@adr I thought you'd be happy about that.

Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25982111-bartz/
#AI #GenAI #FairUse #copyright #books

New rule: If you meet a federally recognized level of French fluency, you get June 24 as a holiday, regardless of where you live in the country.

Bon fête nationale du Québec 🎉

"I am trying and failing to come up with anything that has done more damage to how we think about and understand performance then Malcolm Gladwell's 10,000 Hour Rule" -- John Warner, More Than Words.

@adr "Also mainstream trinitarian Christians dispute labeling nontrinitarian groups as members within Christianity. " (From "Nontrinitarianism")

@adr it's amazing that Transylvania is a perfectly normal place, just hanging out, doing it's thing, and then Bram Stoker came along and just fucked it up.

"The Unitarian Church of Transylvania was first recognized by the Edict of Torda, issued by the Transylvanian Diet under Prince John II Sigismund Zápolya (January 1568)"

@adr Unitarians are heretics, and might have identified as briefly Christian at one point, but probably not for a very long time

What are you made of?

Mon but, c'est d'avoir le meilleur français que le premier ministre

do not under any circumstances give a librarian your true name, accept a gift from it (especially food or drink) and for god's sake never stray from the path in a library.

@adr I do, in fact, have a CP/M computer at home.

@adr I'm more offended that BSD was lumped with linux and not MacOS

@adr currently three respondents, with one response for each option 🤣

if you're a librarian or library worker, what is your *preferred* operating system (note: not what work might make you use, I'm talking your personal preference)

@hedgielib @redlibrarian If you're surveying people who are not affiliated with your place of work, then you're not doing service improvement.

At least that would be my take on it.

@redlibrarian @astrobri The economics department still does that

@redlibrarian @hedgielib Yup, I rely on that "loophole" daily as a UX/usability researcher. Everything I do is service improvement. But if you read the tri-council policy, they're idea of "service improvement" doesn't really encompass a lot of work that isn't program review. Because what other kinds of services to academic units provide on campus?

DSpace as blogging platform.

Because who said you needed to submit things for publication before generating a PDF and posting it somewhere?

@hedgielib Around here, all research-related surveys require IRB review, even if they only ask boring questions.

Because it's not the researcher's job to decide for themselves if the questions are "boring" or not. (or could lead to reidentification)