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    "Negativeland: Live at Norfolk, VA (Lewis’)",
    "Paul Avrich",
    "Alexander Berkman",
    "On Method: How This Blog Works",
    "Amores Perros",
    "Deadly Iranian strike changes Purim for Haredi enclave in Beit Shemesh",
    "Keenious",
    "Wikidata:Wikibase GraphQL",
    "Re-OCR Your Digitised Collections for ~$0.002/Page",
    "Lawyers, Humility, and LLMs",
    "My Coworkers Don’t Want AI. They Want Macros",
    "Snapicat",
    "Open Historical Map",
    "SEASON: A letter to the future",
    "Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’",
    "Wikidata:WikiProject PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP",
    "John Fahey Mix Tapes"
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  "textContent": "These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week.\n\n##  🔖  Negativeland: Live at Norfolk, VA (Lewis’) \n\nNegativland, Live at Lewis’ in Norfolk, VA. (October 21, 1992). In the midst of their famous U2 controversy (and fallout with SST), Negativland went on tour to help recoup some of the losses and legal costs. They were kind enough to let me shoot their show.\n\n##  🔖  Paul Avrich \n\nPaul Avrich (August 4, 1931 – February 16, 2006) was an American historian specializing in the 19th and early 20th-century anarchist movement in Russia and the United States. He taught at Queens College, City University of New York, for his entire career, from 1961 to his retirement as distinguished professor of history in 1999. He wrote ten books, mostly about anarchism, including topics such as the 1886 Haymarket Riot, the 1921 Sacco and Vanzetti case, the 1921 Kronstadt naval base rebellion, and an oral history of the movement in the United States.\n\n##  🔖  Alexander Berkman \n\nAlexander Berkman (November 21, 1870 – June 28, 1936) was a Russian-American anarchist and author. He was a leading member of the anarchist movement in the early 20th century, famous for both his political activism and his writing.\n\n##  🔖  On Method: How This Blog Works \n\nMost people use AI to either get quick answers or to write things for them. This blog uses it differently – as infrastructure for thinking through ideas, documenting what emerges from that process, and preserving what’s worth keeping.\n\n##  🔖  Amores Perros \n\nAmores perros is a 2000 Mexican psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (in his feature directorial debut) and written by Guillermo Arriaga, based on a story by both. Amores perros is the first installment in González Iñárritu’s “Trilogy of Death”, succeeded by 21 Grams and Babel.[4] It makes use of the multi-narrative hyperlink cinema style and features an ensemble cast of Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal, Goya Toledo, Álvaro Guerrero, Vanessa Bauche, Jorge Salinas, Adriana Barraza, and Humberto Busto. The film is constructed as a triptych: it contains three distinct stories connected by a car crash in Mexico City. The stories centre on: a teenager in the slums who gets involved in dogfighting; a model who seriously injures her leg; and a mysterious hitman. The stories are linked in various ways, including the presence of dogs in each of them.\n\n##  🔖  Deadly Iranian strike changes Purim for Haredi enclave in Beit Shemesh \n\nPolitical correspondent Sam Sokol and police reporter Charlie Summers join host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.\n\nFollowing the deadly strike on Sunday that killed nine people in Beit Shemesh, Sokol and Summers discuss the shock and mourning in the centrally located city with a strong Haredi enclave.\n\nPurim celebrations and revelry continued in some parts of Beit Shemesh, report the pair, as some synagogues flouted the Home Front Command directives regarding gatherings, while others reflected a somber, cautious mood.\n\nSokol takes a moment to update us on matters in the Knesset, where most committee meetings were canceled due to the hostilities, and speculates on whether war with Iran will boost Netanyahu at the ballot box in the upcoming elections.\n\nFinally, Summers reports on an end-of-Purim street party in Jerusalem, where police kept a hands-off approach, and the scene of a missile strike in the capital earlier in the week.\n\n##  🔖  Keenious \n\nA generative AI tool that functions as a research assistant and uses OpenAlex as a data source.\n\n##  🔖  Wikidata:Wikibase GraphQL \n\nThe Wikibase GraphQL API was developed following an investigation into alternative ways of accessing Wikidata and Wikibase content that reduce load on the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS), improve the developer experience for common read use cases and allow more flexible data retrieval in a single request.