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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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
Short Circuit Jack had it all figured out https://archive.org/details/1921Prattonia/page/61/mode/1up
September 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Short Circuit Jack had it all figured out https://archive.org/details/1921Prattonia/page/61/mode/1up
Canada finds itself in uncharted territory
August 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Canada finds itself in uncharted territory
My favorite so far
August 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
My favorite so far
There's steady distant thunder out there, and the Environment Canada online map with its new lightning layer shows a really active storm, but it's between Edson and Whitecourt, 200km away - can that be what we hear? https://weather.gc.ca/?layers=,radar,lightning&zoom=8¢er=53.57571371,-113.35335797
July 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There's steady distant thunder out there, and the Environment Canada online map with its new lightning layer shows a really active storm, but it's between Edson and Whitecourt, 200km away - can that be what we hear? https://weather.gc.ca/?layers=,radar,lightning&zoom=8¢er=53.57571371,-113.35335797
I like this. (Solomon Bloom,from an unpublished essay quoted in the intro to A Liberal in Two Worlds: The Essays of Solomon F. Bloom, p. 6)
June 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I like this. (Solomon Bloom,from an unpublished essay quoted in the intro to A Liberal in Two Worlds: The Essays of Solomon F. Bloom, p. 6)
Robert C. Binkley during the 1936 election: "The Federal government, as long as it stands as set up by the Constitution, and unless a Fascist revolution completely changes its character, cannot pay the coupons on the bonds until the relief checks have been […]
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May 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Robert C. Binkley during the 1936 election: "The Federal government, as long as it stands as set up by the Constitution, and unless a Fascist revolution completely changes its character, cannot pay the coupons on the bonds until the relief checks have been […]
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(Almost too late for this)
May 8, 2025 at 4:53 AM
(Almost too late for this)
1985: you had to keep track of which floppy the file was stored on, and you could buy single-sided floppies and punch a notch in the unnotched edge to let you use the back, so your floppies had a recto and a verso. This was edited in Nota Bene and printed on […]
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April 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
1985: you had to keep track of which floppy the file was stored on, and you could buy single-sided floppies and punch a notch in the unnotched edge to let you use the back, so your floppies had a recto and a verso. This was edited in Nota Bene and printed on […]
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1995: trying to enhance a photocopy from the PRO by scanning it (with a hand scanner that rolled across the page), and then blowing it up and printing it on the office laser printer. Didn't help.
April 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
1995: trying to enhance a photocopy from the PRO by scanning it (with a hand scanner that rolled across the page), and then blowing it up and printing it on the office laser printer. Didn't help.
I cracked the screen of my phone. New phone, everything migrated properly, including the lock screen background image. But now the fingerprint scanner is in the screen, not on the back, so, by sheer coincidence, I can only access my phone by giving Toby a boop. #catsofmastodon
March 29, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I cracked the screen of my phone. New phone, everything migrated properly, including the lock screen background image. But now the fingerprint scanner is in the screen, not on the back, so, by sheer coincidence, I can only access my phone by giving Toby a boop. #catsofmastodon
There ought to be guardrails that prevent GenAI from repeating comedy sketch material that shows that GenAI can't exist
March 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
There ought to be guardrails that prevent GenAI from repeating comedy sketch material that shows that GenAI can't exist
It's today! (and yes, of course that's Jane Austen's original mic)
February 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's today! (and yes, of course that's Jane Austen's original mic)
The world we live in: Gemini started answering in Chinese, but we're cool now. I kinda feel like I should apologize for not being able to read a few words in Chinese.
February 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
The world we live in: Gemini started answering in Chinese, but we're cool now. I kinda feel like I should apologize for not being able to read a few words in Chinese.
I'll bet no AI can match this as a way to end an article.
February 14, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'll bet no AI can match this as a way to end an article.
I got stickers today! Thanks, @wdenton ! It's a good day again.
January 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I got stickers today! Thanks, @wdenton ! It's a good day again.
This fellow joined our household a little more than a year ago, and quickly made it clear I was Lap 3 and a long way behind Lap 2. This winter, though, he has synced with my breakfast timing and joins me most mornings in the kitchen for 15 minutes or so […]
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January 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This fellow joined our household a little more than a year ago, and quickly made it clear I was Lap 3 and a long way behind Lap 2. This winter, though, he has synced with my breakfast timing and joins me most mornings in the kitchen for 15 minutes or so […]
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I thought I was reasonably relaxed today, but Toby is in another league #catsofmastodon
December 28, 2024 at 10:07 PM
I thought I was reasonably relaxed today, but Toby is in another league #catsofmastodon
Toby sat up straight to watch what was going on with the refrigerator, and left his mark on my knee #catsofmastodon
December 15, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Toby sat up straight to watch what was going on with the refrigerator, and left his mark on my knee #catsofmastodon
the camera app makes intriguing little clicks #catsofmastodon
December 7, 2024 at 6:22 PM
the camera app makes intriguing little clicks #catsofmastodon
Every tool that has to do something with a pdf other than display it seems to regard pdfs as freaks of nature
December 6, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Every tool that has to do something with a pdf other than display it seems to regard pdfs as freaks of nature
When I sat down there was a squirrel watching me from a snow-covered bush outside the window. Maybe I should have started some chat.
November 26, 2024 at 7:39 PM
When I sat down there was a squirrel watching me from a snow-covered bush outside the window. Maybe I should have started some chat.
Someone run downstairs and reboot the AI headline generator stat
November 25, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Someone run downstairs and reboot the AI headline generator stat
The Monday morning thing of finding the browser tabs you left open on Friday. Let me state clearly that I think hosting autonomous weapons on JStor would be a very very bad idea no matter who is accountable.
November 18, 2024 at 4:28 PM
The Monday morning thing of finding the browser tabs you left open on Friday. Let me state clearly that I think hosting autonomous weapons on JStor would be a very very bad idea no matter who is accountable.