Peter Binkley
@pbinkley.code4lib.social.ap.brid.gy
a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file […]
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(I shared this on Facebook 10 years ago and the idea just looks better and better) I'm going to move to Denmark and open a "Babette's Feast" theme park. You stay in tiny houses in a desolate windswept fishing village, with nothing to do all day but read ascetic sermons and sing hymns about […]
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code4lib.social
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
(I shared this on Facebook 10 years ago and the idea just looks better and better) I'm going to move to Denmark and open a "Babette's Feast" theme park. You stay in tiny houses in a desolate windswept fishing village, with nothing to do all day but read ascetic sermons and sing hymns about […]
this looks like good prompting advice, probably even if you're not using OpenAI's apis: https://github.com/allenai/olmocr/blob/main/olmocr/data/buildsilver.py#L32-L39
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
this looks like good prompting advice, probably even if you're not using OpenAI's apis: https://github.com/allenai/olmocr/blob/main/olmocr/data/buildsilver.py#L32-L39
What fresh hell is this
Carnegie Mellon has cancelled hosting the Code4Lib conference this year because Code4Lib has scholarships supporting diverse attendees. Some lame fuckery indeed.
Carnegie Mellon deciding at the last minute that they can't host the annual Code4Lib conference is some lame fuckery.
December 5, 2025 at 6:08 AM
What fresh hell is this
Trying out LLM Tool https://github.com/antoinelemor/LLM_Tool ("a research-friendly pipeline") - I like the text interface, which exposes the options nicely and saves every configuration choice as you work through the steps to set up LLM-assisted classification of research materials (with local […]
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code4lib.social
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trying out LLM Tool https://github.com/antoinelemor/LLM_Tool ("a research-friendly pipeline") - I like the text interface, which exposes the options nicely and saves every configuration choice as you work through the steps to set up LLM-assisted classification of research materials (with local […]
Reposted by Peter Binkley
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
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December 2, 2025 at 5:00 PM
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
How many people named Al are going to have their work attributed to AI, just because the description was set in a sans serif font?
December 1, 2025 at 2:56 AM
How many people named Al are going to have their work attributed to AI, just because the description was set in a sans serif font?
We finally got some snow last night, and now we're getting that late-afternoon soft pale pink winter sunshine on the snow, and it's nice, since I worked at home today
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We finally got some snow last night, and now we're getting that late-afternoon soft pale pink winter sunshine on the snow, and it's nice, since I worked at home today
Ah Cleveland! "As late as 1952, Herbert Gold could write to Allen Ginsberg without any sense of self-parody, “Come to Cleveland and we can do a job together. I’ve been casing Lindsay’s Skybar . . . where Art Tatum and Muggy sic] Spanier alight, and where every other drinker hopes to submit a […]
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code4lib.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Ah Cleveland! "As late as 1952, Herbert Gold could write to Allen Ginsberg without any sense of self-parody, “Come to Cleveland and we can do a job together. I’ve been casing Lindsay’s Skybar . . . where Art Tatum and Muggy sic] Spanier alight, and where every other drinker hopes to submit a […]
I don't have an enchanted oak with a hole to whisper my findings into, but I have a blog, which is basically the same thing https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/134283180448/a-recent-cartoon-for-new-scientist
YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK
A recent cartoon for New Scientist.
myjetpack.tumblr.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I don't have an enchanted oak with a hole to whisper my findings into, but I have a blog, which is basically the same thing https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/134283180448/a-recent-cartoon-for-new-scientist
New word (for me): dedatafication - used by Gwen Shaffer in discussion at Responsible AI conference just now - they want us to treat datafication as a natural good, but it really isn't and often needs to be fought - let the Dedatafication Wars begin!
November 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
New word (for me): dedatafication - used by Gwen Shaffer in discussion at Responsible AI conference just now - they want us to treat datafication as a natural good, but it really isn't and often needs to be fought - let the Dedatafication Wars begin!
