"NASA confirms that mysterious object shooting through the solar system is an 'interstellar visitor' — and it has a new name"

https://www.livescience.com/space/comets/nasa-confirms-that-mysterious-object-shooting-through-the-solar-system-is-an-interstellar-visitor-and-it-has-a-new-name

@Philip @cadey I've learned, and followed. They were looped in almost immediately to my post 😀

"Avoiding becoming the lone dependency peg with load-bearing anime"

#Anubis #OpenSource

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/avoiding-becoming-peg-dependency/

@MarcSchulder Haha, it does, doesn't it? Gotta do what we gotta do. 😀

@nirak Actually, it may be because I had a typo in the URL (an extra 'y'). I've fixed it in the post now if you want to try again without the login step.

@kevinbowrin Ah, okay, thanks! I've it fixed now. I'd swear I clicked on the link before posting it. Must be losing my mind.

@kevinbowrin Hehe, yeah. We've also implemented it and dug into the code to remove that. Our AUL was not going to be okay with a random anime mascot on our pages. 😆

@nirak We've implemented it too (awhile ago) and have found it's working for us, too, fwiw.

@kevinbowrin Yes, do you get a login screen? You can create an account and then search for Anubis and it will be the first result.

@nirak You can create an account and get access to it.

Duke Library implemented Anubis to try to stem the onslaught of AI traffic many libraries are facing, and wrote up a nice report about their experience with it.

https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/items/a99a4736-6542-4ef1-8492-41c80e58e1be

Today I learned there are rules for Road Runner ... BEEP-BEEP!

(creator Chuck Jones’s rules for the Road Runner)

#LB my absolutely favourite moment from the annals of Wile E. Coyote.

Nothing sabotages my productivity as much as focusing on my productivity.

"The Courts Just Made Our Libraries Sitting Ducks For AI Plundering"

https://lithub.com/the-courts-just-made-our-libraries-sitting-ducks-for-ai-plundering/

People are shocked to discover they need to fact-check ChatGPT and I'm having the uncomfortable realization that they never fact-checked their uncle's Facebook posts, their friend's medical advice, or literally anything Google's top result told them, and suddenly the last decade makes sense...

"This is FDR's proposed second Bill of Rights that was filmed after he delivered his State of the Union Address via radio on January 11, 1944." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZ5bx9AyI4

Every time I look at my Mastodon profile and see "Owner of a broken down 1979 Westfalia" my brain translates that to "Owner of a Broken Heart" (and I hear the song in my head).

🔖 Homosaurus Vocabulary Site: an international linked data vocabulary of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) terms https://homosaurus.org/ #BookmarkShare

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases