A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

As great minds can express much in a few words, so small minds have the contrary talent of talking a great deal without saying anything at all.
 
[Comme c’est le caractère des grands esprits de faire entendre en peu de paroles beaucoup de choses, les petits esprits, au contraire, ont le don de beaucoup parler, et de ne rien dire.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶142 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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Masters degree students handing me in project files including node_modules are in for an instant fail. #academic #chatter #webapps

Are you still dissertating? No, I just got tenure and my book just came out… 🤔 #random #academic #chatter #true #stories #conference #chat

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LinkedIn | March 21, 2025 - 05:15 a.m.

The front page of LinkedIn feels like a corporate team building event that no one ever wants to attend.

https://readbeanicecream.surge.sh/chatter/#linkedin-march-21-2025

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🥁🥁🥁Back on the weekly schedule starting next Friday! #DPConnect is your online space to discuss #digitalpreservation. Mark your calendars for Friday, 7 Feb, at 2pm UTC. These 30-minute gatherings are informal with no set agenda. Join in to share work, challenges, or just say hello! More details (incl your local time) 👉🏽 https://buff.ly/3WJoDnY

All are welcome 😊
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A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I talk half the time to find out my own thoughts, as a school-boy turns his pockets inside out to see what is in them. One brings to light all sorts of personal property he had forgotten in his inventory.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1872-01), “The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

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A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

«
Table talk, lovers’ talk — both are equally elusive. Lovers’ talk is castlebuilding, table talk is pipe-dreaming.

[Propos de table et propos d’amour; les uns sont aussi insaisissables que les autres; les propos d’amour sont des nuées, les propos de table sont des fumées.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/hugo-victor/73902/

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A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

«
A sick man that gets talking about himself, a woman that gets talking about her baby, and an author that begins reading out of his own book, never know when to stop.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/50379/

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Unpopuläre Meinung (unter Professor:Innen): Professor:Innen in Deutschland sind Beamte im höheren Dienst - damit ist eigentlich schon klar warum sich im Bildungssektor nichts bewegen wird wenn man das nicht ändert. Dazu die noch komplett vor die Wand gefahrene W-Besoldung, ein System das föderale Strukturen über Qualität stellt und schwupps handelst Du dir ein riesiges gesellschaftliches Bildungsproblem ein, das wir, wenns gut läuft in 20 Jahren erkennen werden. #academic #chatter

Closing the Chatterbox, with Shane Harris and David Priess #Chatter
https://buff.ly/3W0fgjs

Implementation progress: got the crawler written & integrated with the indexes + thumbnailer (+`.gitignore` support) but not tested. The vector search persistence system is truly shocking..... I think I need to back it in an `njodb` instance.

Next up:

- testing the crawler
- integrating with the rest of the app
- HTTP API
- starting working on the web interface

(see also <https://www.npmjs.com/package/njodb>)

#OpenSource #Eventually #OnceIveFinishedAMinimumWorkingVersion #Javascript #Crawling #Programming #Chatter #ProgressUpdate #microblog #IsThereATagForPhotoManagement #PhotoManagement #WillTagWithPhotographyOnceTheresSomethingToSee

Intelligence Analysis, Intuition, and Precognition, with Carmen Medina #Chatter
https://buff.ly/4gxslIY

The Legacy of “The Hunt for Red October” with Katherine Voyles #Chatter
https://buff.ly/49LcFQ3

The Military, Climate Change, and the Environment, with Sherri Goodman #chatter
https://buff.ly/4fUshCX

chatter / rosaire appel. 2024

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#Chatter 1876, Election Security, and National Security, with Rachel Shelden
https://buff.ly/3Ou6Soc