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Mita Williams
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Law Librarian at Windsor Law.
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Meanwhile in Ontario…

www.cleanairalliance.org/rates-to-ris...
November 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Me: "Blogging is dead".

Also me: 📚 Librarian of Things (librarian.aedileworks.com) has had 20K views since 2020 🥳
Librarian of Things All Time Views 20.0K
October 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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To give you an idea of how absurd and bad a breach this is, when TicketMaster had a data breach, and they offered myself (and others) temporarily free access to Transunion's security monitoring to "as a precaution" to "further protect your identity" 😬
data. These measures include rotating passwords for all accounts associated with the affected cloud database, reviewing access permissions, and increased alerting mechanisms deployed in the environment. What You Can Do We recommend you remain vigilant and take steps to protect against identity theft and fraud, including monitoring your accounts, account statements, and free credit reports for signs of suspicious activity. To further protect your identity and as a precaution, we are also offering you identity monitoring with TransUnion of Canada, Inc. (“TransUnion”), at no cost to you. Identity monitoring will look out for your personal data on the dark web and provide you with alerts for 1 year from the date of enrollment if your personally identifiable information is found online. These services will be provided by TransUnion specializing in fraud assistance and remediation services. You can sign up for this service by clicking the following link: https://surveys.ticketmaster.com/s/tu-sign-up Your Ticketmaster account was not affected by this incident, however we recommend being mindful of phishing attempts such as emails from unknown senders or those that contain unusual content, such as links or attachments, or being asked to provide personal information over the phone.
August 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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From reddit's /windsorontario
The "Is this" meme with the man being Drew Dilkens, the butterfly as Surveillance cams, and the caption, "Is this revitalization"?
August 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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stickers on a laptop including one that reads, how you play is what you win
July 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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Delighted to see a local colleague’s work mentioned in this piece.
July 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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I am astounded how much time and effort is saved by using the MPMB DnD Character Sheet. It contains several simple forms that drive rich computation along with helpful text and all embedded in a single PDF.

This is what a university course calendar should be! Or any series of forms! www.flapkan.com
July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Someone must have written about Paul Otlet’s work and the aspirations of LLMs, but I haven’t come across it.

If you have or know a piece, let me know! 📚

(quote below from Ronald E. Day’s 2001 “The modern invention of Information)
This is brought out in Otlet's book Monde, where "the ultimate problem of documentation" is envisioned: the creation of a technological device that would unify information but also transform it in such a way as to present it in the most "advantageous" manner to each viewer. The final goal of such a project would be the presentation of all the "facts" of existence to all the people a sort of Hegelian vision of absolute being with information playing the role of Hegel's notion of truth. Epistemic trans-formation," here, ends with a form of total representation. History, for
June 26, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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In 2016, I helped with a small local hackathon by hosting cycling data from Strava on a dkan open data server web.archive.org/web/20161030...

I am telling you this because *today* I walked past a sticker that I designed for that event on my workplace parking garage. Unsure if I am being messed with
June 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Another update: I've added another image that shows that the QR code displayed on the TRMNL is good enough to bring you to a LibCal booking screen:
small framed e-ink screen reading, Study Room Information as available and a QR code for booking
June 4, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Update: I've added an image that shows what an upcoming booking screen can look like:
2401 - Study Room Space Information m***@uwindsor.ca 8:30am - 9:00am next booking
June 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Hey friends in #yqg. I'm currently working on my 20 slides for the "fun" portion of the Bike Windsor Essex AGM.

The AGM and slideshows are going to be held on Wed May 28 at the Cookie Bar, if you would like to join us all.
bike windsor essex annual general meeting and community converation talking about transiet wed may 28 formal meeting at 5pm fun community partner pecha kucha presentations from 6:30pm The Cookie Bar, 1093 Drouillard Road, Ford City, baby
May 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I'm shutting down my just-for-fun omeka-hosted collection of Library Punch Cards on reclaim.hosting (libraryofcards.reclaim.hosting) and moving these 12 cards to Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/mita/...

Happy to take submissions!
library book card with punch holes on the top. image of a library and heading reading, The Library University of Windsor
April 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I'm at #werobot2025 and I'm making a bibliography of all the books that I've heard mentioned (librarian gotta librarian).

www.zotero.org/copystar/col...

I've included *Sourdough*, because it includes a story-line of training a robot to crack an egg.

Let me know what I've missed.
I added an image of a this captcha just because I think its funny
April 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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... I literally just clicked a link on a BlueSky post and was greeted with this page...
We just want to make sure we aren't dealing with a robot. Please complete the CAPTCHA challenge below.
March 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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For lobbying, go to www.oico.on.ca/en/lobbyists... and click on search registry.

