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jessamyn

@jessamyn@glammr.us

Rural tech geek. Researcher. Librarian resistance. Moss collector. Postcard enjoyer. I own MetaFilter. ✉️ box 345 05060 ✉️ (she/her)

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StillIRise1963, to random
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Each non nazi white person needs to convert 5 white nazis.

jessamyn,
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@StillIRise1963 @philip_cardella For me, tactically, some of this starts by talking to other white people about cops. Like... there are some pretty good statistics that show that cops are a racist institution as implemented and they don't keep "everyone" safe by a long shot. Once you start talking about cops, you can talk about institutionalized racism, and who benefits and why and now fascism and Nazism can flourish when it's not called out and dealt with.

jessamyn, to random
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If you participated in the discussion about Libby and maybe-targeted ads and privacy policies, you might like the read the Register's deep dive on what they could determine about what actually happened from @thomasclaburn

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/18/mystery_of_the_targeted_mobile_ads/

waldoj, to random
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Heat pumps and induction ranges are two strong examples of products that are better environmentally and better products than their gas/oil competitors, for almost everybody. (EVs will get there, but they’re not there yet.)

Because carbon emissions are free, it’s important that low-emission new products be clearly better than the polluting status quo. It’s a high bar, it’s not fair, but I’m glad we have heat pumps and induction ranges as a model.

jessamyn,
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@waldoj @debcha I'm not sure it's the richness, though I'm sure some lament that, but for me the new LED replacements are often SO BRIGHT (since, heck, the lumens are basically free now) that it creates a world that can be a bit sensorily overwhelming, suddenly.

Like, clearly the LEDs are the better option, but it's interesting to me how removing a limitation that was invisible before--very bright bulbs used to be more costly to run--has created this odd situation.

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@waldoj @debcha I presume a lot of this is somewhat temporary as we figure out what the new norms are with LED lighting. I'm just looking forward to a future where people can get bulbs that are matchy with temperature with some reliability. Put another way: I did not know I had so many opinions about lighting until LEDs started changing a landscape I'd always taken somewhat for granted.

jessamyn,
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@waldoj People always assuming that the infrastructure that they have is the infrastructure that everyone has.

ry, to random
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JD

jessamyn,
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@ry YUSSS. Or, as I misread your kit: WOOT DEAN'S FEELS.

jessamyn, to random
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Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've got work all day and then I am getting back to my "stamp collection," using up some of my stamps before I buy any more of them. Maybe you have a hobby you could get to if you weren't just replying to email? Have a good weekend.

Image credit: National Library of New Zealand, on Flickr Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nationallibrarynz_commons/21676448961

lzg, to random
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I'm covered in ink and have ONE (1) successful screen printing test. WHAT A FEEL.

jessamyn,
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@lzg I can help! I was in screen-printing club in high school.

jessamyn, to random
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Drop-In Time toots! I made a few little social media posts (thanks Canva!) about the fact that drop-in time exists and it was busy today.

First: a pregame request to track down a fiendishly expensive textbook in a... less expensive form. It's in the 15th edition and I could find the 14th. I respect the rights of authors to make money off of their work but the "No you have to have this edition and we print a new one every year" textbook scene is a racket. Could I find it? Of course I could.

jessamyn,
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Frequent flier Joanne was in wondering why her camera app no longer made noise (the volume was down, I taught her how volume control worked). She wanted to know if she could "send photos" using her Kindle Fire. I said sure but she'd have to use email instead of texting. She barely uses email and said she'd stick to texting "...but my daughter said I should be able to..." and I said yeah she totally could but her way worked and was likely easier unless someone didn't have a cell phone.

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Mette and her husband came in. He mostly wanted to commiserate about Windows 11 (I hear ya, buddy) but she's been using Excel (EXCEL 2003) to transcribe census records from her town. Their town has 718 people, had twice that in 1840. She wanted to know how to do some things with the spreadsheets because she'd been watching some Zooms of a MA historical society who did some neat things. A few things we did that were so magical to her that she gasped: charts, find, replace, split cells.

jessamyn,
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Sandy brought a young person who had clearly been through a rough patch, now staying with her. This person had two broken phones with locked-up SIM cards, part of an SSD drive that needed a new enclosure (and a proprietary one?) and a Google account they couldn't access because the recovery number was on one broken phone and the logged in Google account was on the other. The kid had moved, was nowhere near their old IP addresses, had no other devices. Messy. A great argument against passkeys

jessamyn,
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Jamaica (who has a sister named Jessamyn and who grew up one town over from where I grew up) came in with two ancient Macbooks. "All I get are family hand me downs!" She couldn't log in to one, had tried every password. "Did you try... no password?" She did not know that was a thing. We tried it and presto! She had to go because she had some loose sheep at home, I told her to update from Mac OS Sierra when she got the ewe back.

