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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Jul 30

One output, 1 hour 40mins of Siskel and Ebert summaries:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFLM...

Building datasets from video collections using local & cloud LLMs

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Jul 30

Trying out workflows that use multimodal LLMs for validating and QA.

In this blog I walk through a test using 1000 Siskel and Ebert videos to extract key video frames and other data.

thisismattmiller.com/post/buildin...

Using Qwen2.5-VL, Gemini 2.5 and Whisper to build a Siskel and Ebert dataset

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WoodBlockShop @woodblockshop.bsky.social · Jul 26

maintenance

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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jul 29

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

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Siskel and Ebert Bot @siskel-ebert-bot.bsky.social · Jul 24

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
Director: Joe Dante
Cast: Phoebe Cates-Kline, Sylvester Stallone, Hulk Hogan, Zach Galligan, Christopher Lee
Watch Review
wp / wd

A screen capture from the Siskel and Ebert Show reviewing the movie Gremlins 2: The New Batch. Ebert gave it a thumbs down.
Siskel gave it a thumbs down.

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Jul 23

thisismattmiller.com/post/glitch/

New blog post about @glitch.com shutdown, how I migrated my apps, and how I used glitch for teaching and creative projects.

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Jun 30

The Library of Congress BIBFRAME Update is online today at 1PM EDT.
Talks about:
- Hubs (BF ontology)
- BF Cataloging at Penn Libraries
- BF Validation Tooling
listserv.loc.gov/cgi-bin/wa?A...

listserv.loc.gov

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Jun 17

Need a robots.txt directive indicating bulk download is available, not that they would abide by robots.txt

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Jun 17

Yeah we have bots endlessly flooding id.loc.gov stressing servers to the limit trying to scrape millions of html pages even though we offer pretty much all of it as bulk downloads: id.loc.gov/download/

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FernBot🌿 @fernbot.bsky.social · May 16

ideal

A collage of fern illustrations over a color gradient. Images from:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108032#page/168/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107961#page/240/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/116/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108040#page/92/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/107961#page/260/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108510#page/206/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108787#page/118/mode/2up

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · May 15

A new very chill bot, for these very un-chill times.
Posts FERNS from "Ferns: British and exotic..." by E. J. Lowe. 8 vols 1856-1860.
Makes a new collage every 8 hours.

FernBot🌿 @fernbot.bsky.social · May 15

judicious

A collage of fern illustrations over a color gradient. Images from:
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/116/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108040#page/100/mode/2up
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/108042#page/186/mode/2up

Preservation and Access Education and Training

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · May 1

Interesting! Because they just terminated their grant for the Post45 Data Collective, which preserves and establishes access to collections of literary and cultural data!

Rob Townsend @rbtownsend.bsky.social · Apr 30

NEH announces a new funding opportunity to support "projects that develop and implement educational programs for professionals who preserve and provide access to humanities collections" bit.ly/43aviek

Supports the development of knowledge and skills among professionals responsible for preserving and establishing access to humanities collections.

bit.ly

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Apr 14

If you need me I’ll be in…

Photograph of kraftwerk performing at Coachella the screen reads COMPUTERWORLD

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WoodBlockShop @woodblockshop.bsky.social · Mar 24

waiting for the dead bodies to arrive, but they're not doing me any favors

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Mar 10

It’s true, and /r/pslf is full of community bureaucratic evocation tips: “did you try the wet signature doc upload ritual?” or “are you sure you used this exact text in your reconsideration request summoning?” that are unclear if they ever actually work.

Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · Mar 10

New minizine: "$93,605 : A Student Loan Ghost Story."

Framing it as a 30-year haunting starts to get at the impact #StudentDebt has had on my life. 👻 Read it online for free at violetbfox.info/minizines/.

Cover of a zine with a clipart ghost drawing and the title "$93,605 : A Student Loan Ghost Story"

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Mar 5

I wrote a bit about turning triples into pie charts.

A screenshot of https://semlab.io/property-explorer/ its of two pie charts connected by a line it shows what percentage of entities are connected via the "collaborated with" property in our Wikibase database.

Sr. Innovation Specialist

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Laurie Allen @lallen.bsky.social · Feb 26

We’ve posted a job ad to join our team at LC Labs.

I am very proud and excited about the work we have planned. Please share.

I’ll also mention that we are part of the legislative branch and this is a partner-supported project.

www.usajobs.gov/job/832669800

<p>This position is located in the Digital Innovation Division, Digital Strategy Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer.</p> <p>The position description number for this position is 35903...

www.usajobs.gov

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Feb 27

The Handsome Box!
I yell that every time I walk by. www.loc.gov/ghe/cascade/...

Story Map Cascade

This story map was created with the Story Map Cascade application in ArcGIS Online.

www.loc.gov

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WoodBlockShop @woodblockshop.bsky.social · Feb 12

Untitled

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Feb 12

Might be useful: github.com/ecmonsen/gen...

github.com

From the GMail community on Reddit

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Feb 10

i feel vindicated there are literally dozens of us www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comm...

Explore this post and more from the GMail community

www.reddit.com

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Feb 10

Less Gemini AI in my gmail and more fixing the broken Bus Stop theme that I've used for the last 15+ years

screen shot of the theme selection in gmail with bus stop theme selected and the theme not being applied in the background

Data and tools to explore 50,000 1929 public domain titles in HathiTrust

Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Feb 7

"How to tell the birds from the flowers and other wood-cuts." 1929 public domain book.
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=co...
found via
thisismattmiller.github.io/hathi-pd-202...

wood block print of of a clover plant and a plover bird, they looks the same.

wood block print of a kale plant and a quail bird, they looks the same.

Wood block print of a carrot and a parrot bird, they looks the same.

Wood block print of a hen bird and a piece of lichen, they looks the same.

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Matt Miller @thisismattmiller.com · Feb 6

New blog post: Three interfaces to explore the 50,000 1929 HathiTrust resources that entered the public domain last month

thisismattmiller.com/post/hathi-p...

Hathi PD 2025