Peter Binkley

@pbinkley@code4lib.social
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a digital scholarship technologies librarian, interested in stuff like IIIF and minimal computing, also pre-digital history of similar stuff like microfilm and file cards. In Canada.
⚒️ Dig where you stand. ⚒️
#DigitalHumanities #IIIF #libraries #microfilm #RetroTechnology
Githubhttps://pbinkley.github.io/
Research bloghttps://www.wallandbinkley.com/rcb/
ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0560-8958
Annals of Clevelandhttps://www.wallandbinkley.com/projects/2019/annals-of-cleveland/

“The reason Trump defunded the National Weather Service leading to… is because 🚨PROJECT 2025 THOUGHT WEATHER PREDICTION SCIENCE WAS TIED TO EVIDENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE.”
-M Jollett

“The ideological dismantling of NOAA and NWS begins on page 674 of Project 2025 and is well underway.”
-Ribelle
#NOAA #NWS #Project2025 #Idiocracy #Kleptocracy #ClimateChange #USPol

I really want to read Zelenskyy's memoirs some day

Hi everyone, I'm helping a friend who was born in Germany and lived their first 7 years there to get a copy of their birth certificate.

She knows the city, but I don't know how to spell it to do a search. She says it is near Schwarzwald.

Someone suggested I ask if anyone can help us. This is a recording of her saying the city.

#fedihelp #Germany

There’s No Undo Button For Our Fallen Democracy. Tressie McMillan Cottom: “I am almost 50 years old. It will take so long to do anything with this mess that this is the new normal for *me*.” https://kottke.org/25/07/theres-no-undo-button-for-our-fallen-democracy
There’s No Undo Button For Our Fallen Democracy

Tressie McMillan Cottom, one of America’s leading public intellectuals, posted this to Bluesky yesterday: I’m going t

kottke.org

Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype

it's fine with '{"number":0.0000}' though
So, olmocr is producing json with '00' instead of '0', like '{"number":00}', and python won't parse it. I feel like we could all respect each other's time a little better than that.
The microfiche scanner at @internetarchive is doing "Canadian International Trade Tribunal / Report on Plans and Priorities" - timely! https://www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to

YouTube
oh wait ... Canada Day ... fireworks ... never mind
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@The_Icarian A group offering legal advice and bail money to Stop Cop City protestors were arrested and slapped with RICO charges. Wouldn't be surprised if the swine don't try to do something similar here.
@Fat_Farang @The_Icarian and those guys heroically refused to snitch or to settle unless everybody got the same deal. Absolute heroes
@The_Icarian

Need to have programs like this everywhere.
@The_Icarian sharing hotline information like this is extremely dangerous without a source confirming it's not misinformation. Last time it was the supposed suicide hotline by Canada for US.. which happened to be TransLifeline's hotline, and done the rounds beginning from bluesky and all because of this kind of image text post sharing and then screenshot sharing without any question to the source.
@jase @The_Icarian Yes, my immediate thought was "Is there a source for this?" 😬
@jase it sounds like either a scam or a front for law enforcement, based on a quick search!! @The_Icarian

@CatsWhoCode @The_Icarian

@moonrabbit says that the source came across seemed legit but yea this definitely the problem even if it is legit without a source posts like this definitely leads you on a complete goose chase through a maze looking through the search engine for reputable source to back it up or not.

@CatsWhoCode @moonrabbit @indigo OH FOR goodness sake ...

https://federated.press/@The_Icarian/114710827227521398

That bloody canada "hotline" shit too..

Yea I'd urge report @The_Icarian to your admins for consistent sharing of hotlines without sources, if this is the way they're consistently sharing "information", extremely dangerous this is.

The Icarian (@The_Icarian@federated.press)

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USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online

Since Monday, a group of 15 USC student, alumni and faculty volunteers have already received thousands of calls for help on open immigration cases.

Annenberg Media

@jase @CatsWhoCode

that's what i found yes. (and sorry for the late reply: time zones)
but yeah next time i'll repost w source info for sure.

#fediblock psa to maybe think twice on sharing or boosting posts like this spreading hotline numbers without a a source of their authenticity.

Don't spread them, if it itself isn't misinformation, it's one stop from someone reposting with the number edited and that does the rounds instead all in the name of good intentions.

Report:

https://federated.press/@The_Icarian/114712367661608943
(https://archive.is/mfkT9)

https://federated.press/@The_Icarian/114710827227521398
(https://archive.is/wndWJ)

The Icarian (@The_Icarian@federated.press)

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First one, source is: https://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/06/18/usc-agents-of-change-establishes-hotline-to-help-move-immigration-hearings-online/.

But second is the very misinformation I referred to in my first reply above to the reported user.

Share hotline information responsibly.

USC Agents of Change establishes hotline to help move immigration hearings online

Since Monday, a group of 15 USC student, alumni and faculty volunteers have already received thousands of calls for help on open immigration cases.

Annenberg Media