\n\nAs part of this investigation, a Wikibase GraphQL prototype was built to explore what is technically possible and whether GraphQL would be a good fit for Wikibase data, with promising results and supportive feedback.\n\n##  🔖  Re-OCR Your Digitised Collections for ~$0.002/Page \n\nIn the last few years, a new generation of OCR models based on Vision Language Models (VLMs) has emerged. These models are primarily the result of “running out of tokens” and the consequent desire from AI companies to find new sources of data to train on. This led to the development of OCR models using VLMs as backbones which usually aim to output “reading order” text — i.e. text with minimal markup, usually targeting Markdown. These models can perform much better on the same scans that older tools struggled with, producing cleaner, more structured output.\n\n##  🔖  Lawyers, Humility, and LLMs \n\nIf some of the world’s highest-paid lawyers, at the world’s highest-status firms, do deals worth tens of billions of dollars with language they don’t understand, what does that say about the law’s pretensions to high standards? #In other words, yes, LLMs\n\nYes, like everything else in 2026 this is actually a post about LLMs.\n\n##  🔖  My Coworkers Don’t Want AI. They Want Macros \n\nMy coworkers don’t want AI. They want macros.\n\nLet me back up a little. I spent April gathering and May refining and organizing requirements for a system to replace our current ILS. This meant asking a lot of people about how they use our current system, taking notes, and turning those notes into requirements. 372 requirements.1\n\nGoing into this, I knew that some coworkers used macros to streamline tasks. I came out of it with a deeper appreciation of the different ways they’ve done so.\n\nIt made me think about the various ways vendors are pitching “AI” for their systems and the disconnect between these pitches and the needs people expressed. Because library workers do want more from these systems. We just want something a bit different.\n\n##  🔖  Snapicat \n\nSnapicat is a monorepo for a Worldcat OCLC workflow app: upload Excel data, search variables against the OCLC API, and generate MARC/MARCXML for cataloging. It consists of a Vite + React frontend and an Azure Functions (Python) backend that talk to the OCLC Worldcat Metadata API. The backend can also be ran as a web server through utilizing Fastapi via app.py file.\n\n##  🔖  Open Historical Map \n\nOpenHistoricalMap is an ambitious, community-led project to map changes to natural and human geography throughout the world… throughout the ages. Big and Small, Then and Now\n\nEmpires rise and fall. Glaciers disappear. Languages and religions spread from one region to another. Simple dirt paths become busy highways and railways. Modest buildings give way to soaring skyscrapers. And you remember what your neighborhood used to look like. All of it belongs on OpenHistoricalMap.\n\n##  🔖  SEASON: A letter to the future \n\nLeave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.\n\n##  🔖  Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ \n\nThe use of AI tools to enable attacks on Iran heralds a new era of bombing quicker than “the speed of thought”, experts have said, amid fears human ­decision-makers could be sidelined.\n\nAnthropic’s AI model, Claude, was reportedly used by the US military in the barrage of strikes as the technology “shortens the kill chain” – meaning the process of target identification through to legal approval and strike launch.\n\n##  🔖  Wikidata:WikiProject PCC EMCO Wikidata CoP \n\nThe Program for Cooperative Cataloging (Q63468537) (PCC) has launched a global cooperative for entity management on the semantic web called EMCO. As part of this program, the Wikidata user community has set up a Community of Practice to coordinate identity management work for GLAMs. You can read more about EMCO and the Wikidata Community of Practice at the EMCO Lyrasis Wiki.\n\nThis project is an extension of the work of Wikidata:WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot / WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot (Q102157715) and acknowledges its great intellectual and organizational debt to the LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group (Q124692294).\n\n##  🔖  John Fahey Mix Tapes \n\nIn the 1990’s my future wife was a record store clerk in Portland, Oregon. American guitar legend John Fahey was living in a nearby town and would visit the shop. Here are two mix cassettes that he made for her during that time.",
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