…And today we’re finally live on Primo VE after 6+ months of intense work. Breathing a little easier for the moment.

@anelki yeah I had one of those recently and I was like, well, you can have it, but no one will find me there.

The greatest product review of all time https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

@anelki I love it! Daylight after my workday ends at 6ish or so makes me so much happier!

@yamainu Yeah, I would prefer if these were more clearly indicated. It's not that I'm never interested, it's just that I like to know what I'm going to get.

Already glad to have such a wealth of on-demand sessions available during #erl23. Wish I was there in person, but being able to just dip into the on-demand sessions when there's nothing I want to watch live is pretty great.

De La Soul catalog is finally available for streaming:

https://linktr.ee/wearedelasoul

(I’m an old person who somehow didn’t realize it wasn’t available until a few months ago because I still mostly listen to music on CD or ripped from CDs & I still have those albums.)

Scott Adams never recovered from being roasted by Pinkie Pie

Last night the 11yo broke down the Google Slides middle school Chatroom for me:

1. At first they used a Google doc but the infinite scroll was too chaotic
2. In the slide deck each new slide is one “post”—some all text, some images, some both—
3. They use slides’ comments feature to “reply” to each other’s “posts”
4. This allows participants to easily flip between posts using the slide thumbnail navigation, so they can find the conversations they care about easily
5. He owns the file & if anyone spams it, deletes other people’s posts, or gets nasty, he can revert the file to its previous save state & remove the spammer’s access
6. He did share the file with me on purpose, I think because he was proud & wanted me to see what he’d made

Essentially they’ve created a chatroom with moderation in Google Slides, so they can get around the school’s ban on platforms like Discord. It’s kind of brilliant

World: Can the US please just use the metric system, instead of making up weird measurements no one else understands

US:

@coral Congrats! I’m just wrapping up chairing a search committee for a library position that can be fully remote (but with a requirement to live in-state). It wasn’t advertised as such, though. 🤷🏼‍♀️

When AI chatbots flood the world with false facts confidently asserted, they're not breaking down, glitching out, or hallucinating. No, they're bullshitting. In our book on the subject, we describe bullshit as involving language intended to appear persuasive without regard to its actual truth or logical consistency.

1. SEARCH QUALITY DEGRADATION

It •used• to be that if what I was searching for was on the web at all, it was almost always the first or second thing Google showed. Now that link is buried under heaps of unhelpful widgets and doodads and AI-extracted snippets and mile upon mile of content farm garbage results.

Google Search’s main appeal was search quality. That advantage is gone. If I’m going to have to scroll anyway, might as well protect my privacy.

@martin So sweet!

Asks.

#Comics #WebComics

@elizabethdill @adr Safari…but it’s the same on Chrome.

@elizabethdill @adr I can get in now, but it’s empty. Just a “Let’s get you setup” message. And tumbleweeds. Not even one of my (many) columns. 😬

@adr I’ve been gradually weaning myself off twitter, but yeah…the apparent death of tweetdeck will probably be the end for real.

There's a new academic search engine out there called Scinapse.

Tagline: "We're better than Google Scholar. We mean it."

https://www.scinapse.io/