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By day: Tabulating Chronographer and Amicus of the Seelie Court.

By night: Joymonger and Purveyor of Hand-Dipped Artisanal Whimsy.

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The existence of Ursula the Disney Sea Witch implies that somewhere out there is a Disney Sand Witch.

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(and indeed a quick web search confirms it! Sand witches appear in the 1994 Aladdin TV show.)

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Please keep your aurora pics, your glee, your wonder coming! ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ’š

This and the eclipse show off the internet at its most life-bringing: a place that allows us to experience childlike awe at the sublime majesty of our shared world together.

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Also pro-tip: use your eclipse glasses to find the sunspot associated with the aurora activity!

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My toddler, annoyed that the toy train track hit a dead end, has spent the last ten minutes frustratedly trying to move the wall rather than moving the train tracks back a bit.

Filing this one away as a metaphor for later.

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I don't know where people buy their comically-large scissors for ribbon cutting ceremonies, their comically-large checks for prize photo ops, etc., and I don't want you to tell me. Maybe there's a parallel Giant World and people just pop over there to the Giant Grocery from time to time!

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A sentence I just wrote for a project I advise, at the end of a 3-page commentary on their latest version:

"This is one feature that may be improved by AI, but that's taking a bazooka to a water balloon party: overkill and in the end very much besides the point. Just get rid of the feature."

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runs to the street corner, ragged, rings under eyes, shouting Over half the U.S. population is younger than The Simpsons! This is not a drill!

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My family was unimpressed by my contraption to keep the cheesecloth-wrapped chicken from floating above the stock line, so I require you, the public, to validate my feelings of cleverness.

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@steamworkgroup having studied engineering in undergrad, sadly, I probably cannot entirely blame the humanities background for how this brain works...

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@steamworkgroup oh no you were clear, no worries! I was just replying with some small sarcasm

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a lot of physicists and philosophers have asked the question "why is there something instead of nothing" when they should have been asking "how the heck did this experiment get approved by IRB?"

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grumble grumble South Bend is already out of lamb shanks and matzoh meal grumble grumble

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Historian friends, I've been out of the game and am adrift. I've got a half-done 30k-word bio of a 17c poet relevant to the history of science, but not particularly relevant to today's historiographic conversations. Does that fit any particular venue? Should I just drop it online and be done?

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I know the cruelty is the point, that US prisons aren't designed to rehabilitate, and that this is only one among endless injustices, but NY prisons locking the imprisoned indoors during the eclipse is such a special indignity. What more basic a right can we have than to Be in this universe?

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Found a fun moral panic from 1712 about beautiful poetry corrupting the Youths, and wanted to share it with everyone as a late-night treat.

"the elegance of expression andโ€ฆ those other bewitching beauties, which attend good poetry, might insensibly instill the Poison into the minds of unthinking people; especially of the Youth, whose imagination is generally too strong for their reason, and their fancy too powerful for their judgement."

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I found another review of the same poem:

"too much that Mr Creech should debauch the Women with those corrupt Notions of a Deity, & by his soft Translation of a rough Piece melt the Ladies in admiration ๏ฌrst of the Poetry & then of the Opinion."

BTW if you're curious what sort of literature debauches women and poiลฟons the unthinking youth in the late 1600s, the answer is a 200-page poem about ancient greek physics translated by an oxford student who would later become a church minister.

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It's occasionally exhausting having a chronic illness that some of the US's top specialists are still trying to diagnose, whose (decreasingly) effective treatments constitute a trade off that makes life miserable in other ways, and knowing it'll just slowly worsen until I die of something unrelated.

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Anyway if anyone has fun podcasts or audio books filled with, say, interesting science facts that one can easily zone out of without consequence for the four-hour drives to/from the Cleveland Clinic, please drop them here!

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Would someone with member library access to HathiTrust mind downloading the pdf of (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=inu.32000000875692&seq=7 ) for me? According to HT, the material is in the public domain but only downloadable by members.

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A friend was recently put in charge of a new archival/library collection at a small org, and she wants people to talk to about trade-offs around digital archival platforms, DAMs, etc. They have good funding but little staff. Is this a good mailing list topic for code4lib/DLF/SAA/etc.? Any pointers?

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...I think The Weather Channelโ„ข is burying the lede, here...

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Cool! Now that my son is in daycare, our family had its first "the Other religion" experience. They're hosting a "neutral holiday party," with Christmas music and Santa at a Church. When we asked about hannukah stuff being included, they replied "oh no it's only neutral holiday festivities!"

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My office at NEH is creating a grant program to support research into the value, impact, & well-being of the humanities, as well as the factors that influence them.

Have you ever wished there were more data about the humanities? Please respond to our call for input.

https://www.neh.gov/ode/call-for-comments

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"Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime" by @Drdonnayates & @electricarchaeo is one of the coolest things I've recently read.

Two experts in the criminal antiquities trade use machine learning to uncover an unexpected type of crime, describing the sleuthing process along the way.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527258.2023.2284740

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Be honest. If you saw this in the wild, on a scale from 1-10, how much would you want to stab me?

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