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So, yes, libraries have been concerned about leasing vs. owning digital content for thirty years. But "here's the abstruse technical argument we've failed to make for thirty years" is less persuasive than the reaction of gamers to Sony canceling discs. #LibraryLife www.arl.org/blog/consume...

Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research LibrariesSally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...www.arl.org

Similarly, a piece of literature is not the sum of its plot elements. The important part of a meeting is almost never in the list of decisions made. LLMs can't make meaning. You need humans for that.

Just gave a talk on this exact theme.

It's not a liberal bubble. It's an environment where you can't force someone to read your opinion. Online conservatives don't like that and leave.

And also, if I ever meet someone concerned about this issue who has been to a women's sporting event or can name an athlete that isn't a relative, it'll be a first.

I live about equidistant from the two fire stations in my town. Maybe you don’t remember the constant sirens in the spring of 2020. I do.

"The crime is the cover-up" is one of the pieces of conventional wisdom that resulted in Right Now, where the media are incapable of covering openly committed crimes. Also, Watergate was a series of crimes AND THEN a criminal cover-up.

Whole lotta centrist Dems learning what the base they take for granted actually thinks now that it's clear literally anything is possible politically.

There are clusters for history, literature ancient and modern (and pop), cookbooks, gift books, aspirational books for music and languages, and rpgs and comics. I'm a librarian but I know better than to open the door of creating a System at home.

Half the NotebookLM demos I've seen are "summarize the plot of this work of fiction" (Shakespeare, Joyce). Already done by humans, guys, and besides IT'S NOT THE POINT of reading them.

The AI race framing, like the arms race framing during the Cold War, is mostly marketing for and by large corporations that profit on the hype.

Trying to thread the needle between two obnoxious replies to this.

My favorite thing about doing research is bit by bit discovering that I am completely wrong about something.

One of my hobbies is watching game developers and players discover how actual unregulated markets work. Has somebody done this as a dissertation or do I have to? www.polygon.com/forza-horizo...

Forza Horizon 6 update throws the game's economy into chaosThere's method to Playground's madness, but players aren't surewww.polygon.com

So, like, this is kinda the ancient Roman time system. Same number of hours per day, just different lengths at different times of the year.

The sky is apocalyptic and a political scientist has read more than the Melian Dialogue and the introduction to Thucydides' history. One comment: he is writing the story of war and its lessons, not just the history of one war. There only needs to be one Melos. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

The Strong Do What They Can—and Suffer What They MustWhat Thucydides really thought about power.www.foreignaffairs.com

And centrist liberals are learning what the parts of their party they take for granted actually think, now that it's clear you can do literally anything.

Quote of the day "If you are my enemy just go ahead and try to defeat me. Don’t tell me how to be more like you. You suck!"

Quote of the day from YouTube: "I think the best thing I can do is to get out of the Midwest." I'm a native son, but I get it.

Keeping library budgets the same will result in a digital collection incomparably smaller and more narrow than the physical collection you think of when you think of a library.