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librarian, husband, author, Canadian. No Particular order.
My musichttps://seanmcgaughey.bandcamp.com/

This makes so much sense to me. AI is not hallucinating- it's bullshitting.

https://boingboing.net/2025/02/10/chatgpt-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting.html

Today's chord is Dm7, the 2 in our 2-5-1 in C. Yes, it's the Evil E™ shape! This is based on an open Am7 (0000) shape. Our b7(C)/b3(F) pair is on strings 4 & 3, our 5(A) is on string 2, & our root(D) on string 1 is moved down 2 frets to double our b7(C).
This is the easiest way I know how to play the Evil E™. I'm pretty sure @UkeGap showed me this.
#JazzUkeChords #ukulele

Next month is February, which means February Album Writing Month! Get ready for 28 days — er, 29 DAYS! — of excuses to sit down with a guitar or a piano, making songs happen out of nowhere...

#fawm #fawm2024 #fawmchallenge #february #songwriting #music #songwritingchallenge #musicchallenge #paulmccartney

february album writing month is almost upon us! get ready... #fawm #music #songwriting #songwritingchallenge #musicchallenge
Every town should have a cable depot where everyone brings the cables they aren't using and they sort, test, and store them, and when you need some random cable you simply drop by the cable depot to pick it up. And if they don't have it they'll request it from the next town over, like inter library loans.

Hey folks, since it's Public Domain Day, let's also note that our PUBLIC DOMAIN GAME JAM IS NOW OPEN! One month to come up with a game using any newly public domain material! https://itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-1928

More details here: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/01/and-were-off-time-to-get-started-on-this-years-public-domain-game-jam/

Gaming Like It's 1928

A game jam from 2024-01-01 to 2024-02-01 hosted by Randy Lubin & Copia Gaming. A new year means new material entering the public domain! Starting January 1st 2024, works from 1928 are free to use and remix (except for sound recor...

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Congratulations to @pluralistic
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Cory coined the 2023 word of the year, enshittification, on 21 Jan 2023.

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

“I call this #enshittification.”

#PopCulture
#CoryDoctorow

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”

Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, New York, NY–Jan. 5—The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023.

American Dialect Society
NPR: Scholastic faced backlash for putting books dealing with race, gender and sexuality in their own optional category for middle school book fairs. It's now apologizing and working to reverse course.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/10/25/1208419749/scholastic-book-fair-diverse-stories-apology

‘Nobody was expecting it’: British Museum warned reputation seriously damaged and treasures will take decades to recover

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/26/british-museum-reputation-damaged-treasures-loss

> Experts say loss of 1,500 items reveals lax cataloguing and boosts case for returning objects to countries of origin

‘Nobody was expecting it’: British Museum warned reputation seriously damaged and treasures will take decades to recover

Experts say loss of 1,500 items reveals lax cataloguing and boosts case for returning objects to countries of origin

The Guardian
Bradford Public Library strike reaches second day of action

Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library employees and members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 905 went on strike Friday morning and continued to stand in solidarity on Saturday.

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