john fink ok!! :goat:

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The Lafarguist-Discordian librarian who went for Araldite. You may know me as @adr from twitter. That's ok also. I mean OK that you know me from there. Twitter is not ok. pronouns: they/them/he/him

Sous les pavés, la plage!

occupation#librarian
residence#hamont
likes#potatoes
githubhttps://github.com/jbfink
"unlawful web scraping" jesus christ
Accurate.

Wikipedia, and the entire Wikimedia movement, has been a democratic, anti-authoritarian experiment since the day of its inception.

It's a project that matters, something I've been proud to have made a career of.

I spent my 20 years at the Wikimedia Foundation trying to further that experiment on a professional basis, and I have never been prouder of my former colleagues at WMF than I have been these past few months as we've been making @wwu a reality.

You should organize your workplace too.

TIL the Australian terms "TAFE" and "arvo"
Ok that HN post is good and librarians, especially those who focus their critique of AI on anything *but* labour, should absolutely read it. https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/ the bit about jobs *being* identity and AI being a threat to that is apropos as hell, even though the article talks mostly specifically about tech workers and data scientists.
AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers

Link: https://jackmaguire.org/blog/ai-job-grief/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48336760

AI Job Grief: The Unnamed Psychological Crisis Hitting Tech Workers

Across hundreds of Reddit threads and a small body of clinical literature, AI-driven displacement is producing an emotional category that most closely resembles grief, and the institutions causing it have no language for it.

New blog post! I came across a fully-interactive offline archive(!!) of a BBS from 1994 and wanted to share an interactive walkthrough of it. Let's explore 90s Kansai online and see what people were chatting about.

https://cdrom.ca/games/2026/05/30/xd.html

haters will try to tell you that your backup tool shouldn’t be slop that silently corrupts data
It's "infringement" (and in the case of making transitive copies for a thing, probably not even that in reality).
If you haven't been deprived of a thing or the utility of a thing it's not "theft".