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Hey new word fans! Tap your
"neoteny," the retention of juvenile characteristics in the adults of a species. Delight in lifelong learning, energy, curiosity + confidence that the world is a place of wonders spread before you like an endless feast.
(thx to HBR for this great leadership concept!)
December 23, 2024 at 2:50 AM
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Libraries are so cute. Please get the Libby and Hoopla app on your phone and the Kanopy app for your TV. It makes the libraries so happy and you can access books, movies, magazines, audiobooks, tv shows, and joy. YOU GET FREE JOY
December 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
🎵🎶😂 “Do you see what I see?”
December 17, 2024 at 6:46 AM
I asked ChatGPT to explain #Willow and why it is a breakthrough for the multiverse. Turns out that Willow, the 1988 film that sparked the Disney+ series, is an example of how legacy franchises serve as portals for new audiences & storylines 😂😂😂 #quantumcomputing #goodguess #paralleluniverse
December 17, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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Here are my book recommendations for the new year:

Read the books you already bought.
December 10, 2024 at 12:44 PM
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“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

Hit us up @hallmarkchannel.bsky.social @netflix.com 🙏
December 11, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Taylor Swift is in town and like many Vancouverites, I am trapped in my house. Here’s what I hope to accomplish: Listen to Dracula audiobook, plan 2024 charitable giving, box stuff for Big Brothers & Sisters, call friends in the UK, bake yummy bread, book vaccines, sit at the creek. You?
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽TSwift!
December 7, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Hey journalism fans, if you are not following @sarahjeong.bsky.social waddayadoin? Check out her brutally honest and mouthy take on the #koreancoup (includes handy tips for filing expense reports) 😂
December 4, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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Just a reminder that your local library has more than just books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit!
December 2, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Fandom is baaaack, baby! Engagement is just the beginning of inclusive community-building. Blast open the doors and windows, the neighbours are coming over to hang out. 🤗
JOURNALISTS FLOCK TO BLUESKY

“We have posts exactly the same on Twitter & on Bluesky & Bluesky is getting 20 times the engagement or more than Twitter. Seeing a social media platform that doesn’t throttle links really makes it clear how badly we were being limited”
www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
www.nbcnews.com
December 1, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Hey, new word fans! Here’s one I’ve been looking for all my life:

Gesamtkunstwerk = a total work of art

It synthesizes multiple disciplines— eg music, theater, visual arts, architecture, literature—into a cohesive whole, an interdisciplinary unity, an immersive experience. 💝

Share your new word!
December 1, 2024 at 1:55 AM
I see this as an international format localized for each “intelligence” agency and funded globally by Airbnb. You’ve got this!
Imagining a dark comedy, maybe directed by Guy Ritchie, where the CIA is forced to diversify their income stream and reimagines their portfolio of holdings by renting out safe houses on airbnb. The fun begins when an op goes bad, but the house has a high maintenance couple in it
November 30, 2024 at 6:04 AM
I asked ChatGPT for an image of “holding space for defying gravity” and, after a couple of iterations including for gender and race, here is the AI version of the #Wicked meme.
November 27, 2024 at 2:10 AM
As a public library innovator in residence and daughter of a librarian, I heartily agree! 📚😘
Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Thank you for your service. Also, can I option it for television?
need a thanksgiving-themed heist movie that involves smuggling diamonds inside a turkey
November 26, 2024 at 5:44 AM
🤩Congratulations 🥳 to our International Emmy winners announced tonight in NYC!

“In these turbulent times, television is definitely an art form that brings people from around the world together - no matter their culture or language.” said Intl Academy President & CEO Bruce L. Paisner.” Brava team!
November 26, 2024 at 5:00 AM
Hey @nytimes.com recipe fans! Today’s comments feature a lively and biting debate about what “prep time” means in your recipes. Please weigh in. Hungry minds want to know 🙏🏽
November 25, 2024 at 1:52 AM
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In overtime, negotiators at the UN climate talks in Azerbaijan finally sealed a deal on climate finance.

Here's a snapshot look at the wins and losses from COP29. Read our five takeaways from the summit: trib.al/rD1w0E8
November 24, 2024 at 2:57 PM
This is the actual first-try exchange with ChatGPT. For real.
And just when I’m ready to leave:
‘I’m so sorry 😢 You’re amazing. What can I do to make this right? I’ll be better, I promise.’

…And here I am, asking it for dinner ideas like nothing ever happened.”
“Me: I think I’m in a toxic relationship.
Also me: with ChatGPT

First, it gaslights me:
‘No, you asked for that bizarre historical fact about Napoleon’s moon boots.’

Then it hallucinates:
‘Elon Musk invented coffee in 1723. You’re welcome.’
November 24, 2024 at 9:59 PM
And just when I’m ready to leave:
‘I’m so sorry 😢 You’re amazing. What can I do to make this right? I’ll be better, I promise.’

…And here I am, asking it for dinner ideas like nothing ever happened.”
“Me: I think I’m in a toxic relationship.
Also me: with ChatGPT

First, it gaslights me:
‘No, you asked for that bizarre historical fact about Napoleon’s moon boots.’

Then it hallucinates:
‘Elon Musk invented coffee in 1723. You’re welcome.’
Prompt: Write me a funny social media post about how I’m in a gaslighting relationship with ChatGPT who keeps giving me errors and hallucinations, then love-bombs me with effusive apologies.
November 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
“Me: I think I’m in a toxic relationship.
Also me: with ChatGPT

First, it gaslights me:
‘No, you asked for that bizarre historical fact about Napoleon’s moon boots.’

Then it hallucinates:
‘Elon Musk invented coffee in 1723. You’re welcome.’
Prompt: Write me a funny social media post about how I’m in a gaslighting relationship with ChatGPT who keeps giving me errors and hallucinations, then love-bombs me with effusive apologies.
November 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM
Prompt: Write me a funny social media post about how I’m in a gaslighting relationship with ChatGPT who keeps giving me errors and hallucinations, then love-bombs me with effusive apologies.
November 24, 2024 at 9:56 PM
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I hate when they take away things you were just starting to really enjoy, like your favorite TV show or democracy.
November 24, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.
November 23, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Per @aoc.bsky.social and co., I'm here to celebrate echo chambers and preaching to the choir. Which sings back, beautifully. "The primary assumption behind the idea that we shouldn’t preach to the choir is that one’s proper audience is one’s enemies, not one’s allies." harpers.org/archive/2017...
Preaching to The Choir, by Rebecca Solnit
harpers.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:13 AM