Madam Librarian Marilyn (she/her)
@nefariousnautilus.bsky.social
Librarian, scientist (seabirds for LIFE), dancer, community theater performer
The skunk saga continues.
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The skunk saga continues.
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The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
OpenAI Loses Key Discovery Battle as It Cedes Ground to Authors in AI Lawsuits
The issue has been a major battleground in discovery. OpenAI could be on the hook for hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars if it was aware it was infringing on copyrighted material.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Lord I see what You’ve done for others
But if the court finds OpenAI knowingly trained on pirated books and deleted the evidence to to avoid scrutiny, that could mean actual consequences to the tune of billions of dollars.
November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Lord I see what You’ve done for others
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release the yule logs
if santa was in the epstein logs i would not be surprised, we know nothing about his operation
November 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
release the yule logs
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This America is right here for us if only we wish to build it.
From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...
November 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
This America is right here for us if only we wish to build it.
Happy Heated Rivalry-mas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKO2...
Heated Rivalry | Official Trailer | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
www.youtube.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Happy Heated Rivalry-mas! www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKO2...
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I had a thought. I've been questioned many times, why I put Trinidadian dialect in my novella that is set centuries in the future.
The main refrain was, wouldn't that have been phased out?
And my thought was...would ppl make the same comment if I had used latin? or something latin sounding?
The main refrain was, wouldn't that have been phased out?
And my thought was...would ppl make the same comment if I had used latin? or something latin sounding?
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I had a thought. I've been questioned many times, why I put Trinidadian dialect in my novella that is set centuries in the future.
The main refrain was, wouldn't that have been phased out?
And my thought was...would ppl make the same comment if I had used latin? or something latin sounding?
The main refrain was, wouldn't that have been phased out?
And my thought was...would ppl make the same comment if I had used latin? or something latin sounding?
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getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
getting the onion newspaper is worth it alone for the ads
Fun fact: skunks can definitely dig underneath wire.
November 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Fun fact: skunks can definitely dig underneath wire.
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WE. ARE. LIVE.
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
Black Friday | Peculiarity Shop
The Peculiarity Shop Black Friday Collection, 11/28/2025, 12pm EST.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
WE. ARE. LIVE.
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
11 LGBTQIA+ crafters, we will be shipping all week, free US over $25. Support queer artists, and sincerely, with love, FUCK BEZOS.
www.peculiarityshop.com/blackfriday2...
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Stephen Miller is doing raw, open white supremacy. The logics of Andrew Jackson and Adolph Hitler and every Jim Crow lynch mob.
And also, even the Wall Street Journal opinion page thinks the racism has gone too far, which is really saying a lot about exactly how extreme it is 🙃
And also, even the Wall Street Journal opinion page thinks the racism has gone too far, which is really saying a lot about exactly how extreme it is 🙃
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Stephen Miller is doing raw, open white supremacy. The logics of Andrew Jackson and Adolph Hitler and every Jim Crow lynch mob.
And also, even the Wall Street Journal opinion page thinks the racism has gone too far, which is really saying a lot about exactly how extreme it is 🙃
And also, even the Wall Street Journal opinion page thinks the racism has gone too far, which is really saying a lot about exactly how extreme it is 🙃
Alt text for Prof Peter Hotez
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Alt text for Prof Peter Hotez
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I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I don’t get it, why does making art become unsatisfying when you remove the part where your brain works and is rewarded with a sense of accomplishment
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Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead.
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
November 28, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Instead of doing a consumerism on "Black" Friday, consider supporting small businesses, dropping a few coins in someone's ko-fi or go fund me, sign up for their patreon instead.
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
Life is expensive, things are hard. Drop coins to humans, not AI, or big corporations today.
QRP with your links!
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This is a big part of it, for me. Instead of glancing at the image and continuing to listen to the talk, I’m noticing that the table leg is connected to the chair, that the shirt buttons sideways, that the window bleeds weirdly into the wall. And wondering why the presenter didn’t notice or care.
It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a big part of it, for me. Instead of glancing at the image and continuing to listen to the talk, I’m noticing that the table leg is connected to the chair, that the shirt buttons sideways, that the window bleeds weirdly into the wall. And wondering why the presenter didn’t notice or care.
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It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's also just distracting because usually the image has some weirdness to it, and it doesn't tend to add explanatory value. So if you're just adding them for ambience or to represent a generic concept, just use a regular picture.
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how do his sort think they can get away with overlooking the fact that the US became the world’s no 1 economy directly because of immigration. There’s no universe in which it happened without it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
how do his sort think they can get away with overlooking the fact that the US became the world’s no 1 economy directly because of immigration. There’s no universe in which it happened without it.
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
On this particular day of remembrance, I would like to highlight the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band from my area, which is working to teach youth their indigenous culture and practices, as well as working on getting their land back. Donation link in the next post! amahmutsunlandtrust.org/our-vision
Our History and Vision — Amah Mutsun Land Trust
amahmutsunlandtrust.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On this particular day of remembrance, I would like to highlight the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band from my area, which is working to teach youth their indigenous culture and practices, as well as working on getting their land back. Donation link in the next post! amahmutsunlandtrust.org/our-vision
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Every time a US veteran snaps people fall all over each other to point out the effects of war and literal physical changes that PTSD triggers, but one Afghan veteran snaps and we’re going to shut down immigration for all Afghans forever and I bet they’re working on revoking parole wholesale
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every time a US veteran snaps people fall all over each other to point out the effects of war and literal physical changes that PTSD triggers, but one Afghan veteran snaps and we’re going to shut down immigration for all Afghans forever and I bet they’re working on revoking parole wholesale
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Archive link provided partly to avoid linking to 'The American Conservative', but mostly because if you follow the link you'll find it preserves the original sickening subhead: "They're good, actually."
November 27, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Archive link provided partly to avoid linking to 'The American Conservative', but mostly because if you follow the link you'll find it preserves the original sickening subhead: "They're good, actually."
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Alt text that that has humor and personality and sounds like it was written by the person who took the photo is great, but you gotta do that while remembering that the fundamental purpose is communicating what the image is.
Alt Text isn't the space for seo, secret notes, or inside jokes. It's for people to access media and any context or information that that media has.
If we gon make things right, we gotta find ways to make things right that don't leave us behind.
If we gon make things right, we gotta find ways to make things right that don't leave us behind.
Some are suggesting you deliberately write inaccurate or confusing alt text, because they say this confuses AI scrapers that are analyzing images.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
The purpose of alt text is to help people who cannot see the image. Deliberately misrepresenting the image is a gross misuse of alt text. Don't do it.
November 27, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Alt text that that has humor and personality and sounds like it was written by the person who took the photo is great, but you gotta do that while remembering that the fundamental purpose is communicating what the image is.
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This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.
www.transanta.com/about
www.transanta.com/about
About — Transanta
www.transanta.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This is a very sweet (if very Christian-centric) trans-led mutual aid project that connects anonymous gift givers with unhoused or in-foster care trans kids.
www.transanta.com/about
www.transanta.com/about
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this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
this is amazing news - the HPV vaccine promises to eliminate cervical cancer in countries where uptake is high.
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These abuses of those who are *literally doing everything right & legally* was the breaking point for my wife
“I had to take the baby from my crying wife’s arms.“ It hasn’t even been a year, and this is not a scandal anymore? What is wrong with us?
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
These abuses of those who are *literally doing everything right & legally* was the breaking point for my wife