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  The LLMs are creating a new kind of mysticism. At Project Gutenberg, we're starting to get emails they have written trying to contact authors of some of the books we distribute. The authors have been dead for over a hundred years. I'm tempted to answer.

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  My nomination for best indicator word for awfulness in a web UI: "simply"

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  Excited to visit the Gutenberg Museum MOVED tomorrow. They’re building a new museum, the old building was unsuited to exhibiting the museum’s treasures, so there’s a temporary museum in the Natural History Museum.

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  @chartgerink cool to meet you!

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  Not so fast, Claude! No, I don't want to accept 'blink' as a valid css3 text-decoration-line value.

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  RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/117221914410637764 I’m not that type at all. Notwithstanding that, here is a spot I love in Saxnäs.

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  I believe in the promised land.

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  It looks like Tom Malinowski is going to win the NJ primary election to be the Dem candidate to replace Mikie Sherrill. For the 11th district. I voted for him, mostly because I got so much anonymous attack mail against him that i thought: if the big money hates him; he must be good!

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  Got a ticket to the Newark show!

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  The team is really proud about this one! https://mastodon.social/@gutenberg_new/116262412733944291

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  @AlSweigart I think a better word for it is that the quotes were bullshitted. You’re too good to be hallucinated.

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  Science Times was so interesting today. Black hole neutrinos and hermit crabs!

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  OMG the Google AI Overview for "clickstream poetry".

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  Pleased to report that AI bots will create countless new jobs for customer support evasion specialists. These folks will be experts at routing user around the customer support(sic) bots that have no clue how to fix problems except to point to documentation pages that now advise users to consult the CS(sic)bots. Looking at you, Facebook.

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  Here's something I've been working on for over 2 years, and I wanted to have something to show before Public Domain Day tomorrow: a fully accessible ebook, completely in the Public Domain. A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098 The conversion of all 75,000 texts in Project Gutenberg to Accessible EPUB3 is an ongoing collective effort, but the last missing piece for Pooh was to supply image descriptions in alt text worthy of this iconic work. I...

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  50 years between the Gutenberg invention and the viability of a continuing information revolution. Sound familiar @gutenberg_org ? https://norden.social/@wackJackle/116200267162290355