jessamyn,
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Pat has an old laptop with a lot of good browser add-ons and anti-virus stuff on it but she likes to watch Colbert via CBS.com and it was sometimes blanking on her. We walked through turning off browser add-ons (or even trying another browser) and, of course, it worked when I was sitting there. I explained how computer CPUs can get overloaded and we both commiserated. Then we chitchatted about the other nearby town (pop 678) and the past and present librarians.

jessamyn,
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On my way out the door, I ran into Irene who I had not heard from since her "I can't get my email" emergency during the blizzard. She's in her 90s and I was sort of concerned I hadn't heard from her since. Turned out her daughter-in-law and Xfinity signed her up for a new email address and instead of using Outlook she's using the web browser. She mostly doesn't mind this "But I get so much spam!" Had to remind myself that while I maybe could have fixed this problem, I also would have owned it.

jessamyn,
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Talked to the YA librarian about our various bird watching adventures as I left. Walked home and ran into my local pal who I go dog walking with (her dog) and I walked another 45 min with my laptop bag on. Ran into neighbors getting rid of stuff at "free corner" (where everyone knows to leave your good free stuff) and a bunch of other people out just enjoying this great day. Couldn't even text a flower pic to my SO b/c my cell signal is so terrible here. Not entirely unhappy about it. EOM.

StillIRise1963, to random
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Don’t say shit about caring about trans people, gay people, Black people, brown people, immigrants or your own damn self if you don’t VOTE for Biden. And, you can kiss my ass too.

jessamyn,
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@paragon @liliththehellhound @StillIRise1963 @janisf Absolutely harm reduction. As an anarchist, I'm in favor of mutual aid and that means supporting the people who are most at risk under a Trump presidency.

jessamyn, to random
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This is a thread that is worth your time. Re: OCLC and Anna's Archive.

"Dear #library technology community, we need to talk about OCLC."

https://code4lib.social/@mjgiarlo/112452199945214121

lzg, to random
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every time I try to learn something new the answer lies with the most annoying person in the world talking through it on a 36 minute youtube video. i choose ignorance.

jessamyn,
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@lzg And often it's at minute 33 of that video. Every. Time.

People who reply to questions with YouTube videos are like people who reply to questions with command line code. If the question isn't "What's the command for..." don't do that.

debcha, to random
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The US Mission in India just put out this four-minute year-in-review video starring Ambassador Eric Garcetti (former LA mayor) that must be one of the single best pieces of US government social media I've ever seen -- it's charming, funny, and informative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_hP0_446I

jessamyn,
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@debcha Surprisingly charming. And hey, cricket in the Olympics. I learned a thing!

jessamyn, to random
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Flickr is 20 this year. They made a 2 min. promo video.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/flickr/53710256330/

I found it b/c he Flickr Commons "conversation view" tool that my Flickr Foundation colleagues built had some mentions of it

https://commons.flickr.org/conversations/

One of the images in the video, there for a split second, is this one of my great aunt and uncle at their wedding sometime in the 1940s. Random coincidence, my mom had the pic up with a @creativecommons license. Someone saw it and liked it. Was fun to see it again.

jessamyn, to random
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Every person their book

https://www.librarian.net/stax/5513/every-person-their-book/

jerzone, to random
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This needs its own post.
First off, I’d love to explore it, especially the very top. But what is up with the windows?? The center jumble on second floor to start, but even the far right windows on 1st, 2nd, 3rd floor all have different spacing. Middle decks are staggered, in fact the whole middle “shaft” seems like an add-on. The left/right 3rd story roofs don’t match, other than the slate.

⭐️8 stars, keep people guessing!

jessamyn,
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@jerzone @knizer Yeah I assume making it in to apartments, needed a certain number of fire exits, decided FUCK IT WE'RE PUTTING IN A TOWER. BOB'S KID DOES CONTRACTING and there you go. Is there a porta-potty and an air pump on the corner?

jessamyn, to random
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Book 1: System Collapse. I'd been eagerly awaiting this book. I enjoyed it but it wasn't quite the Murderbot book I was expecting. May have been a me problem, it was a long time since I'd read the last one and I had to re-learn who the characters were and this novel seemed short on "get to know the characters" stuff. A lot of Murderbot's inner mind, some of their relationship with ART, the usual clusterfuck on a remote planet. Last year's reading list https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/111666401754992583

jessamyn,
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Book 51: Catchpenny. Reminiscent of Rabbits and another book I can't remember that used travel-through-mirrors (Rajaniemi?) as a device. This tale is told mainly through the eyes of an unreliable narrator about what might be the end of the world but might also just be a video game or a social media jape. I enjoyed where this book took me and liked the way the tale was told. People who don't want a plot that has aspects of suicide cults, steer super clear of this one.

jessamyn,
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Book 52: You hit a certain age, you've read a lot of books and you can be like "Another book in the luxury space hotel mystery genre." Turns out I like that genre a good deal and this was a good example of it. People wind up on the floating hotel because they're escaping life circumstances in a dystopia where there's been one Emperor for 500 years and you're not allowed to even mention aliens. But... someone's speaking truth to power. And are they in the floating hotel? And how do you find them?

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