Andrew Lopez
@ndrwlpz.bsky.social
Librarian & book indexer from PHL, bike/ped + public-transit enthusiast in CT 📚🌳🚎🚲
“solar is the cheapest, the fastest, the simplest and the most secure source of energy that you can install”
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Oil Giant Saudi Arabia Is Emerging as a Solar Power
The kingdom is betting that sunshine can power new AI data centers and help boost oil exports.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
“solar is the cheapest, the fastest, the simplest and the most secure source of energy that you can install”
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Half as many kids are riding bikes as in the 90s. Of them, only 5% ride "frequently."
When I talk about the phone-based childhood, I don't just mean smartphones and social media. We also need to reverse the overprotection of kids in the real world. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
When I talk about the phone-based childhood, I don't just mean smartphones and social media. We also need to reverse the overprotection of kids in the real world. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading
Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.
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July 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Half as many kids are riding bikes as in the 90s. Of them, only 5% ride "frequently."
When I talk about the phone-based childhood, I don't just mean smartphones and social media. We also need to reverse the overprotection of kids in the real world. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
When I talk about the phone-based childhood, I don't just mean smartphones and social media. We also need to reverse the overprotection of kids in the real world. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
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July 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability & quality of life.
Common sense.
Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
When AI guardrails don't like your keywords or topics, they will hide the results and tell you there's an error; "a system designed to sanitize chatbot conversations does not serve the purpose of academic search" #AlgorithmsofOppression #EpistemicInequality open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...
The AI powered Library Search That Refused to Search
From Clarivate's Summon to Primo Research Assistant, content‑moderation layers meant mostly for chatbots are "quietly" blocking controversial topics from being searched
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July 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When AI guardrails don't like your keywords or topics, they will hide the results and tell you there's an error; "a system designed to sanitize chatbot conversations does not serve the purpose of academic search" #AlgorithmsofOppression #EpistemicInequality open.substack.com/pub/aarontay...
Preserving Government Information book talk with James (A & R) Jacobs and Shari Laster on Thursday, August 28, 2025 📚
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Book Talk: Preserving Government Information
Join us for a timely conversation about safeguarding public information and government data in the digital age.
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July 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Preserving Government Information book talk with James (A & R) Jacobs and Shari Laster on Thursday, August 28, 2025 📚
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“we need dictionaries more than ever, not to write efficiently or correctly, but to cultivate relationships with the words we use”
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Opinion | Don’t Throw Your Dictionary Away
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July 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“we need dictionaries more than ever, not to write efficiently or correctly, but to cultivate relationships with the words we use”
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“tens of thousands of scientific journals put out millions of papers annually”
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Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
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July 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“tens of thousands of scientific journals put out millions of papers annually”
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“literature plays a much smaller role in our national life and that this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
Opinion | When Novels Mattered
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July 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
“literature plays a much smaller role in our national life and that this has a dehumanizing effect on our culture” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/o...
“style is a kind of house in which her singular subjects live freely, a place where there is grace for all. It may be the only such place”
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The Met’s Exhibit on Black Male Style Is an Exceptional Achievement
In “Superfine,” the Africana-studies scholar Monica L. Miller explores the links between style, self-presentation, and survival.
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July 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
“style is a kind of house in which her singular subjects live freely, a place where there is grace for all. It may be the only such place”
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I’m pretty excited about Peter Brooks’ new book Henry James Comes Home @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I’m pretty excited about Peter Brooks’ new book Henry James Comes Home @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries @archive.org blog.archive.org/2025/06/29/a...
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries | Internet Archive Blogs
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July 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries @archive.org blog.archive.org/2025/06/29/a...
2025 marks the first Annual Threat Assessment since 2009 to make no mention of climate change @nsarchive.bsky.social Don't you feel safer now? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Spying on Climate: Inside the Intelligence Community’s Environmental Legacy
Washington, D.C., June 30, 2025 – For decades, the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) has viewed climate change as a serious national security threat that will create “new and compounded stresses on peo...
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June 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
2025 marks the first Annual Threat Assessment since 2009 to make no mention of climate change @nsarchive.bsky.social Don't you feel safer now? nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:23 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶 - “Rust never sleeps”
June 24, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:23 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶 - “Rust never sleeps”
I love the speculative documentation here regarding the travel details of Dickens' first American tour: Traveling with Charles Dickens: Using NYPL Resources to Recreate a Historical Route www.nypl.org/blog/2022/11...
Traveling with Charles Dickens: Using NYPL Resources to Recreate a Historical Route | The New York Public Library
Using the Historical Travels Research Guide, we reconstruct Charles Dickens's Boston to NYC route during his 1842 North American tour.
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June 12, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I love the speculative documentation here regarding the travel details of Dickens' first American tour: Traveling with Charles Dickens: Using NYPL Resources to Recreate a Historical Route www.nypl.org/blog/2022/11...
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:35 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
June 10, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:35 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
There’s an index in the NYT’s book-review-length list of the 100 best restaurants in NYC.
June 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
There’s an index in the NYT’s book-review-length list of the 100 best restaurants in NYC.
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:22 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
May 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:22 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:25 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
May 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:25 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
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Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:08 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
April 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Looks like Slyne 6 to 8:08 this week #Slyne6to9 at WCNIRadio 💗✌🏾🎶
“It is my hope that this lawsuit will bring the city to the negotiating table and will result in street improvements that save lives, foster public health, stem climate-harming emissions, and improve the quality of life”
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Lawsuit filed against L.A. over lack of bike lanes, claiming Measure HLA violations
A lawsuit filed against the city of Los Angeles alleges violations of a voter mandate to implement the city's 2015 mobility plan, which includes new bike lanes along Vermont Avenue.
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April 11, 2025 at 2:05 AM
“It is my hope that this lawsuit will bring the city to the negotiating table and will result in street improvements that save lives, foster public health, stem climate-harming emissions, and improve the quality of life”
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Our Fall Sale continues! Save 40% or more with coupon FALL24. Some deep backlist hardcovers are up to 70% off!
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November 25, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Our Fall Sale continues! Save 40% or more with coupon FALL24. Some deep backlist hardcovers are up to 70% off!
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