It’s been…. it’s been a long day.
It’s been a long day.
Author: leefmclean
Marina Hyde on the most Noel Edmonds Noel Edmonds thing ever:
“He was in his real bitter phase and he would get people to come and do an interview with him and he’d be so proud about the fact that he had the largest estate in England at the time without any public right of way through it.”
The Rest Is Entertainment, S1 E157, 17 June 2025
My favorite drama movie is Bloodsucking Freaks.. just like your momma
Watching Civil War and…
* Silver Apples intensifies *
I just can’t with
Philip Guston. That pink (Chemico on broken-down 60s Formica pink); those eyeballs
Only now are we being disabused of the notion that the parents’ lives were smooth, well-ordered and not the raggedy, riotous reality
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Machine learning / AI resources
LINKS
https://techwontsave.us/episode/163_chatgpt_is_not_intelligent_w_emily_m_bender
https://linguistics.washington.edu/people/emily-m-bender
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922 “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?” Bender et al, 2021
169 ahhh
Digital GLAM
“DigitalNZ is the search site for all things New Zealand. We connect you to reliable digital collections from our content partners, including:
- libraries
- museums
- galleries
- government departments
- the media
- community groups, and others.”
“InternetNZ is a non-profit and open membership organisation… promote the Internet’s benefits… protect its potential… focus on advancing an open and uncapturable Internet for New Zealand…. the designated manager for the .nz Internet domain and represent New Zealand at a global level… and work on behalf of all Internet users across the country… provide community funding to promote Internet research, and work hard to bring the Internet community together at events like NetHui to share wisdom and best practice on the state of the Internet… in order to shape what New Zealand’s Internet might look like in the future.”
VALA – Libraries, Technology and the Future
VALA – Libraries, Technology and the Future Inc. is an independent Australian based not-for-profit organisation that actively supports the use and understanding of information technology in libraries and the GLAM sector.
Podcast sampler
PODCAST MEDIA
Pocket Casts @pocketcasts is the app I prefer for now. It only costs a few dollars and is easy to use. Also, I don’t have to create an account – and therefore give them all my identity and preference data – to consume third party content.
PODCASTS ABOUT LIBRARIES
“Dewey Decibel is the popular podcast series from American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association. Each month, your host and American Libraries Senior Editor Phil Morehart will be your guide to conversations with librarians, authors, thinkers, and scholars about topics from the library world and beyond.”
PODCASTS ABOUT BOOKS
“A Podcast about Reading and Writing with NZ writer Pip Adam”
#NZPodcast
“Spybrary is a Spy Podcast for fans of Spy Books and Spy Movies We interview spy authors, intelligence experts and spy fans!”
RNZ’s own content in podcast format
Buzzfeed’s 31 Podcasts For Every Type of Book Lover
BookRiot’s 11 Of The Best Book Podcasts launched in 2018
AGGREGATIONS AND REVIEWS OF PODCASTS
An hour about podcasts from all over.
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