Bits

scrapeghost is an experimental library for #scraping websites using #gpt https://jamesturk.github.io/scrapeghost/

“I’ve stuck around because, well, I’m dogfooding it. I am using it. It’s my daily driver and I have a home feed that I look at every day.” https://www.theverge.com/23658648/mastodon-ceo-twitter-interview-elon-musk-twitter

“a knitwear project exploring the benefits and costs of technological progress” #art #ai great poster from the #VCC Teaching, Learning & Research: Student Showcase https://libguides.vcc.ca/StudentShowcase/2023Posters

Sound & Music

When Farkas buys a robot to help him get rid of the musicians of Faffner Hall on Make a New Sound Day, the gang borrows some parts from the robot to construct a synthesizer so they can make all kinds of new sounds. Fughetta doesn’t understand how a synthesizer works so the Wild Impressario turns to his best source, Thomas Dolby, to explain it to her. #synth https://youtu.be/dR-Qf1vwd28

Automatonism is a modular #synth that runs in the open source programming language Pure Data. #puredata https://www.automatonism.com/the-software

Politics & Economics

#Libraries are more than the customer service departments for corporate database products. For democracy to thrive at global scale, libraries must be able to sustain their historic role in society—owning, preserving, and lending books. This ruling is a blow for libraries, readers, and authors and we plan to appeal it. https://web.archive.org/web/20230326093647/https://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/

Through predatory tactics, the dollar chains are killing off grocery stores and other local businesses, leaving communities with fewer jobs, diminished access to basic goods, and dimmer prospects for overall well-being. https://ilsr.org/report-dollar-store-invasion/