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Margaret Warren
@mmw09.bsky.social
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Artist and Archivist. Researcher and Technologist. Creator of ImageSnippets. Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web. Building KG's from Image Descriptions one triple at a time. Curious about many, many domains and the human experts in those domains.
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bloomberg.com
Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.
Big Tech’s Dominance Depends on Our Laziness
Facebook, Google, Amazon and other platforms have invested heavily in creating convenience cocoons that make switching to competitors feel like too much of a heavy lift.
bloom.bg
November 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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archive.org
🚨 Upcoming #booktalk! 🚨
#CoryDoctorow talks about his new book ENSHITTIFICATION & how the internet broke & how we can fix it. He explores why everything online feels worse & what we can do next.

📆 Fri Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PT
📍 Online
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-...

@AuthorsAlliance.bsky.social
Cover for the book “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, featuring a poop emoji with symbols representing expletives. Text reads “Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...
What Machines Don't Know
Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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internetarchive.eu
New: Dutch & Papiamento translations of Our Future Memory’s “4 Rights.”
🔗 www.internetarchive.eu/2025/10/06/n...
Internet Archive Europe has signed. “Universal access to knowledge is a shared responsibility.” — Tony Guepin
Sign & share: ourfuturememory.org
#GLAM #Libraries #Archives #OpenKnowledge
New Dutch & Papiamento Translations of the “4 Rights” Statement — and a Call to Every Memory Institution to Sign - Internet Archive Europe
We’re pleased to announce that the Our Future Memory “4 Rights” statement has now been translated into Dutch and Papiamento, thanks to the generous work of Biblioteca Nacional Aruba and Maarten Zeinst...
www.internetarchive.eu
October 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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physgal.bsky.social
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admirablewomen.bsky.social Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · Oct 7
#OTD in 2020, Andrea Ghez won the Nobel Prize in Physics for “for the discovery of a supermassive compact object [now generally recognized to be a black hole] at the center of our galaxy.”

Dr. Ghez is an astrophysicist & professor UCLA. #WomenInSTEM

newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/and...
October 7, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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riecks.bsky.social
FYI, The videos from each of the sessions from the September 18 #IPTC Photo Metadata Conference are now online. #photometadata #AI #optout #c2pa #digitalimaging

iptc.org/events/photo...
Photo Metadata Conference 2025 - IPTC
IPTC is the global standards body of the news media. We provide the technical foundation for the news ecosystem.
iptc.org
September 29, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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mcnees.bsky.social
“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Harvard Observatory
A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She is sitting at her desk and looking up at the camera, which is in front of her and to her left. Payne-Gaposchkin is wearing a baggy, ribbed sweater and has a wristwatch on her right arm. A pair of glasses rests on the desk in front of her, next to open books and papers which are just visible at the bottom of the photogaph. Filing cabinets, drawers, and another desk are visible in the background. She has short, dark hair which is no longer than chin-length, pulled out of her face behind her left ear.
May 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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crobertcargill.bsky.social
Writers, keep writing. Do not buy into the hype train telling you your job will be replaced in a few years. Those using AI are literally atrophying their brains ability to be creative. The future will need your words, your creativity, to function well.

publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...
MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law
By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
publichealthpolicyjournal.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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physgal.bsky.social
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hypervisible.blacksky.app Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 12
“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”
AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study
Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.
www.bloomberg.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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kaseygifford.bsky.social
Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.
August 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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joestaresatmaps.co.uk
Thanks to @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social my eyes are now opened to the many inter dimensional portals which appear whilst dog walking.
An inter dimensional portal. Or to be more specific, a clear pathway surrounded by shaded green woodland which leads to small, narrow gap resembling a doorway. The gap shows more greenery which is bathed in light.
August 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Arrived in the living room only to find I was interrupting our cats during the making of their debut French new wave film.
My cats Jim, Charles and Roscoe Jim and Roscoe trying to patch things up, in the aftermath of a failed attempt at polyamorous relationships. Roscoe and Charles, considering the ultimate futility of all feline endeavours.
August 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
mmw09.bsky.social
And on my birthday, too!
fotoapp.co Foto @fotoapp.co · Aug 1
Announcing the First Annual Global Foto Walk on September 27th! Details will be announced soon! Mark your calendars 🗓️ ✔️🚶📸
August 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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openculture.bsky.social
The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903)
The First-Ever Film Version of Lewis Carroll’s Tale, Alice in Wonderland (1903)
Once lost, this 8-minute, very damaged, but very delightful silent version of Alice in Wonderland was restored several years ago by the British Film Institute. It is the first film adaptation of the 1...
www.openculture.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
Glad to hear that sad Pompeiian skeleton is/was living its best life
A Pompeiann (?) skeleton mosaic in black and cream tiles, with a charming toothy non-emotive facial expression and somewhat dejectedly holding an empty pitcher in each hand
July 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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puddingviz.bsky.social
New project! @yufeng.bsky.social analyzed all of the words found on NYC Streets. The data comes from from 8 million Google Street View images, which yielded 138 million snippets of text:

🔗: pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Friends, we got a call to action 👇

We have the right to know when and how our creative works are used, especially when it comes to GenAi!

This is why we need regulation like California’s Ai Copyright Transparency Act #AB-412 !

If you agree, especially if in CA, please sign & share this petition!
Let’s Be Clear: Artists & Creators Must Have Transparency NOW!
Every single day we don’t have transparency, the value of copyright loses ground and the harms inflicted to creative industries grow. California has always been on the forefront of policies that can ...
actionnetwork.org
July 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
Your periodic reminder that the estimated cost to end hunger in the U.S. is $25 billion.
July 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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catsofyore.bsky.social
Did you know there was once a domestic cat constellation? 'Felis' was created by French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande in 1799, but the International Astronomical Union dumped Felis when they created their official constellation boundaries in 1930. www.ianridpath.com/startales/fe...
Old timey star chart illustration of a shorthaired ginger and white cat floating amongst overlapping grids and little black stars. The word "Felis" is written underneath.
July 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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odihq.bsky.social
We're looking for talented people to help build a better Web for everyone - through open standards, open source technologies and community development. We're looking for two Senior Developers experienced with Semantic Web, Solid and digital identity standards.
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July 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
maybe there's still some good left in this world after all
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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realcharacterlanguage.world
Image taken from @mmw09.bsky.social's metadata website Image Snippets, from the set of all images which lio:hasArtisticElement dbp:fisheye (meaning taken with a fisheye lens):
imagesnippets.com/imgtag/main?...
Image snippet with metadata located at: imgsnp.co/erxal
July 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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realcharacterlanguage.world
More of this work based on the Lightweight Image Ontology written by @mmw09.bsky.social and @thepathayes.bsky.social, published at: cdn.aaai.org/ocs/1120/112...
July 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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libraryfutures.bsky.social
As more and more government information disappears, we're glad to see @archive.org (which has done so much already to preserve our online history) become an official Federal Depository Library!

www.engadget.com/general/inte...
Internet Archive is now an official US government document library
The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library government network.
www.engadget.com
July 25, 2025 at 2:49 PM