can't share lists on Mastodon. I created a list of #Wikimedia related accounts that I was hoping to share, but it turns out that it isn't an option.

Finding people in the various niche groups I'm involved in could be greatly improved with this feature.

The experience of creating lists also needs a *huge* overhaul. Needing to follow a user before adding them to a list is a PITA.