On Wednesday, I finished a 110km trek, the Fjällräven Classic Sweden, along with 500 others, many of whom are now good friends!

#handsoff the sign is weeping.

#handsoff Essex County, with Cory Booker

Aggressive AI scraping bots have been periodically making it very difficult to access Unglue.it. The image shows the traffic pattern we've been dealing with. We will outlast this evil scourge.

For example, the alt text for the illustration showing Pooh peering up at the bees can't call them bees, because in the next sentence, Pooh thinks: "That buzzing-noise means something. You don't get a buzzing-noise like that, just buzzing and buzzing, without its meaning something."

Are Open Acces Ebooks Accessible? (Poster from Munin Conference).

Ronald Snijder and I presented our poster assessing the state of accessibility in Open Access Ebooks at the Munin Conference in Tromsø.

Here’s the image:

Did I mention that the “community standards” warning from Facebook came just a few hours after this?:

I run the bot that posts new books at Project Gutenberg. Today Facebook thought that www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73205 violated their guidelines

Went to Montclair Film Festival panel on AI.
Anna Feldman (cs prof): Human intelligence can be hard to define.
Stephen Colbert: I’ve met us!
#mff23 #montclairfilm

Here’s the poster I’ve just presented at the #OASPA2023 Conference. We’re checking 69,000 free ebook links every month. Currently there are problems with 6% of them. doab-check.ebookfoundation.org

Here’s an iris, and some blue sky, for all the sky-moms.

Gardening the Lawn: Bamboo Shoot edition.

Is the sun rising, or setting?