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The AI always tells them what they want to hear, and so they trust it. It's not magic.
Ah Gizmodo, always the paragon of good journalism. The person has explicitly asked her tweets not be used in external websites, and of course this zombie tabloid doesn't give a damn
Wait...you're still reading, defying my T&Cs!
The tag to not display on external websites is up to Bluesky to enforce. I mean, you understand those Bluesky chirps or whatever are literally being served by Bluesky, right?
I visited the local library (California foothills) during a “book sale”, and what didn’t sell was left out in boxes, either for cheap or free. What didn’t move was destined for the landfill. I was aghast, but without enough room to take in the strays. Real estate is unforgiving. I am in favor of “little free libraries” [0] where books circulate freely, and if they aren’t returned, hopefully are read and not destroyed…
My wife runs one locally. She's pretty happy with it, but I have to bite my tongue when talking about it with her. People frequently take all the good books, all at once, and don't return them. Someone just emptied out half of it yesterday, and I don't even think they were picky. They just took a whole shelf of books. It's such a crappy thing to do, and there's nothing that can be done to stop the bad actors.
The trick is to plump up such a library with a few books no one will take. Cheap romances etc.
Librarians do hide books. But not as a way of hiding from public but as a way of not throwing them away. Let me explain. Even though libraries are very big still they run out of space and regularly throw out (in India because most don't care) / ( or in Texas sell out books cheaply) and it pains the librarians deeply so they kind of stash books secretly from being thrown away. And if you really show interest in a part…
Of course, what we need now is for someone to store those books. A book being catalogued before it has been written - a cool idea.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Judging books by their unborrowedness is like judging a youtube video's educational content by its view count. It's a bad reality created by the powers that be
Why have shelves full of books that haven’t been borrowed in 15 years? what benefit is that providing?
Yet when I took the book off the shelf it looked like no one had touched it in many years.
I visited the local library (California foothills) during a “book sale”, and what didn’t sell was left out in boxes, either for cheap or free. What didn’t move was destined for the landfill. I was aghast, but without enough room to take in the strays. Real estate is unforgiving. I am in favor of “little free libraries” [0] where books circulate freely, and if they aren’t returned, hopefully are read and not destroyed…
My wife runs one locally. She's pretty happy with it, but I have to bite my tongue when talking about it with her. People frequently take all the good books, all at once, and don't return them. Someone just emptied out half of it yesterday, and I don't even think they were picky. They just took a whole shelf of books. It's such a crappy thing to do, and there's nothing that can be done to stop the bad actors.
This seems to have a simple solution - if you can't find any reference to a particular book by googling its title, then it likely does not exist.
Ah Gizmodo, always the paragon of good journalism. The person has explicitly asked her tweets not be used in external websites, and of course this zombie tabloid doesn't give a damn
See here :https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile...
Ah Gizmodo, always the paragon of good journalism. The person has explicitly asked her tweets not be used in external websites, and of course this zombie tabloid doesn't give a damn
Do not read this comment. Wait...you're still reading, defying my T&Cs! The tag to not display on external websites is up to Bluesky to enforce. I mean, you understand those Bluesky chirps or whatever are literally being served by Bluesky, right?