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John Overholt

overholt@glammr.us

<p>Curator of Early Books &amp; Manuscripts, Houghton Library, Harvard University. Opinions are my own. He/him/his</p>

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    A tour-de-force &quot;backless binding&quot; without a spine that according to the bookseller was a showcase of the binder&#39;s skill and actually kind of a pain to read. https://www.olsonrarebooks.com/books/p/backless-bindings

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

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    The narrator is so high right now. #Monsterdon

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

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    My favorite book spine is circulating on Tumblr once again and I don&#39;t know that I&#39;ve ever posted it here. https://houghtonlib.tumblr.com/post/66202591072/batman-stephen-d-1584-the-doome-warning-all

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    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

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

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

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    The movie that dares to ask the question “Hey, I found some goo, should I eat it?” #Monsterdon

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    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

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    I question his commitment to Garkle Gotion. #Monsterdon

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    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-sol...

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    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/

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    Fly Ergles Fly

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

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    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.

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    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.

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    Interview with Dale Grimes, who holds a number of roles at the University of Tulsa&#39;s McFarlin Library, including &quot;Junior Morale Officer, Chair of Impromptu Play Sessions, Director of Hallway Patrol, and, more recently, Senior Nap Strategist.&quot; https://libraries.utulsa.edu/blogs/mcfarlinmemo/staff-spotlight-mr-dale-grimes

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    From the website of the company that’s destroying books to feed them into the ravenous AI maw. “A physical book is a delivery mechanism for information. Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism has served its purpose. What remains is paper, ink, and binding material. The book is not destroyed. Its value has migrated. The paper returns to the material cycle; the knowledge enters the intellectual one.” https://www.news.com.au/technology/online...

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    I have been so precisely targeted by a video from the Pointless Notalgia channel breaking down the “Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home” joke from Airplane! that I can only assume there’s a red laser dot on my forehead right now. https://youtu.be/_Iz0IK7qt88

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    100,000,000,000,000 de Poèmes is a work by Raymond Queneau with interchangeable lines of poetry printed on individual strips to allow recombination. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990065886080203941/catalog

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    Trigger warning for any conservators out there. https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990018770280203941/catalog

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    Boston Globe Oops All Vehicular Homicide

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    It seems like a somewhat improbable coincidence that a man named Auric Goldfinger would independently have a lifelong obsession with gold.

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    I found this interesting 1907 book in a catalog and located a digitized copy online. It&#39;s called Picture Paragraphs and it&#39;s little illustrated explanations about everyday things in the period that might be mysterious. (Contains a surprising amount of coal mining content.) https://digital-research-books-beta.nypl.org/read/9526623

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    You know, I think this link might be up to no good.

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    I see about one new in-theater movie a year and this year it’s The Odyssey in 70mm at the beautiful Somerville Theatre.

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    Luckily I managed to catch the last bus to WRONG CODE ENTER NEW CODE

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    A sharp-eyed visitor to our gallery noticed a mistake that’s particularly galling since it’s a Harvard Library binding,

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    Email from the Dean describing laying a bunch of people off as &quot;entering the next phase of our administrative transition&quot;.