A little PSA: if your library of choice is facing funding cuts, don't hold off on using their services because you're worried it'll put pressure on their existing funds.

Take advantage of everything and help them get some lovely stats to help them demonstrate impact as they fight back! If it looks like they're not being useful to folks, they'll get cut!

Don't do the cost cutters' jobs for them!

Just a reminder to anyone who clings to belongings, afraid to use them and break or wear them out -

I'm looking at all these stickers people gave me years ago. They're not sticky anymore. I was afraid to stick them, and now they can never be stuck. I never got to enjoy them. This applies to everything. Toys, shoes, anything. Use it and enjoy it. If it gets ruined, you got to enjoy it instead of it degrading having never been enjoyed.

Some neat info about 70s hard drive contaminants.

From the DEC RK05 disk drive maintenance manual (DEC-00-HRK05-C-D)

#retrocomputing #dec

Louvre Thieves Given Immunity After Confirming Jewels Stolen For Purpose Of Training AI Software 🇬🇧

"When we realised these jewels were only stolen to inflate the share price of a company whose entire value relies on the wholesale theft of other people’s art, we had no choice but grant these scamps immunity,” confirmed French prosecutor Alain Barbier."

https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2025/10/20/louvre-thieves-given-immunity-after-confirming-jewels-stolen-for-purpose-of-training-ai-software/

Pour les non anglophones 🇫🇷:

Les voleurs du Louvre bénéficient de l'immunité après avoir confirmé que les bijoux avaient été volés dans le but d'entraîner un logiciel d'intelligence artificielle

"Lorsque nous avons réalisé que ces bijoux n'avaient été volés que pour gonfler le cours de l'action d'une société dont toute la valeur repose sur le vol en gros des œuvres d'art d'autrui, nous n'avons eu d'autre choix que d'accorder l'immunité à ces escrocs", a confirmé le procureur français Alain Barbier.

#Francais #France