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  This is unreal. The 2026 code4lib conference has been cancelled unilaterally by Carnegie Mellon University because the Department of Education raised issues with the diversity scholarships (which have been constant for at least a decade, if not longer): > An applicant must be a member of a group not well-represented within the code4lib community, including but not limited to: women, people of color, LGBTQ+, ability/disability, non-binary gender identities, etc. https://lists.clir.org/cg...

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  I wandered across some amazing graffiti art in the Mission, SF. Here are a few. The photos don't do justice to the scale.

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  I'm boarding a train to #philly this morning for the Penn Linguistics Conference and then #code4lib -- & hopefully a trip to @iffybooks for the #permacomputing meetup. Fun times can happen.

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  There are a lot of birds outside my window this morning. Whether you call it machine learning or "AI", Merlin is such a fine example of how computing can connect us to the more-than-human-world. Do you have any favorite examples of tools that do that? https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

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  I am thinking of proposing a @swib lightning talk about JSON-LD and BIBFRAME metadata, in light of what has been learned about linkeddata here in the fedi, and also remembering ​Gregg Kellogg. If we legit want BIBFRAME to replace MARC as an interchange format, can we make it as easy to use as possible by people who don't really care about RDF? This should be possible now, given all the work that has been done on the vocabulary, right? But maybe this is too pedestrian and obvious? Othe...