John Overholt

My favorite book spine is circulating on Tumblr once again and I don't know that I've ever posted it here. https://houghtonlib.tumblr.com/post/66202591072/batman-stephen-d-1584-the-doome-warning-all

A tour-de-force "backless binding" without a spine that according to the bookseller was a showcase of the binder's skill and actually kind of a pain to read. https://www.olsonrarebooks.com/books/p/backless-bindings

There’s a newly launched drive to unionize Harvard’s professional librarians and when the organizers asked us what issues we might want them to address, I said I wanted protection against being required to incorporate AI hallucinations in my work, a profound violation of my professional ethics. https://aftermath.site/ai-resistance-tips-workforce-llm-workers/

I think if my scientist told me he was only able to travel back in time a *little*, I’d still be willing to continue his funding. #Monsterdon

Gosh I sure hope the rich guy doesn’t get an ironic comeuppance due to his greed. #Monsterdon

I am from Mntehmon, and you are going to have to show me that AI produces gibberish. https://gizmodo.com/which-ai-chatbot-did-this-school-use-to-make-such-a-ridiculous-map-2000800045

I love that the Time Machine has a laser but also one of those giant Frankenstein style electrical switches. #Monsterdon

I will give this movie a crisp $20 bill if it will make Junior button one more button on his shirt. #Monsterdon

RE: https://mastodon.online/@universalhub/117327260997444389 I cannot stress enough how lucky everyone who does this is that I do not have Scanners powers.

If they’d just waited another year that would have been so nice. #Monsterdon

Starring Lyle Waggner as slightly misspelled Lyle Waggoner. #Monsterdon

Apparently the quote was shocking enough they've rewritten the post, but IA has the receipts. https://web.archive.org/web/20260720152647/https://isbndb.com/blog/print-books-sourcing-ai-training/

Gizmodo asks “Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data?” I love this answer: “I know of one data storage form that can be permanent: a library. Or rather, a world full of libraries. Libraries aren’t perfect storage devices (nothing is), but they are fiercely committed to self-repair. A good library is a collection of people, technologies, and practices that pass an obligation—to remember the things we must remember—from the last generation to the next.” https://gizmodo.com/will-we-ever-solve-the-problem-of-losing-data-2000792386 #libraries

Did you know: That was the 500th time in film history that people said “That was close.” “Too close.” #Monsterdon

I’m going to pass on tonight’s #Monsterdon because I’ve seen it before, but I do treasure this screengrab from it.

Tonight on #Monsterdon we’re watching a Scottish-American man improvise unlikely solutions to desperate situations with whatever materials he happens to be locked up with… [touches earpiece] #TheGuyver

Interview with Dale Grimes, who holds a number of roles at the University of Tulsa's McFarlin Library, including "Junior Morale Officer, Chair of Impromptu Play Sessions, Director of Hallway Patrol, and, more recently, Senior Nap Strategist." https://libraries.utulsa.edu/blogs/mcfarlinmemo/staff-spotlight-mr-dale-grimes

Fly Ergles Fly

Finalizing selections for our spring exhibition “Picturing Work” which surveys the history of books of trades and other depictions of labor both early and modern.

@sinabhfuil@mastodon.ie I am so glad to be in charge of material mostly recorded on incredibly durable parchment and rag paper that will need little more than a safe and stable environment to remain usable for centuries. Digital records are mayflies in comparison.

So wait, you’re telling me I take the blue pill, I wake up in my bed and believe whatever I want? That sounds amazing.

Special Agent Frank Herbert, FBI Arakis Office #Monsterdon

The Stuff is a substance that fell to Earth, presumably from outer space. Do not taunt The Stuff. #Monsterdon

Man, if I freaked out like this every time I saw my spilled food crawl back into its container. #Monsterdon

Zaxxon! #Monsterdon

@universalhub@mastodon.online Stop me if you’ve heard this before, there’s signal problems at Harvard some more.

“Everybody has to eat shaving cream once in a while.” #Monsterdon

This movie won an Academy Award for Most Acting. #Monsterdon

“Quiet, Hollywood!” #Monsterdon

New techniques, much experimentation, wow #Monsterdon

My message to the Fediverse. https://youtu.be/gDc2iF_8wDw

“That’s substantially correct” The best kind of correct! #Monsterdon

I don’t believe that is Michael Moriarty’s native accent. #Monsterdon

If this wasn’t on Tubi, I would have thought the film broke, that was so abrupt. #Monsterdon

@LingLass@hcommons.social And the company that will bring it to you is AT&T. #Monsterdon

Stock footage levels increasing! #Monsterdon

@Violinknitter@wandering.shop [delicately coughs green blood into a lace handkerchief] #Monsterdon

Surely no harm can come to me within this tanker truck at Stuff headquarters. #Monsterdon

If you go back and watch the movie again, you can see subtle distortions in the original scene that the future travelers return to. LOL, no you can’t. #Monsterdon

OMG, the face he makes when he realizes. #Monsterdon

“I am Lyle Waggoner the White, and I come to you now at the turn of the tide.” #Monsterdon

“You mean they’ve traveled somewhere into time? How could this have happened to the time traveling experiment?” #Monsterdon

“And we believe if the Amboy Dukes project proves successful, we may one day be able to journey to the center of the mind.” #Monsterdon

We’ve secretly replaced the fine coffee they normally serve with The Stuff. #Monsterdon

I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my Stuff. #Monsterdon