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Griffey

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Librarian/Technologist, currently Director of Strategic Initiative for National Information Standards Organization. Creator of LibraryBox and Measure the Future projects, former fellow at Berkman Klein Center.

Recovering academic, enthusiastic tinkerer/maker, obsessed with theater. This Account Kills Fascists.

http://jasongriffey.net for everything else

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Griffey, to random
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Man, book metadata is just the worst. A book that I contributed a chapter to is now available (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538180396/Library-2035-Imagining-the-Next-Generation-of-Libraries) but I challenge you to find any mention of chapter authors anywhere in any platform…the publisher, in worldcat, anywhere. Amazon even mapped the editor to the Author field, so it looks like a solo work.

And I say this as an employee of a standards organization AND a librarian.

The Worst.

Griffey, to random
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I'm very sad this morning at the news of the passing of Vernor Vinge...his novels are among the very best in sci-fi, and while I don't agree with his views on the concept of the Singularity, he was a thoughtful, careful thinker who more people should read.

I had the great privilege to interview Vernor back in 2011 for the ALA Midwinter conference. https://jasongriffey.net/2011/01/18/my-interview-with-vernor-vinge/ and speak with him several times of the years. He will be missed.

adr, to random
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I think the biggest surprise about the Rabbit R1 is that there's a Teenage Engineering project that costs under $200

Griffey,
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@adr I am tempted to order a Rabbit literally because I've always wanted a piece of Teenage Engineering tech. Don't really want to USE it, just want to gaze at it and occasionally hold it. Their stuff is so pretty.

viticci, to random
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I am so fascinated by what @mike and the @Flipboard team are doing with their support for ActivityPub and the Fediverse. I think there's a lot of potential for a well-designed 'reader' for federated content that can make it easy for people to get started and follow accounts from a variety of sources.

https://www.macstories.net/linked/flipboard-begins-to-federate/

Griffey,
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@viticci @mike @Flipboard If only there was some sort of syndicated feed on sites that was really simple, and then (just spitballing here) something like a Reader could subscribe to those feeds and give them to you as things were published...man, what a world.

kendraserra, to random
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I would like to go back to the timeline where the news cycle does not require me to explain what "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" is.

Griffey,
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@kendraserra @csynthare Wait what

viticci, to random
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The Action button is great, but what if you could assign it two shortcuts instead of just one?

Introducing MultiButton, my latest shortcut to automatically cycle between two shortcuts from the same Action button press.

Free to download for everyone, including some Action button shortcuts to get started: https://www.macstories.net/ios/introducing-multibutton-assign-two-shortcuts-to-the-same-action-button-press-on-iphone-15-pro/

Griffey,
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@viticci Between this and positional triggers….I can see some really absurd combinations being built. Love it.

ColinTheMathmo, (edited ) to random
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I don't use anything from the Apple eco-sphere, and certainly don't use an iPhone. However, a non-programmer(*) friend of mine has a geek/tech question:

Specifically, using the calendar app on an iPhone ... is there some sort of app or tool that can perform various statistical analyses on it?

She's looking for things like busy periods, most used words, charts, trends, word frequencies, and so on.

Is there anything that will do that?

Because she's not a programmer this will have to be some sort of app.(*)

If you're happy to do so, please boost to get this out of my specific circle.

Many thanks in advance ...

(*) Added in edit for clarity

Griffey,
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@ColinTheMathmo there’s a framework (EventKit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/eventkit) specifically for interacting with calendar events, and there are open source libraries like CalendarKit ( https://github.com/richardtop/CalendarKit) for doing so on desktop Mac. I haven’t done that sort of analysis, but this is where I’d start looking.

Griffey,
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@ColinTheMathmo Ahhh, apologies. I'm not aware of any "normal" apps that do this work, although the potential tools are there to build it. There might be something for say...Google Calendar for enterprise users, but that's going to also be out of reach for most non-technical users.

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People keep making new Substack newsletters. I keep pointing out politely that the founders are terrible enablers of transphobes, hate speech, vaccine denial, and more. They reap their reward from fear, hate, and disinformation.

Griffey,
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@gruber @glennf Wordpress doesn't have the history of hate speech, transphobia, etc that Substack does. It's also been around far longer, and has an open source option for those who want to take it.

Very, very different model.

paul, to random
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Neat new toy. Cheap blink1 USB controllable LEDs from eBay. They look a lot better than they photograph.

Griffey,
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@paul i had no idea those were still around, much less supported. I'll have to dig out my old one and see if it still works.

gruber, to random
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Perfect example of one of the dozen or so reasons why Mastodon is doomed to relative obscurity and Bluesky is going to thrive: petulant nannyism:

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/110317006852580015

Griffey,
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@gruber Save this one for claim chowder in a year or so.

tomw, to random
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People worry a lot about losing knowledge — about "burned-down libraries".

Comparatively few people seem to worry about what happens if you take a billion books full of auto-generated, often-untrue junk text and add them all to the library.

In theory, nothing is lost. In reality, everything is lost, because nothing useful can now be found.

Griffey,
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@tomw There are definitely librarians and other information science types that are very worried about this...for example, me. I've been talking about the overall challenges of generative popular media for some time now, most recently here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OknPeRCoT7I

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