You can't see full registration so its difficult to know if keyword searching works at all, so I would just search for 'health' in the ministry field and browse through the results.
Lobbyist Last Amendment Date Client Name Company/Organization Lobbyist Type Registration No. Status 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... Page size: select 5000 items in 500 pages Peter Curtis 03-14-2025 Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) Pathway Group Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL0736-20230131029579 Active Jeffrey Bangs 03-14-2025 Ontario Provincial Police Association (OPPA) Pathway Group Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL0809-20230126029527 Active Mélanie Valcin 03-14-2025 United for Literacy / Littératie Ensemble In-house Organization OL0345-20080130140142 Active David Goodman 03-14-2025 Pharmascience Inc. In-house Persons & Partnerships PP2282-20210208026282 Active Meera Mahadeo 03-14-2025 Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities Inc. Counsel Public Affairs Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL9939-20230615030362 Inactive Amin Massoudi 03-14-2025 Epilepsy Ontario Business No: 118900844RR0001 Atlas Strategic Advisors Inc. Consultant Lobbyist CL10151-20240410031999 Active Veronique Parry 03-13-2025 Hologic Rubicon Strategy Consultant Lobbyist CL10646-20250313033655 Active Veronique Parry 03-13-2025 Canada Mental Health Association, Ontario Division Rubicon Strategy Consultant Lobbyist CL10646-20250306033606 Active Lily Mesh 03-13-2025 Ontario Personal Support Workers Association (OPSWA) Wellington Dupont Public Affairs Consultant Lobbyist CL4980-20210203026249 Active
March 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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UofWinds 407, Week 10 2025: Does Voting Matter in Ontario, Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States, Utopian Realism, No Neutral Ground in a Burning World, Phronesis, Make Life Possible: www.uofwinds.com/407/
Everyone digs seeing like a state: "MY CASE IS THAT CERTAIN KINDS OF STATES, DRIVEN BY UTOPIAN PLANS AND AN AUTHORITARIAN DISREGARD FOR THE VALUES, DESIRES, AND OBJECTIONS OF THEIR SUBJECTS, ARE INDEED A MORTAL THREAT TO HUMAN WELL-BEING." James C. Scott. THE MORE STATIC, STANDARDIZED, AND UNIFORM A POPULATION OR SOCIAL SPACE IS, THE MORE LEGIBLE IT IS, AND THE MORE AMENABLE IT IS TO THE TECHNIQUES OF STATE OFFICIALS
March 9, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Google logo illustrated with an atom, dna strand, flask, dino scull and astronaut. label says International Women's Day 2025
March 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Small grey plastic case reading Internet in a box Menu of items including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, world maps Sample Wikipedia page : the Supreme Court of Canada
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Point of order: Point of order: I think the None of the Above Party needs to have a party bylaw that only allows those with a last name beginning with XY or Z to be allowed to run:
2025 Ontario general election The 2025 general election will be held on February 27. Party Candidate Votes % ±% Expenditures None of the Above Mark Dewdney Progressive Conservative Tony Francis Ontario Party Matthew Giancola New Democratic Lisa Gretzky New Blue Joshua Griffin Green Nick Kolasky
February 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Thinking about this art work in Canada’s National Gallery today www.gallery.ca/magazine/you...
February 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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I've decided that contribution to the Wikipedia project is to upload details about each Supreme Court of Canada decision to Wikidata. I've just added 2025 SCC 1, R. v. Hanrahan at www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125275...

And I know that people have seen the work because of this 'Wikipedia Unwrapped' thing!
_L L Your edits have been viewed more than 5,339 times recently Readers around the world appreciate your contributions. In the last 2 months, articles you've edited have received 5,339 total views. Thanks to editors like you, Wikipedia is a steadily improving, fact-based, and reliable knowledge resource for to the world th Share . Next
February 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Guys, bibliomancy works! This text found me just days ago: librarian.aedileworks.com/2025/01/16/i...
A rare example of a well-defined, useful, but noncomputable problem is the halting problem. Imagine that I want to write a computer program and determine whether or not that program will eventually stop. If the program being examined has no loops or recursive subroutine calls, it is bound to finish eventually, but if it does have such constructs the program may well go on forever. It turns out that there is no algorithm for examining a program and determining whether or not it is fatally infected with an endless loop. Moreover, it’s not that no one has yet discovered such an algorithm; rather, no such algorithm is possible. The halting problem is noncomputable. Hillis, W. Daniel. The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make Computers Work. 1st ed. Science Masters. New York: Basic Books, 1998, p. 68.
January 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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This Yuletide I found something that I can seem to do for hours while listening through my backlog of podcasts.
Lego portrait of Biggie Smalls
December 30, 2024 at 2:32 PM
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"The true measure of any society can be found in how it takes care of its most vulnerable decommissioned streetcars" ht www.instagram.com/p/DDsT5yHPMIV/
December 20, 2024 at 3:40 PM