Reposted by Peter Binkley
Hey #digipres folks, over on the #ApplesauceFDC discord, someone's been working through how to archive punch cards (since they've got a large stack of them), and put together a documented #format for #punchcards […]
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infosec.exchange
November 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Hey #digipres folks, over on the #ApplesauceFDC discord, someone's been working through how to archive punch cards (since they've got a large stack of them), and put together a documented #format for #punchcards […]
I mean ... I mean ... https://www.library20.com/guns-in-our-libraries
Guns in Our Libraries
Library 2.0 is a social network
www.library20.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I mean ... I mean ... https://www.library20.com/guns-in-our-libraries
When will the era of digital preservation produce an article title to compare with "Dumped from a Wharf into Casco Bay: The Historical Records Survey Revisited"? Or has it already done so?
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
When will the era of digital preservation produce an article title to compare with "Dumped from a Wharf into Casco Bay: The Historical Records Survey Revisited"? Or has it already done so?
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Mathematics is a language. But innumeracy is also a language and our president is fluent.
It's not just that he exaggerates, lies, and says things that make no sense when talking about numbers "often" no this is something deeper.
He is deeply committed to *never* speaking about any statistic […]
It's not just that he exaggerates, lies, and says things that make no sense when talking about numbers "often" no this is something deeper.
He is deeply committed to *never* speaking about any statistic […]
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sauropods.win
November 8, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Mathematics is a language. But innumeracy is also a language and our president is fluent.
It's not just that he exaggerates, lies, and says things that make no sense when talking about numbers "often" no this is something deeper.
He is deeply committed to *never* speaking about any statistic […]
It's not just that he exaggerates, lies, and says things that make no sense when talking about numbers "often" no this is something deeper.
He is deeply committed to *never* speaking about any statistic […]
Did we ever get insider confirmation of how Four Seasons Total Landscaping happened?
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Did we ever get insider confirmation of how Four Seasons Total Landscaping happened?
"The [museum] has just recently put their collection online and there are some amazing pieces. Their database does not have permalinks to individual artifacts, so you will need to search via the Object Number for more details on each piece."
Can this be true of a museum website? In 2025???
Can this be true of a museum website? In 2025???
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"The [museum] has just recently put their collection online and there are some amazing pieces. Their database does not have permalinks to individual artifacts, so you will need to search via the Object Number for more details on each piece."
Can this be true of a museum website? In 2025???
Can this be true of a museum website? In 2025???
I always get activists and archivists mixed up
November 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I always get activists and archivists mixed up
I have always carried Donald Barthelme's line about writing around with me ("Endings are elusive and middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to being.") - but you know, that's only true until you've begun. After that, worst of all is to middle, to middle, to middle.
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I have always carried Donald Barthelme's line about writing around with me ("Endings are elusive and middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to being.") - but you know, that's only true until you've begun. After that, worst of all is to middle, to middle, to middle.
Toby yesterday, trying to decide whether he should tell us how game 7 was going to end
November 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Toby yesterday, trying to decide whether he should tell us how game 7 was going to end
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"Like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the report’s authors seem to be following the lead of MAGA Republicans in the United States. They argue that all universities in the province should curb EDI initiatives and remain silent on pressing political issues. The report even uses the American phrase […]
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mstdn.ca
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Like Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, the report’s authors seem to be following the lead of MAGA Republicans in the United States. They argue that all universities in the province should curb EDI initiatives and remain silent on pressing political issues. The report even uses the American phrase […]
"as ML hardware and capable storage trend towards being standard in consumer-accessible hardware, curated local tooling will outcompete data-warehouse LLM-SAAS, and data provenance and process transparency will become more and more important. ... librarians are going to be way, way more […]
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code4lib.social
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"as ML hardware and capable storage trend towards being standard in consumer-accessible hardware, curated local tooling will outcompete data-warehouse LLM-SAAS, and data provenance and process transparency will become more and more important. ... librarians are going to be way, way more […]
We've had an Images of Research competition for a few years now but this year we're also doing Sounds of Research: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-studies/training-events/research-showcases/sounds-of-research.html
Sounds of Research
www.ualberta.ca
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
We've had an Images of Research competition for a few years now but this year we're also doing Sounds of Research: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/graduate-studies/training-events/research-showcases/sounds-of-research.html
trying to focus on making a nice slide; mesmerized by the lorem ipsum
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
trying to focus on making a nice slide; mesmerized by the lorem ipsum
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Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where […]
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mstdn.ca
October 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where […]
I'm rather happy with the fact that I didn't notice the AWS outage at all
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'm rather happy with the fact that I didn't notice the AWS outage at all